Grass Valley 4300 Krystal Reference Manual v.3.1

Reference

3.1software release

071-0440-00

FIRST PRINTING: DECEMBER 1997

REVISED PRINTING: OCTOBER 1998

KRYSTAL 4300

DIGITAL PICTURE MANIPULATOR

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Contents

Preface

About This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Documentation Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Conventions Used In This Manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Button References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Menu Display References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Section 1 — System Overview

General Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Standard Option Package Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Fully Optioned Channel Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Optional Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Feature Packaging Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Physical Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Major Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

System Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Video Processor Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

System Controller Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12

Large System Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12

Small System Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14

Module Descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15

Module and Mezzanine Part Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-17

Facility Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-18

Single Channel Krystal Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-18

Two Channel, Two User Krystal Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-20

Eight Channel Four User Krystal Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-22

Integrated Model 2200-2i Switcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-23

Section 2 — Controls

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Upper Panel Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Lower Panel Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Menu Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Soft Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Exit Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Soft Knob And Transfer Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

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Illuminated Button Tally Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Double-Press Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

DPOP Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Top Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

User Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

File Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Macro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Run Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Picture Frame Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Key/Stencil Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Input/Output Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

User Assist Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Macro/Enable/Deleg Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

Macro Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

Channel Enable Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

Channel Delegation Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

Clipboard Operations Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

Effect Edit Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

Numeric Entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

Transfer Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

E-MEM Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

Mode Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Override Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Run Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

Lever Arm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

Bar Graph Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

Transform Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

Joystick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

Turbo Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

Floppy Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

Section 3 — System Setup Menu

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Resource Acquisition Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Effect Manager Resource Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Channel Resource Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

External Control Preferences Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

Serial Ports Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

GPI Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Defaults Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7

Run Preferences Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Panel Configuration Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9

System Configuration Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Section 4 — User Tools Menu

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

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Source Memory Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Work Buffer Preferences Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Display Options Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Panel Preferences Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7

Edit Enable Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

Section 5 — File Operations/Macro Menus

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

File Operations Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Saving and Loading Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Disk Manager Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Register Operations Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Swap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Erase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Append . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7

Channel Operations Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

Swap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10

Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10

Name Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11

Macro Control Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12

Macro Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12

Macro Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13

Section 6 — Run Control Menu

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Path Control Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Transformation Path Control Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4

All Transform Paths Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Spin Path Control Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Non-Transformation Path Control Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Matte Path Control Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Multiple Parameter Path Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10

Pause Control Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11

Loop Control Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12

Section 7 — Picture Menu

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Pseudo Color Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3

Posterization/Solarization Appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Color Modulation/Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6

Hue Modulation/Appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7

Pseudo Color Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8

Pseudo Color Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9

Picture Opacity Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

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Final Picture Opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

Picture Opacity Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11

Defocus/Glow Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12

Defocus/Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13

Defocus/NAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14

Defocus/Boundary Replicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15

Defocus/Key Adjust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

Defocus/Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17

Glow/Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18

Glow/Matte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19

Defocus/Glow Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20

Mosaic Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21

Mosaic Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22

Input Recursive Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23

Freeze/Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24

Motion Decay/Appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25

Timing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26

Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27

Input Recursive Path Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27

Output Recursive Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-28

Freeze/Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29

Freeze/Timing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-30

Motion Decay/Appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-30

Motion Decay/Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-30

Montage/Strobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-31

Montage/Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-32

Montage/Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-33

Trails/Strobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-33

Trails/Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-34

Trails/Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-35

Trails/Wind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-35

Timing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-36

Output Recursive Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-37

Hard Freeze Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-37

Section 8 — Picture Frame Menu

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1

Crop Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

Box/Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3

Box/Appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4

Box/Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

Pattern/Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6

Pattern/Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7

Pattern/Appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8

Pattern/Crop/Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9

Crop Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9

Border Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10

Box/Flat/Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10

Box/Flat/Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-12

Box/Flat/Matte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13

Box/Flat/Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-14

Box/Wash/Width. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-15

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Box/Wash/Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-16

Box/Wash/Appearnce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-17

Box/Wash In, Out/Matte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-18

Box/Wash/Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-19

Pattern/Flat/Pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-21

Pattern/Flat/Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-22

Pattern/Flat/Matte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-23

Pattern/Flat/Mix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-23

Pattern/Wash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-24

Border Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-24

Kurl Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-25

Page Turn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-25

Page Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-27

Ripple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-28

Ripple Modulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-29

Ripple Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-30

Ripple Pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-31

Slits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-32

Slits Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33

Slits Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34

Slits Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-35

Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-36

Position Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-37

Pos Mod Horiz/Vert Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-37

Pos Mod Pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-38

Size Modulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-39

Size Modulation Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-39

Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-40

Rings Radius. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-40

Rings Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-41

Splash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-42

Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-42

Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-42

Kurl Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-43

Splits Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-44

Split Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-44

Axis Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-45

Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-45

Corner Pinning Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-46

Corner Pinning Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-47

Section 9 — Key/Stencil Menu

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1

Keyer Setup Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2

External Keyer Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3

External Keyer Key Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4

Self Key Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5

Self Key Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6

Keyer Path Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-7

Coring Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8

Coring Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9

Adjust Mask Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10

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Internal Mask Pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10

Internal Mask Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11

Internal Mask Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12

Internal Mask, Mask Mix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13

External Mask Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14

External Mask Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15

Mask Path Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16

Drop Shadow Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-17

Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-17

Matte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-18

Drop Shadow Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19

Emboss Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-20

Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-20

Matte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-21

Emboss Matte Mono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-21

Emboss Matte Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-22

Emboss Adjustable Matte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-23

Emboss Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-24

Section 10 — View Menu

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1

Lighting Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2

Highlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3

Shade 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-5

Shade 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7

Matte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7

Lighting Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-9

Perspective Enhance Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-10

Dim and Fade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-10

Perspective Enhance Path Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11

Perspective Blur Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12

Perspective Blur Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-13

Perspective Clip Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-14

Axis Lock Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-15

Easy Cube Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-16

Using Easy Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-16

Easy Cube Invert and Horiz/Vert Reverse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-17

