USB Video Bridge

Zooms out. Gives you a wider angle of view. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to zoom continually.

Zooms in. Gives you a smaller angle of view. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to zoom continually.

Tilts the camera upward. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to tilt continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits.

Tilts the camera downward. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to tilt continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits.

Pans the camera left. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to pan continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits. Allows for 360° pan.

Tilts the camera downwards. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to pan continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits. Allows for 360° pan.

Coordinates

Positional coordinates X=Pan Y=Tilt Z= Zoom. Each coordinate is separated by a space. A set of coordinates of 0 0 0 puts the camera level, facing front, and zoomed fully out.

Copy and paste these coordinates into a Q-SYS Snapshot to create camera presets. In addition, you can select the coordinates and type in the desired position if you know it.

Speed by Zoom button

When engaged, the speed of the pan, tilt and zoom decreases as you zoom closer to give you more control. The speed of the pan, tilt and zoom increases as the angle of view gets wider.

Recalibrate PTZ button

Re-calibrates the camera's PTZ stepper motor locations (Pan, Tilt and Zoom) and returns the camera to Home.

Ceiling Mount button

Engaging this button flips the picture upside down to accommodate mounting the camera on the ceiling. The up and down Tilt controls are flipped as well.

Home

The Home button returns the camera to the default Home position, or the position that was saved by the Save Home button.

Save Home

The Save Home button saves the current camera position (PTZ Coordinates) as the Home position.

Load Privacy

When engaged, the Load Privacy button recalls the privacy preset position as captured when the Save Privacy button was clicked. By default the camera is facing backwards and outputs a black video stream.

When the button is disengaged, the camera returns to the position it was when the Load Privacy button was engaged.

The Load Privacy button is disengaged when a coordinate is entered in the Coordinates field, or if a Q-SYS Snapshot is evoked.

Save Privacy

The Save Privacy sets the privacy preset position. This is the location to which the camera returns when the Load Privacy button is clicked, and when the camera first powers up. By default, this location is pointed towards the back of the camera.

Auto Privacy

Available in the USB Video Bridge component only.

• When on, cameras connected to the video bridge automatically enter privacy mode until video is requested (USB connected to a computer and an application viewing the video), at which point the camera exits privacy mode and moves to the home position. When video is no longer requested, the camera returns to privacy mode by recalibrating PTZ and recalling the specified privacy coordinates.

• When off, cameras do not automatically enter privacy mode when no video is requested. When manually entering privacy mode, the PTZ is not recalibrated.

Note: If the USB Video Bridge is connected to a Camera Router, the router automatically switches to the Camera 1 input. This is by design, and allows the room to be left in a known good configuration. Connect your room's "default" camera to the router's Camera 1 input.

AP Delay

Enter a value from 1 to 600 seconds.

After video is turned off, or USB disconnected, after the AP Delay timeout period, the cameras returns to the privacy mode again.

Pan Speed

Adjust the speed of motor movements for panning the camera using the Pan buttons. Use your mouse to drag the slider to the speed you want, or enter a number from 0 to 1.00.

Tilt Speed

Adjust the speed of motor movements for tilting the camera using the Tilt buttons. Use your mouse to drag the slider to the speed you want, or enter a number from 0 to 1.00.

Zoom Speed

Adjust the speed of motor movements for zooming the camera using the Zoom buttons. Use your mouse to drag the slider to the speed you want, or enter a number from 0 to 1.00.

Recall Speed

Adjust the speed of motor movements when recalling PTZ coordinates, such as when loading a saved Snapshot. Use your mouse to drag the slider to the speed you want, or enter a number from 0 to 1.00.

Focus Mode – turns Auto Focus On. Auto Focus is turned off when one of the Manual focus buttons is clicked.

The Focus In button changes the focus mode to Manual and pushes the focal point toward the background of the shot. Objects in the foreground are less likely to be in focus, objects in the background are more likely to be in focus.

