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Display settings uploading and downloading
Though Studio Cal XML is primarily designed for calibration-type functions, it is designed to provide
additional non-calibration functionality. The <user_settings> tag allows you to export a display conguration
to an XML le and then load that conguration back to the same display or deploy it to other displays.
This tag was designed to facilitate the “congure, calibrate, and deploy” model used by many large VFX and
animation studios. With this tag, IT can congure a single display so that all menus are congured as desired
then deploy that conguration onto all other displays in the facility. As this command is not calibration-
focused, it cannot be used with calibration-specic tags.
The tag contains two attributes and is structured as follows:
<user_settings operation="save|load"/>
The operation tag can be set to either “save” or “load.” If set to “save” the display’s conguration is written to
a le named “Z27X_UserSettings.xml” on the root of the attached USB drive. If this le already exists on the
drive, it is overwritten. Though this le is human-readable it is not designed to be manually edited and as a
result the tag attributes are not documented. If an attribute has been changed to a value that is out of range,
that attribute is skipped when being loaded into the display.
If set to “load,” the “Z27X_UserSettings.xml” le must be present on the inserted USB drive. It then loads the
settings into the display, replacing all existing settings with the new settings. Color space presets, being
calibration-based, are not aected by this command.
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