Microphone and Zone Setup
| Site: | QSC |
| Course: | Q-SYS VisionSuite ACPR Commissioning Level 1 |
| Book: | Microphone and Zone Setup |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Saturday, 23 November 2024, 7:33 AM |
Description
Lesson Description
Understand the controls for calibrating each of the zones in your room, and setting up their associated camera shots.
Transcript
00:06
Okay, so continuing with the ACPR commissioning training,
00:10
we have connected to the core.
00:11
Let's take a look at the remaining features in the control panel that we haven't touched yet.
00:15
So, I'm going to open up the plugins control panel.
00:18
The first thing I'm going to do when I'm in here is actually hit that bypass button
00:22
that I was just telling you about.
00:24
You would only press it under certain conditions.
00:26
Here's another condition: you're going to bypass it right now
00:28
because I don't want this thing cutting back and forth between
00:31
different shots while I'm trying to set it up.
00:33
That would be very distracting.
00:35
So, we're going to bypass it and go over to the microphone tab.
00:39
First thing up here at the very top, this is the camera preview.
00:42
That's why we engaged that property in the component earlier to
00:46
make sure that this was available.
00:47
Then, we'll see our horizontal and vertical angles
00:50
of the currently detected audio source in these fields here.
00:54
In the mode that we are currently in,
00:56
especially with the Audio Technica mic we're going to use,
00:59
we have the option to input the IP address and the port for the device.
01:04
So, here's where we're getting the connection information to the device itself.
01:08
Make sure that you have that connection,
01:10
that information properly configured.
01:12
This IP address is correct.
01:14
Get the connection information from their manual.
01:16
You can see that I've got an okay connected status over here.
01:20
You're seeing that as I speak,
01:21
it is lighting up my local mic signal LED.
01:25
That means that it's detecting my voice and reaching the threshold,
01:28
counting as somebody being a voice in the room.
01:31
If I find that it's not being as reactive as I would need it to be,
01:33
I can go back and adjust that threshold on the expert controls like we saw previously.
01:38
I've connected to my AT microphone that has a multicast address
01:43
and a port configured in the digital microphone manager software from Audio Technica.
01:48
Again, we're not going to go deep into that because this is a training on ACPR
01:51
and not on those partner microphones.
01:54
So, if you are using one of those microphones,
01:57
be sure that you are fully ready to deploy those and know how those microphones work.
02:02
I'm going to focus down here in the zone setup section.
02:05
So, I've got a total of 16 different zones.
02:09
I know this looks like an aircraft pilot dashboard with a lot of buttons going on here,
02:15
but each of these are just a cluster of the same controls duplicated over and over again,
02:20
a total of 16 of them.
02:22
So, you have 16 zones per microphone tab here in the plugin.
02:27
There's a kind of a blue bar shading the bottom four of these zones, 13 through 16.
02:33
Zones 13 through 16 can be set up as something called crossover zones.
02:38
If you don't need crossover zones,
02:40
then they just work as a normal zone.
02:42
If you do need a crossover zone, these are the zones that work for that.
02:45
I'll talk about crossover zones in just a little bit.
02:47
Let's look at what the controls are for each of these individually.
02:51
So, first, you've got this white label that's just a friendly label.
02:56
This is not connected to any of the code names or labels of
03:00
anything we've put anywhere else in the software.
03:03
This only exists for yourself.
03:04
It's just a text field if you want to name this something.
03:07
So, I might call this, you know,
03:09
my shot one if I go back to that napkin sketch that correlates
03:14
with a certain position on the desk, etc.
03:16
Maybe this is, uh, front chairs.
03:19
Whatever it is, this is just for you and you only.
03:24
Uh, next, you've got a button here that says "active."
03:27
Well, at least on my screen, it says "active."
03:29
If you're looking at this on your screen, it might not say "active,"
03:33
especially if you're looking at this anytime in the future.
03:35
Speaking of which, hi, hi future! Again, it's nice to see you.
03:39
Uh, have we colonized Europa yet?
03:41
That's my favorite of, um, Jupiter's moons.
03:45
So, from the future, you will notice that this may say "enable" rather than "active."
03:50
There's a reason why.
03:52
As I hover my mouse over it,
03:53
you'll see that the popup of it says "microphone One enable"
03:58
and the button says "active."
04:00
And then, if I go over here to this LED,
04:02
this LED is also active.
04:05
Well, that's confusing.
04:06
Listen, we don't always get everything right.
04:09
Sometimes we have some confusions that we're correcting in the next version of this plugin.
04:13
This LED, the active LED,
04:16
means that it is the currently detected microphone based on the
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match of the coordinates that you were going to be putting in a little bit later.