Section 11 — Input/Output Menu

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1

Source Select Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-3

Delegating the Front and Back Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-4

Switcher Effects Send and Krystal Source Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-5

Matte Fill Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-6

Matte Fill Path Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7

Horiz/Vert Reverse Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-8

Motion Detection Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-9

Enhanced Video Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12

Output Control Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-13

Global Assignment Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-14

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Background Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-15

Wash Matte 1 and Matte 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-16

Wash Background Path Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-16

Combiner Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-17

4 Channel Combiner Control Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-17

Combining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18

Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-20

Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-21

Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-23

2 x 2 Combiner Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-24

Combiner Background Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-28

4 Channel Combiner Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-28

2 x 2 Combiner Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-29

Combiner Path Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-30

4 Channel Combiner Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-30

2 x 2 Combiner Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-31

Combiner Background Path Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-31

4 Channel Combiner Background Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-32

2 x 2 Combiner Background Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-32

Section 12 — User Assist Menus

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1

Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1

Master Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2

Independent Timelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5

Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-7

Clipboard Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-8

Graphic Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-9

Section 13 — Menu Trees

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-1

Control Panel Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-1

Soft Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-1

System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2

System Configuration Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-3

Suite Configuration Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-4

User Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-5

File Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-6

Macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-7

Run Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-7

Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-8

Pseudo Color, Picture Opacity Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-8

Defocus/Glow Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-9

Mosaic, Hard Freeze Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-10

Input Recursive Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-11

Output Recursive Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-12

Picture Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-13

Crop Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-13

Border Menus, Flat Matte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-14

Border Menus, Wash Matte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-15

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Kurl Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-16

Splits, Corner Pinning Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-17

Key/Stencil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-18

Keyer Setup, Coring, Adjust Mask Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-18

Drop Shadow, Emboss Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-19

View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-20

Input/Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-21

Source Select – Global Assign Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-21

Background, Combiner Background Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-22

Combiner Control Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-23

Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-24

Path Control Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-24

Path Function Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-25

Glossary

Index

x Krystal 4300 Reference

Preface

About This Manual

This Krystal 4300 Reference Manual provides concise, comprehensive infor­mation for operating the Grass Valley Model 4300 Krystal Digital Picture
Manipulator (DPM). This manual is useful to both the beginning and
advanced user.

Documentation Set

The standard Krystal DPM user documentation set consists of:

Reference Manual

■

■

User Manual

■

Installation and Service Manual

■

Release Notes

The Krystal 4300 Reference Manual lists and briefly describes all the Krystal
Control Panel functions and menu selections. Use this manual for reference
if you have questions about system operation.

The

Krystal User Manual

Krystal DPM system, and describes procedures for some commonly
encountered operating tasks. This manual can be used when first learning
about the Krystal system, and for enhancing your basic knowledge of the
system.

The

Krystal Installation and Service Manual

installing, configuring, and maintaining the Krystal system.

The

Krystal Release Notes

system enhancements for a specific software version, and also includes
software installation procedures. Always check the release notes for your
current system software before you begin operating your Krystal system.

contains background information about the

contains information about

contain information about new features and

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Preface

Conventions Used In This Manual

The following graphical and typestyle conventions are used throughout
this manual.

Button References

Control Panel buttons are illustrated as shown.

System
Setup

Menu Display References

In the text, Control Panel buttons are shown in the following type:

■

The

System Setup

top menu button.

Many Krystal features may be accessed via the menu display and its asso­ciated “soft” buttons and “soft” knobs. The term “soft” merely means that
the function of the button or knob is temporary, being assigned via the
menu display.

When a function is assigned to a soft button or soft knob, it appears in the
menu display area (as shown on the illustration below).

SOFT KNOBS

PSEUDO COLOR

Displayed:
Register:
Keyframe:
Cur.Time:

MENU

COLOR COR

PSTR/SOLR

COLOR MOD

HUE MOD

OFF

COLOR

MODE

SELECTION

APPEARNCE

MASK

MODIFY REVERSE

SOFT BUTTON

LABEL

ON

OFF

VIDEO

SOFT KNOB

LABEL

SOFT BUTTONS

POSTERIZATION

0.0000

SOLARIZATION

0.0000

Exit

Menu selections and the use of soft buttons and soft knobs are shown in
text in the following type:

■

Select the
adjust the image with the

APPEARANCE

menu item with the

POSTERIZATION

and

MODIFY

soft button, then

SOLARIZATION

soft knobs.

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System Overview

General Description

The Krystal DPM is an advanced technology digital video effects system.
Ten-bit serial digital inputs and outputs, frame-based digital signal pro­cessing techniques, independent function timeline key framing, and
refined control architecture deliver unparalleled video quality. The ergo­nomic control panel draws on Grass Valley’s tradition of user-friendly, log­ically intuitive design.

The Krystal DPM is available in single and multiple channel systems to
meet a wide variety of facility requirements. Krystal systems support a
“pooled” architecture, where one user can acquire and use more than one
channel, or more than one user can acquire separate channels for concur­rent use. The Krystal system is also designed for tight integration with
peripherals such as production switchers, video editors, and routing
switchers.

