DENSITÉ series FRS-1801 HD/SD Frame Synchronizer Guide to Installation and Operation M421-9900-100 10 Oct 2008 Miranda Technologies Inc. 3499 Douglas-B.-Floreani St-Laurent, Québec, Canada H4S 1Y6 Tel. 514-333-1772 Fax. 514-333-9828 www.miranda.com © 2008 Miranda Technologies Inc.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Safety Compliance Information Safety Compliance This equipment complies with: - CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1-03 / Safety of Information Technology Equipment, Including Electrical Business Equipment. UL 60950-1 (1st Edition) / Safety of Information Technology Equipment, Including Electrical Business Equipment. st IEC 60950-1 (1 Edition) / Safety of Information Technology Equipment, Including Electrical Business Equipment.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Table of Contents 1 FRS-1801 HD/SD Universal Video Processor/Converter ........................................................1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2 Installation ..................................................................................................................................3 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3 Unpacking ...........................................................................................................................................
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION FRS-1801
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 1 FRS-1801 HD/SD Universal Video Processor/Converter 1.1 Introduction The FRS-1801 is a highly integrated module designed to synchronize, process and delay HD and SD signals into HD/SD hybrid plants. The FRS-1801 is a single channel card. The FRS can accept either HD or SD inputs and will provide an HD or SD output according to the input standard. The output path provides frame sync, video proc, color correction.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Block Diagram 1.3 The following block diagram shows the FRS-1801. FRS-1801 – HD/SD Frame sync / ARC REF Genlock ANC Delay Thum bnail Probing Dolby Metadata Delay MS B 16 Ch Audio Demux & Dolby Metadata Extract HD/SD SDI Frame & Delay Delay Frame Sync sync & 1.3 seconds All formats Video Proc / Color Corr.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 2 Installation 2.1 Unpacking Make sure the following items have been shipped with your FRS-1801. If any of the following items are missing, contact your distributor or Miranda Technologies Inc. • FRS-1801 HD/SD Universal Video Processor/Converter • FRS-1801-110-DRP or FRS-1801-75-DRP Double Rear Panel. See figure 2.2 2.2 Installation in the Densité frame The FRS-1801 and its associated rear connector panel must be mounted in a DENSITÉ frame.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 2.4 Rear Panel Connectors Figure 2.2 FRS-1801 Rear Panels REF IN – Studio reference input For external synchronization, connect a black studio reference signal to the BNC labeled REF IN. The reference input must conform to SMPTE 170M/SMPTE 318M/ITU 624-4/BUT 470-6 for standard definition signals and SMPTE 274M / SMPTE 296M for high definition signals and is used to phase the HD/SD SDI outputs to the studio.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION AES IN/GPI – AES and GPI inputs The rear panel AES IN/GPI connector (15-pin D-SUB) provides four discrete AES3 digital audio inputs, plus four GPI contacts used to recall user-configurable presets.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION RS-422 – Machine Control Interface (RJ45 socket): RS-422 Label RS422-TX1 1 RS422-TX0 2 RS422-RX1 3 RS422-RX0 6 N/C 6 | FRS-1801 Pin # 4,5,7,8
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3 Operation 3.1 Control options The FRS-1801 can be controlled in two different ways: • The local control panel and its push-buttons can be used to move through a menu of parameters and to adjust parameter values (see section 3.3). • Miranda’s iControl system can be used to access the card’s operating parameters from a remote computer, using a convenient graphical user interface (GUI). (see section 3.4) 3.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Silence detected Channel 3 Silence detected Channel 4 Silence detected Channel 5 Silence detected Channel 6 Silence detected Channel 7 Silence detected Channel 8 Silence detected Channel 9 Silence detected Channel 10 Silence detected Channel 11 Silence detected Channel 12 Silence detected Channel 13 Silence detected Channel 14 Silence detected Channel 15 Silence detected Channel 16 : Factory default.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION [SELECT] Gives access to the next menu level. When a parameter value is shown, pushing this button once enables modification of the value using the [+] and [–] buttons; a second push confirms the new value [ESC] Cancels the effect of parameter value changes that have not been confirmed; pushing [ESC] causes the parameter to revert to its former value. Pushing [ESC] moves the user back up to the previous menu level. At the main menu, [ESC] does not exit the menu system.