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About This Manual

Thank you for choosing Archimedia Technology. Our products provide vital pieces of the jigsaw
puzzle in the workflow of high end production and to archivists alike where QC and file
interchange has been seen as a 'black art' for a long time.

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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this document is prohibited. No
part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic
or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval
system without express written permission from Archimedia Technology, Inc.

Archimedia Technology, Inc.

Consumer Software and Sales

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[email protected]

(+1) 646-240-4045

Technical Support and Customer Service

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Contents
Revision History ......................................................................................................................... 1
About This Manual ..................................................................................................................... 2
1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Overview ...................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Supported formats ....................................................................................................... 5
Codecs ................................................................................................................................... 5
2 Installation........................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 System Requirements.................................................................................................. 7
2.2 Disk speed requirement for playback ........................................................................... 7
2.3 Installing the Archimedia Atlas ..................................................................................... 8
2.4 Starting Archimedia Atlas ............................................................................................. 8
2.5 Register license ........................................................................................................... 8
3 Using Archimedia Atlas ......................................................................................................10
3.1 Horizontal Progress bar ..............................................................................................10
3.2 Time Display ...............................................................................................................10
3.3 Player Control .............................................................................................................11
3.4 Audio Control ..............................................................................................................12
3.5 Status Indicator ...........................................................................................................12
3.6 Right-Click Context Menu ...........................................................................................13
3.6.1 Open File .............................................................................................................13
3.6.2 Opening IMF and DCP packages.........................................................................14
3.6.3 Open Test Pattern ...............................................................................................16

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3.6.4 Open Image Sequence Folder .............................................................................16
3.6.5 Open Recent Files ...............................................................................................17
3.6.6 Captions/Subtitles ................................................................................................18
3.6.7 Timecode (TCR) ..................................................................................................18
3.6.8 Audio ...................................................................................................................18
3.6.9 Display Size .........................................................................................................19
3.6.10 Zoom ...................................................................................................................19
3.6.11 Full Screen ..........................................................................................................19
3.6.12 Time Display Window ..........................................................................................20

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3.6.13 On-Screen Overlay (OSD) ...................................................................................20
3.6.14 Video Scaling .......................................................................................................21
3.6.15 Video Controls .....................................................................................................22
3.6.16 Audio Controls .....................................................................................................23
3.6.17 Tool Windows ......................................................................................................23
3.6.18 Options ................................................................................................................30
3.6.19 File Properties......................................................................................................44
3.6.20 License Information..............................................................................................45
3.6.21 Import License…..................................................................................................45
3.6.22 Help .....................................................................................................................46
3.6.23 About ...................................................................................................................46
3.7 Archimedia Atlas Keyboard Shortcuts .........................................................................47
4 Appendix A: SDI playback Card .........................................................................................48
5 Appendix B: HDMI Output ..................................................................................................49
6 Appendix C: 4K SDI configuration – SuperNova S+ Card ..................................................52
7 Appendix D: 4K SDI configuration - Neutron Card..............................................................53
8 Appendix E; CLI Usage ......................................................................................................54
9 Appendix F: Archimedia 4K Workstation Specifications .....................................................55

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1 Introduction
1.1 Overview
JPEG2000 has become the compression format of choice for film mastering and archival
institutions around the world. The alternative for lossless quality is simply uncompressed.
Many leading editing applications support uncompressed formats. The Archimedia Atlas
supports uncompressed, lossy and lossless, 8, 10 and 12 bit formats for all your
monitoring needs.

This manual provides software installation instructions, an overview of the player and its
most common tasks. For more information, please see the the Archimedia Technology
website.

Visit support.archimediatech.tv

 Product information and software download

 Manage user account and license
 Support center for enquiries and Issue management

1.2 Supported formats

Codecs

 JPEG 2000
 Uncompressed
 PRORES
 DNXHD
 XDCAM
 IMX D10
 DV
 DVCPRO
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AVC-INTRA
 MPEG2
 MPEG4 / H264
 XAVC
 HEVC / H265
 Windows Media and more

Wrappers
 MXF
 MOV
 DPX
 IMF

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 GXF
 AVI
 TIFF
 TS
 M2T
 M2TS
 MP4
 WMV
 WMA

Audio
 16 channels
 PCM
 AAC
 AC3
 MP2
 MP3
 other compressed formats

Bits
 8, 10, 12 and 16 bits

Color
 XYZ
 SMPTE RGB 4:4:4 12 bit
 CGI RGB range
 YCbCr 4:2:2
 YCbCr 4:2:0
 YCbCr 4:1:1

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Subtitle
 EIA-608 (DTVCC Transport) text stream
 EIA-708 (DTVCC Transport) text stream
 European Broadcasting Union (.STL) external files
 Timed Text Markup Language (.ITT) external files
 D-Cinema Interop (.XML) external files
 Screen Electronics (.PAC) external files
 Timed Text (v1.0) (.DFXP) external files
 Subrip (.SRT) external files
 Comma Separated Files (.CSV) external files
 Scenario Closed Captions (.SCC) external files

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2 Installation
2.1 System Requirements
Before installing, please confirm the computer meets the following minimum system
requirements.

