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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn Media server Kommander F2 Instruction Service Hotline:400-159-0808 Official website:www.kystar.com.cn Kystar WeChat public account Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd...
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn Statement Thank you for using kystar products. The copyright of this manual belongs to our company. Without the written permission of this company, it is strictly forbidden to copy, transfer, distribute and store any content of this document in any form. The company reserves the right to modify and improve any product features described in this document without prior notice.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn Safety instructions Power supply The normal working power of this equipment is 100 ~ 220V AC, please make sure to use this product within this voltage range. High voltage This device contains high voltage components.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 7.10 Timed task ....................57 7.11 The main display is more online ............. 57 7.12 Correction and fusion ................59 7.13 MIDI control ................... 60 8、Q & A ......................... 62 8.1、T1 how to achieve playback loop playback plan ........62 8.2、T1 How to edit the canvas output and how to cut off the audio after...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 1、Foreword With the rapid development of the LED industry, LED displays are used in a variety of places. The dot pitch of LEDs is getting smaller and smaller, the size is getting bigger, the display effect is getting better, and the display requirements are becoming more and more complicated.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 2、Product introduction F2 server is an integrated broadcast control server specially designed for multimedia areas such as multimedia exhibition halls, banquet halls, and rental performances. The product has powerful functions, flexible and convenient operation, high stability and high cost performance.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn Panel description Serial number Function Description ① Full color LCD performance monitor ② Switch button ③ USB3.0 interface Port specifications Input port (optional) Types Quantity Specification Maximum support 1080P @ 60Hz (optional) 1.3 standard, maximum support 1920 × 1080 @ 60Hz (optional)
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn Output port Types Quantity Specification Maximum support 3840 × 2160 @ 60Hz DVI-Monitor Supports 1920 × 1080 @ 60Hz Audio Cannon audio output with internal isolation Control port Types Quantity Specification RJ-45 1000M USB3.0× 6...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 3、F2 Hardware debugging 3.1、F2 Connection settings 3.1.1、DVI-Monitor The unique 4 + 1 channel output of the F2 server breaks the restriction that traditional servers must be left all the way to monitor. F2 has a separate DVI monitor port and is bound to the main display by default.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 2. Select Change Resolution in the NVIDIA Control Panel and click the Customize button 3.Enter the custom instruction box and click to create a custom resolution...
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4. Enter the Create Custom Resolution Instruction box and choose to enter a custom resolution. After customizing the resolution setting, click Test to bring up the application change prompt box. Select Yes to complete the custom resolution operation.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 5. After the operation is completed, you can see the custom resolution that you just set appears in the custom prompt box. After you confirm, you can see that the custom resolution that you set also appears in the change resolution.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 6.Delete custom resolution: Enter the custom prompt box, select the custom resolution you want to delete, click X, enter the edit custom resolution, and then select delete...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 3.3、F2 Graphics card splicing F2 graphics card splicing steps are as follows: 1.Right click on the desktop to enter the NVIDIA control panel 2. Click on set mosaic mode in NVIDIA control panel, then make new...
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 3. Set the number and layout of spliced screens 4. Select the display device to be spliced...
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 5. Arrange the display (whichever is actual)
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 6. Click Apply, the prompt box selects Yes (the main display will be disconnected after clicking the Apply operation, resulting in a black screen, the screen can be operated blindly if you do not see the screen, left button + Enter to select Yes, then win + p switches to extended mode) 7.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 8.The operation to change the extension mode is as follows: right-click on the desktop to enter the display settings, change to expand these displays, and then apply, confirm, and retain the changes (note: the screen will be black after splicing, this step is for operation reference)
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 3.4、F2 EDID locking The meaning of EDID: it is a parameter about the display and its performance, including the maximum image size, color settings, frequency range restrictions, and the string of the display name and serial number.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 3.Click on the EDID (monitor) to be locked in the system layout to enter the management EDID prompt box 4. In the management EDID, export according to the first step of the step, select the...