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.1 The iControl graphic interface window The basic window structure for the FRS-1801 is shown in figure 3.2. The window identification line gives the card type (FRS-1801) and the slot number where the card installed in its Densité frame. 1 2 4 3 Figure 3.2 FRS-1801 iControl graphic interface window: There are four main sections in the window itself, identified in figure 3.2: 1. The top section displays icons on the left.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Table –iControl Status Icon interpretation Icon #1 – Manual Card Configuration Remote card control activated. The iControl interface can be used to operate the card (green) (yellow) Local card control active, The card is being controlled using the Densité frame control panel, as described in section 3.3. Any changes made using the iControl interface will have no effect on the card. Icon #2 – Input status Signal detected and valid.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Icon #4 – Reference Reference OK. Mouse over to see the source of the reference, and its format, e.g. external, NTSC (green) Reference mismatch or Missing reference (red) Reference absent (gray) Icon #5 – Operation Mode Operation mode: process – normal processing of the input signal (green) Operation mode: TEST – color bar and audio test tones enabled (see Sect. 3.4.13) (yellow) Operation mode: Manual Freeze ON (see Sect. 3.4.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.2 The Input panel This panel allows control of the deglitcher and freeze functions. See figure 3.3. Deglitcher tab Mode: select OFF or ON from the Deglitcher pulldown. When the Deglitcher is active, the card supports a hot-switch between two signals on the same input without producing a freeze on the frame sync, and without producing artifacts on the output.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION To perform a glitch-free switch between two sources, they must be in the same clean switch region. A clean switch region is contained within ± ½ line about an H=0 point in the reference signal, as shown by the dotted lines in the figure. There is a clean switch region centered on every H interval. As you can see, vertical alignment with the reference is not important for the deglitcher to operate properly.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION line, which corresponds to -31.76 μs. We can now determine that this switch will not be clean, because the two sources are on opposite sides of the limit, and are therefore not in the same clean switch region. Example 2: We have two SD (525) sources, one that indicates an offset of 50μs with respect to the reference (A) and the other an offset of 40μs (B). We know that a clean switch region limit is present at + ½ line and another one at ½ line plus one line.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Freeze Option • Field 1 • Field 2 • Frame • Black Auto Mode Manual Mode Freeze to last valid FIELD 1 Freeze to last valid FIELD Freeze to last valid FIELD 2 Freeze to last valid FRAME Freeze to BLACK Auto Freeze: This pulldown (ON/OFF) enables or disables the auto freeze function. In Auto Freeze mode, a reference must be present to ensure a glitchless output when a freeze is activated.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Advanced tab This tab provides individual controls for each of these parameters. Y Cb Cr mode RGB mode Slider name Range Slider name Range Y Gain -800 to +800 G Gain -800 to +800 Cb Gain -800 to +800 B Gain -800 to +800 Cb Gain -800 to +800 R Gain -800 to +800 Black Offset -100 to +100 G offest -100 to +100 Cb Offset -100 to +100 B Offset -100 to +100 Cr Offset -100 to +100 R Offset -100 to +100 Figure 3.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION that the AFD frame accuracy or the audio processing won’t work with the minimum delay checkbox checked. With a reference, the normal processing delay will be of 1 frame. 15 frames can be added to the frame sync delay which depends on the timings between the input and the reference. • 3.4.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Auto : In this mode, the AFD flags present at the input are passed unaffected. If no flag is present, the flag specified in the default setting region is inserted. Delete : In this mode, all the AFD flags present at the input are deleted from the video stream and no other flags is inserted. Default settings area The text box is labeled according to the mode selected in the AFD Mode pulldown: • In PASS mode, labeled DEFAULT and always empty.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION The Active Format Descriptor (AFD) flag is used to identify the aspect ratio and protected areas of a video signal. The AFD flag is implemented differently in SD and HD: • In HD, the AFD flag is sent in an ancillary packet, normally found on line 11 in the vertical ancillary space. • In SD, the AFD flag is sent as a VLI signal (RP 186) for 525 and 625 formats, as a WSS signal (ITU-R BT.1119-2) for PAL only, and as an AFD packet (SMPTE 2016).