The Focus Out button changes the focus mode to Manual and pushes the focal point toward the foreground in the shot. Objects in the foreground are more likely to be in focus, objects in the background are less like to be in focus.

Manual Speed

The Focus Speed slider adjusts the speed at which the Focus In and Focus Out buttons operate. Does not apply to the Auto Focus mode. Use your mouse to drag the slider to the speed you want. or, enter a number from 0 (zero) to 0.100.

Sensitivity

The Sensitivity drop-down list controls how aggressive the algorithm operates to keep the camera in focus. Setting this too low can create a semi-blurry image, setting this too high can create focus-hunting. Does not apply to the Manual Focus mode.

Preview Screen

Preview of the camera's image that updates once per second. Q-SYS Touchscreens can accommodate two or three images on an single UCI before its operation and controls become sluggish.

Zooms out. Gives you a wider angle of view. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to zoom continually.

Zooms in. Gives you a smaller angle of view. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to zoom continually.

Tilts the camera upward. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to tilt continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits.

Tilts the camera downward. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to tilt continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits.

Pans the camera left. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to pan continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits. Allows for 360° pan.

Reset all Camera settings

This button resets all of the camera's Control and Imaging settings back to their default values, excluding SDI/HDMI Enable and SDI/HDMI Format. This is a quick method to go back to auto mode on all of the settings.

Brightness

The general intensity of light in an image. Increasing this number makes the image brighter. Decreasing this number and the image will appear darker.

Saturation

Amount of total color (chroma) in the image. Reducing this number will result in the image displaying dull or muted colors. Increasing this will result in the images colors being more vivid.

Sharpness

The boundaries between different tones or colors. Increasing this number will improve definition between objects. Decreasing this number will reduce definition, creating blurred lines between objects.

Contrast

The separation between the darkest and brightest parts of an image. Increasing this number will make the separation grow, decreasing this number will reduce the separation.

Mode

Toggle button to choose exposure mode, between Auto and Manual. In Auto Mode, the controls for Manual Mode are not available, and vice-versa.

Backlight Comp

With this mode selected, a dark subject against a bright background, or a bright light in a dark image will be compensated for by allowing more light in to brighten the image. With this mode selected in normal lighting conditions, the image will be overexposed.

Anti-Flicker

A toggle (On / Off) button to reduce the "beating" pattern created by the camera's exposure time and frequency of the lighting source. When on, the shutter's exposure time is increased to reduce the image "flicker" artifacts in the image. For very bright scenes, turn this off to allow the camera to reduces the exposure time and prevent the image from being overexposed.

Compensation

This is the best adjustment to compensate for changes made by the Auto Exposure Mode. Increase this value to make the image brighter, reduce it to make it darker.

Gain Limit

The camera will increase the gain in its image sensor up to this limit to get the best image exposure. Too high of a gain shows more noise, too low can create a darker image.

Dynamic Range

The range of which a camera can successfully capture the lightest and darkest area of an image. Increasing the range can lead to blurring and loss of detail. Too little dynamic range and there will not be separation of color or contrast between light and dark components in an image. This field is available in both Auto and Manual Modes.

Aperture

This controls the iris in the lens of the camera. Moving the slider to right increases the f-stop, making the iris smaller, reducing the amount of light, and extending the field of view. Moving the slider to the left does just the opposite.

Default = f/1.8

Range: f/1.8 , f/2.0, f/2.4, f/2.8, f/3.4, f/4.0, f/4.8, f/5.6, f/6.8, f/8.0, f/9.6, f/11.0, Close

Shutter

This controls the camera's exposure time, in fractions of a second. The longer the exposure time, more light is allowed into the camera, which makes the image brighter.

