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Cartoni E-Jibo + Sony ILME-FR7 Setup

1. Assembly

Pick up the mounting plate.

Fasten the mounting plate to the FR7 base with two screws, guided by the alignment pin.

Install the E-Jibo.

Position the FR7 on the front section of the E-Jibo.

Hand-tighten the knob on the mounting plate.

Align the mounting plate with the E-Jibo arm.

Align the head vertically.

Align the arm vertically.

Success

Tadaaaa ! 🎉

2. Axis measurement

The measurements will be entered into RigFX.

Measure the tripod height (A).

Measure the arm length (B).

Measure the head offset front (C).

Measure the head offset height (D).

3. RigFX cabling

  • Plug Pan and Tilt encoder cable into the E-Jibo port.

  • Plug the Pan and Tilt encoder cable from the E-Jibo into LEMO ports 1 and 2.

4. Sync

Physically:

  • Plug a genlock to RigFX in the Ref port.

On RigFX go to:

  • Settings / Sync
  • Sync mode: set to External.
  • Target frame rate: set the expected frame rate.
  • Check that the displayed FPS below the timecode matches what you set, and that the status is Locked.
  • A graph below displays the genlock pulse arrival time.

5. Cartoni source

Physically:

  • Plug Pan of the arm to channel 1.
  • Plug Tilt of the arm to channel 2.
  • Set the arm direction where you want Pan to be zero.
    • We recommend a direction that's easy to remember, like parallel to the main direction of the studio.
  • Level the arm to be perfectly horizontal.
  • Lock the arm in this position.

On RigFX go to:

  • Settings / Source / Cartoni
  • Enable channels 1 and 2 only.
  • Click Set 0 for channel 1 and channel 2.
    • The Set 0 button automatically computes the offset to add to the Cartoni sensors so they output zero at this precise position.

Success

You can now unlock the arm — it has been calibrated.

6. OpenTrackIO source

On the FR7 webapp:

  • Target the RigFX IP address for OpenTrackIO.

On RigFX:

  • Go to Settings / Source / OpenTrackIO.
  • Set the reception port.
  • Enable the source.
  • On the graph below the source you should see incoming packets.
  • If the two lines are on top of each other, set a Phase Offset in Settings / Sync to differentiate the two.

7. Rig

On RigFX, go to Settings / Rig and build the following node chain:

  • Add a first node named tripod:
    • Set the height A from the floor to the arm pivot point in Z (positive as you go up).
    • Bind the pan to Cartoni channel 1. !!! warning You may need to set a negative sign depending on the encoder mounting.
    • Bind the tilt to Cartoni channel 2. !!! warning You may need to set a negative sign depending on the encoder mounting.
  • Add a node named arm:
    • Set the length B of the arm in Y (positive as you go front).
    • Bind the tilt to Cartoni channel 2 (with the opposite sign compared to the one assigned in node tripod).
  • Add a node named head offset:
    • Measure the offset in front C and height D from the pivot point at the end of the arm to the pivot point of the PTZ.
    • Front value in Y (positive).
    • Height value in Z (negative as you go down). !!! note You can also measure the distance to a specific point of the PTZ body and use the exact distance to the pivot point reported by the manufacturer (can be easier).
  • Add a node named fr7:
    • Bind the full node to source OpenTrackIO transform.

Success

You are done. For now studio offset and sensor offset are set to zero. They will be filled in using the Lineup tool.

Tripod

Arm

Head offset

FR7

8. Lens

On RigFX:

  • Go to Settings / Lens.
  • Set mode to Lens Source.
  • Set Source to OpenTrackIO.

9. Output

On RigFX:

  • Go to Settings / Output.
  • Set at least one target destination to the render engine:
    • OpenTrackIO JSON
    • Set the target IP of the render computer.
    • Set the port.
    • Enable it.