Practical Deployment
| Site: | QSC |
| Course: | Q-SYS VisionSuite ACPR Commissioning Level 1 |
| Book: | Practical Deployment |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Saturday, 23 November 2024, 6:19 AM |
Description
Lesson Description
Finally, make some noise in your room and test out the design!
Transcript
00:07
Okay, so I'm now connected to the core.
00:09
We can see those horizontal and
00:10
vertical angles coming in as data
00:12
here on my dashboard. It's time to define these zones.
00:16
The way that we're going to do that is by literally
00:18
just moving around the space,
00:21
making some noise,
00:22
figuring out what angles those are coming from,
00:25
and then recording them in here.
00:26
We're going to do that for every single zone.
00:28
For me, we're only going to do zones
00:30
one and two because I only have half
00:32
of a conference room set up,
00:34
unlike what you would have in the real world.
00:35
So, let's do zones one and two.
00:38
Just as a reminder,
00:38
I'm currently sitting between zones one and two.
00:41
We used my primary cameras earlier to zoom in on me,
00:44
so let's move over to zone one.
00:47
While we're here, we're just going to make a
00:49
bunch of noise on the borders of that zone.
00:53
I'm going to go as far over as zone one
00:55
allows me to go,
00:56
which is right around here.
00:57
Take a look at my screen;
00:58
I can see my voice is coming in at around angle 67, 68.
01:03
Maybe I'll give a little bit of buffer there.
01:05
If I come to the other side of the zone,
01:07
right around in the middle,
01:08
making some noise here,
01:10
my voice is coming in right around 91, 92.
01:14
Previously, we expected this would come in
01:16
around 45 to 90.
01:18
We got kind of close to that.
01:19
So, let's say this is 65 to 90;
01:22
that seems to be appropriate for this zone.
01:26
Now, while we're here, we might as well get our
01:29
cameras in the angle as well.
01:31
I've got my preview window right here,
01:33
so I can start to choose one.
01:35
I'll load camera one,
01:37
which is our left primary,
01:39
and I can tighten up this shot.
01:42
However, when you're using this preview window,
01:44
you only get that one JPEG
01:46
per second scrape as a preview.
01:48
It would be nicer if I could get a more fluid vision,
01:51
and I certainly can because we can send
01:54
the media cast video from CES to an HDMI
01:59
output using one of our NV devices.
02:01
So, if your room has an NV device with HDMI out,
02:05
you can send that to the display in the room.
02:09
That way, you're looking at the camera feed live,
02:11
nice and large, in your room.
02:13
You're going to want to use that to
02:14
drive your camera selection options.
02:16
You could use a third-generation touchscreen as well;
02:20
those have the ability to enable the
02:21
preview stream on them for each camera.
02:23
But if you're in a room with a big display,
02:25
I recommend you use that.
02:27
If the room doesn't have an NV in it,
02:29
just grab an NV as part of your
02:30
commissioning kit and temporarily
02:32
throw it into the design so you can make
02:34
this work while you're setting it up.
02:36
Let's do that here as well.
02:38
I've got my media cast stream,
02:40
the camera out,
02:41
is going to be delivered to an NV32 in this room.
02:44
Let's get that up on the screen.
02:47
All right, now I've got myself up on screen,
02:49
and that's going to make it a whole
02:51
lot easier for me to figure out my shot.
02:53
Let's zoom in a little bit like that.
02:55
Let's tuck in, you know,
02:56
so I look good.
02:58
Looking pretty good.
03:00
Then you want to save that as your camera
03:03
preset and load your secondary camera.
03:07
Now, this secondary camera is wildly in the wrong place.
03:09
Let's redirect it.
03:10
Once again, I'm going to use my camera
03:12
on screen to make life easier than using the preview window.
03:16
Zoom in, and you really want to spend some time
03:20
here to make sure these shots are pretty close to each other.
03:24
This looks pretty good. I'm going to save that and
03:26
then toggle back and forth between them.
03:28
That was my camera one,
03:29
and this is my camera two.
03:30
I want to get a little bit tighter on camera two.
03:33
Now, it's not a big deal if these aren't exactly perfect,
03:36
but you do want to hide the magic from the end user.
03:40
They shouldn't know that you're using two different cameras.
03:43
So, if these shots really line up nicely,
03:50
you're going to end up with consistent shots,
03:53
regardless of which camera they happen to be using.
03:57
Now, I'm noticing that there's a little bit of color
04:00
difference between these two cameras.
04:01
Maybe the color balance is a little bit off,
04:03
so make sure you also go back and look into
04:06
the image settings of your cameras after you're done with this.
04:09
Every room's going to be different.
04:11
Sunlight might blow yours out,
04:13
so spend some time making sure the
04:15
quality of the image is good as well.
04:18
Now's a great time to do this while you're setting it up.
04:23
These look pretty good to me.
04:25
It's time to do zone two.
04:31
Here we are in zone two.
04:32
We're going to do the exact same thing.
04:33
I'm going to go to one edge of zone two,
04:35
all the way to the edge of my desk here.
04:38
I'm going to keep on talking.
04:39
I can see my voice is coming in around 123, 122.
04:43
That sounds pretty good on the near end of my zone.
04:47
Same thing, I talk for a sustained amount of time,
04:49
and I can see that my angles are coming in closer to 100 here.
04:53
So, let's define zone two.
04:55
I previously guessed it would be 91 to 135.
04:59
Now, I see it coming in as 100 to 125.
