grandMA2 User Manual
grandMA2 Quick Start Guide
MA 3D
MA VPU
- Introduction
  - Help from MA technical support
  - System requirements
- For your Safety
- Functions and Features
  - Transition from grandMA video to MA VPU
  - Teaser Mode
  - Comparison VPU plus / VPU basic / VPU light
- Main Features
  - Installation and Maintenance
    - Startup
    - Software update
      - Service Packs
    - Update of Fixture Types
    - Backup
      - Handling backups with the VPU
      - Start Acronis on VPUs with serial Numbers up to # 86 on
      - Start Acronis on VPUs with serial Numbers from # 87
      - Restoring an image with Acronis
      - Storing an image with Acronis
      - Backup the VPU content after shipment
    - Access VPU via Network
    - Version of grandMA desk or grandMA onPC (off-line)
    - IP Addresses
      - IP Address of the PC
      - Art-Net IP Address
    - EDID Manager
    - CITP / MSEX Protocol
- Communication with the grandMA Desk Series
  - Connection with the grandMA desk
  - Connection with the grandMA onPC (off-line) software
  - Connection States
- Data Management
  - Master slave
  - Principle function diagram
  - Layer Properties
  - Layer Reference
  - Virtual Outputs
    - Virtual Output: Configuration of a TripleHead2Go Digital Port
  - Predefined Constellation
- Several MA VPU applications in one grandMA show
- Quickstart with grandMA2
- Program surface
  - Internal Touch-Screen VPU plus
  - Internal Screen VPU light
  - Menu Bar
    - File...
    - View...
    - Render...
    - Help...
  - Toolbar
  - Status Bar
  - Preview
  - Multi Preview
  - Content Editor
    - Content: Image Pool (I-Pool)
    - Content: Text Ticker
    - Content: Eff1 Type...Eff4 Type
    - Content: 3D Objects
    - Content: Mask
  - Warper
    - Warper Fullscreen View
    - Warper Basic Operation
    - Warping
  - File Browser
- Features Attributes and Functions
- Order of Effect Execution
- Softedging
- Keystoning
- Pixel Mapper
  - VPU - Pixel Mapper Graphical View
    - Pixel Mapper Toolbar
    - Pixel Mapper Editor
  - VPU - Pixel Mapper Grid View
  - Console - VPU Pixel Mapper View
- Creation of customized 3D Objects
- Content Specifications
  - Rovi Total CodeStudio for converting your content into MPEG2
  - Hap Content Converter
- Warnings
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Supplement MA Lighting
  - Intended use
  - Data
  - Symbols and warning labels
  - LIMITATIONS
  - Transport
  - General Safety Instructions
  - IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
  - Electric shock warning on the rear of the grandMA
  - Safety and Environment
  - Quickstart Connect VPU plus
  - Quickstart Connect VPU light
  - Switching the apparatus On/Off
  - Maintenance
  - Conformity
Release Notes

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Principle function diagram

The following pattern demonstrates how data is processed.

If you connect the grandMA VPU to a grandMA2 desk you can compare the result with some slide projectors remote controlled by an MA desk.
In contrast to a slide projector the slides are not projected on the screen.
The screens or 3D objects are active light emitters like monitors and can take the shape of any geometric form.
This takes place on so called “layers”. Each layer output feeds a virtual camera.

The virtual camera outputs can be mixed up to a resulting video output.
Each layer has its own magazine containing emitting 3D objects.
Each layer has its own magazine containing videos, images and masks.
The number of 3D video layers can vary in dependence of the complexity of your show.
You can patch up to 32 layers

If the grandMA VPU is invited in a session by the desk, layers behave similar to a fixture. All layers have access to the same content pool.
The application receives the amount of layers and each layer magazine is assembled with several images and videos.
These are indicated by their relative paths and names.
If a layer 3D object or the content of a magazine is changed within grandMA VPU, the changed properties are immediately taken up by the desk.
Several grandMA VPU applications are shown in several 'fixture layers’ on the MA-desk.

The following diagram shows a principle structure with 4 layers.

principle function — *MA VPU: Principle function diagram*