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General| Brand | Miranda |
|---|---|
| Model | Kaleido-X16 |
| Category | Portable Multimedia Player |
| Language | English |
Details new features and enhancements in Kaleido-X version 7.00.
Manual's purpose, target audience, and overview of Kaleido-X hardware and software.
Reviews different multiviewer models supporting Kaleido-X software.
Describes actions performable on the Kaleido-X monitor wall.
Details steps to check internal system statuses and options.
Defines essential terms related to monitor wall operation.
Details logging into the monitor wall using RCP-200 or Kaleido-RCP2 panels.
Explains how to use the mouse pointer and RCP-200 touch screen for control.
Details how to show and hide the system dashboard on displays.
Describes how to display a source in full screen from RCP or RCP-200.
Explains how to change aspect ratio using RCP or RCP-200.
Details how to toggle cropping mode using RCP or RCP-200.
Explains how to toggle safe area markers on a video using RCP or RCP-200.
Details how to set text mode for video monitors.
Explains how to edit text on an Under Monitor Display (UMD).
Explains assigning logical sources to monitors in a layout using RCP or mouse.
Details changing logical sources assignments or internal router crosspoints.
Explains how to control timers using monitor buttons and shortcut menus.
Describes how to trigger monitor wall and background actions.
Details acknowledging alarms using RCP, RCP-200, mouse, or actions.
Describes setting display output resolution from monitor wall or XEdit.
Explains how to enable EDID auto-detect for a display.
Details changing system IP address, name, and other parameters via control panel.
Defines terms related to Kaleido-X systems and workflows.
Explains Kaleido-X system creation and maintenance tasks.
Provides step-by-step instructions for launching XEdit.
Explains how to use XEdit in online mode for direct system configuration.
Details how to connect XEdit to a multiviewer via network.
Explains restoring system settings to factory defaults.
Details adding multiviewers to a cluster system.
Provides steps to create a cluster system with multiple multiviewers online.
Describes creating rooms for cluster systems with displays from different multiviewers.
Details creating layouts for cluster systems, focusing on one part at a time.
Explains manually replicating RCP user configurations across cluster members.
Guides on repairing cluster configuration issues, like name or IP address changes.
Guides on creating a system with a single multiviewer model.
Explains configuring system representation for Kaleido-IP and Kaleido-X models.
Provides steps to create a cluster system with multiple multiviewers offline.
Defines calibration terms and explains immediate application of changes.
Covers calibration of brightness, contrast, saturation, DVI keying, and audio delay.
Details calibration of detail enhancer, dynamic range, aspect ratio, NTSC, and subtitling.
Covers calibration of switch field selection and SDI output reclocking.
Provides detailed steps for calibrating brightness and contrast.
Explains adjusting color saturation for video for pleasing appearance.
Details setting DVI input as background or foreground for layouts.
Explains adjusting audio monitoring delay for audio/video synchronization.
Sets reference level for digital audio signals in dBFS.
Configures loudness and dialnorm parameters for Dolby E audio.
Explains selecting AFD source for SD signals.
Configures detail enhancement and dynamic range for video signals.
Guides on configuring Teletext/Subtitling page selection.
Defines GPI line direction as input or output for test purposes.
Defines alarms and explains the General Status Manager (GSM).
Describes the alarm browser window and its hierarchical view of alarms.
Explains alarm statuses, their colors, and descriptions.
Details declaring external devices as alarm providers to the system.
Explains filtering false alarms using set and clear duration parameters.
Describes squelching irrelevant alarms manually or by defining schedules.
Explains how logical sources combine multiple alarm levels into an overall status.
Allows deriving results from existing alarms to form new higher-level virtual alarms.
Explains how alarm monitors display global and virtual alarm statuses.
Describes displaying text from video signals on the monitor wall.
Details setting thresholds for video and audio alarms.
Explains how to configure alarm debouncing parameters.
Details adding alarm providers to the Kaleido-X system.
Provides steps to create a virtual alarm using XEdit.
Covers black detection, freeze sensitivity, SD/HD detection zones, and luma thresholds.
Details silent, overload, out of phase, mono, and metadata calibrations.
Defines logical source, level, incremental copy, and handles.
Guides on populating the initial database with logical sources.
Explains adding logical sources based on external router or multiviewer inputs.
Guides on removing logical sources for programs no longer present.
Explains the process of adding a logical source manually.
Details adding levels to logical sources, including text and alarm levels.
Explains selecting alarm levels and ranking their contribution to global alarms.
Explains making physical assignments for logical sources before creating a layout.