Hardware Requirements:

SD HD
CPU SD formats @720x576i50 and HD formats up to 1080i59.94:
720x4886i59.94: Dual Intel Xeon with
Single CPU, 4-Threads @3.0.GHz 24-Threads @2.9GHz (Dual
(Intel Q9550 or higher) Intel X5680, E5-2670 or higher)

RAM 4 GB @ 1333MHz minimum

Media Disk RAID0 or RAID5 array capable of sustained playback rate (below) :
Drive
15MB/s for lossless 10-bit 100MB/s for lossless 10-bit
JPEG2000 @ 576i50 / 486i59.94 JPEG2000 up to 1080i59.94
(Minimum of 4 drives
recommended)

27MB/s for uncompressed 10-bit 150MB/s for uncompressed 10-bit

@ 576i50 / 486i59.94 up to 1080i59.94
(Minimum of 4 drives
recommended)

Software Requirements:

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SD HD
Operating Microsoft Windows 7/8, 32-bit/64-bit (Home / Professional / Ultimate) with
System SP1
PC Video DirectX10 or higher compatible graphics card with HDMI recommended
Playback
Monitor 800x600 @60Hz 32-bit color 1920x1080@60Hz 32-bit color
Resolution

2.2 Disk speed requirement for playback

4K playback rate is dependent on compression and file formats.

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Format Requirement
DPX, 3840x2160 @ 24p 10-bit ~1000 MBytes/s
J2K bpc Level 7, 3840x2160 @ 24p 10-bit ~200 MBytes/s
J2K bpc Level 5, 3840x2160 @ 24p 10-bit ~80 MBytes/s
Prores, 3840x2160 @ 24p 10-bit ~50 MBytes/s
HEVC (4K Bluray) 3840x2160 @ 24p ~10 MBytes/s

HD, playback is approximately a quarter of the values above except that Prores HD
has a specific profile of 220Mbits/s (~22Mbytes/s) (Same for DNxHD 220).

2.3 Installing the Archimedia Atlas

a) Please download the installer from https://support.archimediatech.tv/Downloads.
b) Run the installer and follow the step by step instructions. (Select the bluefish card
option only if the card is installed)

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2.4 Starting Archimedia Atlas

Double click the Archimedia Atlas shortcut on desktop to start or from the startup
menu to start Archimedia Atlas.

2.5 Register license

Licenses can be purchased online at http://www.archimediatech.com/. A valid license
requires the Host ID from the computer in which the player is installed.

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The Host ID is found by right clicking on the player and selecting License Information.

To activate the license using the Host ID, click Activate for the purchased license in the
customer support website https://support.archimediatech.tv/web/MyFiles and enter the
host ID. A license file will be available for download. Place the license file (.lic) inside the
installation directory.

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3 Using Archimedia Atlas

3.1 Horizontal Progress bar

Play head indicates the current position of the playback and allows the user to randomly seek to
any position of the video. Mark In and Mark Out points to the start and end positions of the
playback respectively.

MarkIn Point MarkOut Point

Set MarkIn point Playhead Set MarkOut point

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Current display mode: Tape Time Code (TCR), Control Time Code (CTC), Time
position (TIME) or absolute FRAME.

 Play video repeatedly. When the video finishes, it automatically starts playing again.

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 Normal playback mode: Stop at end.

TCR / CTC format: hours: minutes: seconds: frames

Time format: hours: minutes: seconds: milliseconds

Disable remote control.

Display current frame number

Enable remote control

Search by Timecode

Select the search mode, time code track, control track, play time or absolute frame. Enter
the required position and click “Search”. Play position will jump to the specific value if found.

3.3 Player Control

Button Description

Stop the current playback.

Rewind the playback. Supports the following speeds:

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2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x and 64x.
Begin playing the video. Button changes to Pause
while playing.
Pause the playback. Button changes to Play when
paused.
Fast forward the playback. Supports the following
speeds: 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x and 64x.

Select a file to be played.

Slow The Slow motion mode to change the rewind and fast
forward speed to (1/16, 1/8, 1/4 and 1/2)

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3.4 Audio Control

Button Description

Adjust the volume level.

Click to mute audio.

Click to un-mute audio.

3.5 Status Indicator

Field Name Description

File Fmt File format.

Play Fmt Play format.

Total Time Total length of the clip.

Total Frame Total number of frames in the clip.

V-Bitrate Video Bitrate

A-Bitrate Audio Bitrate

IN/Out Dur Duration between the MarkIn and MarkOut point.

SDI Errors Number of SDI errors (dropped frames).

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Genlock Genlock status of Bluefish card

A-Errors Number of audio errors (dropped frames)

V-Error Number of video errors (dropped frames)

A-Buffers Number of available audio buffer during playback. Video

will stop when the number become 0.
V-Buffers Number of available video buffer during playback. Video
will stop when the number become 0.
CPU CPU Usage (%)

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3.6 Right-Click Context Menu

Right mouse click on the main player window to bring up the master context menu.

3.6.1 Open File

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This option allows the user to select a file for playback. For non IMF and non DCP
packages, the user can add separate audio and caption / subtitle files by adding them
into the lists below.

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3.6.1.1 Extract audio from video source file

Select this option to include the video source file as one of the files to extract audio from.
The audio channels from the video source file are always placed before all other external
files starting at channel 1.

3.6.1.2 Extract captions / subtitles from video source file

Select this option to include the video source file as one of the files to extract captions
and subtitles from. This option is referred to as “Live” captions as it is extracted and
decoded in real time as video is played.

3.6.1.3 Enable pre-processing of captions / subtitles

This option allows caption and subtitle data to be extracted and process before playback
begins and may take several minutes to load. Only pre-processed captions will be

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available in jogging mode and viewable in the Caption Viewer.

3.6.1.4 Deep Scan (slow)

Use this option for certain file formats where the header does not contain information
about the presence of captions. This process may take several minutes.

