AJA Io4K - Manual (Page 23)

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AJA Control Panel Overview
The AJA Control Panel is a software application that provides a simple visual window
showing how the Io XT/4K interface is currently configured, and that allows you to make
changes. Settings—both those you changed and those you didn’t—can be named and
saved as a snapshot for recall at anytime. This lets you save settings associated with all
your frequent tasks; then as you switch tasks you don’t have to spend extra time resetting
interface configurations—just load the previously saved settings for each task. If you
work on multiple systems and want to carry your saved setup to another location, you
can copy your saved Presets file on to movable storage and load it into any AJA-
equipped system (see
“Presets Screen” on page 45 for more details).
Single-user &
Network Settings
The AJA Control Panel offers preference settings that support both:
• User Preferences— Preferences stored from the last Control Panel State to be used on
next startup of AJA Control Panel.
• Shared Preferences— Preferences saved by an Administrator for use as a default start
state for AJA Control Panel.
User Preferences: This file exists to immediately, automatically, store preference changes made by a user on
a particular AJA device. When any control is changed in the Control Panel, that change is
recorded in the preferences file stored in a unique user preferences location dedicated to
that particular device and serial number. Then, when AJA control panel is restarted for
any reason, it will restart with the same preferences it used when it closed.
However, if a user sets their preferences, and then replaces the AJA device with a
different one, the Control Panel will either:
• Start up with the factory defaults, or
• Start up with the “house defaults” dictated by the system administrator (if a Shared
Preferences file exists).
The User Preferences File can be found in the following locations.
On Mac:
• /Users/<USER_NAME>/Library/Preferences/com.aja.devicesettings
On Windows 8:
• C:\Users\<USER_NAME>\AppData\Local\Aja\com.aja.devicesettings
Shared Preferences: An administrator can establish house standards for the AJA Control Panel by creating the
user preferences file (described above) and placing it in a shared location where it will
establish a standard default startup state for all users of a given computer system. These
settings preempt the initial AJA default settings.
To establish the House Default for every user on every system, a system or network
administrator can move this default file to all systems on the network (manually or by
pushing it out across the network). All users on the network will then open to the House
Defaults when they launch the AJA control panel for the first time.
NOTE: If the user makes changes to the control panel themselves, those changes will be saved in
their user preferences, which will take priority over the house default dictated by the shared
preferences file.
The Shared Preferences file should be a file created at the User Preferences location
described above, and placed by the System Administrator in the following locations.