Section

1

Standard Option Package Features

■

Support for multi-user, multi-channel configurations

■

10-bit image processing, using RISC technology and bicubic interpola­tion

■

Frame-Based Picture Translation, Scaling, Variable Perspective 3D
Rotation, and Adaptive Motion Detection

■

525 or 625 line, 4:3 or 16:9 Aspect Ratio at 13.5 MHz (switchable on a
session-by-session basis)

■

Keypad, Joystick or Panel Knob interfaces

■

Independent Function Timeline Keyframing

■

Macro capability for automation of frequently used sequences
Two Global Channels and a Camera Channel

■

■

Input and Output Recursive

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Section 1 — System Overview

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■

■

■

■

■

■

■

■

■

Defocus with Glow in either video, key
Graphics display for wire-frame channel representation with axis and

source indicators
Image manipulation in Source or Target space
Separate Crop and Mask pattern with mix capability
Mixed internal and external key processing
Emboss, Blur and Modulated Mattes
Wipe Pattern Multipliers
Perspective Fade, Blur, and Dim
Multiple, independently variable Motion Paths
Posterization, Solarization, and Color Modification

■

Drop Shadow with Variable Opacity

■

Corner Pinning

■

Enhanced Image Fidelity
Internal Front/Back source selection, A/B Input Routing source selec-

■

tion, or separate video, key, and mask inputs

■

Key Output With Embedded Depth Information

■

Serial Editor, Switcher and Router Control, General Purpose Interface
(GPI) Inputs, and Tally Inputs and Outputs

■

Floppy Disk Drive for Effect, Macro, and Configuration file storage,
and software updates

Qwerty keyboard for data entry file management

■

Fully Optioned Channel Packages

Single and multi-channel Krystal packages are available, loaded with all
channel options. This includes all features of the Standard Option Package
above plus the following:

■

Kurl with Splash non-linear effects

■

Light source provides two independent light sources per channel, posi­tionable in 3D space

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Optional Features

Kurl with Splash, plus dual light source for upgrades from standard to

■

full option packages

■

4x1 combiner for four channels over a background video, with sec­ondary combiner output

Simultaneous control and combiner outputs for up to four users

■

■

Up to eight channels pooled for control by up to four simultaneous
users combining up to four channels

■

Additional Krystal Control Panels and Video Processor Channels can
be added to existing systems.

Feature Packaging Changes

Physical Description

The following features that were previously available as Krystal options
have been re-packaged:

Table 1-1. Repackaged Features

Optional Features Now Standard

Enhanced Image Fidelity Kurl
Effect Manager Memory Expansion Splash
Input Recursive Memory Light Sources
Output Recursive Memory
Defocus
Graphics Display
Qwerty Keyboard

Physical Description

Major Components

Optional Features in
Full Option Upgrade

The major components of a Krystal system are the Video Processor frame,
Control Panel, and — in multi-channel applications — a Small or Large
System Controller frame.

Krystal systems can be supplied in a wide variety of configurations, several
of which are shown in the following illustrations.

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Section 1 — System Overview

Video/Key/Mask

0600-01

Top
Menu

User
Assist

Clipboard

Effect

Operations

Edit

E-MEM

Mode

Override

Inputs

Control

(Ethernet)

Video/Key

Outputs

Control

External
Devices

Krystal Control Panel

Up to 8

Control Panels

Figure 1-1. Krystal Single Channel System

0600-12

Krystal Control Panel

FLAT PANEL DISPLAY

CONTROL PANEL CPU,

UPPER SWITCH,

LOWER SWITCH BOARDS

CONTROL PANEL

POWER SUPPLY

Diagnostic

Figure 1-2. Krystal Single Channel System Simplified Block Diagram

QWERTY
Keyboard

Video/

Key/Mask

Inputs

Ethernet

Video Processor Frame

Krystal Video Processor Frame

SERIAL

INPUT

SINGLE-CHAN

VIDEO

PROC I/O

EFFECT

MANAGER

I/O

Aux

Editor

Switcher

Serial

Ports

VIDEO

PROCESSOR

MODULES

VIDEO

PROC

CPU

MANAGER

GPI

Graphics in/Out

EFFECT

CPU

SERIAL

OUTPUT

REFERENCE

GENERATOR

FRAME

POWER

SUPPLY

Video/

Key/Depth

Outputs

Analog

Reference

Diagnostic
Router

Tally

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Top
Menu

User
Assist

Clipboard
Operations

Effect
Edit

E-MEM

Override

Mode

Top
Menu

User
Assist

Clipboard
Operations

Effect
Edit

E-MEM

Override

Mode

Small System

Controller Frame

Video/Key/Mask

Inputs

Ch A

Video/Key

Outputs

Video/Key/Mask

Inputs

Ch B

Video/Key

Outputs

Ch. A

Video Processor Frame

Ch. B

Video Processor Frame

Control (Proprietary)

Up to 4

Video Processor Frames

Up to 8 Krystal
Control Panels

With Up to 2

Concurrent Users

Control

(Ethernet)

