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Ultrix Acuity Setup
The Ultrix™ router must be set up to support the Ultrix Acuity on the Software Defined Production Engine (SWR-SDPE) blade. This includes setup of the Ultripower units, DashBoard connections, video reference and timing, the matrix database, and the UltriScape Multi-Viewer.
Video Routing in Ultrix
Sources and destinations in the router must be connected to the inputs and outputs of the switcher.
To Create a Router SoftPanel
The SoftPanel allows you to connect router sources to destinations and is required to connect switcher outputs to the router outputs.

Ultrix Acuity Setup
The Ultrix™ router must be set up to support the Ultrix Acuity on the Software Defined Production Engine (SWR-SDPE) blade. This includes setup of the Ultripower units, DashBoard connections, video reference and timing, the matrix database, and the UltriScape Multi-Viewer.
- Ultrix Acuity Hardware Setup
  The router and switcher components of Ultrix Acuity must be set up separately before they can work together.
- DashBoard Connection
  Ultrix™ has a separate ethernet connection to DashBoard and appears as a separate node in the DashBoard tree view.
- Switcher Network Setup
  From the web interface, you can set up the IP Address, as well as selecting the IP addresses of all the control panels, and SoftPanel that can access the switcher.
- Reference
  Ultrix™ provides the reference input and internal signals that the switcher uses for timing.
- Video Routing in Ultrix
  Sources and destinations in the router must be connected to the inputs and outputs of the switcher.
  - Ultrix Acuity Video Flow
  - To Create a Router Database
    The router uses the database to identify sources and destinations and assign them to levels.
  - To Create a Router SoftPanel
    The SoftPanel allows you to connect router sources to destinations and is required to connect switcher outputs to the router outputs.
  - To Assign a Switcher Output to a Router Output
    Switcher outputs are sources in the router that need to be connected to router destinations and outputs.
  - To Set UltriClean Clean Switch
    The UltriClean feature allows the router to delay each video output. The switcher introduces a delay in the video path relative to rest of the router. The Clean Switch line buffer must be set for every output used for switcher outputs to properly time them with the rest of the router sources.
  - To Set Up Tallies
    The switcher uses TSL to pass tally information back and forth between the switcher and the router. This allows the switcher to tally sources on the UltriScape Multi-Viewer.
- Input Sources in Acuity
  Video inputs coming into the switcher can be assigned to a type of device they are coming from. Assigning a device type allows you to associate a device you are controlling from the switcher with an input.
- Audio Routing in Ultrix™
  Audio is handled separately in the router and audio sources and destinations in the router must be connected to the inputs and outputs of the switcher.
- Aux Bus Router Sources
  Switcher aux buses need to be mapped to router sources and destinations so that video can be assigned to them.
- UltriScape Multi-Viewer
  Some of the outputs from each ME are available as PiPs for the software defined UltriScape MultiViewer in the router.
- Ultrix™ Ultricore BCS Setup
  If your router ecosystem uses an Ultricore BCS, the switcher requires the IP address of the Ultricore BCS to communicate with the router to switch aux buses.

To Create a Router SoftPanel

The SoftPanel allows you to connect router sources to destinations and is required to connect switcher outputs to the router outputs.

From the DashBoard tree view for the router, expand the Ultrix > Database node.
Double-click Panels.
Enter a name for your panel in the Panel Name field.
Click Levels.
Remove all but the VID level for now. The other levels are for audio only routing.
Click Destinations.
Ensure that all destinations are in the Assigned column. This makes them available to assign sources to on the panel.
Click Sources.
Move all the switcher sources into the Assigned column. The other sources are normal router sources that can be assigned to a destination, but we are only interested in switcher sources now. If you did not label the sources coming from the switcher when building the database, you will have to switch back and forth to the database to identify which sources are coming from the switcher.
Click Apply to create the panel.

Tip: When you create the panel it is listed in the Panels list on the left. You can select a panel and edit it.