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Ultrix Carbonite Setup
The Ultrix™ router must be set up to support the Ultrix Carbonite on the Software Defined Production Engine (SWR-SDPE) blade. This includes setup of the Ultripower units, DashBoard connections, 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 Carbonite Setup
The Ultrix™ router must be set up to support the Ultrix Carbonite on the Software Defined Production Engine (SWR-SDPE) blade. This includes setup of the Ultripower units, DashBoard connections, the matrix database, and the UltriScape Multi-Viewer.
- Ultrix Carbonite Hardware Setup
  The router and switcher components of Ultrix Carbonite 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.
- Video Routing in Ultrix
  Sources and destinations in the router must be connected to the inputs and outputs of the switcher.
  - Ultrix Carbonite 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 video 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.
- Audio Routing in Ultrix™
  Audio is handled independently in the router and is separate from the switcher. You can output Media-Store and Clip Player audio.
- Routed Tallies
  The switcher must pass tally information to the router so that the router can tally the correct video source that is being passed to the switcher.
- UltriScape Multi-Viewer
  Some of the outputs from each ME are available as PiPs for the software defined UltriScape MultiViewer in the router.

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.

Note:

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 any levels you will not be using. The VID level is required for video routing and the audio levels are required for audio 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.