User`s manual

USER’S MANUAL
2 | Kaleido-ALTO/QUAD
2 Kaleido-Alto/Quad System Concepts
2.1 Software Components
There are two software components associated with the Kaleido-Alto/Quad system:
• Kaleido-Alto/Quad software is already installed in the Kaleido-Alto/Quad unit, and performs all
functions associated with integrating data streams and presenting the multi-image display.
• K-Edit Layout Editor software runs on a remote computer connected to the Kaleido-Alto or
Kaleido-Quad through an IP interface. It creates the on-screen layout formats used by the
Kaleido-Alto/Quad.
2.2 Visual Elements
Kaleido-Alto/Quad replaces the traditional physical display devices in a monitor wall, such as video
monitors, audio meters and tally lamps, with graphical representations. The objects and images that
appear on the screen of the Kaleido-Alto/Quad multi-image display and of the computer running Kaleido-
Edit Layout Editor will be referred to as visual elements. A visual element is the on-screen manifestation
of a data stream.
There is a one-to-one correspondence between the visual elements in a layout prepared in K-Edit Layout
Editor, and those presented on the Kaleido-Alto/Quad multi-image display.
However, there is an essential difference between the visual elements as presented by these two
packages:
• The multi-image output represents the exact program stream being processed. Its visual elements
show a dynamic, real-time representation of the data in the program stream. UMDs, status and tally
indicators change shape and color according to the information status. All objects are drawn with
details and resolution. Text appears with a cleanly rendered font
• The K-Edit Layout Editor software is used off-line to create the elements to be used in the actual
Kaleido-Alto/Quad multi-image display output. As such, it has no knowledge of the actual information
that the Kaleido-Alto/Quad is processing. The Kaleido-Edit Layout Editor representation is static, and
the visual elements are displayed as icons, of the correct size and position, but without dynamic
program content.
While the K-Edit Layout Editor screen shows a good representation of the final output, the user is advised
to look at the actual Kaleido-Alto/Quad output on the monitor wall screen, to assure themselves that the
output is as desired.
This manual describes operation of the Kaleido-Alto/Quad. The use of the K-Edit software to create
layouts for the Kaleido-Alto/Quad is described in its own manual, which is available as on-line help when
you are running the K-Edit software.