Grass Valley GV STRATUS Playout v.2.0 - Manual (Page 86)

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Monitoring and Controlling the Broadcast
Monitoring a channel using Channel Control
Health Status The last column in the left pane contains colored indicators which
display the health status of the device assigned to the channel. The
overall health status of the device is determined by whether an alert is
being raised on the device or not and its alarm level:
• Red means at least one critical or major alert is occurring and
immediate action is required.
• Amber means at least one minor alert is occurring and action
may be required.
• Grey means the channel health is normal and no action is
required.
Channel Hierarchy Located in the left pane, it contains a list of the channels available in the
selected view organized by their hierarchies. If the selected channel is
part of a channel hierarchy, the designation ‘parent’ or ‘child’ appears
beside the channel name above the channel grid. For more information
on channel hierarchies, see
About channel hierarchies , on page 36.
Confidence
Monitor Contains a small screen that displays a low bit rate video stream from the
device or key frames updated every second from the event on air.
Manual Controls Located next to the confidence monitor, it contains controls that allow
you to enable or disable secondary events in the playout.
Now Next display Shows the clock for the channel, its assigned channel type, the elapsed
time of the current event on air and a count down to the next event or to
a selected event in the playlist.
Channel grid Displays the playlist for the channel in a table. The table contains
information about the events such as their titles, their duration and
their status as they are played out. Events that are considered done,
such as those with the status Done or Skipped status, continue to
appear at the top of the channel grid for the amount of time defined
as the Hold Time. The Hold Time is configured as part of the channel
type. For more information about channel types, see
Changing the
channel type settings , on page 26 .
Warning icon Located in the first column in the channel grid, the appearance of the
warning icon
indicates an issue with the event. To view the cause of
the warning, hover your cursor over the warning icon.
Playlist Controls
toolbar Located on the bottom right of the page, it contains controls such as
Take Next, for example. The controls allow you to manually change when
events are placed on air. Hidden by default, the toolbar is revealed when
you click the Control button.
Live Controls
toolbar Located on the bottom right of the page, the toolbar contains controls
such as Breakaway-A, for example. The controls allow you to manually
interrupt the playlist to broadcast a live event. Hidden by default, the
toolbar replaces the Playlist Controls when you click the Live button on
the Playlist Controls toolbar.
Editing Controls
toolbar Located on the bottom left of the grid, the toolbar contains controls that
allow you to make limited changes to the playlist or switch to the
Schedule Edit page.
Feature Description