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Setup
Networking, video I/O setup, canvas layouts, and signalling setup.
Licenses
Software options allows you to expand the functionality or resources available to the switcher as well as operate in UHDTV1. These options can either be licensed at the time you purchase your switcher, purchased and installed later on, or temporarily licensed through the Ross Platform Manager (RPM).
Software Licenses and Resources

Setup
Networking, video I/O setup, canvas layouts, and signalling setup.
- Network Connections
  Setting up network connections to the switcher, as well as network storage and file transfers.
- System Access
  Enable or disable system access and control methods such as RossTalk and FTP.
- Video Reference
  The switcher uses the REF A or B input reference signal on the router directly as a reference clock. The switcher does not rely on the reference settings in Ultrix™ for a reference signal.
- Video Inputs
  Video sources come into the switcher either from the router matrix, or through the HD-BNCs on the SDPE blade. Depending on how you want to use these video sources, or where they come from, you may want the switcher to pair them together, or associate an external device with them. Pairing two video sources together is usually used for an auto select key where an external device, such as a character generator, outputs both a key video and key alpha. Associating a video source with an external device allows special control over that device to become active when you select the source on a bus.
- Video Outputs
  Switcher outputs are routed to destinations in the router matrix or to the HD-BNC on the SDPE blade directly.
- MultiViewer
  The MultiViewer allows you to view multiple video sources from a single output BNC. Video inputs or outputs on the switcher, including Program, Preview, and Media-Store channels, can be assigned to any box on the MultiViewer.
- MultiScreen
  MultiScreen works by breaking your display into individual panels. Each panel is represented by a tile in MultiScreen and the entire display is represented by the canvas.
- Frame Sync and Format Conversion
  The frame synchronizer / format converter (FSFC) and input i-to-p converters can be used to convert video signals as well as correct mistimed, or drifting, video input signal. The frame synchronizers cannot completely correct badly formatted video, mistimed switches, signal drops, or similar issues.
- Frame Delays
  A delay of up to 13 frames in HD, or 7 frames in UHDTV1, can be added to any input that an FSFC is assigned to. This allows you to delay the timing of an input to compensate for the delay in another source. For example, in a virtual set environment it may take a few frames for the system to track the position of the camera and render the background. In this case you want to delay the foreground cameras to compensate for this delay.
- System Real-Time Clock/Date
  The switcher uses an internal clock to generate the time for the clock overlay for the MultiViewer.
- Audio Output
  Audio sources from the audio mixer, clip player, and Media-Store can be sent out the AES outputs of the frame.
- Color Correction
  The color correctors can operate as Processing Amplifiers (Proc Amps) in the HSL (Y-Cr-Cb) color space or as RGB Color Correctors in the RGB color space. Proc Amps and RGB Color Correctors apply color correction to video on input to the switcher, before the switcher crosspoint.
- Personality
  Personality settings allow you to configure how you interact with the control panel and switcher, as well as how the buttons on the control panel appear. All of these settings are stored in the Personality register.
- Licenses
  Software options allows you to expand the functionality or resources available to the switcher as well as operate in UHDTV1. These options can either be licensed at the time you purchase your switcher, purchased and installed later on, or temporarily licensed through the Ross Platform Manager (RPM).
- GPI Control
  General Purpose Interface (GPI) is a high/low voltage signalling protocol that allows the switcher to send simple commands to an external device, or receive commands from a device. Each pin on the GPI is set as either high (+5 Volts), or low (0 Volts), and it is the switching between high and low that sends commands to the external device, or to the switcher.
- Live Edit Decision Lists (LiveEDL)
  Edit Decision Lists are files used by non-linear editing (NLE) suites to aid in post-production. Your switcher can capture EDL data in a file that you load into your NLE suite.
- ViewControl
  The ViewControl interface through DashBoard allows you to coordinate the control over the Carbonite switcher, XPression Live Graphics System, and a Tria Playout Server all through a touchscreen interface. Through ViewControl you can select sources, perform transitions, and run custom controls.
- MultiPanel
  Each frame supports up to 3 independent control connections (Main, Satellite 1, and Satellite 2) as well as Satellite 3/SoftPanel. Each connection, with the exception of SoftPanel, can be from a control panel, DashBoard, or a combination of the two. All devices on the same control connection mirror each other.
- SDPE Reconfiguration for Switcher Type

Software Licenses and Resources

Each software license provides the switcher with additional resources, depending on the mode the switcher is operating in.

ME Licenses (Number of MEs)


Software Licenses	Resources / Switcher Modes
Software Licenses	HD 2 ME 4 MM	HD 3 ME	UHD
Base	0 × ME	0 × ME	0 × ME
CUFR-ADD-ME1	1 × ME	n/a	1 × ME
	6 × Keys		6 × Keys
	4 × MiniME™		2 × MiniME™
CUFR-ADD-ME2	2 × ME	3 × ME	2 × ME
	6 × Keys	6 × Keys	6 × Keys
	4 × MiniME™	0 × MiniME™	2 × MiniME™

UHDTV1


Software License	Resources / Switcher Modes
CUFR-ADD-UHD	Add the software license for UHDTV1 video formats.

Video Processing - FSFC


Software License	Resources / Switcher Modes
Software License	HD	UHDTV1
Base	0 × FSFC	0 × FSFC
CUFR-ADD-FSFC	22 × FSFC	4 × FSFC

Video Processing - Proc Amp and Color Correctors


Software License	Resources / Switcher Modes
Software License	HD	UHDTV1
Base	0 × PACC	0 × PACC
CUFR-ADD-PACC	22 × PACC	4 × PACC

Mosaic


Option	HD	UHDTV1
CUFR-ADD-MOSAIC	10 × MiniME™ Engines	6 × MiniME™ Engines
	5 × Canvas Generators	2 × Canvas Generators
	10 × Splicer Generators	6 × Splicer Generators
	18 × Media-Store Channels (Video)	4 × Media-Store Channels (Video)

MaxLicense

The MaxLicense is a universal license that can be applied to any supported Carbonite product to provide two (2) fully functional ME layers to the switcher. This will be similar to the ADD-ME2 option.

Tip: If the MaxLicense is requested from Ross Platform Manager it can be dynamically releases and redeployed to another switcher as needed.

Note: The CHMFR-ADD-MAXLIC license must be renewed with CHMFR-ADD-MAXLIC-SM every year to be entitled to new software updates.