3.6.2 Opening IMF and DCP packages

To open an IMF or DCP package, browse the package folder and select either the
ASSETMAP.XML or a CPL.XML file. The playlists are represented as files with the name
suffixed by "_cpl" and the extension being ".xml". These playlists can be selected and
opened and the following CPL (Composition Play List) dialogue will be presented:

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The video to be played back can be selected from the playlist dialogue. An optional
audio stream may also be selected by using CTRL and left click, but if no audio stream
is selected, playback will be silent. Another way to play the playlist is to select the CPL
(the root node in the dialogue as shown by the selected item in the above diagram). This
results in the first video and audio streams of the playlist to be chosen for playback.

If available, the ASSETMAP.XML contains the highest level hierarchy for all composition
playlists. The open dialog will present the user with all available playlists in the package:

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From this dialogue, the required group of video and audio can be chosen for playback by
double clicking on the parent item encapsulating the video, audio and subtitle assets. As
with the CPL dialogue, optional audio streams may also be selected by use of CTRL and

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left click. Note that the chosen audio streams are not required to be within the same
playlist as the video. Furthermore, it is possible to select more than one audio stream
from different playlists.

3.6.3 Open Test Pattern

Select a test chart for playback. With our partner VideoQ, we have developed a set of
unique test patterns and charts to provide lossless quality digital signals for engineering
and test purposes such as display setup and encoder / decoding paths.

3.6.4 Open Image Sequence Folder

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Select the top level folder for a set of Image Sequence folders or a single folder. The
options box will search through the folders looking for DPX, TIFF or EXR files.

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The dialog box performs several checks on the files.

1. Checks the sequence of file names is sequential, without any missing files.
2. Checks the number of files in the folder matches the sequential number of files in the
folder.
3. Displays the first and last file names in the sequence for user to verify.

The starting filename in each folder can be edited by clicking the “pen” button.

The order of the folders for playback can be changed by moving the row up or down.

Multiple audio and caption/subtitle files can be added for playback.

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3.6.5 Open Recent Files

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10 recent file will be displayed in the recent list.

3.6.6 Captions/Subtitles

Load external caption / subtitle file. These include side-car files such as .SCC, .SRT etc.

Available caption tracks will appear in this menu. Real-time embedded tracks are
denoted as ‘Live’ meaning they are decoded on-the-fly as it plays and do not appear in
the Captions Viewer. Other pre-processed tracks are also selectable here and appears
in the Captions Viewer.

3.6.7 Timecode (TCR)

This selects the Timecode track for the TCR display. Striped timecodes only have a
starting value and all other values are regenerated sequentially. Non-striped timecode
are physical tracks that contain discrete values for every frame.

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3.6.8 Audio

This selects the input audio tracks to be processed. Each track may have one or more
channels and all selected tracks are combined to form the output channels. The order of
the tracks cannot be changed by this selection. Use the audio router to rearrange the
order or to mute individual channels.

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3.6.9 Display Size

This sets the display size of the PC on-screen video. This has no effect on SDI output.

3.6.9.1 Auto Size

Video is displayed in the aspect ratio based on the file header information and the
calculated picture size.

3.6.9.2 File Aspect

Video is displayed in the aspect ratio specified in the file only.

3.6.9.3 1:1 Pixel Size

Video is displayed in actual size (1:1) pixel on-screen.

3.6.9.4 4:3
Video is displayed in 4:3 aspect ratio.

3.6.9.5 16:9
Video is displayed in 16:9 aspect ratio.

3.6.9.6 14:9
Video is displayed in 14:9 aspect ratio.

3.6.9.7 21:9
Video is displayed in 21:9 aspect ratio.

3.6.10 Zoom

3.6.10.1 Zoom – Fit to Window

Video is stretched to fit the current window size maintaining aspect ratio.

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3.6.10.2 Zoom 25% to 400%
Display video at 25% to 400% of actual pixel size.

3.6.11 Full Screen

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Video on the PC screen is displayed in full screen mode. Full screen mode can be
controlled via shortcut keys. To quit full-screen, press the esc key. If there are multiple
monitors in the system, the menu will display the available monitors that full screen can
be performed on.

3.6.12 Time Display Window

Switch between Time Code (TCR), Control Time code (CTC), Frame count and Play
time.

3.6.12.1 Show Time Code

Set Time Display Window to show Time Code.

TCR format: hours: minutes: seconds: frames

3.6.12.2 Show Control Time Code

Set Time Display Window to show Control Time Code. This is a presettable time code
sequence that is available on all files.

CTC format: hours: minutes: seconds: frames

3.6.12.3 Show Frame Count

Set Time Display Window to show Frame Count.

Frame Count format: frame count starting from 1.

3.6.12.4 Show Play Time

Set Time Display Window to show Play Time.

Play Time format: hours: minutes: seconds: milliseconds

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3.6.13 On-Screen Overlay (OSD)

This sets the information to be displayed on the PC on-screen overlay. It does not
output to SDI.

3.6.13.1 Enable Overlay

Enable On-Screen overlay (OSD) with Time Display, Audio Level and/or Video
information.

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3.6.13.2 Time Display

Time Display is set to be displayed as overlay (OSD).

3.6.13.3 Audio Levels

Audio Levels is set to be displayed as overlay (OSD).

3.6.13.4 Video Properties

Video Properties is set to be displayed as overlay (OSD).

3.6.13.5 Caption / Subtitles

Show captions or subtitles if available on the PC display (OSD).

3.6.13.6 Caption Grid

Show captions grid according to CEA608 (15x32) and CEA708 (15x42). Text appears
inside each cell according to its positional information.