05:02
I don't necessarily want to leave any gap between my zones,
05:07
even though this seems to be the stationary position between them.
05:10
If someone's sitting there, I still want them on one of those cameras.
05:12
So, I'm just going to widen both of these up a little bit.
05:14
Let's say this one goes to 96, and this one goes up to 95.
05:19
That way, I've got a little bit of extra buffer on the edge
05:22
of my zones to cover people if they're moving.
05:24
Again, I'm not allowing these zones to overlap.
05:27
One ends at 95; the other one starts at 96.
05:30
I'm leaving my verticals off because I don't need any in here.
05:33
Now, I'm going to do the exact same thing
05:34
and set up my cameras for zone two.
05:38
Let's set that as our left primary.
05:39
If you didn't do that already, load it,
05:43
and then let's re-angle this.
05:44
Clearly, it was set up for my previous shot,
05:46
but now I'm going to bring it on in here.
05:50
That's probably about right.
05:51
We'll save that, and once again,
05:54
load up your secondary camera.
05:57
Match it again.
05:58
You're going to want to spend a lot of time
06:00
making sure these cameras are in the right position,
06:03
covering where you want them to be.
06:05
Don't forget, we haven't done this yet.
06:07
Now is a great time to do it.
06:08
Don't forget to set your default home position.
06:11
We didn't do that previously,
06:12
so go back to your plugin, go to the setup page,
06:16
and down at the bottom,
06:17
let's define our default home position.
06:19
For me, I'm going to be using the wide front camera,
06:23
which is the NC10.
06:27
If I go over here,
06:29
this is the reason why we set up our camera preset buttons.
06:32
Which of these is the NC10?
06:34
It was number four, right?
06:36
Boom, there it is.
06:37
That is our NC10 in the front of the room.
06:41
If that's where we want it to be,
06:42
then we're going to end up loading that and
06:45
saving that position as well.
06:48
Now, you would do this for every
06:50
single one of your zones.
06:51
You would go through every zone and set
06:54
the angles and set the cameras.
06:56
I'm not going to do that for all other four zones.
06:59
What we do want to do though is test
07:01
to make sure it worked, so let's do that.
07:06
All right, now we're just going to
07:08
make sure that it works.
07:09
In order for it to work, you need to disengage
07:11
the bypass that we had on earlier.
07:14
Let's turn off the bypass so that it's now functioning.
07:17
We'll look at our dashboard.
07:19
I'll zoom in a little bit.
07:21
I just want to see which cameras
07:23
are active and which zone is on.
07:25
So, I'm over here in zone one.
07:27
You can see that zone one, the red polygon, lit up.
07:31
I can see that the primary camera position,
07:33
camera one, is active.
07:35
This looks great.
07:36
If I slide over to zone two, boom,
07:39
look at that. Zone two has engaged,
07:41
and the camera is now pulled up to the secondary
07:43
camera to get this shot.
07:44
It was actually already there,
07:46
which means that we didn't need to
07:47
cut to the wide shot in between.
07:50
A nice advantage of having a primary and secondary
07:53
pair is that it cuts down on the amount of times you
07:55
need to go to the default home position if one of them
07:57
is already aimed at the new zone that gets detected,
08:00
like we just saw in our case.
08:02
Let's make sure hysteresis works.
08:03
If I inch over just a little bit closer to
08:07
zone one but not quite there,
08:08
you can see how zone one's going blue.
08:10
It's going blue because it wants to go there,
08:12
but I'm not quite in until I go all the way
08:15
deep into zone one,
08:16
and then it'll go red again.
08:17
So, it works.
08:19
You're going to do this for every single zone.
08:21
You're going to move into it,
08:24
make some noise, make sure that it triggers properly,
08:28
watch your thresholds,
08:29
and adjust as needed to ensure everything's
08:32
working appropriately.
08:34
If you have someone else with you,
08:36
that would make life a little bit easier.
08:38
If you're on your own like I was,
08:39
and you're just dragging your laptop around,
08:42
it's possible but takes a little bit longer.
08:44
I've seen some people get creative with this.
08:45
I've seen some people bring their own speakers
08:48
that play audio files of dialogue,
08:52
place those speakers in each zone,
08:54
and then reroute the audio to those speakers
08:57
so they can control when someone is speaking
08:59
and see if the plugin is following them properly.
09:01
That's a great option.
09:02
You could do that with CES,
09:04
you could do that with Bluetooth speakers,
09:05
or whatever you want to drag along.
09:09
At this point, there's not much more
09:10
I can show you in this video.
09:13
You have to do it yourself.
09:16
There's no substitute for really fine-tuning,
09:20
walking around, adjusting the angles,
09:22
adjusting the thresholds.
09:23
That's why the second part of ACPR commissioning training
09:26
is a live class where you're going to do it for real. Watching me isn't the same.
09:34
You can do a lot when you're commissioning
09:36
this in the real world before you get into the room.
09:39
You saw how much we can do as far as setting up the camera,
09:42
setting up the microphones,
09:43
and laying out your interface so that you've
09:45
done all of that work before you're actually boots on the ground.
09:49
That will make your commissioning time much shorter.
09:51
If you are bringing other people in,
09:53
it will waste less of their time helping you
09:56
because you've done all your work beforehand.
09:59
Get all that done first.
10:01
The more of these you do, the faster it goes,
10:03
the easier it gets, and the more intuitive you'll get on all of this.
10:06
That's the end of this level one training.
10:09
We hope it was useful.
10:10
Hopefully, we see you in a level two class sometime soon.