04:23
Now, it doesn't necessarily mean that the camera has been recalled to this zone yet
04:27
because, uh, we could still be waiting for the PTZ switch delay to expire.
04:32
We could be, uh, in the process of waiting for a camera to move.
04:35
But it means that this is the area in which we have detected the noise right now.
04:40
Uh, and this LED is also the one that's going to light up
04:42
blue when the zone is in a state of hesis,
04:46
meaning that it detected, right?
04:47
It detected that there is audio in this zone,
04:49
but it's not significantly far enough away from the previous adjacent zone to trigger that zone.
04:55
Either way, the point is you'll see that this LED is an indicator that
04:58
tells you something about the status of this zone, but it is not interactive.
05:02
You can't touch this button.
05:04
This button that says "active" over here is actually an enable button,
05:09
and it turns on or off the entirety of that zone.
05:13
You can see that when I clicked it, everything about that zone went gray.
05:16
So, I am enabling that zone or disabling that zone with this button that incorrectly says "active."
05:22
But hopefully on your screen,
05:24
if you are using the next version of this plugin, it says "enable."
05:27
Now, that's also really,
05:28
really important because if you're looking at the control pins
05:31
for the plugin and you're trying to find these controls,
05:35
you may find the one that says "active,"
05:37
not realizing that's actually the LED active and not this button that says "active."
05:41
So, again, this button here that's actually an enable button
05:45
which completely shuts off that zone,
05:47
so it's not going to function properly,
05:49
and you can turn it on again.
05:50
There's a number of reasons why you may want to do that.
05:52
Maybe you are, you know, setting up this room in different configurations,
05:57
and so you've got some banks of zones that are enabled
06:00
when the tables are in one configuration,
06:03
and then different zones that you enable when the rooms are in a different configuration.
06:07
And then you can use some control logic to enable or disable those zones and
06:12
flop back and forth between two different versions of this single ACPR deployment
06:17
without having to go in here and do that manually.
06:19
Or maybe you're fine-tuning a zone, and you want to test,
06:23
"Hey, are these parameters right or are these parameters right?"
06:26
And you can just toggle back and forth between which of those zones
06:29
are enabled to find out which one is behaving more properly.
06:32
So, that's why you would probably use this enable button,
06:36
which is incorrectly labeled "active."
06:38
Okay, so next we need to define which camera is going to load when this zone is active.
06:44
So, for me, I'm clicking the left primary as my camera option.
06:49
That does mean you'll note that the secondary camera names don't show up in here at all.
06:54
You can't choose any of those cameras that were in the 9 through 16 Bank
06:59
as an option here because those are secondary cameras.
07:03
So when I click left primary, the secondary camera automatically
07:06
pulls the one that's correlated with that,
07:08
you know, camera one and Camera 9.
07:11
We then need to choose the position that we would use for loading up that camera.
07:16
Well, these position fields, this is a PTZ coordinate.
07:21
If I go to my original camera, which is this one right here,
07:24
there's my left primary. This is the shot. You can get a little glimpse of our studio.
07:30
As hi, that's me right there.
07:31
Nice to see you.
07:32
This is just a one JPEG per second scrape preview.
07:35
As you know, we're going to make that a little bit better for us in a bit.
07:38
It's grabbing this information right here:
07:40
000000. 000000 means that it's in the middle of its pan range,
07:44
it's in the middle of its tilt range,
07:46
and it's in the middle of its zoom range.
07:48
Or actually, zero is the most zoomed out and then it increases as it goes in.
07:53
Now, I could right now frame up my shot if I wanted to.
07:57
I can take this camera and pan it down, zoom it in a little bit.
08:03
That's, you know,
08:05
it's not the best way to do it because you're not
08:06
getting a very fluid video here inside the preview.
08:10
Now that I've got this information,
08:12
you know, I could copy it and take it over here and paste it here.
08:16
That's not really the best thing we want to do.
08:18
This is not an efficient way to do it.
08:21
Instead, we're going to first load up that shot,
08:24
which gives me the preview right here in the plugin.
08:27
Here I can zoom in and I have it right within my view.
08:32
And then I can, once I find it,
08:33
I can save it and you can see that it automatically pulls
08:36
that PTZ information right there into the control.
08:38
So, don't need to jump back over to the camera control and come back here.
08:42
Do it all right here.
08:44
But even this, I'm going to show you a better way to do it later.
08:47
We're just getting something close enough right now.
08:51
The secondary position, same thing.
08:52
So if I load up the secondary camera,
08:54
I could then drive that camera,
08:56
get a better shot for me, zoom in a little bit,
08:59
and then save that.
09:01
Like I said, we're going to do this with a little bit more finesse later.
09:04
So for now, I'm just going to get it kind of in the right place.