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 5. Load in the second step, browse and import the file generated in the previous step, then select the monitor to be locked, click Load EDID, and pop up to load successfully.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 6. After loading successfully, return to view the system layout to view the EDID lock status. The monitor becomes a file and is set successfully. 7. After use, you need to uninstall EDID. You can prompt successful uninstallation. At this...
4、Kommander F2 Interface introduction The software interface is as follows: Kommander F2 software interface can be divided into six functional areas, namely: ① menu bar, ② media resource library, ③ broadcast control area, ④ parameter setting, ⑤ plan area, ⑥ output window, status bar ②Menu bar: menu options, including file, canvas, resources, window, settings, lock...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.1、Menu Bar The menu bar options include six parts: file, canvas, resources, windows, settings, and lock screen. 4.1.1 File menu The file menu mainly implements operations such as creating, opening, saving, packaging, closing, and setting the project file.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.1.3 Resource menu The asset menu is mainly used to add various materials to the asset area. 4.1.4 Window menu Set the corresponding window to hide and show, if there is a check mark, it shows the display status.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.1.5 Setting menu The setting menu mainly sets the software. (1) System settings: Set the basic properties of the software to facilitate the smooth operation of the software; (2) Equipment linkage: It can be linked with the processor to control the hardware equipment and software to switch together;...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.1.7 Help Located in the upper right corner of the software. User Manual: It is convenient for users to quickly browse the product manual and get help. Shortcut Key Search: Open the system shortcut key document to facilitate users to quickly understand the shortcuts defined by the product.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.2.1 Media Resource Management Consists of resources that have been added or created. The main functions are adding materials, renaming materials, grouping management, and deleting. Some types support attribute settings. (1) Through the plus sign at the upper right of the material column...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.2.3 Playlist Supports new, edit, and delete playlists. Supports setting the playing time or number of times for each file. Supports quick setting of duration. 4.2.4 Effects library 1)Add effects to the screen Support drag and drop effects to the screen on the canvas.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 2) There are 27 special effects, in order of: Crop Chromaticity Feathering Mirror Cover frame adjustment Splash Automatic Auto scaling Keying RGB Toning Reverse screen jitter color Night vision Relief Noise Sharpen kaleidoscope Fisheye...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.3.1 Screen management (1) Display port management: Add, delete, and modify display ports, and define the mapping between display ports and physical screens (including the screen connected to the display end). (2) Virtual screen management: Add, delete, and modify virtual screens. The left canvas defines the position of the virtual screen in the display port, and the right canvas defines the position of the virtual screen in the editing canvas.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.3.3 Playback status (1) Play: After adding new material on the canvas or pausing or stopping, click the play button to continue playing. (2) Pause: Pause all the materials on the canvas. (3) Stop: Stop playing all the materials on the canvas.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.3.5 Material settings on canvas (1) Return to the canvas origin: The canvas origin refers to the (0,0) coordinate point. When the user moves to another position and is not sure of the origin position, he can click "Back to Canvas Origin"...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.4、Parameter setting bar Used to view and set the basic parameters of the corresponding material. 4.4.1 Level adjustment Provide top, bottom, previous and next adjustment buttons for adjusting the level of the material on the canvas.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.4.3 Play mode and end mode Play mode: Define the duration of the material output. (1) Loop mode: unlimited loop playback of material, default item. (2) Play a specified duration: Set the playback time of the material, and stop playing after the specified time.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.4.7 Effect settings (1) Saturation, brightness, contrast, transparency: You can set the color and effect by adjusting the values. (2) Feathering: It is worth adjusting through feathering, which has a blanking effect on the surroundings of the material and improves the display effect.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 4.4.10 Keying A certain color in the picture is taken as a transparent color, and it is cut out from the picture, so that the background is transparent and forms a superimposed composition of the two-layer picture. The software supports suction pen to draw colors, and also supports direct input of hexadecimal color values and RGB color values, and tolerance (0-1).