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Fixed Delay sub-tab: although the FRS-1801 automatically matches audio and video throughput timing, provision is made for the user to insert an audio delay offset from the nominal value, in order to deal with problems such as lip sync errors and audio phase alignment in the incoming feed. For each channel, two sliders allow the delay to be adjusted.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Config Tab This tab provides a selection between the embedded audio and the discrete AES inputs. Channels 1 to 8 will always be the first 8 embedded channels. However, channels 9 to 16 can be either embedded channels 9 to 16 or the 8 discrete channels from the 4 AES inputs. Figure 3.19 Audio Processing – Config tab Downmix tab This tab provides resources to control the downmix of a “5.1 channel” surround-sound audio signal into an LtRt or LoRo stereo pair. The 5.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION [+10 dB, +9 dB, +7.5, +6 dB, +4.5 dB, +3 dB, +1.5dB, 0 dB, -1.5 dB, -3 dB, -4.5 dB, -6 dB, mute] The block diagrams below shows the configuration of the LtRt surround sound downmixer and the LoRo stereo downmixer. L + + + + + – Lt Ls C Center Level LFE LFE Level Rs R + + + + + + Surround Level + + Rt Figure 3.21 LtRt Surround Sound downmixer Figure 3.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.7 The Audio Out (Video) panel This panel provides additional audio processing for the 16 audio channels embedded in the HD/SD outputs: audio channels mixing and audio embedding mode. The FRS-1801 may be paired with up to two DAP, AAP or UAP cards for additional audio channel inputs to the mixers and for discrete AES outputs.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Level (dB): -96 to 0 dB in 0.5 dB steps: sets an attenuation level to the channel source. For non-PCM audio, the level value is overridden to 0 dB. Config tab • HD output Audio Insert: insertion of audio in the HD output signal may be set to Auto or OFF. When set to Auto, only the audio groups containing at least one audio channel will be embedded at the output. When set to OFF, no audio is embedded in the HD output.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Mix 4Ch: This mode allows a 3-input or 4-input mix on the chosen even output. A standard 2-input mix is available on the odd output. On the same tab, the two selected sources of the even channel are mixed with the one or two selected sources of the odd channel. The four sources are mixed, with the level of each source adjusted using its slider or data entry box. You can swap the odd and even outputs by putting a check mark in the Channel Swap (1&2) checkbox.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.10 The ABUS panel When companion audio cards such as the DAP and UAP are used to provide additional audio channels, the ABUS audio bus links the installed audio cards and the FRS-1801. The A-BUS panel is used to instruct the FRS-1801 about the presence of installed audio cards and the system configuration. A1/A2 Presence: Monitors the presence of companion audio cards installed in the chassis (see section 2.2 FRS-1801 Installation).
