OmniTek 2.3 User Manual

 

OmniTek XR offers two display modes referred to as ‘Normal’ mode and ‘Full Screen’ mode.  

In Normal mode, the screen follows standard Windows conventions, offering multiple 
windows, dialogues and toolbars. In this mode, there will be a menu bar at the top, with 
some toolbars underneath. Below that is a large area where various windows may be 
opened. At the bottom of the screen, there is a status bar. 

In Full Screen mode, you see a user-definable selection of windows, tiled to fit the whole 
window. These full screen views typically have a black background, which may make them 
more suitable in a colorist type of environment. They also have the advantage over the normal 
‘windows’ display of a less cluttered screen. Details of Full Screen mode start on page 65. 

Full Screen mode offers control over major functions and keyboard presets can be 
defined to give additional functionality, but complete control is only available in Normal 
mode. However, unless the system has been locked in Full Screen mode, you can readily 
toggle between Normal mode and Full Screen mode simply by pressing ESCape.  

After installation, OmniTek XR defaults to running in Full Screen mode. If you don’t want 
to start in Full Screen mode, you can change the default setting by selecting 
Configuration… from the Full Screen menu and clearing the tick box marked Startup in 
full-screen mode. 

  Settings made within dialogues typically only take effect when OK or Apply is clicked and 

moreover can be abandoned either by clicking Cancel or by clicking on the dialogue’s 
Close box (except where the settings have been applied). However, OmniTek XR also 
includes a range of ‘control windows’ in which settings are made that take immediate effect. 
The only way of abandoning settings made in these windows is by reversing the changes 
made, though in some cases the window includes the option to revert to default settings. 

The next thing to do is to set the video standard you will be working in. This can either be 
selected from a drop down list, or it can be selected automatically by the system with a 
high degree of accuracy by analysing the serial input signal that has been connected. 

There are various ways to configure the video format. In Normal mode, there is normally 
a Video Standard toolbar visible at the top of the screen. If not, this toolbar can be 
selected from the Show menu, on the main application menu bar. 

  

If a serial digital input is connected to the unit, the most convenient option is to tick the 
Auto detect checkbox, which will match the format of the input to the video formats 
supported by OmniTek XR.  

Alternatively, you can select a specific standard from the drop down menu on the Video 
Standard toolbar. Note however that different manufacturers use different terminology to 
describe a given video format, so in some cases OmniTek XR may identify a video 
standard with a slightly different name to the one you are expecting but still lock to the 
video source correctly. 

As well as the video standard, you also need to select the video lock (sync) reference. 
Versions of OmniTek XR that include the Motion-Capture option contain a timing 
generator in hardware. This can be configured for the product to free run, lock to a SD 
reference signal (bi-level), lock to an HD reference signal (tri-level), or lock to the video 
signal on the serial input.  

Selecting Auto detect automatically switches the unit into Serial lock, i.e. the unit will use 
the internal phase lock loop to lock to the applied digital input. In other cases, the 
required lock should be set on the ‘General’ page of the ‘Video’ section of the 
Engineering Settings dialogue, which may be called up either by clicking the Engineering 
Settings icon on the main (Windows) toolbar or by taking the Engineering… option from 
the Configuration menu.