Organizing sources and destinations, Control panels, Organizing sources and destinations control panels – Grass Valley NV9000-SE v.3.0 User Manual
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1. Getting Started
An Overview
ports on the NV9000 system controller the devices are connected to, and which protocols are used
to communicate with the NV9000 system controller. It is recommended that you have this “inter-
face” information available before starting configuration.
At any time, you can easily add protocols to the NV9000 system controller if requirements change.
Unlike most control systems, NV9000-SE allows you to configure duplicate entries. For example,
you can configure three edit bays, each bay can have a VTR1, VTR2, VTR3, etc. instead of creat-
ing nine unique VTR names. Or, you can configure all physical routers as “level 1,” or have two
“SDI” routers. As you think about configuration details, this unique feature may provide a solution
to an operation problem.
Organizing Sources and Destinations
Depending upon your specific configuration, a device can be designated as a “source” or a “desti-
nation”—
or even both. For more information, see
To make selecting devices from a control panel easy and intuitive, devices are grouped in “catego-
ries.” A category can be used to group devices in any manner desired: by signal type, function, or
even by location within the facility. Categories may also be used as a way to create “exclusions.”
For more information, see
The NV9000 system controller also supports “input fan out” mode where a single input (e.g., Tone)
may be used across many devices. For example, SD bars, HD bars and test can all share a common
tone (physical) input. However, unique to the NV9000 system controller, “output fan out” is also
supported. This means that a physical router output port may have more than one device name. This
is useful in situations where “multi-rate” equipment, such as a VTR that can play out SD or HD, is
used.
Control Panels
Control panels are the interface between operators and the routing hardware. How the control panel
is configured can have a major impact how well this interaction takes place. Minimizing the num-
ber of keystrokes needed to establish routes and using device mnemonics to help operators select
devices can help reduce possible operator errors. Control panels are programmable and use a con-
figuration file to define attributes. These attributes include button names, operating modes and fea-
ture sets.