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION the frame can use this feature. It has no effect unless you have selected Fast for the refresh rate. The actual slot number of this card, as shown in the window title bar, will appear when the checkbox is ticked. • This feature is only available with the version 1 of the Densité Controller 3.4.12 The RALM panel The Remote Audio Level Meter (RALM) panel displays audio level meters for up to 8 channels.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Overload Cursor – The overload cursor appears on the meter as an arrowhead in the meter scale. The two pulldown boxes set the position of the overload cursor on the left and right meters. If the audio level on that channel goes above the cursor, the Overload Counter at the top of the meter is incremented. The Overload Counter shows a running count of the number of overloads detected.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.14 The Factory/Presets panel Load Factory: Clicking this button will restore the card to a factory default state. • Note that User Presets are not changed User Presets The FRS-1801 has memory registers which can hold up to 5 user-defined parameter settings. The first 4 user presets can be recalled by GPI 1 to 4. Select any one of the five presets using the pulldown list. The name of the currently-selected User Preset is shown on the name bar.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION The Profile column has a pulldown that allows you to select which profiles you will work with, and gives these choices: • Current, User1, User2, User3, User4, User5, All The Select column includes a checkbox, preselected as checked, to confirm that you want to work with the current card. Save Profile to Disk… Click this button to open a Save dialog allowing you to specify a file name and location to which the selected profiles for this card will be saved.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION The Select column includes a checkbox to identify which FRS-1801 cards you wish to copy profiles into from the current card.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.4.16 The Alarm Config panel This panel allows the alarm reporting of the FRS1801 to be configured. The panel opens in a new window when the button is clicked, and can be resized if needed. The panel is organized in columns. Status/Name This contains an expandable tree listing all the alarms reported by this FRS-1801 card.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Levels associated with these alarms: The pulldown lists may contain some or all of the following options: The alarm makes no contribution (black icon) The alarm is of minor importance (yellow icon) The alarm is of major importance (orange icon) The alarm is of critical importance (red icon) The alarm exists but has no effect (used for text and composite alarms) Shortcut: if you click in one of the columns beside a major heading in the Status/Name column (where there is no
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Get alarm keys Click this button to open a save dialog where you can save a file containing a list of all alarms on this card and their current values, along with an Alarm Key for each. The alarm keys are useful for system integration and troubleshooting. • The file is saved in Excel.csv format Figure 3.41 Get alarm keys save dialogue OK, Apply, Cancel • OK accepts the settings and closes the window once the card confirms that there are no errors.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Three buttons in the panel give access to other information. • Details…: Reports the Firmware version, service version, and panel version for this card Figure 3.43 Details window • Advanced…: Shows the Miranda LongID for this card. The Miranda LongID is the address of this FRS-1801 in the iControl network. Figure 3.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3.5 Automation Using RS-422 Some card behaviors can be controlled using the RS-422 port. This is especially useful for automation systems. For detailed information about the protocol including the handshaking, please refer to the Oxtel Series Automation Protocol manual. The "Transport Layer" chapter gives more details about the encapsulation of the command strings described below.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 4 Specifications VIDEO INPUT SIGNAL SMPTE-259M-C (270Mbps) and SMPTE-292M (1.485, 1.485/1.001 Gbps) SUPPORTED FORMATS SD: 480i59.94, 576i50 HD: SMPTE-274M: 1080i59.94, 1080i50 HD: SMPTE-296M: 720p59.94, 720p50 CABLE LENGTH 350, (900’) Belden 1694A at 270 Mbps 150m (350’) Belden 1694A at 1.485 Gbps RETURN LOSS >15 dB, 5 MHz to 1.5 GHz/270 MHz VIDEO OUTPUT SIGNAL (2) SMPTE-259M-C (270Mbps) and SMPTE-292M (1.485, 1.485/1.001 Gbps) SUPPORTED FORMATS SD: 480i59.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION RETURN LOSS >35 dB up to 5.75 VIDEO PROCESSING PERFORMANCE SIGNAL PATH 10 bits PROCESSING DELAY 4 lines minimum, 4 lines to 1 frame and 4 lines 49 lines to 1 frame and 49 lines ADDITIONAL VIDEO DELAY 15 interlaced frames maximum AUDIO PROCESSING PERFORMANCE QUANTIZATION 24 bits SAMPLING 48 KHz, synchronous NUMBER OF CHANNELS 16, 8 pairs, 4 Groups FREQUENCY RESPONSE +- 0.