0600-02

External
Devices

Control

Physical Description

Figure 1-3. Krystal Multi-Channel System, Small System Controller

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0600-13

Krystal Control Panel

FLAT PANEL DISPLAY

CONTROL PANEL CPU,

UPPER SWITCH,

LOWER SWITCH BOARDS

Video/

Key/Mask

Inputs

Video/

Key/Mask

Inputs

VP COMM

Terminator

Ch A Video Processor Frame

SERIAL

VP COMM

INPUT

MULTI-CHAN

VIDEO

PROC I/O

VIDEO

PROCESSOR

MODULES

VIDEO
PROC

CPU

Ch B Video Processor Frame

SERIAL

INPUT

MULTI-CHAN

VIDEO

PROC I/O

VIDEO

PROCESSOR

MODULES

VIDEO
PROC

CPU

SERIAL

OUTPUT

REFERENCE

GENERATOR

FRAME
POWER
SUPPLY

SERIAL

OUTPUT

REFERENCE

GENERATOR

Video/

Key/Depth

Outputs

Analog

Reference

Diagnostic
Router

Tally

Video/

Key/Depth

Outputs

Analog

Reference

Diagnostic
Router

Tally

Diagnostic

CONTROL PANEL

POWER SUPPLY

Ethernet

QWERTY
Keyboard

VP PARAM Ch A

RESOURCE

MANAGER

Analog

VP COMM

VP PARAM Ch B

I/O

FRAME
POWER

SUPPLY

Reference

Diagnostic

Small System Controller Frame

RESOURCE

MANAGER

CPU

EFFECT

MANAGER

CPU

EFFECT

MANAGER

I/O

Aux

Editor

Switcher

Serial
Ports

GPI

Figure 1-4. Krystal Dual Channel System Simplified Block Diagram

FRAME
POWER
SUPPLY

EFFECT

MANAGER

CPU

EFFECT

MANAGER

I/O

Aux

Editor

Switcher

Serial
Ports

Graphics in/Out

Video/

Key/Depth

Inputs

COMBINER

COMBINER

COMBINER

Key/Depth

GPI

Graphics in/Out

INPUT

2 x 2

OUTPUT

Video/

Outputs

Background

Video

Input

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0600-25

EFFECT

MANAGER

CPU

EFFECT

MANAGER

I/O

Switcher

Serial
Ports

Ethernet

Diagnostic

Large System Controller Frame

FRAME

POWER

SUPPLY

RESOURCE

MANAGER

I/O

RESOURCE

MANAGER

CPU

Editor

Aux

Graphics in/Out

GPI

COMBINER

INPUT

COMBINER

INPUT

TALLY

Up to 4

Video/Key/Depth

Inputs

Up to 4

Video/Key/Depth

Inputs

Analog

Reference

VP COMM
Loop thru to
all Channels

VP PARAM

to First 4 Channels

COMBINER

OUTPUT

Primary Video/Key Outputs

Secondary Video/Key Outputs

0600-36

VP PARAM

to Last 4 Channels

Tally Inputs

and Outputs

Preview Output

Background Input

EFFECT

MANAGER

CPU

EFFECT

MANAGER

I/O

Switcher

Serial

Ports

Editor

Aux

Graphics in/Out

GPI

COMBINER

OUTPUT

Primary Video/Key Outputs

Secondary Video/Key Outputs

Preview Output

Background Input

EFFECT

MANAGER

CPU

EFFECT

MANAGER

I/O

Switcher

Serial

Ports

Editor

Aux

Graphics in/Out

GPI

COMBINER

OUTPUT

Primary Video/Key Outputs

Secondary Video/Key Outputs

Preview Output

Background Input

EFFECT

MANAGER

CPU

EFFECT

MANAGER

I/O

Switcher

Serial
Ports

Editor

Aux

Graphics in/Out

GPI

COMBINER

OUTPUT

Primary Video/Key Outputs

Secondary Video/Key Outputs

Preview Output

Background Input

COMBINER

COMBINER

COMBINER

COMBINER

External

Devices

Control

Large System

Controller Frame

Video/Key/Mask

Inputs

Physical Description

Video/Key

Outputs

Up to 8 Krystal
Control Panels

Control (Ethernet)

with up to 4

Concurrent Users

Figure 1-5. Krystal Multi-Channel System, Large System Controller

Control (Proprietary)

Up to 8

Video Processor Frames

Figure 1-6. Large System Controller Simplified Block Diagram

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Section 1 — System Overview

System Control

In all Krystal systems, each operator uses a Control Panel to acquire an
Effect Manager. The Effect Manager, in turn, acquires the Video Processor
channel(s) it will use to create and run digital video effects. When the oper­ator acquires an Effect Manager in a single channel system, it automatically
acquires the single channel, if available. In a multi-channel system, each
operator acquires a different Effect Manager, and each operator selects
which of the available Video Processor channels to use. A Resource
Manager module is included in multi-channel systems to handle internal
system communications between the Krystal components.

Control Panel

Top Menu

Buttons

Floppy Disk

Drive

Clipboard
Operations

Clear

Restore

Work

Work

Buffer

Buffer

Cut

Delete

Copy

Paste

Clear
Marks

Mark

Mark
Block

Effect
Edit

Prev.

Go To
KF

KF
Dur.

Start
Time

Modify Insert

Next

Go To
Time

Effect
Dur.

Insert
Before

After

System
Setup

User
Tools

File
Oper.

Macro View

Control

Time­line

Last
Menu

Picture

Top
Menu

Picture
Frame

Key/
Stencil

Input/Run
Output

Path

User
Assist

Graphic
Display

Help

Macro

123456

Deleg.

Clear

9

Entry

21

0 +/-

Detent

Trim

3

Enter

47586

.

E-MEM

Mode

Recall

Const.
Dur.

Effect

Auto

Put

Run

Get Partial

KF

Override

FreezeFreeze

12

Menu Display

Transfer Buttons

Soft Knobs

Soft Buttons

Exit

MacroMacroMacroMacroMacroMacro
Shift

EnableEnableEnableEnableEnable EnableEnable

G1 G2 Cam4321

Deleg.Deleg.Deleg.Deleg.Deleg.Deleg.