Default = 1/30

Range: 1/30, 1/60, 1/90, 1/100, 1/125, 1/180, 1/250, 1/350, 1/500, 1/725, 1/1000, 1/1500, 1/2000, 1/3000, 1/4000, 1/6000, 1/10000

Gain

Often referred to as 'Iris Gain' this adjustment brightens or darkens the image sensor's output. Video with high gain is likely to be very 'noisy' or 'grainy' after all, "gain equals grain."

Mode

White balance adjusts the camera's color settings to compensate for the ambient lighting conditions. To our eyes, white looks white regardless of the ambient lighting. For example, if you take a picture under florescent light it looks greenish. You can adjust the camera settings to make the white appear white under these and other lighting conditions.

Drop down menu to select the mode.

• Auto – Full automatic mode for White Balance
• Manual – Full manual mode for White Balance
• Indoor/3000K – Preset for indoor lighting with color temperatures around 3000° Kelvin
• Outdoor/5000K – Preset for outdoor lighting with color temperatures around 5000° Kelvin
• One Push – When selected, the camera uses its Auto White Balance algorithm once and then does not adjust the white balance again unless you click the One Push button again. If you press the AWB One Push button while in any white balance mode, it causes the camera to enter One Push white balance mode.

AWB Sensitivity

Sensitivity setting (Low, Medium and High) for Auto White Balance mode. Adjusting this will adjust the threshold for the AWB algorithm to recalculate.

AWB One Push button

Momentary button. Refer to One Push under Mode above.

Hue

If the you believe the camera's white balance algorithm isn't quite right, or the display they are using isn't displaying whites as white, manually adjust the Hue setting to adjust the image to get the desired white.

Red Gain

In Manual White Balance Mode this adjusts the amount of red in an image.

Blue Gain

In Manual White Balance Mode this adjusts the amount of blue in an image.

2D NR Mode

Select the type of 2D (spatial) noise reduction.

• Auto – causes the camera to try to eliminate the spatial noise in the image.
• Manual – enables the 2D NR control to the right.

3D NR Enable

Temporal noise in the image can be effectively reduced by enabling 3D Noise Reduction. The amount of 3D NR reduction applied to the image is determined by the 3D Noise Reduction control to the right of the button. The higher the value, the more temporal / 3D noise is removed. Set too high, the image will create "ghosting" artifacts behind moving images.

Hot Pixel Enable

This button, and its control to the right, allows the camera to compensate for bad pixels in the camera's image sensor. Often seen as bright or "hot" pixels, these can be effectively eliminated by enabling this Hot Pixel compensation setting. The higher the Hot Pixel setting, the more consecutive bad pixels can be compensated for / filtered out.

2D NR

Only available in Manual 2D NR mode. The higher the value, the more the image is spatially softened / blurred.

3D NR

Only available in 3D NR mode. The higher the value, the more the image is temporally filtered.

Hot Pixel

Only available when Hot Pixel mode is enabled. The higher the Hot Pixel setting, the more consecutive bad pixels the camera will compensate for (filter out).

IP Stream 1 Quality

Drop down list to select Good, Better, or Best constant bit-rate stream over the network for its IP Stream 1, MJPEG CBR.

• Best – Camera will stream a 30Mbps IP stream
• Better – Camera will stream a 25Mbps IP stream
• Good – Camera will stream a 20Mbps IP stream

IP Stream 2 Quality

Drop down list to select Good, Better, or Best constant bit-rate stream over the network for its IP Stream 2, H.264 CBR.

• Best – Camera will stream a 2Mbps IP stream
• Better – Camera will stream a 1Mbps IP stream
• Good – Camera will stream a 0.5Mbps IP stream

SDI/HDMI Enable

When enabled, the SDI and HDMI outputs are active, otherwise they are turned off (default is on). The SDi/HDMI outputs are turned on whenever the OSD is turned on (ID Mode is on).

SDI HDMI Format

This drop down list allows the user to select the video format on the SDI and HDMI outputs on the camera. The Frame Rate can be changed in the Camera section of Core Manager.

Input LED

Indicates whether or not there is active input to the I/O USB Bridge.