40 | FRS-1801 [-180, …, 0, 1, …, 180] HUE [OFF, ON] VBI AFD VBI passthrough AFD Mode [PASS, INSERT, AUTO, DELETE] [OFF, AUTO 20 BITS, AUTO 24 BITS] [OFF, AUTO] SD Audio embedding METADATA [-100, …, 0, 1, …, 100] Cr/R OFFSET HD Audio embedding [-100, …, 0, 1, …, 100] Cb/B OFFSET [OFF, ON] [-100, …, 0, 1, …, 100] RGB GAMUT [-800, …, 0, 1, …, 800] [-800, …, 0, 1, …, 800] Cr/R GAIN BLACK/G OFFSET [-800, …, 0, 1, …, 800] SATURATION [-800, …, 0, 1, …, 800] Cb/B GAIN [YCbCr, RGB] [OFF,
AUDIO TIMING THRESHOLD DELAY SILENCE DETECT -- -- -CHANNEL 1 CHANNEL 16 Audio Silence Delay NSD Audio Silence Threshold Audio Silence Enable [-100, 0, 100] DELAY SAMPLES Fine Audio Alignment -- -- -- DELAY MSEC Lip-Sync Correction -- -- [0, 2000] MUTE [3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 90, [-72, -66, -60, -54, -48] [OFF, ON] [OFF, ON] PHASE INVERT [OFF, ON]] Channel Mute [-96, …,0, …, 12] [OFF, CH01,…, CH16] [EMBED CH 9-16, AES IN 1-4] [display timing] step = .
-- -- -- 42 | FRS-1801 AES OUTPUT Discrete AES Output Shuffler/Mixer [-96, …, 0] MIXB CHANNEL 1 [OFF, A, A+B, MIX] [V, A1, A2] MODE SRCA -- -- -- [CH01, …, CH16] CHNB -- -- -- [V, A1, A2] SRCB CHANNEL16 [-96, …, 0] [OFF, ON], display SWAP [CH01, CH02, …, CH16] [-96, …, 0] MIXB MIXA [CH01, …, CH16] CHNB [V, A1, A2] [V, A1, A2] SRCB CHNA [-96, …, 0] MIXA SRCA [CH01, …, CH16] CHNA [OFF, A, A+B, MIX] [V, A1, A2] SRCA MODE [OFF, A, A+B, MIX] [OFF, ON] [+3.0, +1.5, 0, -1.
TEST PATTERN CONFIG ALARMS Audio/Video Test Alarms and Frame GPI Reports AES1 PRESENCE CARD SYSTEM MANUAL FREEZE REF. MISMATCH NO REFERENCE VIDEO/TRS ERROR NO CARRIER MAN Manual Freeze TYPE AUTO FREEZE Freeze Type Automatic Freeze on Error CARD SYSTEM Audio/Video Card Config.
44 | FRS-1801 VERSION OPTIONS FACTORY RESET Firmware Version Audio Options Factory Card Parameters Audio Option is required RESTORE AUDIO OPTION ON/OFF The action is applied by pressing the SELECT button, Press ESC to abort. Key:XX.XX.XX.
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION ANNEX 2 – AFD FUNCTIONS The charts below show the conversions that will be performed by the FRS-1801 when the Active Format Descriptor (AFD) processing is activated by selecting AUTO in the AFD Mode pulldown in the AFD tab in the Metadata panel (see page 18) In the images shown in the chart: BLACK Indicates that this portion of the transmitted image will be black GREY indicates Protected Area, consisting of picture content which may be cropped for optimum display on sc
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Input signal > 16:9 Letterbox (center) image in a 4:3 frame 4:3 Output signal 16:9 16:9 Full frame image in a 16:9 > 16:9 Letterbox (center) image frame in a 4:3 frame (4:3_4) 16:9 Letterbox (top) image in a 4:3 frame (4:3_4) 16:9 Letterbox (top) image in a 4:3 frame (16:9_8) 16:9 Full frame image in a 16:9 frame (4:3_2) 14:9 Letterbox (top) image in a 4:3 frame (4:3_2) 14:9 Letterbox (top) image in a 4:3 frame (16:9_8) 14:9 Pillar-box image in a 16:9 frame (4:3_
GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION Input signal 16:9 Full frame image in a 16:9 frame 4:3 Output signal 16:9 Letterbox image in 4:3 frame 16:9 16:9 Full frame image in a 16:9 frame 4:3 Pillar-box image in 16:9 frame Either (4:3_10) as shown here, or (4:3_8) as in box below 4:3 Full frame image in a 4:3 frame 4:3 Pillar-box image in 16:9 frame (16:9_9) 14:9 Pillar-box image in a 16:9 frame (4:3_8) 14:9 Letterbox image in a 4:3 frame (16:9_9) 14:9 Pillar-box image in a 16:9 frame (16:9_11) 16:9
