OmniTek 2.3 User Manual

OmniTek XR offers a range of windows within which to display different aspects of the 
video that is being analysed. The various displays are generated in hardware in real time 
from the video being processed. The displays are also fully integrated, with the different 
windows showing information about the same frame of the video data stream. 

The windows that can be displayed are called up by clicking icons on the Windows 
toolbar. 

The different windows are described below in alphabetical order of name. First, however, 
a description of some window controls that are common to all the windows described in 
this section. 

  The precise range of windows offered depends on which additional packages are 

included in the OmniTek XR system that is being used. 

The windows associated with OmniTek XR all have drop-down menus through which to 
configure how the window contents are displayed or otherwise manipulate the window. 
Not all windows have exactly the same controls, but the following section covers some 
general features of the windows. Further specific details may be given alongside the 
descriptions of the windows themselves, which start on page 40. 

The windows generally have an ‘Options’ menu. The following selections appear in 
several of the windows. 

Graticule 

Calls up a sub-menu that allows the user to: 

 

Enable/Disable the display of graticule 
Show graticule labels 
Specify the graticule as SMPTE range, or full range 
Set the scale of the graticule at 75% or 100% (Vector Scope only) 
Set the calibration for different PPM scales (Audio PPM windows) 

Crosshair 

Shows/Hides a crosshair indicating the current position of interest in 
the window. 

Look & Feel 

Calls up a common Look & Feel dialogue through which aspects of the 
window such as the colours used can be set. You can, for example, 
select the colour of the crosshair, independently of the colour of the 
cursor. The page that is active on opening depends on which window 
you opened it from. (The selected colours may be saved as a preset 
through the Configuration menu.) 

Displays line and sample number of the point under cursor. For 
interlaced video formats, the line number is based on the field selection 
that has been made on the Crosshair toolbar, as described on page 
31. 

Save snapshot  Takes a snapshot of the current contents of the window, which is then 

saved to a file in an appropriate format. For example, Waveform, Mini-
Pic, Picture Quality and Vector Scope windows are saved as bitmap 
images, while the Data View window is saved as a text file.