3.6.13.7 Area Markers

Shows 4:3 markers for 16:9 content and adjustable safe area marker configurable in
Options.

3.6.14 Video Scaling

3.6.14.1 None
No Scaling.

3.6.14.2 Suggested Scaling

Suggested Scaling

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3.6.14.3 Custom
Custom video Scaling

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3.6.15 Video Controls

3.6.15.1 Pause
Freeze playback of the video.

3.6.15.2 Rewind
Rewind the playback. Support the following speeds: 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x and 64x.

3.6.15.3 Play
Begin playing the video.

3.6.15.4 Fast Forward

Fast forward the playback. Support the following speeds: 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x and 64x

3.6.15.5 Stop
Stop the playback and reset position to the beginning.

3.6.15.6 Set Mark-in

Set the current play head position as the Mark-In.

3.6.15.7 Set Mark-Out

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Set the current play head position as the Mark-Out.

3.6.15.8 Loop mode

Enable/ disable the playback of loop mode.

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3.6.16 Audio Controls

3.6.16.1 Increase Volume

Increase the volume.

3.6.16.2 Decrease Volume

Decrease the volume.

3.6.16.3 Mute / Unmute

Mute / unmute the audio.

3.6.17 Tool Windows

3.6.17.1 Playlist

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Files can be added into the play list. Each file can be played sequentially as one cycle or
as a continuous cycle. Each file may have a mark in and out sequence added along with
scaling and volume settings.

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3.6.17.2 Caption / Subtitle Viewer

This toggles the Captions/Subtitles Viewer on and off. The Viewer shows a preview of
the currently selected captions/subtitles

The player can support both captions/subtitles that are embedded in the video file and
captions/subtitles that exist on separate files. Only pre-processed captions and subtitles
appear in the Caption Viewer. The following is a list of all the formats that are currently
supported:

 EIA-608 (DVTCC SCTE128) text stream

 EIA-708 (DVTCC SCTE128) text stream
 EIA-608 (DVTCC SCTE20) text stream
 EIA-708 (DVTCC SCTE20) text stream
 EIA-608 (Ancillary CDP) in MXF
 EIA-708 (Ancillary CDP) in MXF
 European Broadcasting Union (.STL) external files
 Timed Text Markup Language (.ITT) external files
 D-Cinema Interop (.XML) external files

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 Screen Electronics (.PAC) external files
 Timed Text (v1.0) (.DFXP) external files
 Subrip (.SRT) external files
 Comma Separated Files (.CSV) external files
 Scenario Closed Captions (.SCC) external files

Providing that captions/subtitles are requested, the opening of a video file will result in
existing text streams to be scanned for captions/subtitles. External captions/subtitles
files will also be processed.

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After the video has been loaded, any captions/subtitles will be displayed in the
Captions/Subtitles Viewer (see below) and also in the player. If there is more than one
captions/subtitles track, then any of them can be selected from the right-click context
menu (see 3.6.6).

Captions embedded in a video file can be saved to a subtitles cache folder so they load
instantly next time that file is loaded. That folder path can be modified in the Options tab
called Captions/Subtitles.

You can also pre-extract embedded captions from multiple files and save them to the
subtitles cache folder with a command-line batch file from Archimedia. Contact
Archimedia for details.

3.6.17.2.1 Grid Controls

Double-clicking on a time in the Time In column will position the player at the first frame
in which the text appears. Double-clicking on a time in the Time Out column will position
the player at the last frame in which the text is shown.

The row highlighted in blue indicates that the text is currently being shown in the player.
Note that more than one row may be highlighted provided that the player’s current play
time are within the time in and time out values.

The row indicated in blue may scroll off the top or bottom of the Captions/Subtitles
Viewer, hence an option is provided as a context menu (shown in screenshot above) to
enable or disable autoscroll . The other options in the context menu allows for toggling of
an option for the Captions/Subtitles Viewer to be always on top and for choosing a font
size to be used to preview the captions/subtitles.

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3.6.17.3 Editing Captions/Subtitles (European Broadcasting Union STL format only)
Version 3.1.0.24 introduced a new editing feature that enables captions/subtitles in the
European Broadcasting Union STL format (not to be confused with the Spruce STL format) to
be modified. This feature is enabled when the captions/subtitles viewer is displaying EBU STL
captions/subtitles.

This section describes how subtitles in EBU STL format can be edited.

3.6.17.3.1 Editing Time In, Time Out and Subtitle Text Using the Context Menu
Right click on the captions/subtitle editor and options for Edit, Set Current Timecode, Apply
Changes, Save and Save As will be available.

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When the Edit option is selected on a row in the captions/subtitles viewer, edit mode is initiated.
Note that right clicking to choose edit from the context menu is location dependent, so right
clicking a row under the Time In column and selecting Edit will initiate Edit Mode for Time In.
Right clicking under the Time Out column and selecting Edit will initiate Edit Mode for Time Out.
Similarly, editing the text requires right clicking under the Text column and selecting Edit.

Once in Edit Mode, the new information can be typed in and the new changes are inserted by
pressing Enter or clicking away. The Escape key can be used to cancel the edit. However, the
changes will not be reflected in the player until the Apply Changes option is chosen from the
context menu.

Rather than typing in Time In and Time Out values, the current timecode indicated in the player
can be used. This is carried out by selecting the Set Current timecode option in the context
menu. To set the Time In to use the current timecode, right click a row under Time In column
and select Set Current Timecode to set the player’s timecode as the new Time In value. To set
the current timecode for Time Out, right click under the Time Out column and choose Set
Current Timecode in the context menu.

