User`s manual

1. Introduction
Barco – iStudio – R5976569 – user's manual – revision 09 – March-2007
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1.1 How this manual is organized
This manual describes the functionality of the iSTUDIO software that serves to operate HYDRA, HYDRA COMPACT and
H
YDRA COMPACT TWIN controllers from Barco. (In the following only the term HYDRA will be used, which herewith
implies H
YDRA, HYDRA COMPACT and HYDRA COMPACT TWIN, as the operation of iSTUDIO does not differ for these devices.
If a differentiation is necessary both devices will be mentioned explicitly. If there is a reference to the H
YDRA
user’s manual please refer to the H
YDRA, HYDRA COMPACT or HYDRA COMPACT TWIN user’s manual, depending on the
device you use.) The manual is divided into thirteen chapters:
• Introduction
explains the structure of the manual itself and the used typographic styles and symbols. Safety information is
provided concerning the operation of computer systems from Barco.
• Summary
gives an overview about the features the iS
TUDIO software.
• Getting Started
describes the hardware necessary to use iS
TUDIO and the way HYDRA is switched on.
• Basics
introduces the GUI of iS
TUDIO and the way of using it and provides additional video related information.
• Menu and Toolbar
explains the whole functionality accessible via menu and toolbar
• Further GUI Elements
lists and explains the operational elements of iS
TUDIO not explained in the section below.
• Error Messages
lists all potential error messages of iS
TUDIO.
• Advanced Operation
explains data access, upgrading and special configurations.
• Technical Appendix
gives tabular overview about the order codes relying to iS
TUDIO.
• Troubleshooting
gives advice, if iS
TUDIO can not be properly operated.
• Appendix A - Hydra Open Protocol
provides a reference to the open protocol
• Appendix B – Hydra Scripting Language Definition v1.0
contains the scripting language definition
• Index
gives an overview about the used tables and figures.
Chapters, pages, figures and tables are numbered separately. Chapters are indicated by »point syntax«, e. g.
4.2.3, pages by a »dash syntax«, e. g. 2-1, as figures and tables are, e. g. figure 5-4.