Video Bridge Input Connection

The network Name of the input device (camera).

Test (button)

Test the network setup for the Q-SYS video streaming implementation without having a PC or any USB connection. This tests QoS and IGMP on multicast.

Number of frames per second being sent by the camera

Bitrate (Mb/s)Src

Speed of the connection in Mb/s

BMcast IP Src

Bad Multicast IP Sources (IP Stream 1 only)

Packets Lost

Number of packets lost since the last reset.

Packet Loss%

The percentage of packets lost based on Packets Lost and Packet Count.

Packet Count

Total number of packets since the last reset.

Frames Lost

Total number of frames lost since the last reset.

Frame Count

Total number of frames sent.

USB Active LED

Video Bridge USB Active: Indicates if the USB is active or not.

Video Bridge USB Format

(text field under USB LED)

Displays the format of the Video present on the USB (ex. 1080P30 MJPEG)

Frames per Sec

USB Frames Per Second

Bitrate (Mb/s)

USB Bitrate

Buf Depth

USB Buffer Depth

SRC-

The number of samples removed in order to match the USB clock with the Q-SYS PTP clock

SRC+

Anti-Flicker

0

1

off

on

0.00

1.00

Aperture

1 to 22

f/1.8 , f/2.0, f/2.4, f/2.8, f/3.4, f/4.0, f/4.8, f/5.6, f/6.8, f/8.0, f/9.6, f/11.0, Close

0, .083, .167, . 250, .333, .417, .500, .583, .667, .750, .833, .917, 1.00

Backlight Comp

0

1

no

yes

0.00

1.00

Compensation

-7 to +7

-7 to 7

0, .071, .143, .214, .286, .357, .429, .500, .571, .643, .714, .786, .857, .929, 1.0

Dynamic Range

0 to 8

0 to 8

.125, .250, .375, .500, .625, .750, .875, 1.00

Gain

0 to 7

0 to 7

0, .143, .286, .429, .571, .714, .857, 1.00

Gain Limit

0 to 15

0 to 15

0, .067, .133, .200, .267, .333, .400,. 467, .533, .600, .667, .733, .800, .867, .933, 1.00

Mode

N / A

off, auto, or manual

N / A

Shutter

30, 60, 90, 100, 125, 180, 250, 350, 500, 725, 1000, 1500, 2000, 3000, 4000, 6000, 10000

1/30, 1/60, 1/90, 1/100, 1/125, 1/180, 1/250, 1/350, 1/500, 1/725, 1/1000, 1/1500, 1/2000, 1/3000, 1/4000, 1/6000, 1/10000

0, .083, .167, .250, .333, .417, .500, .583, .667, .750, .833, .917, 1.00

AF

1

0

true

false

1.00

0.00

In

0
or
momentary 1

0
or
momentary 1

0.00

momentary 1.00

Manual Speed

0.001 to 0.100

.001 to .100

Out

0
or
momentary 1

0
or
momentary 1

0.00

momentary 1.00

Sensitivity

N / A

Low, Normal, High

N / A

Brightness

0 to 14

0 to 14

0, .071, .143, .214, .286, .357, .429, .500, .571, .643, .714, .786, .857, .929, 1.00

Contrast

0 to 14

0 to 14

0, .071, .143, .214, .286, .357, .429, .500, .571, .643, .714, .786, .857, .929, 1.00

Reset Cam Settings

0

1

0 or false

1 or true

0.00

1.00

Saturation

0 to 14

0 to 14

0, .071, .143, .214, .286, .357, .429, .500, .571, .643, .714, .786, .857, .929, 1.00

Sharpness

0 to 14

0 to 14

0, .071, .143, .214, .286, .357, .429, .500, .571, .643, .714, .786, .857, .929, 1.00