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There are 5 shortcut keys that can also be used to edit. First of all, a row on the
captions/subtitles viewer needs to be selected by a single left click. It will be highlighted in green.
When the row is selected, the following shortcut keys can be used:

 CTRL + 1 – Select Edit Mode for the Time In column of the selected row.
 CTRL + 2 – Select Edit Mode for the Time Out column of the selected row.
 CTRL + 3 – Select Edit Mode for the Subtitle Text column of the select row.
 CTRL + 4 – Set the Time In value to be the player’s current timecode.
 CTRL + 5 – Set the Time Out value to be the player’s current timecode.

Note that the above operations require the Apply Changes context menu option to be carried
out for the changes to be reflected in the player.

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3.6.17.3.3 Saving Changes

The edited STL can be saved back to the original STL file or saved to a new file. The context
menu options for Save and Save As will perform these respective functions.

3.6.17.4 Audio Level Meters

Each meter represents the audio levels of the corresponding output channel. The scale
is calibrated relative to 0dBFS (full scale). Each channel can be muted by clicking the
speaker icon next to the channel numbers. A context menu on the window allows the
window to be “Always on top”.

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3.6.17.5 Audio Router Panel

Each row represents an output channel. Each column represents an input channel.
Selecting a cross-point in the router matrix will route that input to the output. An input
channel can only be routed to an output channel that already exists. A context menu on
the window allows the window to be “Always on top”. Hover to preview cross-points.

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3.6.17.6 Audio Phase Meter

It can set a color for a pair of channels. Click the drop-down menu to select channel
numbers.

3.6.17.7 Audio Waveforms

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Audio waveforms can show up to 16 output channels or up to 64 input channels. Green
and yellow lines in the center shows the current frame position. The green line is the
start of the frame and the yellow line is the end of the frame. Use the + / - buttons on the
top right to zoom in as far as a single frame. Navigate with the position marker in the
scroll bar, or double-click in the waveforms.

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3.6.17.8 Vectorscope
This toggles the Vectorscope viewer on and off. This shows the relationship between the
Cr and Cb color phases. This display is only available for YCbCr formats.

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3.6.17.9 Waveforms Monitor

This toggles the Waveforms Viewer on and off. The Viewer shows a preview of the
Waveform.

3.6.18 Options
System options for the player. Export settings for later recall. You may want
configurations for some file formats, different screens, different tasks, a baseline to get
back to normal, other users etc.

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3.6.18.1 General option

3.6.18.1.1 Check for update

Notify user when a newer version is available online.

3.6.18.1.2 Enable dynamic hints

Enable dynamic hints.

3.6.18.1.3 Default Background Color

Choose the background color.

3.6.18.1.4 Temporary Folder

Choose temporary location for video/information processing.

3.6.18.1.5 Audio Meter

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Set the calculation mode, number of visible channels, Yellow marker threshold and
Red marker threshold in the Audio Meter.

3.6.18.1.6 Vectorscope
Set the size of the Vectorscope window.

3.6.18.1.7 Waveforms
Set the size and mode of the Waveform window.

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3.6.18.2 Playback option

3.6.18.2.1 Enable PC display

Allow video output on PC display.

3.6.18.2.2 Play immediately on load

Start playing video automatically after file is loaded.

3.6.18.2.3 Resume playback after scrubbing

Continue playback after scrubbing.

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3.6.18.2.4 Swap interlace
Swap the interlace order of the picture.

3.6.18.2.5 Swap field order

Reverse the time-order of field 1 and 2. This effectively reverses the ‘Field
Dominance’ value specified in the file if any and will also swap the interlace order.

3.6.18.2.6 Force Interlace for 1080p25/29.97 in AVI and MOV files

Force interlace when playing AVI and MOV file with 1080p25/29.97 formats. Some
MOV files in these formats are actually interlaced formats but are indicated as
progressive formats.

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3.6.18.2.7 Enable audio during fast shuttle

Enable audio during fast shuttle. This only applies to fast forward and fast rewind
modes.

3.6.18.2.8 Control Time Code Start

Set the starting Control Track Time code (CTC) value for frame 1.

3.6.18.2.9 Frame Sequence (DPX, TIFF, EXR)

Frame rate options for Frame Sequence: Always prompt for frame rate, Prompt only
when frame rate is not found in file, Never prompt if frame rate is not found and use
default frame rate and Always override frame rate with default frame rate. Set the
default frame rate.

3.6.18.2.10 Audio Delay / Advance

Set the Audio delay or advance with the input frame

3.6.18.2.11 Interlace Jog Mode

Set the interlace Jog mode (Mixed field, Field 1 only, Field 2 only or alternative field)

3.6.18.2.12 Scaling Mode

Set the Scaling Mode

3.6.18.2.13 Deinterlace
Enable/disable deinterlace and select the mode.

3.6.18.3 MXF option

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3.6.18.3.1 Use MXF Source Package (essence) duration

Select this option to use the SourcePackage duration instead of the MaterialPackage
duration in GOP based essence formats.

3.6.18.3.2 Use MXF essence GOP timecode as start offset

Select this option to emulate systems where the GOP timecode is used in conjunction
with the MXF timecode to offset the start of the first frame in the essence stream.
Setting this and the ‘Use MXF SourcePackage duration’ simulates the behavior of the
Grass Valley iTX playout system.

3.6.18.3.3 Default MXF timecode track

Select between the SourcePackage (usually embedded and may be non-sequential)
and the MaterialPackage (Striped and always sequential) timecode track on loading a
MXF file.

