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RCP Scene Files

This guide will describe how to use the scene files on the RCP.

On your RCP main view, 2 ways to access the scene files:

  • pressing the SCENE button
  • pressing MENU button, then navigating to SCENE

You have two submenus:

  • S. FILES : to use the scene files (load, save, etc.)
  • S. CONFIG : to configure the behavior (folders, filters)

Once you're in a submenu (S. FILES or S. CONFIG), you can:

  • go back to the previous view by pressing the BACK button
  • press arrows < or > to navigate between the submenus pages
  • press MENU button to go back to the main view
tip

Once you're on a submenu page, pressing MENU will go back to the main view. Pressing SCENE shortcut will go back to the previous submenu page you selected. If you were on S. FILES > Files, pressing SCENE will go back to this page.

tip

SCENE last used page is always saved on a "page" level. But MENU position is saved separately. So if you're in S. FILES > Files, you click on MENU, you're back on the main view, if you press MENU again and your last menu navigation was in another section (PAINT for example), it will bring you there. MENU button will bring you back to SCENE only if you navigated there using MENU button. While SCENE shortcut always brings you to your last page in SCENE.

Quick scene files​

This page provides a quick way to save/load scene files based on scene slots.

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If you have an RCP-J, you have 5 scene file buttons, mapped to loading scene files 1-5.

Pay attention that:

  • it only load the scene file slot (quick press)
  • no save
  • as you can lock your joystick module to a specific camera, the scene load buttons are linked to the same camera. So your quick load on RCP and quick load on joystick, even if working exactly the same way, could load different scene files on different cameras.

Save/Load​

This is the main view and allow to quickly:

  • load a scene file
  • save scene file
  • load/save but on a whole camera group

To save:

  • Click on Store, it's a modifier button, once engaged, you're saving (not loading)
  • Select the slot you want to save to
  • The last slot used is highlighted
  • You can overwrite a slot by clicking on it, even if highlighted
  • Once a slot is clicked, the Store modifier is disengaged, and you're back in loading mode

To load : simply click on a slot

Actions​

  • Remote : this is a modifier, will save/load on the remote device (if you use REMI from RIO, it will save/load on RIO).
  • Sync Camera : force a refresh of the values from the camera, useful for RF/wireless.

Groups​

For more information on group setup.

In this setup, I have my BirdDog P200 camera that is in multiple groups: All, PTZ, Birddog.

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The group All exists by default, and all cams in the RCP config are in this group.


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Once the group button is engaged, all actions are performed on the selected group and not on the selected camera.

You see a yellow border on your RCP display to signal you're in group mode.

Files​

This page allows to save/load scene file with more options:

  • seeing scene file names
  • renaming scene filenames
  • changing source/destination camera

Save/Load​

This is my camera current status:

I can save this paint parameters to my scene slot 1:

  • Use the first encoder to select the slot 1
  • Here it's names NA because I don't have anything saved yet
  • Click on Store to save all painting parameters to the slot 1

I can change the gain:

And save this to slot 2:

Source​

If you:

  • Click on SOURCE button
  • Change the Camera source using 4th encoder

It's like a copy and paste across cameras:

  • SOURCE + Save : save actual settings in the other cameras
  • SOURCE + Load : load settings from other cameras in the current camera

Here, I store:

  • my actual values
  • from Camera 1 (top left corner)
  • into Camera 2 (bottom right corner)
  • into Camera 2, scene file slot 1

Actions​

  • Remote : this is a modifier, will save/load on the remote device (if you use REMI from RIO, it will save/load on RIO).
  • Sync Camera : force a refresh of the values from the camera, useful for RF/wireless.
  • Clear : delete the selected slot file
  • Rename : rename the selected slot file

I can rename my slot 1 as my default scene:

Go back to scene 1 slot:

Click on ACTIONS, then Rename, validate with ✔:

Files​

Scene files are saved on RCP. They are actual files you can see using your computer file browser.

