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Figure 1-40: IFB Setup in Production Maestro
AUDIO LEVEL METERING (CLEAR-VU ®)
Production Maestro V5.2 includes a new facility to meter audio levels
for conferences and 4-Wire ports in real-time. This facility normally
requires at least one LMC-64 Audio Meter card to be fitted to the
matrix although limited use is possible without an LMC-64 card (see
“Associated Meter Port”). This new facility is called Clear-Vu ®.
The number of audio meters provided by an LMC-64 card can be
configuration to 16, 32, 48 or 64 in ECS and the total number of
available meters will be displayed by Production Maestro. Each time a
meter is used the count will be updated on all Production Maestro
clients. The audio level information is broadcast by the LMC-64 cards
so the Production Maestro clients must be on the same network as the
LMC-64 cards unless switches or routers are configured to forward the
broadcast data between networks. Production Maestro does not
require the IP address of the LMC-64 card.
The same audio meter data can be used by multiple Production
Maestro clients so multiple assignments of the same audio meter will
not use additional meters.
The use of meters consumes system resources so the more meters
displayed in Production Maestro, the more load the PC will be subject
to. If extensive use is being made of audio level metering a minimum
specification PC may not be suitable.