3.6.18.4 DCP option

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3.6.18.4.1 Assume XYZ Color Space for DCP files

Enable XYZ to RGB Color Space conversion for DCP JPEG2000 files.

3.6.18.4.2 Assume XYZ Color Space for Frame sequence files

Enable XYZ to RGB Color Space conversion for DCP JPEG2000 files.

3.6.18.4.3 XYZ Gamma

Set the XYZ Gamma value to use for the conversion. Default is 2.6.

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3.6.18.4.4 RGB Gamma

Set the RGB Gamma value to use for the conversion. Default is 2.2.

3.6.18.4.5 Black Offset

Set the black offset value. Default is 512. Increasing this value gives a darker picture.

3.6.18.4.6 Gain
Set the overall gain on all channels. Default is 100%.

3.6.18.5 DCP/KDM Management

3.6.18.5.1 Certificate
Generate Certificate, Use Universal Certificate, Import and Export Public Certificate.
A local certificate is tied to the physical machine that is running the application. Any
KDM created from a local certificate will only work on the machine that generated the

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certificate. An universal certificate is tied to any Archimedia Atlas application, not to a
physical machine.

3.6.18.5.2 KDM
Import and Remove KDMS. After a successful import, the KDM will be added to the
list and its information will be displayed on the right.

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3.6.18.6 Performance option

3.6.18.6.1 Play cache buffers

Set the number of cache buffers to use during playback. A high value can cause high
memory consumption. Playback must be restarted for the new value to take effect.

3.6.18.6.2 Start playback after buffers are filled with

Start playback when selected percentage buffer is reached

3.6.18.6.3 Decoder Threads

This setting controls the number of decoder threads used during playback. Default to
0 for automatic setting.

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3.6.18.6.4 RS422 Setting
Enable/ Disable RS422 control and configure the COM port number

3.6.18.6.5 Jog Sensitivity

This setting controls sensitivity of the jogging control. A low value uses a progressive
range from x1/8 to x1/2, a medium value uses a range of x1/4 to x1/2 and a high
value uses the range of x1/2.

3.6.18.6.6 Resync on buffer underrun

If the audio or video play buffers drop to zero, a dropped frame error will occur and
the video and audio may go out of sync. This option causes the player to pause and

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restart playback to re-synchronize the video and audio. Playback must be restarted
for the new value to take effect.

3.6.18.6.7 J2K decoder settings

Set Automatic Quality or Custom Quality for J2K decoder.

3.6.18.6.8 ProRes threads

Set the number of threads for ProRes codec.

3.6.18.6.9 HEVC threads

Set the number of threads for HEVC codec.

3.6.18.6.10 Frame sequence threads

Set the number of threads for Frame sequence

3.6.18.6.11 Frame Sequence Pre-caching

This option is for frame sequences such as DPX files. Enabling this option allows the
player to pre-cache the frames by reading ahead of playback. This option is
particularly useful when the media is located on SSD or very fast networked drives.

Concurrent files determine the number of files to be read simultaneously. Default is 1.

Buffer size determines the read block size. This should be in multiples of the disk
block size. Default is 512 KB.

Read ahead frames determine the number of frames to pre-cache ahead of the
playback position. Default is 200 frames.

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3.6.18.7 SDI Output Options

3.6.18.7.1 Default Card No & Default Channel

Sets the default card and output channel to use. The maximum number of cards
supported is 2 (1 to 2) and the maximum number of channels per card is 4 (0=A to
3=D). This can be overridden by the use of command line variables as follows:

/i=cardno where cardno is 1 or 2.

/c=channel where channel is 0 to 3.

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NOTE: The Bluefish Supernova / S+ cards have a frame rate limitation that channel
pairs 0-1 and 2-3 must have a common frequency. i.e 29.97Hz and 59.94Hz or 25Hz
and 50Hz.

3.6.18.7.2 Always use dual cards for 4K/UHDTV formats

This setting forces video to appear on both cards regardless of whether the format
can be supported on 4 channels of a single card. The 4 quadrants of video will
appear on BNCs A and B on both cards. This avoids the need to change cabling
depending on format.

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3.6.18.7.3 CGI RGB range (otherwise uses SMPTE RGB range)

Use CGI RGB range.

3.6.18.7.4 Allow VBI/VANC data

Allow VBI/ VANC data to appear. If this option is turned off, VITC timecode for SD
formats will not be available.

3.6.18.7.5 Force PsF for 23-30 fps on SDI output

Force the SDI output format to PsF for 23-30fps.

3.6.18.7.6 Enable Dual-Link Output

Enable Dual-link Output if the video is a 3G format. Dual-link pairs are always
assigned as BNC A&B and BNC C&D.

3.6.18.7.7 Use 3G Level B (defaults to 3G Level A)

Option to set to SDI 3G format to Level B. (Default is set to 3G Level A)

3.6.18.7.8 Native Color Space and Component Depth

Force a Color Space depth for the selection in the list. If disabled, automatic color
space and component depth.

3.6.18.7.9 Genlock
Genlock Setting for Digital or Analog Input

3.6.18.8 DVI /HDMI Full Screen Options

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3.6.18.8.1 Override graphics adapter defaults

Enable this option to give the highest quality video output in full screen mode if the
output is able to display in native video format (a HDTV connect to capable graphics
card through HDMI interface). Otherwise the default desktop resolution and frequency
will be used for full screen display.

3.6.18.8.2 Force SD (480i and 576i) resolutions to

This will force the video to display in a support resolution. Enable this option if the
monitor does not support SD formats. Use 0x 0 to run at the native SD resolution and
refresh rate.

