Lesson Description
Microphone and Zone Setup
9m 9s
Understand the controls for calibrating each of the zones in your room, and setting up their associated camera shots.
Transcript
Microphone and Zone Setup
9m 9s
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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So, from the future, you will notice that this may say "enable" rather than "active."
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There's a reason why.
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As I hover my mouse over it,
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you'll see that the popup of it says "microphone One enable"
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and the button says "active."
04:00
And then, if I go over here to this LED,
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this LED is also active.
04:05
Well, that's confusing.
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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,
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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.
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Now, it doesn't necessarily mean that the camera has been recalled to this zone yet
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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.
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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
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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,
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but it's not significantly far enough away from the previous adjacent zone to trigger that zone.
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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?"
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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,
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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,
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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.