CamG2G14321

Stop
Next

Reverse

Rewind

Run

Hold
Input

Loop

Time

Mark

Cursor

Cursor

TargetSource

Locate

Size/

Rotate

3D

Locate

Locate

Spin

Axis

Menu
Control

Persp.

Skew Post

Aspect

XYZ

Near

Far

Knob
Control

Xform

Center

Lever Arm

Joystick

Numeric Keypad and LED Display

0440_00_01

Figure 1-7. Krystal Control Panel

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Physical Description

The Krystal Control Panel is easy to learn and provides a comprehensive
artistic tool kit for effects generation. Each panel includes a floppy disk
drive for loading and storing effects, system configuration files, and user
preferences.

Krystal Control Panels communicate with the Video Processor frame
(single channel system) or the System Controller frame (multi-channel
system) via a dedicated Local Area Network (LAN). The LAN cable may be
a customer supplied 50Ω coax, or an optional LAN Cable Kit may be
ordered from Tektronix/Grass Valley Products. Up to eight Control Panels
may be connected to the network.

The Krystal Control Panel is divided into upper and lower panel areas
(Figure 1-7). The upper panel contains the flat panel menu display and
various knobs and buttons for making menu selections and adjusting video
parameters. The lower panel contains the controls for picture transforma­tion, effect editing and running, and has a keypad, joystick, and lever arm.

A diagnostic port, a connector for an optional QWERTY keyboard, the CP
COMM Ethernet connector, and the AC power connector are located on the
rear of the panel (Figure 1-8).

0600-08

KEYBOARD

J3

Keyboard

J2

CP COMM

J1

CP COMM

(Ethernet)

AC Power Switch

and Line Cord

TERMINAL

Diagnostic

Terminal

Figure 1-8. Krystal Control Panel, Rear View

Krystal 4300 Reference 1-9

Section 1 — System Overview

Video Processor Frame

The Krystal Video Processor frame contains modules that receive the
incoming video and key signals, performs the actual video manipulations,
and outputs the processed video. On single channel Krystal systems the
Video Processor frame also holds the Effect Manager modules that commu­nicate with the Control Panel and direct the video processing activity. On
multi-channel systems some of these communications and control modules
are located in the System Controller frame.

The Video Processor frame is a 13 rack unit frame that mounts in a standard
19-inch equipment rack. The frame holds large modules installed from the
front (Figure 1-9), and smaller I/O modules installed from the back
(Figure 1-10). Some of the front loaded modules are options, and some
modules may have standard or optional mezzanines (daughter boards).

1-10 Krystal 4300 Reference

Physical Description

EFFECTS
MANAGER

I/O

Reset
Sw

Reset

Diag

POWER

DC

+12

+5

–12

Over
Temp

Reset

Diag

TX1

RX1

TX2

RX2

TX3

RX3

FRX

Vid
Reset

Reset
Sw

Vid
Proc

ID

3

4

0600-04

Cooling

Fan

Frame Modules

(Slots 1-17)

DC Power

Switch

Front Door

Removed

Slot 1 Slot 5 Slot 10 Slot 17

Video Processor

CPU Reset Button

Effect Manager

CPU Reset Button

Hardware ID

Slot ... Module

1 ........ Source Effects

2 ........ Input Recursive

3,4 ..... vacant

5 ........ Defocus

6 ........ Filter

- Filter Memory

- Motion Detector

7 ........ Filter Control

8,9 ..... vacant

10 ...... Interpolator (Y-C)

- Memory (2, older systems)

11 ...... Interpolator (Key/Drop Shadow)

- Memory (older systems)

- Memory Option (older systems)

12 ...... Post Transform

- Light Source Option

13 ...... Reverse Address Generator (RAG)

- Kurl (2D Warp) Option

14 ...... vacant

15 ...... Output Recursive

16 ...... Video Processor CPU

17 ...... Effect Manager CPU*

- Graphics
* In multi-channel systems the Effect

Manager CPU (slot 17) is located in the
System Controller frame.

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OPERATION IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TWO CONDITIONS:
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PROGRAM

PREVIEW

KEY/

DEPTH

CONTROL

PANELS

J3

J2

SERIAL
OUTPUT

J1

INPUT A

INPUT B/

MASK

INPUT A

INPUT B

J3

J2

SERIAL
INPUT

J1

J4

KEY
INPUTS

VIDEO
INPUTS

ROUTER

DIAG

J3

J2

J1

VIDEO

PROCESSOR

J4

TALLY

SERIAL
PORTS

GPI

J5

J4

INPUT

J3

OUTPUT

J2

J1

GRAPHICS

EFFECTS
MANAGER

J6

ANALOG

REFERENCE

INPUT

J2

REFERENCE
GENERATOR

J1

l
0

Cooling Exaust

(intakes at bottom

of both sides)

Power Supply

(inside)

I/O Modules

Earth Ground

Lug

AC Power

Switch/Breaker

and AC Line Cord

Slot 17 Slot 15 Slot 3 Slot 1

0600-05

Slot ...Module

1.........Serial Inputs

2.........vacant

3.........Reference Generator

4-14 ...N/A

15.......Serial Outputs

16.......Video Processor I/O*

17.......Effect Manager I/O*

* In multi-channel systems the Effect
Manager I/O is located in the System
Controller Frame and a diff erent Pooled
Video Processor I/O Module is used.

Figure 1-9. Video Processor Frame, Front View

Figure 1-10. Video Processor Frame, Rear View

Krystal 4300 Reference 1-11

Section 1 — System Overview

System Controller Frame

Large System Controller

The Krystal Large System Controller frame is available for larger multi­channel Krystal systems of up to eight channels and up to four users. The
Large System Controller frame contains control modules used to manage
the resources in the pool, and can contain optional combiner modules used
to join four channels of processed video into combined video/key output
streams.

