Ensemble Designs BrightEye Mitto series, BrightEye Mitto 3G Quick Start Manual

Software Control
The Selection Tool shows up as a black box around your selection. It shows the portion of the video that will be output from BrightEye Mitto. If your selection is small, such as a YouTube™ video, it will be upconverted to full screen video.
Click and drag to move and resize selection
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Video Selection Tool
Resize the selection window by clicking and dragging. Mitto’s video output automatically goes to pillar box or letter box as needed. Mitto maintains perfect aspect ratio.
Click the Selection Tool button in BrightEye Mac or PC to bring up the Selection Tool.
Quick Start Guide
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Included with your Mitto:
one USB cable
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two VGA to DVI adaptors•
3. Mitto Conguration
Software and Cables
Typical Connection
Included with your Mitto:
one USB cable
•
3. Mitto Conguration
Software and Cables
Typical Connection
Controls • Adjustments • Timing • Video Levels • Audio Levels • Aspect Ratio • Position • Size • Controls • Adjustments • Timing • Video Levels • Audio Levels • Aspect Ratio • Position • Size • Controls • Adjustments • Timing
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Front Panel Control Buttons
Prev and Next navigate through the various controls, such as Aspect and Position. When a control is selected its LED blinks on and off. Arrows change values for the control you selected.
Arrow and Button Selection
Size
The Size and Position controls let you select exactly what part of the computer image you want to output to video. When the Size LED is
blinking
, adjust the position of the lower right corner of the selection. Use the four arrows to control size.
Short cut: Press and hold up and down (or right and left) arrows at the same time to reset to maximum possible size.
Position
When the Position LED is blinking, adjust the position of the upper left corner of the selection. Use the four arrows to control position. Press and hold for faster movement.
Short cut: Press and hold left and right arrows at the same time to reset the H position to default values. Press and hold up and down to reset V position.
Full Screen
With Position or Size LED blinking, press and hold the up, left and right arrows at the same time to go to full screen.
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• Your Mitto
• One USB cable
• Two VGA to DVI adaptors
• One modular power supply (100-230 VAC)
• The BrightEye software and user manual CD
• Desktop computer with monitor (optional) or a laptop computer (PC or MAC)
• Additional cables as required by your studio conguration
• Start with your computer and monitor turned o.
• Connect a USB cable from your PC or Mac computer to the Mitto.
• Connect the Mitto’s DVI/VGA Loop Out connector to the computer monitor’s input.
• Connect the monitor output of the computer to the Mitto DVI/VGA Input connector.
• Connect the Mitto’s SDI Out or Composite Out BNC to a broadcast television
production switcher, router, video monitor or other video destination.
• If using audio, connect the computer’s audio output to the Mitto’s Audio In.
• If desired, connect your reference signal to the Ref In. Mitto’s output is genlocked
and fully timeable to this reference.
• Connect power to the Mitto.
• Turn on the computer and monitors.
Alternate Ways to Mitto!
There are other ways to use BrightEye Mitto in your TV station or video facility:
• It can be used with a laptop. Congure your laptop for use with an external monitor. Connect Mitto in place of the external monitor.
• It can be used without a computer monitor.
• It can be used with or without the Mitto software.
• It can be controlled from the Mitto panel control buttons only.
• It can be can be used with iPhone™ and iPad™.
Inside You Found:
You Will Need the Following:
You Opened the Box and...
The BrightEye Mac/PC software is included on CD, v2.0 or later is required.
Insert the CD into your computer and follow the prompts. If you are updating, please uninstall the old version first.
The latest software version and the manual are free at http://brighteyemitto.com
1. Install the Software
2. Connect the Mitto
Select a Resolution
Set the resolution of your computer monitor. For the best video output from BrightEye Mitto, set your computer monitor to the highest resolution that’s compatible with Mitto. For best results choose 1920 x 1080 or 1024 x 768.
Select Video Format
From the BrightEye Mac or PC software or the Mitto’s front panel, configure
the desired output format from the Output menu. Select the Standard (NTSC or PAL), Mode (SD, HD, 3G), and HD format if using HD.
Then select the appropriate aspect ratio: 16:9, 4:3 or manual mode.
3. Congure the Mitto
Output Stunning Video
All of the detail, none of the flicker
• YouTube™, Skype™, and any video playing back from a computer or iPhone
• Weather radar, maps
• Viewer emails, software demos, nancial data
SDI Video
HD, SD or 3 Gb/s
The Back
The BrightEye Mitto Family offers six models to choose from. The diagram above shows Mitto model BEM-1. Rear connections vary with other models.
DVI
USB
Audio
DVI
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