3.6.18.8.3 Double the refresh rate if below

Set this value if the monitor does not support a low enough frequency refresh rate.
The refresh rate is doubled if the monitor’s frame rate is lower than this value.
(Example: For 1080p25 video, the frame rate will double and be played back at
1080p50 if this value is set to 30). Use a value of 0 to run at the native refresh rate.

3.6.18.8.4 Force progressive scan for interlaced formats

This forces video to run in progressive mode as some monitors do not support
interlace formats. This will produce smoother motions but create interlace artifacts.

3.6.18.8.5 Enable warning before switching to full screen

Display a warning message when switching between full screen if an SDI card is
installed.

3.6.18.8.6 Lock video to desktop refresh rate

Lock video to desktop refresh rate.

3.6.18.8.7 Default Display

Set Default Display.

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3.6.18.9 Captions / Subtitles Options

3.6.18.9.1 Always use solid text background

Enable this option to use solid text background. Set the Background Transparency if
this option is enabled

3.6.18.9.2 Font size

Set the font size.

3.6.18.9.3 Start Offset

Set the Start Offset for the captions to appear. This value is in milliseconds. A positive

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value will delay the captions, a negative value will advance the captions. It can
choose from time offset or Timecode Offset

3.6.18.9.4 Temporary Storage Location

Certain types of captions require it to be extracted from the file first. Set this to a fast
and large drive location to speed the extraction process. If blank, the system default
temporary location is used.

3.6.18.9.5 Enable Deep Scan

Certain captions and subtitles are embedded in the video stream and are located
near the end of the file. The player’s quick scan process may not find these captions.
Enable this option to perform a full scan but it may be slow for large files.

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3.6.18.9.6 PAC Subtitle Code Page

The PAC subtitle format supports different code pages for extended character sets.
Set this to the required language code page for the subtitles to appear correctly.

3.6.18.9.7 Show hidden captions /subtitles

Show hidden captions/subtitles. This setting will take effect after a vide o file is loaded

3.6.18.9.8 Ignore captions /subtitles positioning

Ignore captions / subtitles positioning

3.6.18.9.9 Use CTC timecode

Use CTC timecode

3.6.18.9.10 Subtitle Cache

Enable/ Disable to use Subtitle Cache. Set the Subtitle cache folder to look for.

3.6.18.10 Shortcut Keys Mapping

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3.6.18.10.1 Profile
Choose a Shortcut Key Profile: Adobe, Default, Final Cut Pro and User Defined.

3.6.18.10.2 Command
This shows all commands with the Shortcut Key. Click Set to change the command
with a new Shortcut Key. Clear will remove the shortcut key from the command.

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3.6.18.11 Import/ Export Setting

The User can import / export all the option settings from a .json file.

3.6.18.12 Assets Search Paths

This sets the asset search paths for the IMF/ DCP supplemental folders. Assets are searched
from the top downwards.

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3.6.19 File Properties

File properties for the file loaded.

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3.6.20 License Information

This shows the license information (expiry time and the Host ID of the machine).

Each license needs to be registered to a machine (in particular, the Host ID). Only one
Host ID can be registered at any one time for each license.

3.6.21 Import License…

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Locate the license file to be imported.

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3.6.22 Help

3.6.22.1 View Help

This displays the User Manual.

3.6.22.2 Quick Start Guide

This displays the Quick Start Guide.

3.6.23 About

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Opens the About window. This is useful for verifying the version number of the
Archimedia Atlas that is running.

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3.7 Archimedia Atlas Keyboard Shortcuts

Button Description
Ctrl + O Open a MXF File to Play

Ctrl + Space Pause

Ctrl + Left Rewind \Previous Frame

Ctrl + P Play
Ctrl + Right
Fast Forward\Next Frame

Ctrl + S Stop

Ctrl + R Reset Markers

Ctrl + I Set Mark-In

Ctrl + U Set Mark-Out

Ctrl + L Enable/ Disable Loop Mode

Alt + Up Increase Volume

Alt + Down Decrease Volume

Alt + Del Mute / unmute

Ctrl + F Swap Field Order

Ctrl + Y Enable Overlay

F4 Toggle RS422 remote focus

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F6 Toggle between TCR/CTC/TIME/FRAME mode

F7 Display Auto Size

F8 Display 1:1 Pixel Size

F9 Display Full Screen

F10 Search

ESCAPE Exit Full Screen mode

F1 About Box

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4 Appendix A: SDI playback Card

With an optional SD/HD-SDI PCI-Express I/O card, the Master Player provides 8, 10 or 12-bit
uncompressed baseband video and up to 16 channels of 24-bit PCM audio through BNC
connectors for SDI monitoring, distribution or VTR dubbing. Please ensure the card driver and
firmware are installed from the installer before use.

The SDI output supports both SD and HD formats:

 Supports SD 720x480i to HD 1920x1080p59.94 (1-Channels I/O).

 Supports 2K to 4K (4-Channels I/O)
 Time code for SD using D-VITC only.
 Time code for HD using ATC-VITC and ATC-LTC (Digital Ancillary Time Code) only.
 Provides 8, 10 or 12-bit uncompressed baseband video
 Up to 16 channels of 24-bit PCM audio

Non-standard picture sizes will be centered with black borders.

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5 Appendix B: HDMI Output

One of the unique features of the Archimedia Atlas is the ability to drive the HDMI interface in
full-screen mode at the native resolution and frame rate of the file content. When viewed on a
true HDTV, video motion will appear as intended without any cross frame-rate interference.
Picture resolution can also be scaled to whatever your HDTV supports. This is the most cost
effective way of displaying the true quality of your video without the use of an SDI card.