On Large System Controllers with combining capabilities, any Krystal
Channel can be used by any single user at any time. These sources can be
combined by any user in a variety of ways. Complete input source routing
is incorporated into the unit. On these systems each Combiner Output
module is dedicated to a specific Effect Manager.

The Large System Controller frame is a 13 rack unit frame that mounts in a
standard 19-inch equipment rack (Figure 1-11 and Figure 1-12).

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Physical Description

EFFECTS
MANAGER

I/O

Reset

Sw

Reset

Diag

EFFECTS
MANAGER

I/O

Reset

Sw

Reset

Diag

EFFECTS
MANAGER

I/O

Reset
Sw

Reset

Diag

EFFECTS
MANAGER

I/O

Reset

Sw

Reset

Diag

POWER

DC

0600-37

Cooling

Fan

DC Power

Switch

Front Door

Removed

Effect

Managers

(up to 4)

Resource

Manager

Reset
Button

Effect

Manager

Reset

Button

Slot 8 Slot 12

RESOURCE
MANAGER

I/O

RESET

SW

RST

TMP
LED1

LED2
TX1

RX1
TX2

RX2
TX3

RX3

COL

RCV
JAB

PRT
ERR
VP

PARAM
50HZ
60HZ

+5
+12

-12

Slot ...Module

1-7 .....vacant

8.........4 Ch. Combiner Resource Mgr

9-12 ...Effect Manager CPU(s)
13-17 .vacant

Figure 1-11. Large System Controller Frame, Front View

Combiner Input

0600-38

(up to 2)

Resource

Manager I/O

AC Power

Switch and

L:ine Cord

Combiner Tally

Effect Manager

I/Os (up to 4)

Output (up to 4)

Combiner

EFFECTS
MANAGER

GRAPHICS

INPUT

J1

OUTPUT

0

AC

POWER

J2

l

SERIAL
PORTS

EDITOR

J3

SWITCHER

J4

AUX

J5

GPI

J6

RESOURCE

EFFECTS

EFFECTS

EFFECTS

VP PRAM

PREVIEW

PREVIEW

PREVIEW

SECONDARY

SECONDARY

BACKGROUND

PREVIEW

VIDEO

VIDEO

VIDEO

VIDEO

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

J1

J1

J1

PROGRAM

OUTPUT

PROGRAM
KEY/DEPTH

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

KEY/DEPTH

OUTPUT

COMBINER

OUTPUT

J1

PROGRAM

PROGRAM

PROGRAM

VIDEO

VIDEO

VIDEO

VIDEO

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

J2

J2

J2

J2

PROGRAM

PROGRAM

PROGRAM

KEY/DEPTH

KEY/DEPTH

KEY/DEPTH

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

J3

J3

J3

J3

SECONDARY

SECONDARY

SECONDARY

VIDEO

VIDEO

VIDEO

VIDEO

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

J4

J4

J4

J4

SECONDARY

SECONDARY

SECONDARY

KEY/DEPTH

KEY/DEPTH

KEY/DEPTH

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

J4

J4

J4

J4

BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND

VIDEO

VIDEO

VIDEO

VIDEO

INPUT

INPUT

INPUT

INPUT

J6

J6

J6

J6

COMBINER

COMBINER

COMBINER

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

MANAGER

MANAGER

MANAGER

MANAGER

GRAPHICS

GRAPHICS

GRAPHICS

INPUT

INPUT

INPUT

J1

J1

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

OUTPUT

J2

J2

SERIAL

SERIAL

SERIAL

PORTS

PORTS

PORTS

EDITOR

EDITOR

EDITOR

J3

J3

SWITCHER

SWITCHER

SWITCHER

J4

J4

AUX

AUX

AUX

J5

J5

GPI

GPI

J6

J6

VIDEO

50HZ

ANALOG REF IN

60HZ

ANALOG REF IN

1

1

1

1

TALLY DRVR

VP PARAMETERSROUTERDIAGNOSTICS

TALLY DRVR

TALLY RCVR

TALLY RCVR

VIDEO

INPUT 1

INPUT 1

J11

J1

J1

J2

VIDEO

VIDEO

INPUT 2

INPUT 2

J3

J2

J2

J4

VIDEO

VIDEO

INPUT 3

INPUT 3

J5

J3

J3

VIDEO

VIDEO

INPUT 4

INPUT 4

J4

J4

KEY/DEPTH

KEY/DEPTH

INPUT 1

INPUT 1

J5

J5

KEY/DEPTH

KEY/DEPTH

INPUT 2

INPUT 2

J6

J6

KEY/DEPTH

KEY/DEPTH

INPUT 3

INPUT 3

J7

J7

KEY/DEPTH

KEY/DEPTH

INPUT 4

INPUT 4

J8

J8

COMBINER

COMBINER

INPUTS

INPUTS

J1

J1

J2

J3

J4

J2

J5

J6

J7

J3

J8

J4

J9

J5

J10

VP COMM

GPI

J11

J12

J6

CP COMM

Earth Ground

Slot ... Module

1-4..... 4 Ch. Combiner Output(s)

- 4 Ch. Combiner Mezzanine

5-6..... 4 Ch. Combiner Input(s)

7 ........ 4 Ch. Combiner Tally

8-12... Effect Manager I/O(s)

Lug

Slot 12 Slot 1

Figure 1-12. Large System Controller Frame, Rear View

Krystal 4300 Reference 1-13

Section 1 — System Overview

Small System Controller

Older Krystal systems may have been configured with a Small System Con­troller frame.