2D NR

1 to 5

1 to 5

0, .250, .500, .750, 1.00

2D NR Mode

N / A

Auto, Off, Manual

N / A

3D NR

1 to 8

3D NR Enable

0

1

no

yes

0.00

1.00

Hot Pixel

1 to 5

1 to 5

0, .250, .500, .750, 1.00

Hot Pixel Enable

0

1

no

yes

0.00

1.00

Auto Privacy Mode

0

1

false

true

0.00

1.00

Auto-Privacy Delay

1.00 to 600

1.00s to 600s

0.00 to 1.00

Ceiling Mount

0

1

no

yes

0.00

1.00

Coordinates

N / A

Pan = -0.9936 to 0 to +0.9936

Tilt = -0.9936 to 2.9808

Zoom = 0.000000 to 1

The coordinates are entered in the above order, separated by a space.

N / A

Home

0

1

0 or false

1 or true

0.00

1.00

Pan Left

0

momentary 1

false

momentary true

0.00

momentary 1.00

Pan Right

0

momentary 1

false

momentary true

0.00

momentary 1.00

Pan Speed

0.000 to 1

0 to 1.00

0 to 1.00

Privacy Mode

0

1

0 or false

1 or true

0.00

1.00

Recalibrate PTZ

0

1

0 or false

1 or true

0.00

1.00

Recall Speed

0 to 1.00

0 to 1.00

0.00 to 1.00

Save Home

0

1

0 or false

1 or true

0.00

1.00

Save Privacy

0

1

0 or false

1 or true

0.00

1.00

Speed By Zoom

0 to 1.00

0 to 1.00

0.00 to 1.00

Tilt Down

0

momentary 1

false

momentary true

0.00

momentary 1.00

Tilt Speed

0 to 1.00

0 to 1.00

0.00 to 1.00

Tilt Up

0

momentary 1

false

momentary true

0.00

momentary 1.00

Zoom In

0

momentary 1

false

momentary true

0.00

momentary 1.00

Zoom Out

0

momentary 1

false

momentary true

0.00

momentary 1.00

Zoom Speed

0 to 1.00

0 to 1.00

0.00 to 1.00

IP Stream 1 Quality

N / A

Good, Better, Best

N / A

IP Stream 2 Quality

N / A

Good, Better, Best

N / A

SDI/HDMI Enable

0

1

no

yes

0.00

1.00

SDI/HDMI Format

N / A

1080p60, 1080p30,
1080i60, 720p60, 720p30

N / A

AWB One Push

0

1

0 or false

1 or true

0.00

1.00

AWB Sensitivity

N / A

Low, Mid, High

N / A

Blue Gain

0 to 255

0 to 255

0.00 to 1.00

Hue

0 to 14

0 to 14

0, .071, .143, .214, .286, .357, .429, .500, .571, .643, .714, .786, .857, .929, 1.00

Mode

N / A

Auto, Manual, Indoor/3000K, Outdoor/5000K, One Push

N / A

Input Active

0

1

false

true

0

1.00

Input Connection

Text Field

<name of camera connected to the USB Video Bridge>

Reset

0

1

0 or false

1 or true

0.00

1.00

Bad Multicast IP Sources
(Stream 1 only)

0 and up

0 and up

0.00 to 1.00

Bitrate

0.0000 and up

0.0000 and up

0.00 to 1.00

FPS

0 to 30

0 to 30

0.00 to 1.00

Frame Count

0 and up

0 and up

0.00 to 1.00

Frame Loss

0 and up

0 and up

0.00 to 1.00

Packet Count

0 and up

0 and up

0.00 to 1.00

Packet Loss Percentage

0.00 to 100

0.00% to 100%

0.00 to 1.00

Packets Lost

0 and up

0 and up

0.00 to 1.00

Test Stream 1, 2

0

1

false

true

0

1.00

Active

0

1

false

true

0

1.00

Bitrate

0.0000 and up

0 and up

0.00 to 1.00

Buffer Depth

0.0000 and up

0 and up

0.00 to 1.00

Format

FPS

0 to 30

SRC-

0 and up