Details assigning text elements to a logical source’s text level.
Explains assigning alarms to a logical source’s alarm level.
Guides on accessing alarms and text from external providers via XEdit.
Explains using incremental copy to propagate physical assignments to other logical sources.
Guides on configuring a video monitor to display internal router outputs.
Defines Room, Display vs Monitor, Full screen zone, and Display library.
Guides on creating, adding displays, and assigning output heads to rooms.
Provides steps to create a new room in XEdit.
Details how to open an existing room in XEdit.
Guides on deleting rooms, ensuring no layouts are left.
Details adding displays to a room from the display library or custom.
Guides on removing displays from a room, ensuring no layouts remain.
Explains configuring display attributes to match physical counterparts.
Details adding and configuring full screen zones within a room.
Explains how to view attributes and values of a display in the Properties pane.
Guides on enabling EDID auto-detection for displays in XEdit.
Details creating custom display resolutions using the Tools menu.
Guides on configuring custom resolutions for specific displays in a room.
Explains setting the HD-SDI output format and scan format for 1080-line signals.
Details enabling phase locking for HD-SDI output for specific output heads.
Explains preventing dashboard display on specific displays for alarm notification.
Guides on changing display aspect ratio in a room.
Explains how to change a display's diagonal size in a room.
Details changing a display's width in a room.
Explains changing rotation settings for a display in a room.
Guides on changing a display's position using the Region Editor.
Explains managing default and custom display libraries.
Details creating custom display libraries and saving them.
Guides on removing displays from custom libraries.
Defines layouts and their constituent elements.
Defines layout elements: Layout, Monitor, Video Monitor, Video Window, Composite Monitor, Time Code Monitor.
Defines timers, audio monitors, UMDs, alarm monitors, subtitling, metadata, V-chip monitors, clocks, and widget libraries.
Explains automatic aspect ratio adjustment and cropping modes.
Details automatic aspect ratio adjustment methods: slaved to input or follows AFD/WSS.
Explains dynamically changing scan mode based on current feed.
Details customizing overscan amounts based on signal resolution.
Explains spanning layout elements across multiple displays for a larger screen effect.
Guides on opening, creating, and saving layouts.
Details how to open an existing layout in XEdit.
Guides on adding components from widget libraries or creating custom components.
Explains how to duplicate a monitor within a layout.
Guides on using the Auto-layout tool to create grid-type layouts.
Details copying layouts between rooms or to an empty layout.
Explains assigning logical sources or destinations to monitors via drag-and-drop.
Guides on displaying static images as layout backgrounds.
Explains using DVI input content as a keyed background in a layout.
Covers resizing video monitors and setting their aspect ratio.
Details setting aspect ratio for video monitors, including custom options.
Explains adding safe area markers for video monitors.
Guides on superimposing images onto video monitors for safe area display.
Details adding free-form safe area images to video monitors.
Explains setting underscan/overscan properties of video monitors.
Guides on setting underscan or overscan behavior for video monitors.
Details slaving video monitors to input signal aspect ratio for auto format detection.
Explains how video raster follows AFD/WSS metadata.
Details setting alarm reporting features for video monitors, including latching.
Guides on setting text mode properties for video monitors.
Explains setting CC/Subtitling properties, text mode, and colors.
Explains defining timers and creating timer monitors for display.
Guides on defining timers in XEdit.
Covers configuring audio monitor appearance, assignments, and scales.
Details configuring audio scales globally or from specific audio monitors.
Explains how to configure time code monitors in a layout.
Explains UMD purposes and alarm reporting behavior.
Details setting alarm reporting features for UMDs, including latch color.
Guides on adding and configuring alarm monitors in a layout.
Explains how to monitor subtitling from a DVB stream.
Guides on monitoring XDS data and digital content advisory descriptors.
Provides visual indication of V-chip rating from CC (608) metadata.
Explains configuring analog and digital clocks, including logos and time zones.
Guides on encapsulating primary elements into a single manageable object.
Details rules for resizing composite monitors while maintaining element proportions.
Explains how to unlock individual components within a composite monitor.
Explains opening and using the Region Editor for monitor positioning and dimensions.
Details copying properties and size between monitors of the same type.
Explains creating and managing custom widget libraries.
Explains actions as operations triggered by events, including monitor wall and background actions.
Details creating and triggering monitor wall actions.
Explains assigning actions to monitors triggered when a layout is loaded.
Guides on creating background actions triggered by alarms or Gateway commands.
Explains creating actions triggered by Gateway commands.
Guides on modifying action item parameters.
Explains how to remove action items from an action.