The Krystal Small System Controller frame is for multi-channel Krystal
systems of up to four channels. The Small System Controller frame contains
control modules used to manage the resources in the pool, and can contain
optional combiner modules used to join two channels of processed video
into a single video/key output stream.

The Small System Controller is a seven rack unit frame intended to be
mounted in a standard 19 inch equipment rack. The frame holds large
modules installed horizontally from the front (Figure 1-14), and smaller I/
O modules installed horizontally from the back (Figure 1-13).

Cooling

Exhaust

Controller

I/O Modules

Cooling

Intake

Earth Ground

Lug

AC Power Switch

and Line Cord

Slot 1

Slot 5

Front Door

Removed

RAM

Battery

Switch

Slot 1

Slot 5

POWER

I

0

GRAPHICS GRAPHICS

MANAGER

OUTPUT

SERIAL

TALLY RECEIVER

PORTS

J3

J2

EDITOREDITOR

SWITCHERSWITCHER

J7

VP PARAMETERSROUTERDIAGNOSTICS

J4

OUTPUT

PORTS

SERIAL

J3

J2

J4

J5

J6

60HZ

ANALOG REF IN

J3

DEPTH

VIDEO

KEY/

B

GPI

J5

J6

J6

J11

J12

CP COMM

GPI

VP COMM

J7

B BKGND

J5

DEPTH

KEY/

J4

AUXAUX

J5

J4

J10

J8

J9

J6

J5

A BKGND

TALLY DRIVER

J4

J3

VIDEO

B

EFFECTS

INPUT

J1

MANAGER

EFFECTS

INPUT

J1

J3

J1

RESOURCE

J2

MANAGER

50HZ

ANALOG REF IN

J1

J2

COMBINER

INPUTS

DEPTH

VIDEO

KEY/

A

J1

J2

COMBINER

OUTPUTS

DEPTH

VIDEO

KEY/

A

Figure 1-13. Small System Controller Frame, Rear View

Power

Supply

I/O

EFFECTS

MANAGER

I/O

EFFECTS

MANAGER

I/O

MANAGER

RESOURCE

2 X 2

COMBINER

SW

SW

BATT

RESET

SW

SW

BATT

RESET

SW

RESET

RST

TMP

LED1

Modules

DS 1

DS 2

DS 3

DS 1

DS 2

DS 3

LED2

TX1

RX1

TX2

RX2

TX3

RX3

FusesController

DC Power
Switch

DC

POWER

VP

PARAM

+5

+12

COL

RCV

JAB

-12

PRT

ERR

50HZ

60HZ

RST

RS485TXCH 1

TAXI

RS485RXCH2

TAXI

DIAG

Slot ... Module

1........ Effect Manager 1 I/O

2........ Effect Manager 2 I/O Option

3........ Resource Manager I/O

4........ 2 x 2 Combiner Inputs Option

5........ 2 x 2 Combiner Outputs Option

0600-07

Slot ... Module

1........ Effect Manager 1 CPU

- Graphics Option

2........ Effect Manager 2 CPU Option

- Graphics Option

3........ Resource Manager CPU

4........ 2 x 2 Combiner CPU Option

5........ vacant

0600-06

Resource Manager

Reset Button

Effect Manager CPU

Reset Buttons

Combiner CPU

Reset Button

Figure 1-14. Small System Controller Frame, Front View

1-14 Krystal 4300 Reference

Module Descriptions

Physical Description

CAUTION

■

■

■

■

Modules in Krystal systems cannot be hot-swapped safely. Always power down
Krystal frames before removing or inserting Krystal modules.

Serial Input and Output I/O modules — Serial Input modules convert
incoming serial digital component video signals to parallel format for
internal processing by the Video Processor frame. The Serial Output
modules convert parallel video back to serial digital format.

Effect Manager CPU and I/O modules — The Effect Manager module
calculates the parameters required, and stores these effects parameters.
It passes these parameters to the Video Processor CPU which uses them
to control the video processing electronics. Multi-channel systems use
a different type of Effect Manager, and in these systems the Effect Man­agers are located in the System Controller frame.

Video Processor CPU and I/O modules — Each Video Processor CPU
module controls the operation of the modules and options installed in
a single Video Processor frame. It receives the parameters to produce an
effect from the Effect Manager and passes them to the video modules in
that frame. Two different Video Processor I/O modules are available,
one for single channel Krystal systems and one for pooled Krystal sys­tems.

Reverse Address Generator (RAG) module — This module continually
calculates the source pixel address for each output pixel in the trans­formed video.

■ Post Transform module — Using addresses from the RAG module, this

module generates offset addresses for key and video drop shadows. It
also generates perspective fade, blur, and dim effects.

■ Interpolator modules — Using addresses generated by the RAG and

Post Transform modules, these modules look at the source video and
determine the pixel values to be used in the transformed video output.

■ Filter Control module — This module uses transform information to set

up filter control factors (for each input pixel) to control the Filter
module.

■ Filter module — This module provides anti-aliasing filtering for effects.

It also provides motion detect functions, an embossed video function,
and a key processor for mixing video with defocused video and/or
mattes.

■ Source Effects module — This module provides a number of functions,

including external mask processing, mask pattern generation, self and
external key processing, rectangular and pattern crops, coring, video
bitmap, hue rotation, and picture border generation.