1. Checking if the resolution and refresh rate is supported

a) Right click on the Desktop and select Screen Resolution.

b) Select Advanced Settings in Display properties.

c) Select List All Modes in Adapter tab.

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d) Here is the list of resolution and refresh rate supported by the current graphics card and
attached monitor. The Archimedia Atlas only supports modes in True Color (32 bit) color
mode.

2. Adding custom resolutions and refresh rates

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The method to add custom resolutions and refresh rates for modes not supported natively
by the graphics card or monitor can vary between graphics card manufacturers and models.
Critical damage can occur while trying to exceed the capabilities of the graphics card.

To ensure the format is supported and is working, manually switch the desktop to the
required format to see if the Windows desktop is displayed correctly. The Player can only
switch to modes that are supported by Windows display.

3. Special formats

There are some common formats that will not be supported unless you have a high-end
HDTV monitor and graphics card.

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 576i50 / 480i59.94 / 486i59.94. These SD formats use 720 pixel widths and may
require manual override (Advanced Options Box) to 800x600 resolution. This gives
the minimum amount of oversampling artifacts if the native mode is not supported.
 720p23.98 / 720p24 / 1080p23.98 / 1080p24 / 1080p25. These low frequencies
require a high-end HDTV usually labeled as supporting ‘1080P24’ cinematic format.

4. Interlaced and progressive formats

Some monitors may not support interlaced formats. Enabling the option ‘Force progressive
scan for interlaced formats’ in the Advanced Options will force formats 1080i50 to 1080p50
and 1080i59.94 to 1080p59.94. This will NOT de-interlace the picture to form a progressive
picture. Only the refresh rate will run twice as fast to enable viewing on the monitor.

5. Simple BOB de-interlacer available

When in windowed mode and the picture is resized to fit the window, interlace artifacts may
be visible due to the sub-sampling aliasing of the interlaced picture. To avoid this artifact,
view the playback as ‘Actual Size’ or in full screen mode or by enabling the BOB de-
interlacer. In full screen mode, an interlaced picture will be de-interlaced by the monitor if it
can switch to an interlace mode.

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6 Appendix C: 4K SDI configuration – SuperNova

S+ Card
When 4K playback through dual SDI cards is required, both cards must have the “Quad_out”
firmware loaded so that they can be genlocked together for synchronous operation.

The firmware can be loaded from the:

\Bluefish444_Epoch_Supernova\Driver_x_x_x_x\Firmware\SuperNova folder. Run the
corresponding installer and select the card number to program. After loading, the computer
must be powered down and cold rebooted (removal of power for 30 seconds).

The following diagram shows the wiring for dual Supernova S+ cards.

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7 Appendix D: 4K SDI configuration - Neutron

Card
When 4K playback through dual SDI cards is required, both cards must have the “3 Out”
firmware loaded so that they can be genlocked together for synchronous operation.

The firmware can be loaded from the:

\Bluefish444_Epoch_Supernova\Driver_x_x_x_x\Firmware\Neutron folder. Run the
corresponding installer and select the card number to program. After loading, the computer
must be powered down and cold rebooted (removal of power for 30 seconds).

The following diagram shows the wiring for dual Neutron cards.

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8 Appendix E; CLI Usage

Argument Function
i SDI Card Number

c SDI Channel Number

p COM Port Number

startframe Start at frame “n”

starttc Start at timecode “hh:mm:ss:ff”

startctc Start at control timecode “hh:mm:ss:ff”

starttime Start at time “hh:mm:ss.ms”

markinframe Sets mark-in frame “n”

markoutframe Sets mark-out frame “n”

demo Start in limited playtime demonstration mode

video Start with selected video file

audio Start with selected audio file

subtitle Start with selected subtitle file

enableembeddedaudio Enable embedded audio

enableembeddedsubtitle Enable embedded subtitle

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enablesubtitlepreprocessing Enables pre-processing of caption files

enablesubtitledeepscan Enable deep scan of subtitles

volume Set the volume level. 0 is maximum, -100dB minimum

addtoplaylist “1” to add video to playlist

To launch Atlas from CLI, please run the following: Atlas.exe /video=”full path to video”

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9 Appendix F: Archimedia 4K Workstation

Specifications

Archimedia 4K Workstation
CPU 2 x Intel E5-2690v3
Memory 8 x DDR4 4GB 2133MHz
RAID Controller 1 x LSI 9261-8i
OS Drive 1 x SSD 128GB
RAID 0 Drive 4-8 x SAS2 hard disk
GFX Card 1 x GTX960 dual slot PCI-e
Capable of 4KP60 output on HDMI 2.0
Fiber-channel HBA 1 x QLogic 2562 PCI-e
(optional)
Network Interfaces Dual 10Gigabit Ethernet ports
RS422 Support Sony 9 pin control RS-422 Support
SDI Card 2-4K – Bluefish Neutron SDI Cards Streams master video
files up to 4K 4096x2160@30 Hz, YCbCr 4K YCbCr 4K
4:2:2 in 10 and 12 bits, and 4:4:4 in 8, 10 and 12 bits. Also
supports up to four SD/HD outputs with 3G Single or 1.5G
Dual Link (Software configurable)
Power Supply Dual Redundant hot swap power supplies(power
consumption approx. 650 Watts)
Operating System Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

 4 RU Rack space
 Chassis dimensions 17.8” X7” X 25.5” configured tower or rack mount
 sound level; -29dbm (extremely quiet for office operation)

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