Ocean Systems The Tower Quick Setup Manual

The Tower™

With Avid Xpress DV

Quick Setup Guide

Document includes:

• Setting up your Tower

• Connecting a digital video deck or camera to your Tower

• Connecting an analog video deck or camera to your Tower

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Tower Setup Guide

Setting up your Tower System

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1.

2.

ATTACH MOUSE AND
KEYBOARD

The PS-2 ports are specific.
Be sure to attach the mouse
and keyboard to the ports as
shown in Fig. 1.

ATTACH THE AVID XPRESS
DV HARDWARE LOCK

Fig. 1

The hardware lock (dongle)
attaches to the parallel port as
shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Tower Setup Guide

Setting up your Tower System

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3.

4.

CONNECT YOUR 422/232
CABLE. (FOR ANALOG
DECKS ONLY)

If you are connecting a 422
controllable deck, attach the
422 converter to com1, then
attach the 232 cable from the
converter to your deck. Make
sure the 232 side (silver) is
connected to the tower and the
422 side (grey) is connected to
the deck. This cable is for
analog decks. If you are
utilizing a DV camera or deck,
use your IEEE DV cable for
deck control.

ATTACH THE MONITOR TO
THE VGA CONNECTOR

Fig. 3

Your VGA monitor plugs into the
connection labeled “1” as shown
in Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

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CONNECT YOUR

5.

AUDIO I/O

Fig 5 shows the audio
connections both in and out of
the system. Use the port
labeled “F L/R” to connect audio
to your speakers. To bring
audio into your system (from a
deck, camera, or transcoder),
use the port labeled “Line In”.

You must have audio going
into the system through the
“Line In” port to monitor any
audio you are digitizing.

PLUG IN THE SYSTEM AND

6.

TURN IT ON.

Plug the power cable in as
shown in Fig. 5.

Connect audio from playback
device (deck, transcoder) to the
“Line In” Port to monitor audio as
it’s digitized

Connect speakers to
the F L/R port

Fig. 5

Fig. 6

Fig 5A shows the power button
on the front of The Tower.

Fig. 5A