On my Mac, I can open Finder, then in Network and see all my Cyanview devices:

Each device has 3 directories exposed:

  • 3DLUT : to store 3D LUTs (some cameras and LUT boxes)
  • scenes : to store scene files
  • snapshots : to store the configuration snapshots

Here I clicked on my RCP CY-RCP-40-142 scenes directory:

I see my files with this naming: CAM-{CAM_NUMBER}.{SCENE_SLOT}.{SCENE_NAME}.scene

You can open the *.scene files using a text editor and see something like this:

lens/iris=16.0
denoise=0 0.0
multimatrix/3=0.0 1.0
exp=20.0
multimatrix/4=0.0 1.0
lens/focus_speed=0.0
lens/focus=0.1428571428571429
multimatrix/cnt=6
wb_temp_b=5.6e3 5.6e3 0.0
lens/auto_focus=0
model=P200
multimatrix/1=0.0 1.0
multimatrix/0=0.0 1.0
multimatrix/2=0.0 1.0
color_gains=0.6484375 0.171875
multimatrix/5=0.0 1.0
lens/auto_iris=0
scene_filter=1F
auto/white=manual
multimatrix=0
detail=1 0.0
keyboard=menu    ←  ↑  ↓  → back
saturation=1.0
lens/iris_fstop=16
auto/exp/mode=0
wb_temp_a=3.2e3 3.2e3 0.0
master_gain=1 1.0 400.0
gamma=0.45 0.0 0.0
tally/green=0
number=1

You can:

  • rename the files by changing SCENE_NAME section in the filename
  • copy and paste the file and change SCENE_SLOT
  • copy and paste the file and change CAM_NUMBER
  • edit the text file and enter manually the desired value (like lens/iris_fstop=4)

Group​

It's exactly the same logic as in the quick scene files page. Every action you perform is here performed on the group instead of the camera.

Presets​

In the above section:

  • I saved a scene file in slot 1
  • I renamed it to default
  • I saw that I can browse the scene files using my computer

And you can copy/paste or drag'n'drop the default scene file in the directory presets

This allows to transform a scene file in a preset.

A preset is a read-only scene file that can't be deleted or renamed from the RCP (only from the computer).

By default, only 1 preset is available: Factory default. It will reset the camera to the default values (in Cyanview world).

You can add your own presets by copying scene files in this directory:

Here, I take the file CAM-1.1.default.scene

And move it to the presets directory:

As it is, it's now available as a preset for my camera 1.

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You can create presets for various cameras by changing the name: CAM-{CAM_NUMBER}.{SCENE_SLOT}.{SCENE_NAME}.scene

You can:

  • rename the files by changing SCENE_NAME section in the filename
  • copy and paste the file and change SCENE_SLOT
  • copy and paste the file and change CAM_NUMBER
  • edit the text file and enter manually the desired value (like lens/iris_fstop=4)

To load a preset, it's exactly like for the scene files.

Here, loading my preset named default

Folders​

Create​

This allows to organize scene files in subdirectories

By default, all scene files are stored in the root directory.

I have 2 scene files:

  • cam 1, slot 2
  • cam 2, slot 1

And 1 preset:

  • cam 1 slot 1, named default

I can create scene files subfolders to organize my scene files for different events.

Here I:

  • kept my original scene file (not associated with any event, so in the root directory).
  • created a folder named A with 2 scene files
  • created a folder named B with 2 scene files

Load a folder​

On the RCP, you can now:

  • change the base folder using 4th encoder
  • select B
  • click on Apply to validate

And if I go in the file browser, I can see:

current is a symbolic link to the actual folder selected on RCP (here, B). So changing files in B or in current are changing the same files under the hood.

Now, every load/scene actions will be performed in this subdirectory.

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To go back to root folder, select the option No selected folder

Filters​

This allows to filter the loaded parameters in a scene file.

This is the default values:

You can select:

  • Paint : all paint parameters (white balance, black balance, etc.)
  • Matrix : all matrix parameters (matrix, multi matrix, etc.)
  • LUTs
  • Iris
  • ND/Shutter
  • Gain
  • PTZF : pan, tilt, zoom, focus

When you save, we always save everything. This selection only impacts the load actions.

And you can reset the default selection by clicking on ACTIONS > Reset Selection.

Here I had: Iris, ND/Shutter, Gain, PTZF selected

After the reset, I'm back to default: Paint, Matrix, ND/Shutter, Gain: