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Reference and video I/O setup, canvas layouts, and signalling setup.
MultiScreen / MiniME™
The MultiScreen allows you to output multiple video signals that can be combined into a single scene. The switcher treats the multiple outputs as a single background and translates the keys across the multiple backgrounds.
To Set Up a MultiScreen

Setup
Reference and video I/O setup, canvas layouts, and signalling setup.
- Network Connections
  The switcher requires a network connection for the DashBoard interface as well as any control panel you want to use.
- Video Reference
  The flexible reference system in the switcher allows you to use an Interlaced video format as the reference to operate the switcher in a video format of the same frequency.
- Switcher Modes
  The switcher mode allows you to set the features and resources that you want to have available on your switcher. Some feature and resources are not compatible with all switcher modes.
- Video Inputs
  External video sources come into the switcher through the input BNCs, and internal sources are generated internally from the switcher. Depending on how you want to use these video sources, or where they come from, you may want the switcher to pair them together, or associate an external device with them. Pairing two video sources together is usually used for an auto select key where an external device, such as a character generator, outputs both a key video and key alpha. Associating a video source with an external device allows special control over that device to become active when you select the source on a bus.
- Video Outputs
  The BNC outputs can have any video source in the switcher, including Media-Store channels, aux bus, and clean feed assigned to them.
- MultiViewer
  The MultiViewer allows you to view multiple video sources from a single output BNC. Video inputs or outputs on the switcher, including Program, Preview, and Media-Store channels, can be assigned to any box on the MultiViewer.
- MultiScreen / MiniME™
  The MultiScreen allows you to output multiple video signals that can be combined into a single scene. The switcher treats the multiple outputs as a single background and translates the keys across the multiple backgrounds.
  - MiniME™ Assignment
  - To Set Up a MultiScreen
- Frame Sync and Format Conversion
  The switcher has multiple input frame synchronizer / format converter (FSFC) and input de-interlacers that can be used to convert video input signals to the format that the switcher is operating in, as well as correct mistimed, or drifting, video input signal. The frame synchronizers cannot completely correct badly formatted video, mistimed switches, signal drops, or similar issues.
- System Real-Time Clock/Date
  The switcher uses an internal clock to generate the time for the clock overlay for the MultiViewer.
- Color Correction
  Color correction in the switcher is performed by either Processing Amplifiers (Proc Amps) in the HSL (Y-Cr-Cb) color space or by RGB Color Correctors in the RGB color space.
- Personality
  Personality settings allow you to configure how you interact with the control panel and switcher, as well as how the buttons on the control panel appear. All of these settings are stored in the Personality register.
- GPI Control
  General Purpose Interface (GPI) is a high/low voltage signalling protocol that allows the switcher to send simple commands to an external device, or receive commands from a device. Each pin on the GPI is set as either high (+5 Volts), or low (0 Volts), and it is the switching between high and low that sends commands to the external device, or to the switcher.
- Live Edit Decision Lists (LiveEDL)
  Edit Decision Lists are files used by non-linear editing (NLE) suites to aid in post-production. Your switcher can capture EDL data in a file that you load into your NLE suite.
- ViewControl (HD Only)
  The ViewControl interface through DashBoard allows you to coordinate the control over the Carbonite switcher, XPression Live Graphics System, and the BlackStorm Playout Server all through a touchscreen interface. Through ViewControl you can select sources, perform transitions, and run custom controls.
- MultiPanel
  Each frame supports up to 4 independent control connections (Main, Satellite 1, Satellite 2, and Satellite 3/SoftPanel). Each connection can be from a control panel, DashBoard, or a combination of the two. Add devices on the same control connection mirror each other.

To Set Up a MultiScreen

Click Navigation Menu > Configuration > Canvases.
Click MultiScreen X to select the MultiScreen you want to set up.
Click a Layout button to select the layout you want to use.

Note: The available layouts depend on the number of screens being used by the other MultiScreen.
Click Yes to confirm.
Click a Background DVEs button to select how DVE resources are used to scale sources for the MultiScreen screens.
- Off — DVE resources are not allocated to the MultiScreen for scaling of background sources.
- On — DVE resources are always allocated to the MultiScreen for scaling of background sources. This reduces the number of available DVE resources to the switcher when a MultiScreen is turned on.
- Dynamic — DVE resources are dynamically allocated to the MultiScreen for scaling of background sources if there is no substitution table.
Note: If there are no DVE resources to scale the background source across the entire MultiScreen, the switcher needs a substitution table to map separate inputs to the MultiScreen screens or the selected source is repeated in each screen of the MultiScreen.
Click OK.
Use the Offset slider to adjust the placement of the background scaling in the MultiScreen output.

This can be used to adjust for the aspect ratio difference between the input video and the MultiScreen output.
Click on the button between the two boxes to adjust the size of the edge between those two screens.
Use the Edge Distance slider to adjust the size of the gap between the MultiScreen screens.
- If you are using monitors for your MultiScreen display, you can use a positive value to compensate for the bezel on the outside of a display.
- If you are using projectors for your MultiScreen display, you can use the negative value to compensate for the amount of overlap of the projected images.
If you selected a negative distance, click an Edge Blending button to turn edge blending on (On) or off (Off).
If the edge blending is on, use the Smoothness and Gamma Correction sliders to correct for the overlap in projected images.
- Smoothness — adjust the appearance of the transition area between the overlapping images.
- Gamma Correction — adjust the gamma correction applied to the overlapping images to match the output of your projectors.
Repeat the edge adjustment for all other edges in your layout.