KALEIDO SOFTWARE V11.3.0 UNMATCHED PICTURE QUALITY AND LAYOUT FLEXIBILITY User’s Manual M770-2800-146 2021-01-22 Notices Copyright & Trademark Notice Copyright © 2007–2021, Grass Valley Canada. All rights reserved. Belden, Belden Sending All The Right Signals, and the Belden logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Belden Inc. or its affiliated companies in the United States and other jurisdictions. Grass Valley, Kaleido, Kaleido-X, iControl, NVISION, and Densité are trademarks or registered trademarks of Grass Valley Canada. Belden Inc., Grass Valley Canada, and other parties may also have trademark rights in other terms used herein. Product Patents This product may be protected by one or more patents. For further information, please visit: www.grassvalley.com/patents/ Terms and Conditions Please read the following terms and conditions carefully. By using Kaleido multiviewer documentation, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Grass Valley hereby grants permission and license to owners of Kaleido multiviewers to use their product manuals for their own internal business use. Manuals for Grass Valley products may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for any purpose unless specifically authorized in writing by Grass Valley. A Grass Valley manual may have been revised to reflect changes made to the product during its manufacturing life. Thus, different versions of a manual may exist for any given product. Care should be taken to ensure that one obtains the proper manual version for a specific product serial number. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Grass Valley. Warranty information is available from the Legal Terms and Conditions section of Grass Valley’s website (www.grassvalley.com). Title Kaleido Software User’s Manual Part Number M770-2800-146 Revision 2021-01-22, 18:18 2 Table of Contents 1 Introduction . toc. 11 Introduction. 11 About this Document. 11 Related Documentation . 11 Software and Firmware Updates . 12 Feature Availability and Multiviewer Specifications . 12 XEdit Application Shortcuts. 13 2 Getting Started. 15 Introduction. 15 Multiviewer Signal Flow Overview . 16 Multiviewer Sources . 17 Logical Sources. 18 Monitors . 18 Layouts . 19 Rooms and Displays . 19 3 Managing Kaleido Multiviewer Systems. 21 Introduction. 21 Key Concepts. 21 Representation of Multiviewer Models in Kaleido Software. 23 Opening XEdit Software . 24 Difference between Online and Offline Modes . 27 Using XEdit in Online Mode . 28 Connecting to a Multiviewer. 28 Disconnecting from a Multiviewer . 29 Enabling Access Control in XEdit . 29 Disabling Access Control in XEdit . 30 Importing a Database. 31 Exporting a Database . 32 Exporting a Single-Multiviewer Database. 32 Creating a Backup . 33 Backing Up the Current Database . 33 Backing Up Resolutions. 33 Backing Up Audio Scales. 33 Restoring a Backup . 34 Restoring a Database from a Backup . 34 Restoring Resolutions or Audio Scales from a Backup . 34 Creating a Single Multiviewer System . 35 Configuring the System Representation . 38 3 Table of Contents Restoring the Factory-Default Configuration . 39 To restore the XEdit factory defaults for a multiviewer model . 39 Managing Multiple Databases Efficiently . 41 Working online. 41 Working offline. 41 Applying a backup database to the multiviewer . 42 4 Managing Sources in a Kaleido-IP System . 43 Introduction. 43 Input Types - Network Sources Versus Virtual Inputs Explained. ..