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn From here, you can set fast forward, rewind, pause, and playback of the material. Support collective seek operation for the same group of materials. Collective Seek: After enabling this function, drag a video progress, the program...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 2. Rename the plan Right-click the plan name, and you can customize it according to your needs. 3.Planning plan Drag the target plan with the mouse, you can change the position of the plan in this group, or drag it to other plan groups.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn b) After selecting the main KV group, right-click on the canvas and click "Save as Main KV". c) After selecting the main KV, press Ctrl + D 1. Associate red, green, and blue master KV shortcut call keys...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn (1) In the real-time mode, there is only a display window, there is no control panel, and the canvas is directly controlled. (2) There is a control panel in pre-editing mode, including edit, play, pause, stop, black screen / cancel black screen.
At the same time click "Windows" + "P" key, the following window appears, select the extension mode; 5.2、Run the software ,run Kommander F2 playback software; Double-click the software icon 5.3、New Construction Click "New" to create a project file, enter the project name and select the storage...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 5.4、Add material Enter the main interface of the system after creating a new playback scheme, click the + sign in the resource area to add playback materials, and select the corresponding addition option according to the type of material you need to add.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 5.5.1 Add display port The left part of the figure above is to add the display port and screen and set the properties. If a local expansion screen is connected when a new project is created, the display port and screen will be automatically created, and only editing is required at this time.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn laid out in another way to get the canvas content. 5.6 Canvas editing and output After completing the screen management, return to the main interface, as shown in the figure above. Drag and drop the material to be output from the material library to the position of the screen in the canvas, and the material can be output to the external led screen through the screen.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 6.2.2 List add In the upper left corner of the media library, select a playlist to add multiple local media files to the same playlist; drag to change the position of the files after adding, and you can set the playback order of the files in the list.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 6.4、Office file 6.4.1 office add Click the + sign in the menu bar and select "Add Office" to add office files to the asset area. Drag the material to the canvas in the control area to play it.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn Currently supports all capture cards based on the windows standard framework, blackmagic decklink capture cards. If the setting parameters of some capture cards are incorrect, the screen may be abnormal. Please right-click the “Parameter Settings” of the material to modify the parameters, and then “reload”...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 6.7、Screenshot Screen capture is to capture your computer screen for output, and the output content is the current computer display interface, and it is updated in real time. By setting the crop parameters in the parameter settings on the right, you can capture a part of the computer display and cast it to the screen.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn A variety of display styles can be performed according to requirements, examples are as follows: 6.9.3 Analog clock Support color definition for clock, minute, second, scale and text. 6.9.4 Form Add a form, you can enter the content to be displayed, define the form size, text color, font, alignment, etc.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn Weather needs to be connected to the Internet to detect weather conditions 6.9.8 Lottery Satisfy the demand of the on-site raffle. Use steps 1) Drag a lottery tool from the media library onto the canvas (multiple drag and drop is supported).
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn winning record in real time. 2)After the raffle results, support for exporting winning records through the raffle window. Notes 1) Currently only photo draws are supported. Please organize all participants' photos into a folder in advance and ensure that the names are unique. The photos only support jpg and png formats.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn Note: A computer supports running multiple NDI programs to realize the collection of multiple screens of the computer. Step 3: Add NDI capture to the T1 material library on the computer side of the capture output.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn The software can implement different system settings for different operating environments to make the software run more smoothly. The system setting interface is as follows: (1) Display adapter: When the computer has multiple graphics cards, you can choose the graphics card configuration to make the software run under a higher graphics card configuration.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn Start PPT in default animation mode: Currently only office2010 supports animation mode. Please do not select it in other versions of office. Animation effect When ppt is played, the animation originally set in ppt is valid, and dubbing and page turning sound effects are output.
Through "About Product" in the upper right corner of the software, you can check whether the current software is the latest version, and you can update the software online. For more products, please go to www.kystar.com.cn to learn more about Z1, Z3, Z4, F2 and more.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 7.4、Master-slave linkage Function: When multiple kommanders need to achieve simple synchronous control, master-slave plan linkage can be used. This function mainly meets the user's requirements for synchronously controlling playback (play, pause, stop, black screen, lock, mute) and synchronous switching plans.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn Select the scheme linkage and select the controlled slave through the slave management. If you need to automatically connect to and control the original slave every time you turn on the computer, please check "Automatically connect to the slave when starting the program".
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn This is to automatically discover the devices working on the slave side under the same network, which is convenient for the user to select the slave end to be connected. History discovery information is recorded here. If invalid information is found, you can switch a master-slave mode or restart the project to clear the historical information.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn optimized target resolution is set in the pop-up dialog box. :It means to cancel the optimization of all pictures in the material library. Supports users to perform single optimization and cancel optimization of pictures through the right-click menu of picture materials.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 7.9、Active / standby connection Supports users to add a device as the backup end to implement real-time backup of the master end, so that when the master end is abnormal, the output is normal. This function is used in conjunction with the splicer.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn After setting, check the connection status through the taskbars on both the active and standby sides. White is normal and red is abnormal, indicating that the network is unavailable (the local network is not enabled, the ip is unavailable, or the firewall is blocking) or the other party's working mode is incorrect (the program is not enabled and the working mode is incorrect).
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 7.9.3 Master control "Real-time linkage mode" switch The program adds a "real-time linkage mode" status switch under the "canvas" menu. After being selected, the master will operate once and the slave will execute synchronously.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn The current main and standby modes of the splicer are: when the master is abnormal, switch to the standby output; when the master returns to normal, switch back to the master output. The splicer judges whether the master is normally judged by KiR signal.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 7.11 The main display is more online Application scenario: When a machine is not enough to output all screen content, consider using the main display function. The display can be used as an extension of the main end to have more output ports and more decoding and rendering capabilities.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 7.12 Correction and fusion When using a projector as an output, because of the characteristics of the projection, the picture needs to be corrected. If there are multiple projection outputs, the overlapping part needs to be fused. Kommander provides screen-based correction and fusion settings.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 7.13 MIDI control Since v4.2, some functions of the program support midi keyboard control. Step 1: Configure the midi source device and channel through "System Settings". Requires midi keyboard to be connected. Step 2: Use "System Settings-Midi Edit" for instruction mapping.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn In the list are instructions that support midi control, and the key value is the corresponding midi value. After selecting, edit the trigger key value of the instruction to enable the learning ,Supports learning the current key value from the midi keyboard to function associate it with the instruction.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn 8、Q & A 8.1、 T1 how to achieve playback loop playback plan? When there are many preplans that need to be played repeatedly, or you need to add a list of materials other than videos and pictures to play in a loop, you can achieve this requirement by establishing a preplan.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn • "Prohibit editing when the screen is black", the installation software is checked by default. • "Mute when black screen", the installation software is unchecked by default. 8.3、How to implement the materials in the new plan after the previous plan is switched?...
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn ○ Back to the main interface, drag and drop the material to the area composed of 4 screens to complete the ultra-long screen output. When you need to replace the material in the future, you can directly replace it.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn ② Put the screen into a display port, confirm the output of each screen, and configure the splicer. ③ Set the position and rotation angle of each screen in the right window, save and return to the main interface.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn affecting the current output. The following operations are supported for users: Supports the current content as a pre-programmed object. Support any pre-plan as the pre-programmed object. Supports saving pre-edited canvas content as a plan.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn actual serial number of each screen. If they are not consistent, re-correspond and click "Apply" or "OK" to complete the setting. (3) Check the splicer settings. (4)If there are still problems, please feedback to kommander technical support staff.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn ③ Changed from the end IP ④ Slave software version does not support master-slave plan linkage 8.12、What is the reason why the slave does not implement the synchronous control command? (1) Whether the network is abnormal. Please judge whether the communication can be performed normally by the master-slave ping.
Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn If you encounter abnormal ppt pages and incomplete ppt display, please upgrade the software version to T1 v3.3 and above. 8.14、The dongle prompts abnormally and the software cannot be used anymore, what should I do? Failure performance: The following prompt pops up, restart the software, and reinstalling the dongle driver is invalid.
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Beijing Kystar Technology Co., Ltd. www.kystar.com.cn advance, and do not adjust the parameters when the media is about to end, otherwise please stop and then output. 8.16 Effective time after media time trimming, playback mode, and end mode modification? Time cropping, playback mode, and end mode all involve the current playback of the media and are related to the current playback status of the media: 1.
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