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  • Page 1 Quick Start Guide...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    For use with Vicon Vantage Version 1.0 Vicon Motion Systems Limited reserves the right to make changes to information in this document without notice. Companies, names, and data used in examples are fictitious unless otherwise noted. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, by photocopying or recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of Vicon Motion Systems Ltd.
  • Page 3: Check What's In The Box

    Before setting up your Vicon Vantage system, check that you have all the necessary components, which are described in this section. For a list of components supplied with your specific Vicon system, see your  shipment Bill of Materials. Hardware Vicon Vantage cameras (V16, V8, V5) Vicon’s newest optical cameras with custom-engineered...
  • Page 4: Software And Accessories

    Vantage cables You can connect up a simple Vantage system consisting of 1–12 Vantage cameras and a PoE+ switch, to the Vicon Vantage host PC, using the supplied RJ-45 cables. Camera cables include a ferrite at the camera end only. If you are using one or more Vicon Lock+ units, or MX T-Series cameras with a Giganet, additional cables are supplied.
  • Page 5: Set Up Your Vicon Vantage System

    Set up your Vicon Vantage system Set up your Vicon Vantage system Define the capture volume  Remember to include height as well as Lay out the intended capture volume by width and depth in your volume placing markers around the edges of the calculations! volume.
  • Page 6: Connect And Configure The Pc

    Vantage Quick Start Guide Set up your Vicon Vantage system Vicon Lock+, Vicon Bonita Video To add more cameras, you can connect cameras, etc. further PoE+ switches to the primary PoE+ switch via a non-powered Gigabit switch (see the Vicon Vantage Reference).
  • Page 7: Install The Vicon Application Software

    Set the additional IP addresses of your close the Properties dialog box and save NICs to different addresses in the the settings. available range 192.168.10.2–9. For more information, see the Vicon PDF PC Setup for Video Cameras and/or the Attributes Editor In the Blade or Tracker/ Windows help on changing TCP/IP settings.
  • Page 8: Start The Software

    If this is the first time you have used your Vicon application software on this PC, a dialog box may be displayed, enabling you to specify the license server. In the System Resources pane (in Blade, the Selection editor), make sure all of the cameras in your system are listed.
  • Page 9: Configure Your System

    Strobe Intensity setting only as low and circle fitted, the grayscale data is sent to the Threshold only as high as needed. the Vicon software so it can try to circle fit the blobs. Set camera focus and aperture Place three markers in the middle and on...
  • Page 10 Vantage Quick Start Guide Configure your system For each camera, turn the aperture ring sensor. Turn the aperture ring to close (the ring with the f-stops) until the the aperture and obtain good, clear aperture is fully open. Later you will turn images of markers even when they are the ring back, increasing the f-stop close together.
  • Page 11: Mask Unwanted Reflections

    Auto Stop Additional information about set-up, In the Calibrate Cameras section (in Blade, calibration and object tracking can be found the Wand Wave section), click Start. in the online help of your Vicon software. Vicon Motion Systems Page 11 of 12...
  • Page 12: Troubleshooting

    Some equipment appears damaged from shipment. When I tap a calibrated camera to select it, the camera indicates that it has been bumped.  Contact Vicon Support – ❙ To change the sensitivity of the camera to support@vicon.com taps, in the camera’s Properties pane,...

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