278 Encore Presentation System • User’s Guide • Rev 04
6. System Setup
Destination Setup
This completes the procedure for defining “standard” and “stack” destinations. The
selected buttons on the Destination Bus are now active.
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To configure an Encore system for vertical array blending, please note the following
important points:
•All cabling to the VP and VPx units is the same as a standard widescreen setup.
•When setting the ID of your VP and VPx units, the lowest ID maps to the top
screen in a vertical configuration. Subsequent IDs map down towards the last
screen on the bottom.
•In an “array” configuration, the lowest ID is the top/left screen. Subsequent IDs
map to the right and then down — starting with the left-most screen, and moving
over to the right.
Use the following steps to access vertical or array blending:
1. On the Destination Setup Menu, add your widescreen VP and VPx units to the
list as normal.
2. In the Dimensions field, configure the VP and VPx units as desired.
SSuppose VP IDs 1, 2, 3 and 4 were added to the list. The Dimensions field
enables you to select between the following arrays:
~4W x 1H (4 screens wide by 1 screen high). This is a standard horizontal
widescreen configuration.
~2W x 2H (2 screens wide by 2 screens high). This is a 2x2 screen array.
~1W x 4H (1 screen wide by 4 screens high). This is a vertical widescreen
configuration.
3. Once the Destination Menu has been configured, navigate to the Wide Screen
Settings Menu (under the Output Menu) to set up widescreen parameters.
4. Adjust H Overlap and/or V Overlap as required. When making these
adjustments, turn on the Alignment Test Pattern on the Test Pattern Menu
(Output > Test Pattern).
~For a horizontal widescreen, select Hor to display a test pattern of
horizontal lines.
~For a vertical widescreen configuration, select Ver to display a test
pattern of vertical lines.
~For an array, select Both to display a test pattern of both horizontal and
vertical lines.
5. Perform edge feathering adjustments in the Feather Setup Menu (Output >
Widescreen > Feather Setup). Note that in the Test Pattern Menu, a new
pattern called Gray Bars has been added to assist with vertical blending
configurations.
Note Encore can create destinations with Processors that do not
have the same number of M/Es — in which case, the system
operates at the lowest common denominator of M/Es.