■ Reference Generator module — This module generates internal syncs

and clocks from the facility reference (color black).

Krystal 4300 Reference 1-15

Section 1 — System Overview

■ Resource Manager CPU and I/O modules — The Resource Manager

■ Input Recursive module — This module allows the processing of

■ Output Recursive module — This module allows the processing of

■ Defocus module — This module permits altering the sharpness of

CPU module is the center of systems communication between the
Control Panel, Video Processors, and System Controller frame in multi­channel systems. Two different types of Resource Manager CPUs exist,
one used for the Small System Controller and one for the Large System
Controller. The Resource Manager
I/O module interfaces between the Resource Manager CPU module
and the rest of the Krystal system.

incoming video for freeze, mosaic, and motion decay effects that appear
within the incoming video raster.

output (post transform) video for freeze, motion decay, montage, and
trail effects that can appear outside and inside the raster of the
incoming video.

video and key signals, for defocus and glow effects.

■ 2 x 2 Combiner module — This module provides mixing and keying cir-

cuitry for combining two foreground video and key inputs and a back­ground matte or video input in various ways.

■ 2 x 2 Combiner Input and Output modules — The 2 x 2 Combiner Input

module convert incoming serial digital component video signals to par­allel format and routes them to the Combiner for processing. The 2 x 2
Combiner Output module receives the processed signals from the
Combiner, converts the parallel video back to serial digital format, and
routes the video to its output connectors.

■ Four Channel Combiner Input and Output modules — The Four

Channel Combiner groups four sets of serial digital inputs on each
input module. Each Effect Manager has a single dedicated Four
Channel Combiner Output module, which produces a set of serial
digital combined output signals. Each Output module also has a back­ground video input.

■ Four Channel Combiner Tally — This module has tally input and

output connectors and system control ports for Krystal Channels 5-8.

Additional options are available that consist of mezzanine boards that are
installed onto some of the Krystal modules.

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Module and Mezzanine Part Numbers

Table 1-2. Krystal Module and Mezzanine Part Numbers

Module Name P/N Location, Mezzanines (M), Notes

Source Effects 066211-00 (VP front) Located in Video Processor front bay
Input Recursive 066212-00 (VP front)

Defocus

Filter

Filter Control 066217-00 (VP front)
Y/C K/DS Interpolator

(Newer Systems)
Y/C Interpolator

(Older Systems)
K/DS Interpolator

(Older Systems)

Post Transform

Reverse Address Generator
(RAG)

Output Recursive 066258-00 (VP front)
Video Processor CPU 066223-00 (VP front)

Effect Manager CPU

Serial Inputs 066229-00 (VP back)
Serial Outputs (Older Systems) 066227-00 (VP back) Single Output Connectors
Serial Outputs (Newer Systems) 066227-01 (VP back) Dual Output Connectors
Video Processor I/O (single) 066226-00 (VP back) Single Channel systems only
Video Processor I/O (pooled) 066237-00 (SC back) Multi-Channel systems only

Effect Manager I/O 066225-00

Resource Manager I/O 066231-00 (SC back) Large and Small System Controllers
4 Ch. Comb. Resource Manager 066295-00 (SC front) Large System Controller only
4 Ch. Comb. Input 066293-00 (SC back) Large System Controller only

4 Ch. Comb. Output

4 Ch. Comb. Tally 066298-00 (SC back) Large System Controller only
Resource Manager 066230-00 (SC front) Small System Controller only
2 x 2 Combiner CPU 066240-00 (SC front) Small System Controller only
2 x 2 Combiner Input 066204-00 (SC rear) Small System Controller only
2 x 2 Combiner Output 066205-00 (SC rear) Small System Controller only

066216-00

- 066242-00
066215-00

- 066242-00

- 066243-00

966250-50 (VP front)

066213-00

- 066235-00
066261-00

- 066235-00
066222-01

- 066236-00
066220-01

- 066221-10

066224-00

- 066239-00

066294-00

- 066297-00

Physical Description

(VP front)
(M) Filter Memory (required)

(VP front)
(M) Filter Memory (required)
(M) Motion Detector (required)

(VP front)
(M) Interpolator Memory (2) (required)

(VP front)
(M) Interpolator Memory (2) (1 required, 1 optional)

(VP front)
(M) Light Source (optional)

(VP front)
(M) Kurl (2-D Warp) - Splash PLD 152169-00 (optional)

(VP front) Single Channel Systems
(SC front) Multi-Channel Systems
(M) Graphics (optional)

(VP back) Single Channel Systems
(SC back) Multi-Channel Systems

(SC back) Large System Controller only
(M) 4 Ch. Combiner (required)

Krystal 4300 Reference 1-17

Section 1 — System Overview

Facility Examples

Examples of some typical facilities are included here to give you a sense of
the variety of configurations possible. More detailed information about
system installation and configuration is presented later in this manual.

Single Channel Krystal Facility

Figure 1-15 and Figure 1-16 depict how a single channel Krystal system

may be incorporated into a post-production editing suite.

A Video

0600-23

A Key

Mask (B Key)

Krystal

Control Panel

Production Switcher

Control Panel

Edit Controller

Figure 1-15. Single Channel Krystal Edit Facility, External Routing

Krystal Control

Interface

Switcher / Krystal

Edit Control

Krystal Video

Processor Frame

Key

Video

Production

Switcher Frame

Video

Key
Mask

Aux Out

Play VTR

Play VTR

Record VTR

1-18 Krystal 4300 Reference