Grass Valley UniConfi NVISION Series v.2.0 - Manual (Page 67)

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UniConfig
User’s Guide
NV7256, NV7512, NV8256, NV8288
S Output monitoring was never implemented in the NV7256 and NV7512.
Create a monitor level this way
The monitor port range is 1 to 2. Use other values, A–F, based on your system, where
(A,B) define the max physical range of your outputs (only).
(C,D) form the controller range based on your outputs.
(E, F) form the controller range based on the monitor port range.
Monitor outputs 1 and 2 represent “output” monitors. These routers do not have “input”
monitors.
In NV9000-SE Utilities
To switch a signal to a monitor, an NV9000 control panel operator must route a signal to a
monitor output on a monitor level. (This operation cannot be performed in UniConfig.)
Therefore, you must also configure a monitor level in NV9000-SE Utilities. There is no “monitor”
virtual level type. You will need to define a physical level of the same type as the outputs (or
inputs) being monitored with the same level number you defined in UniConfig. (In the
preceding examples, that is level 99.) Then define a virtual level that maps to this new physical
level.
Monitor signals can be switched on that virtual level.
S It is not possible to monitor two signals from the same input card or output card.
Defining an ‘Output Follow’ Level
All routers but the NV5128, NV5100MC, and the NV5256 support “output follow.”
“Output follow” is a concept that allows input I, routed to output J, to be routed to output K also.
In such a case, we say that output K “follows” output J.
Such outputs can be cascaded: if M follows L, L follows K, and K follows J, then input I will be
routed to outputs, J, K, L, and M.
A defined “output follow” level is not a partition of the crosspoint matrix. It is an artifice that
uses the partition table to define the range of outputs that can follow or be followed.
The mechanism by which “output follow” operates is part of the control card’s configuration.
Control panel operators start and stop “output follow” by performing takes, on an “output
follow” level, in a particular order.
Note:
Outputs that follow can be dedicated to following (as when they are connected to monitoring
equipment) or they can be interspersed in the set of normal outputs.
Creating an Output Follow Level
Creating an output follow level is very much like creating a normal level, with one exception.
Level Phys Input Contr Input Phys Output Contr Output Signal Type
99 A B C D 1 2 E F Monitor