Details how to delete an action.
Lists chapter topics: XEdit tasks, managing users, room access, and preferences.
Provides steps for setting up RCP Users' profiles in XEdit.
Defines Kaleido-RCP2 and RCP-200 control panels and their use with XEdit.
Guides on adding and removing RCP users from the system.
Details granting and removing RCP users' access to rooms.
Explains setting default preferences for any user logging into a room.
Guides on assigning room layouts to Kaleido-RCP2 preset buttons.
Guides on assigning a full screen layout to an RCP user.
Details assigning audio output to the RCP’s AUDIO MONITORING button.
Explains setting input language for external keyboards connected to RCP/RCP-200.
Explains assigning a timer to an RCP user for room control.
Guides on modifying RCP user names and passwords.
Explains Kaleido-X integration with routing devices and control capabilities.
Defines External Router, Physical Router, Protocol, Router Controller, Logical Router, etc.
Details five ways multiviewers can be configured for router control.
Guides on controlling an external router via serial or TCP/IP connection.
Explains controlling external routers in a cascade configuration.
Details how Kaleido-X translates commands for external router controllers.
Guides on controlling the internal router via external devices or applications.
Lists optional drivers for controlling routing devices and supported protocols.
Details communication protocols supported by the multiviewer for control.
Explains physical cabling for connecting to external serial devices via RS-422.
Answers common questions about internal routers, external routers, and matrix GUIs.
Guides on importing router configurations from an NV9000 system controller into XEdit.
Guides on renaming physical routers in XEdit for consistency.
Details the 4-step process for creating and configuring an external router.
Guides on defining an external router's physical representation in XEdit.
Explains adding physical levels to represent router cascades or connections.
Details adding logical routers for refined control over router configurations.
Explains configuring the internal router within Kaleido-X models.
Guides on configuring the internal router for Kaleido-X16.
Details configuring internal router cards for Kaleido-X (7RU).
Explains specifying physical connections between multiviewer inputs and external router outputs.
Guides on mapping multiviewer inputs to external router outputs in XEdit.
Explains receiving dynamic labels and status from tally interface devices.
Lists optional drivers for controlling tally interface devices.
Provides configuration steps for serial tally systems.
Covers configuration for Kalypso, Andromeda, TCP/IP Dispatcher, and TSL serial devices.
Guides on setting up multiviewer to interface with Ross Video switchers.
Describes setting up a multiviewer to interface with Sony production switchers.
Guides on setting up a multiviewer to interface with a Kahuna production switcher.
Describes setting up a multiviewer to interface with Thomson Grass Valley Kayak switchers.
Guides on setting up a multiviewer to interface with Grass Valley Kayenne switchers.
Describes setting up a multiviewer to interface with Zodiak switchers.
Explains using a serial-port test agent in XEdit for verifying wiring and data.
Explains obtaining information on Kaleido-X system commands via Gateway.
Describes the Serial-to-TCP Dispatcher software for bridging serial and TCP/IP networks.
Defines terms like XEdit, XAdmin, system snapshot, and system status.
Lists default IP settings for Kaleido-IP, MX, Modular-X, and Densité CPU models.
Lists software and hardware options to expand multiviewer capabilities.
Discusses network traffic impact and required ports for Kaleido-X systems.
Details necessary client and server ports for Kaleido-X services.
Guides on assigning IP addresses, masks, gateways, and system names.
Guides on changing client PC IP address for subnet matching.
Details changing IP address via Windows 7 network settings.
Guides on configuring RCP-200 IP settings, specifying multiviewers and lookup servers.
Details how to specify multiviewers for RCP-200 connection.
Explains how to specify lookup servers for RCP-200 device control.
Guides on logging on to the RCP-200 for monitor wall access.
Guides on assigning a static IP address to the Kaleido-RCP2.
Explains selecting a room for the Kaleido-RCP2 from available network systems.
Explains how to enable software and hardware options via XAdmin.
Details configuring PSU B Installed option in XAdmin for redundancy.
Guides on downloading and installing the XEdit Layout Editor.
Explains how to install the required Java Runtime Environment for XEdit.
Guides on registering security credentials to suppress browser warnings.
Explains how to enable compatibility view for XAdmin in Internet Explorer 10.
Explains how to generate a system snapshot for troubleshooting.
Guides on creating a system snapshot via a Web browser.
Details restarting and shutting down a Kaleido-IP multiviewer.
Explains how to restart the monitor wall software.
Guides on performing a clean shutdown of a Kaleido-IP multiviewer.
Refers to Release Notes for information on upgrading the multiviewer system.
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