madVR Envy Profile User Guide Note: The Envy profile system is beta software currently. Revision 0.98h madVR Envy – Profile User Guide Copyright © madVR Labs, LLC. All rights reserved.
Contents 1.0 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 What Are Profiles? ........................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 Why Not Just Use “Presets”? ........................................................................................................ 3 2.0 Profile System Overview .............................
1.0 Introduction Welcome to the madVR Envy Profile User Guide! This document explains everything you need to know to master Envy’s profile system. If you are looking for just a quick overview for now, please refer to the Introduction to Profiles guide. 1.1 What Are Profiles? Profiles are used to set and recall a group of settings that you want applied for a particular purpose. For example, when you watch a movie at 1080p, you may want different settings than when watching it at 4K.
2.0 Profile System Overview At the core of the Profile System is the profile itself. Profiles provide a way to recall a group of settings, automatically or manually, for a particular purpose. In this section we take a closer look at the Envy menu system, what profiles are and how they work, the different types of profiles available, and introduce profile groups. 2.1 Envy Menu Pages To fully understand profiles, we must first consider how the Envy menu system and its settings are organized.
2.3 Profile Transparency Profiles are fully transparent – meaning that when a profile is activated, only the overridden settings in that profile are applied. All system defaults, and any overridden settings from other profiles, simply “pass thru”. For example, settings for 3D movies and settings based on an aspect ratio of 2.35 will be automatically applied when watching a 3D movie with an aspect ratio of 2.35. You can think of each activated profile as a “layer”.
2.5 The Envy Profile Menu Custom profiles, Source Device profiles, and Display profiles are created, renamed, deleted, and activated by using the Profile menu. To access the Profile menu, press the Profile button on the Envy remote (the button with a square and arrow).
“Source Devices” and “Displays”, covered earlier, are really just predefined profile groups. Likewise, profiles based on the incoming video signal also organized into profile groups for you. Only one profile at a time can be active within a profile group. With the “Viewing Conditions” example, you can see how this is the intended behavior, as these viewing conditions are mutually exclusive (e.g., you would not want to use Daytime and Nighttime profiles at the same time).
Below is an example of Base Settings defined for Upscaling & Sharpening. These settings are therefore the defaults that Envy will use for Upscaling & Sharpening, regardless of resolution, source device, or any other condition – unless overridden. The area highlighted in the menu page shown below is the Profile Bar. Since the Base Settings option is selected in the profile bar, the menu values shown here reflect the Base Settings. 3.
3.3 Active Settings and Menu Tags The Active Settings reflect the current settings in use by Envy. Let’s look again at the Upscaling & Sharpening settings, except this time, with the Active Settings option selected in the Profile Bar. Comparing this to the same menu page as shown in Section 3.1, there are two key differences. First, Active Settings is selected in the Profile Bar instead of Base Settings.
To make changes that are temporary, you simply change them in the Active Settings. Since the Active Settings are the top-most layer in our profile hierarchy, any settings you change there are instantly applied and in effect. Continuing with our example from above – assume you want to experiment with the Image Upscaling setting, and you change it in the Active Settings to “Anti-Alias”, as shown below: Notice how the tag for the Image Upscaling setting has now changed from BASE to TEMP.
3.5.1 Saving to the Base Settings If you want to save your temporary settings so that they become the new system defaults, you can save them directly to the Base Settings. Press the Green button on the Envy remote while any temporary menu setting is highlighted. In the image in Section 3.4, you can see that the Image Upscaling setting is highlighted and tagged as TEMP. Therefore, pressing the Green button while on this line will save this new setting of “Anti-Alias” to the Base Settings.
3.6 More About Menu Tags Now that we have assigned a setting to our first profile, we can take a closer look at how menu tags are used. Having already learned about the BASE and TEMP tags, let’s turn our attention to the PROF, SET and THRU tags. 3.6.
In summary, menu settings tagged with PROF indicate that the values shown for those settings are being set by an activated profile. Since there are many possible profiles, however, it does not indicate which profile is the one setting the value. For that we need to look to the SET tag. 3.6.2 The SET and THRU Tags As we learned above, the PROF tag indicates when a menu item is being set by a profile. Naturally, this raises the question of which profile is the one setting the value.
With the Profile Bar set at “Incoming Resolution: 1080p (or Lower)” you will now see the menu page as shown above. This profile appears as a selection in the Profile Bar because we added it in section 3.5.2. Note the SET tag. The SET tag indicates that this profile (since it is the one selected in the Profile Bar) “sets” the menu item to Anti-Alias – just if there is no other active profile with higher priority. We learn about profile priority next. Also note the THRU tags. Recall from Section 2.
In the case of conflicting settings, profiles are applied in the following order of priority (from highest priority to lowest): 1. Any custom profiles you create. 2. "Source Devices" profiles. 3. "Displays" profiles. 4. Profiles based on properties of the incoming video signal. Note that temporary changes made to the Active Settings have the highest priority, even overriding custom profile settings. See Section 3.4 for more information on temporary settings. 4.
First, let’s assign the settings for use with 4K resolution. From within the Upscaling & Sharpening menu, move to the Profile Bar. Then press the Green button to “Add Profile”. You will then see the following options: Select “Incoming Resolution->4K (or Lower)”. The default settings for the Upscaling & Sharpening menu page are then added to this profile. We will override these settings next. 4.
In this case you can see the three values that we set. Notice that the indicator shows SET instead of THRU. As we learned in Section 3.6.2, this indicates that the selected profile in the Profile Bar is setting these values. Whether that ultimately becomes the value used in the Active Settings depends on the profile being activated (in this case, a 4K signal needs to be present), and not conflicting with any higher priority active profiles.
Now let’s assume the Envy is currently receiving a 4K signal. Therefore, when we select Active Settings in the Profile Bar, we see the following: 18 madVR Envy – Profile User Guide Copyright © madVR Labs, LLC. All rights reserved.
Notice how the menu page now shows the values of 3, 1 and 4, along with the PROF tags. This indicates that these values are being used because of an applied profile. Lastly, let’s send a 1080p signal to the Envy. The menu page now shows the following: Notice how the Envy has automatically recalled our Upscaling & Sharpening settings for 1080p, and that this shows as our Active Settings.
To make this change for the Add Grain setting, we only need to go to the Base Settings, and change the Add Grain setting there to “1”. As we learned, profiles are fully transparent for all settings except those that are overridden. Therefore, your change to the Add Grain setting in the Base Settings will be passed all the way up the chain of profile layers, to the Active Settings, and applied to everything you watch.
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