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- Page 1 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Product code: MRMC-1998-01 CRANES AND RIGS | BROADCAST | HEADS & DSLR | PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY | RENTALS...
- Page 2 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Product code: MRMC-1998-01 © 2019 Mark Roberts Motion Control Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or translated by any means — graphical, electronic, or mechanical — including photocopying, recording, taping, or storage in an information retrieval system, without the express written permission of Mark Roberts Motion Control.
- Page 3 Contents Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Chapter 1 Polymotion Player Overview......... 1 Setting up TDCGraphics (only for Configuration 2) ............2 Port tabs..............3...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Chapter 2 Using Polymotion Player Tracking ....... 7 Launching Polymotion Player........7 Preparing the robots for Polymotion Player .....7 Polymotion Player User settings in MHC ....16 Setting up player tracking..........20 Operating in MHC using Polycam Player..21 Reference Points ..........22... - Page 5 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Appendix 1 Polymotion Player Installation ........41 Installing Polymotion Launcher .......41 Licensing your Polymotion Product ......45...
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- Page 7 Polymotion and TRACAB Solution TDCGraphics is the software that translates the real-time field data from TRACAB in a form usable by MHC. For the Polymotion Player system to work, MHC PC needs to connect to TDCGraphics and TRACAB server. There are two possible configurations of this system that are done by MRMC: ...
- Page 8 MHC Server does not store any data incoming from the TRACAB system and only ever has the last positions sent from the TRACAB system for processing. To use Polymotion Player system for auto tracking robots following are the high-level steps: Ensure that the heads are mounted at the desired locations with respect to the football pitch.
- Page 9 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide address and port number of the TRACAB server Port tabs Each port tab provides a port number for MHC Server to connect, to receive data and a configuration for defining the position of the Robot relative to the centre spot of the pitch and configuration of the zonal data that will be sent.
- Page 10 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Each Port tab correspond to a robot, so you might need to add Port tabs if the stadium setup includes more than two robots to track zonal data. Port used as source by Used to enable...
- Page 11 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Set the Camera Position value to the one given by Chyron Hego. Click Apply and then click OK.
- Page 12 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Notes...
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Page 13: Chapter 2 Using Polymotion Player Tracking
Click/tap Polymotion PLAYER. If you are launching this for the first time, you will be required to add a new license file or a license code. Contact MRMC Support for a new license. Once you have supplied a license code, MHC Server and Client are... - Page 14 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Click FIND to find all the robots connected on the network. If you want to see the LiveView from the cameras in the MHC screen, add the RTSP stream address in the IP Address box for each head.
- Page 15 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Configure each robot as follows: 6.1 Click CALIBRATION and follow the wizard screens to calibrate the robot. For heads that have external cameras, like AFCs, this wizard includes screens to level tilt and align the...
- Page 16 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Calibration Step 2 If the robotic head does pan left, click YES. If it doesn’t, click NO and the direction of the pan axis will be corrected by the software. Calibration Step 3 Click the TILT UP button.
- Page 17 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Calibration Step 3 If the robotic head does tilt up, click YES. If it doesn’t, click NO and the direction of the tilt axis will be corrected by the software. Calibration Step 4- Homing the axes Click HOME ALL AXES to home all axes one after the other or click individual axis Home buttons.
- Page 18 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Calibration Step 5 - Centre of the pitch Point the camera to the centre of the pitch such that the centre of the camera screen overlaps the pitch centre. Calibration Step 6 - Level tilt Move the camera up and down so that there’s a single...
- Page 19 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide For each robot, the Player Wizard page displays the date the robot is calibrated. 6.2 Select a lens configuration for the camera in the robot. Select the lens configuration 6.3 Set the 7 Reference Points that emulate the 7 pitch positions.
- Page 20 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Click/tap the Set button to switch to edit mode. Move the robot to the point using the on-screen joystick and then click/tap the respective reference point. A reference point once set appears with a green dot.
- Page 21 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide 6.4 Click/tap the Tracking drop-down box to specify the tracking data: Source: Select whether source of tracking is Manual, Tracab or None if this is a non-tracking head. You can change the source at a later point.
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Page 22: Polymotion Player User Settings In Mhc
Click CONNECT ALL to connect all heads to the server together. Polymotion Player User settings in MHC Before the Polymotion Player system can track players on the field, tracking settings need to be specified, such as the players on the football field, and configure the MHC server to communicate with the TRACAB system. - Page 23 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Log in to the MHC client as a user (Operator or Engineer). Click the Settings > ROBOT to open the Robot Settings page. These settings are available only to Engineering type users. Select Polymotion to specify the Polymotion settings.
- Page 24 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Under GLOBAL SETTINGS, specify: Select the head that you want to set as the Master Head. the framing on the master head will be automatically used by all the other heads. During Manual tracking, this is the head that the operator control using Pan Bars and all other heads in the tracking system act as Slave heads.
- Page 25 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Click SAVE SETTINGS to save these settings and then click CONNECT to connect the current head or CONNECT ALL to connect all the participating heads. For TRACAB, both TRACAB Server and TDCGraphics must be running to connect.
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Page 26: Setting Up Player Tracking
If required, perform the steps 1-5 for each head participating in player tracking. Note While using Polymotion Player with Tracab, the connection is lost to the Tracab server, the following message is displayed on screen. In such cases, you can switch the Source to Manual using the... -
Page 27: Operating In Mhc Using Polycam Player
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Operating in MHC using Polycam Player All tracking robots should be in the Tracking mode while the non-tracking robots can remain in the default Basic mode on the MHC Client operator login Main page. Once the Player tracking options have been set up using Player Wizard, the default mode will change to TRACKING. -
Page 28: Reference Points
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Reference Points If the reference points are set up in the Player Wizard, the points are shown on goto buttons with a green dot. These can be used to test or reset them by clicking/tapping the SET button. -
Page 29: Tracking Offset
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide you can select Home Player, Away Player, Referee, Tactical, HighBehindA or HighBehindB. Tracking types for Broadcast Tracking types for Analytics If you select Tracking type as Home Player or Away Player, enter the Jersey number of the player you want to track. You can also specify whether you want to AutoZoom. - Page 30 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide You can tweak this to adjust the framing of the target within the view. Use the Reset button to remove any offsets. Tracking Offset – Analysis Home Player, Away Player and Referee When the Tracking type is Analysis High Behind A or Analysis High Behind B, the following options appear in the Tracking Offset tab.
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Page 31: Player Preselection (Not Available For Manual Tracking)
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Tracking Offset – Analysis High Behind A or Analysis High Behind B Goto min and max Set min and max Zoom positions Zoom positions Max zoom should be set when the corner flags at the end of the pitch are just in frame. -
Page 32: Begin Tracking
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide To select the players, click the Edit ( ) button and select the player’s jersey number for each team. This menu is not available if the robot is tracking. In this case, all player manipulations should be done via the Spotter Screen, as detailed on Spotter screen on page 28. - Page 33 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide can click the icon to toggle TRACAB server connectivity provided all options are specified correctly in the Polycam tab in MHC. Start/Stop Tracking All robots not connected and not tracking All robots connected but not tracking...
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Page 34: Spotter Screen
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Spotter screen Spotter screen provides a top view of the football pitch with players, ball and camera positions in relation to the field. The controls and presets on this page are only available when robots are in tracking mode. -
Page 35: Football Pitch
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide 11. Presets 12. Grouping menu 13. Offset menu 14. Player layer button 15. FOV on/off button 16. Fix All Button 17. Emergency Manual tracking button Football pitch Football pitch mimics the real-life football pitch. The white marks are adjusted to match the proportions of the given field. -
Page 36: Target Selection
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide is pointing and the angle of the current FOV. The FOV triangle will have higher opacity if it belongs to the selected robot. Target selection Target selection is a dotted circle around the target object. The Spotter screen shows the selection for the currently selected robot (if the robot is in tracking mode). -
Page 37: Layout (Main/Split) Switch Button
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Normal state Selected state When at least one camera leaves a goto position, the button goes back to the normal state. Layout (Main/Split) Switch Button This button switches the screen between two layouts: main and split. If the main layout is enabled, the button is grey, if split layout is enabled that button is green. -
Page 38: Fix All Button
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Note The Play All button affects the robots in Tracking mode only.When there are no robots in tracking mode, the button is disabled. Fix All button The Fix All button sends commands to fix trips on all axes of all robots. -
Page 39: Grouping Menu
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Grouping menu Clicking the Grouping button ( ) opens the Grouping menu that allows you select and track multiple players in a group. The grouping algorithm is available for the Tactical, 18 Yard A and 18 Yard B target types. -
Page 40: Edit Mode
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide In View mode player icons can have three states. If the selected camera is tracking a group, the players on the pitch will mimic these three states State in State in Name Description Grouping pitch... -
Page 41: Enabling/Disabling Grouping
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Select the home and away players that you want to group by clicking/tapping on the jersey number. To deselect a player, click/tap on the jersey number again. Click ( ) to apply changes. Discard button ( ): Discards any changes that were made during editing. -
Page 42: Fov On/Off Button
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Player layer button enabled Player layer button disabled FOV on/off button This button hides or shows FOV triangles. If it is On, FOV triangles are visible and the button is green. If it is Off, FOV triangles are hidden and the button is grey. -
Page 43: Split View Layout
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Split view layout The split view layout allows you to use basic spotter screen features as well as view video feeds from all cameras. The Spotter screen features that are available in Split view layout are: Football field (with player icons, ball, gotos &... -
Page 44: Errors
Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Errors Tracking Validation Errors Validation errors can occur when any setting is not correct for accurate or optimal performance of the Polymotion system. These can occur in one of the following situations: Pan A not set ... - Page 45 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Notes...
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- Page 47 Quick Start Guide Installing Polymotion Launcher Polymotion Launcher is a utility that allows you to install additional instances of MHC corresponding to each Polymotion system, such as Polymotion Chat and Polymotion Player. Follow the instructions to install Polymotion Launcher: Double-click MHCPolymotionLauncherSetup_ x86-v2.6.0.10.exe...
- Page 48 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Select the components to be installed. Here, you can clear any components that you do not want to install. Follow the on-screen instructions.
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- Page 50 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Click Browse and navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\MHC\ player\USBtoIP_driver\USBIPEnum.inf C:\Program Files (x64)\MHC\player\USBtoIP_driver\USBIPEnum.inf.
- Page 51 Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Licensing your Polymotion Product If you have recently installed a Polymotion product, when you start MHC Client, you will be required to add a License file. To obtain this, copy and paste the UID at the bottom of your MHC screen and send your license request including products such as Polymotion Chat or Polymotion Player to support@mrmoco.com.
- Page 52 Mark Roberts Motion Control Ltd. Unit 3, South East Studios, Blindley Heath, Surrey RH7 6JP United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0) 1342 838000 info@mrmoco.com www.mrmoco.com...
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