Workflow: Juggler in Compere

This is a generalised workflow, typical for input bus type systems. For output canvas bus systems, see Output Canvas Bus and using the setup wizard.

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The precise workflow sequence will depend on the requirements of the overall system of Juggler modules, but this outline gives you the sequence of steps.

Assemble your Project Group in Compere

1.With Compere installed on a remote (‘control’) PC, log into the network.

2.Open Compere and make sure it is in Juggler Layout View (top left icon), go to Configuration > Network Configuration. You should see all Jugglers and any other devices running Compere.

3.In Network Configuration, ensure that all the devices running Compere that are involved in your Project, belong to the same Project Group. Create your Project Group(s) here as necessary.

4.Assign one member (Juggler) of the Project Group (any) as server, with a binding NIC, and all the rest as clients.

5.All Jugglers in the same Project Group as you as the Control PC, will now be visible in the Project panel on the left of the Compere screen.

6.Drag each of these Jugglers from the Project Panel into the Nodes assembly panel and arrange.

7.Connect the bus nodes between the Jugglers in Compere.

Assemble your display output

Note that if your Juggler configuration is for MPCDI display input, Canvas, Outputs and Windows will be imported with the data and do not require intervention.

8.In the Compere Canvas assembly panel, create your overall canvas to size. The Canvas components all need to be created here or, if available as MPCDI, this file can simply be dragged from the Project Panel into the Canvas assembly panel.

9.In the Canvas panel, add and arrange your Canvas Outputs. These will adopt the resolution of the Juggler Tx ports to which you attach them in the Nodes panel.

10.Assign the Canvas for the Project Group to each Juggler.

Configure your Juggler input and output connections

11.For each Rx connection available per Juggler (the number is the channel, 1 to 4 per Juggler), make sure the correct EDID is present for the graphics card feeding each Juggler input.

12.For each Tx connection available per Juggler, the EDID should be autodetected from the output device. If not going directly to an output device, select and apply an EDID from the connection’s Properties panel.

13.‘Windows’ in the Canvas Outputs are areas in the whole Canvas to which Juggler inputs will be sent. Add and configure your Windows, and name them for easy identification.

14.Make connections between Juggler Inputs to Canvas Outputs and Windows in the Nodes area, either directly through a Juggler, or from the input on one Juggler to the output of another via the data bus, and/or if using MPCDI data, introducing processing with warps, blends and colour convergence.

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