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- Page 1 A Miranda Quick-Start Guide Loudness Monitoring & Analysis Using Kaleido-Solo KS-910 865-99M05-500 rev 4 April, 11 2013 Miranda Technologies 3499 Douglas-B.-Floreani St-Laurent, Québec, Canada H4S 2C6 Tel. 514-333-1772 Fax. 514-333-9828 www.miranda.com © 2013 Miranda Technologies...
- Page 3 QUICK START GUIDE How to contact us: For technical assistance, please contact the Miranda Technical support centre nearest you: Americas Asia Europe, Middle East, Africa, UK Telephone: Telephone: Telephone: +1-800-224-7882 +852-2539-6987 +44 1189 523444 e-mail: e-mail: e-mail: support@miranda.com asiatech@miranda.com eurotech@miranda.com China France (only) Telephone:...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Kaleido-X Hardware – Description and Installation Table of Contents Introduction ........................... 3 Task 1 – Connecting Kaleido-Solo to a network ................. 4 Task 2 – Firmware Verification and Upgrading ................5 Task 3 – Loudness Measurement Setup on the Kaleido-Solo ............ 7 Task 4 –... -
Page 5: Introduction
QUICK START GUIDE Loudness Monitoring and Analysis using the Kaleido Solo KS-910 Introduction Kaleido-Solo is a compact, standalone 3Gbps/HD/SD video to HDMI converter, which allows low cost LCD displays to be used for video and loudness/dialnorm monitoring. It’s ideal for many professional monitoring applications, including production, mobile truck, post-production and broadcast. -
Page 6: Task 1 - Connecting Kaleido-Solo To A Network
Kaleido-X Hardware – Description and Installation Task 1 – Connecting Kaleido-Solo to a network Prerequisites: If you do not plan to use DHCP for your IP address, obtain the following information from your network administrator: 1. Static IP Address. 2. Net Mask. 3. -
Page 7: Task 2 - Firmware Verification And Upgrading
QUICK START GUIDE Task 2 – Firmware Verification and Upgrading Access the Kaleido-Solo’s web page: 1. Launch your Internet browser 2. Enter the IP address of your Kaleido-Solo, as set in Task 1. Loudness Monitoring and Analysis using Kaleido-Solo and iControl Solo | 5... - Page 8 Kaleido-X Hardware – Description and Installation If the current firmware version is not 400 or above, you must perform a firmware upgrade. An upgrade to the latest version is always a good idea. 1. Go to the Miranda Support site at http://www.miranda.com/support/Kaleido-Solo and download the latest version of the firmware.
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Page 9: Task 3 - Loudness Measurement Setup On The Kaleido-Solo
QUICK START GUIDE Task 3 – Loudness Measurement Setup on the Kaleido-Solo The Kaleido-Solo can monitor the audio of two programs at once for loudness measurement. 1. Navigate to Audio | Loudness 2. For each of the two programs (called 1 Loudness and 2 Loudness), select from among the... - Page 10 Kaleido-X Hardware – Description and Installation 6. Navigate to Audio | Loud Ctrl, and make sure the Meter is “Running”. You may need to cycle the Meter through “Paused” and “Running” if the Kaleido-Solo doesn’t begin logging when started in the “Loudness Logger”...
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Page 11: Task 4 - Managing Loudness Logging And Analysis Using Icontrol
QUICK START GUIDE Task 4 – Managing Loudness Logging and Analysis using iControl If you are using iControl Navigator, go to page 15. If you are using iControl Solo, proceed as follows: Prerequisites: Before you can log loudness data and analyze loudness logs from your Kaleido-Solo, you must first make sure certain features and services in iControl Solo are activated. - Page 12 Kaleido-X Hardware – Description and Installation 2. In DensiteManager, click Add. 3. In the Target Information window, type the Kaleido-Solo’s IP address, and a descriptive name for this Kaleido- Solo (NB the boxes are labelled Densite…). 10 | Loudness Monitoring and Analysis using Kaleido-Solo and iControl Solo...
- Page 13 QUICK START GUIDE 4. Click OK. Your Kaleido-Solo will now appear in the DensiteManager window. Its status icon should be green, showing it is online. If not, select it and click the Online button on the right. The Kaleido-Solo (named as you specified in #3 above) will be added to the list of controlled devices in the iControl Solo window.
- Page 14 Kaleido-X Hardware – Description and Installation 6. To specify the location for saving the loudness data, select the KS-910, and then click Settings 7. In the Loudness Logger Settings window, click the elipsis button to browse to the location in your local file system where you would like to save loudness data.
- Page 15 QUICK START GUIDE 8. Click Apply. If you choose a valid path, the Success message appears. 9. Click OK to return to the Loudness Logger window. 10. To start logging on an individual Kaleido-Solo, right-click on its icon and click Start. The Status column will show that logging is in progress.
- Page 16 Kaleido-X Hardware – Description and Installation 11. To stop logging, right-click on the individual Kaleido-Solo and click Stop. The status column will show that logging is no longer in progress. 12. Close the Loudness Logger window by clicking the red X in the upper right corner. 13.
- Page 17 QUICK START GUIDE If you are using iControl Navigator, proceed as follows: Prerequisites: Before you can log loudness data and analyse loudness logs from your Kaleido-Solo, you must first make sure certain features and services in iControl are activated. Instructions can be found on the indicated pages iControl v4.40 User Guide (Miranda document M226-9900-279) ...
- Page 18 Kaleido-X Hardware – Description and Installation 3. Click Add in the DensiteManager window 4. In the Target Information window: Enter the IP address of your Kaleido-Solo in the Densite IP address data box Enter the name under which you would like the KS-910 to appear in iControl in the Densite name databox.
- Page 19 QUICK START GUIDE 7. Back in the iControl Navigator window, double-click on the Loudness Logger associated with the AppServer on which you will be logging. A list of loudness monitoring resources will appear, including your KS-910. Important note: If you followed the set-up process above, you will have established the path to the loudness log storage and both the Loudness Logger and the Loudness Analyzer will use it.
- Page 20 Kaleido-X Hardware – Description and Installation 9. To stop logging on an individual Kaleido-Solo, right-click on its icon and click Stop Alternatively, to stop logging on all the loudness sources in the display, click the Stop all button Look under “Status” and verify that logging is no longer in progress. 10.
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Page 21: Task 5 - Using The Audio Loudness Analyzer
QUICK START GUIDE Task 5 – Using the Audio Loudness Analyzer The Audio Loudness Analyzer processes the log files saved from the Kaleido-Solo, as described above. 1. In Audio Loudness Analyzer, click Open. The Open Logs window appears. If you have followed the steps above, the path shown in the Loudness Logs Root Folder databox should be the same as the path you see in the Settings window for the loudness Logger in Task 4 above. - Page 22 Kaleido-X Hardware – Description and Installation 2. In the Open Logs window, in the Audio Descriptor pulldown, click the loudness data set you wish to analyze. Note – The dataset may contain one file or several files. The number of files in each dataset is indicated in parentheses.
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