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Reference and video I/O setup, canvas layouts, and signalling setup.
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.
ViewControl Setup
Connecting ViewControl over NDI®

Setup
Reference and video I/O setup, canvas layouts, and signalling setup.
- Network Connections
  The switcher requires a network connection for the DashBoard interface as well as any control panel you want to use.
- 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.
  - ViewControl Overview
  - Custom Control Button Setup
  - ViewControl Setup
    - Connecting ViewControl over HDMI™
    - Connecting ViewControl over NDI®
      - To Set Up the MultiViewer for ViewControl over NDI®
        ViewControl integrates the MultiViewer output of the switcher with a graphical overlay from DashBoard to provide live video in the ViewControl windows. The MultiViewer must be configured to properly align the video for the buttons on ViewControl.
      - To Set Up ViewControl for NDI®
        Select the NDI® stream that is coming from the switcher that has the MultiViewer video stream.
- 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

Connecting ViewControl over NDI®

ViewControl combines an overlay image from DashBoard with a custom MultiViewer output from the switcher to generate the interface. This requires a single SDI to NDI® converter, as well as a touchscreen display.

Important: ViewControl over NDI® is not supported on computers running the macOS® operating system at this time.

The following connections are required for ViewControl:

ViewControl is only supported in 1080p, 1080i, or 720p. The switcher must be operating in one of these formats, or UHDTV1, for ViewControl to operate.
When the switcher is operating in UHDTV1, the ViewControl output is 1080p.
Set the output resolution of the DashBoard computer to either 1920×1080 or 1280×720.
Use an SDI to NDI® converter to take the output of the switcher and make it available to DashBoard.
Set up a MultiViewer to use one of the ViewControl layouts that support NDI®.
Connect the USB cable for the touchscreen to the DashBoard computer.

Keep the following in mind:

Keep the following in mind when working with NDI®:

The NDI® converter and DashBoard computer running ViewControl should be on the same subnet.
The NDI® Access Manager from the NDI® Tools (https://www.ndi.tv/tools/) may be required for the NDI® stream to appear in ViewControl.
If required, the NDI® Access Manager must be installed on the DashBoard computer running ViewControl.
When using the NDI® Access Manager you will need to add the IP address of the NDI® converter to the Remote Sources tab.
You may have to restart the DashBoard computer running the NDI® Access Manager before the NDI® stream becomes visible to ViewControl.
You must set the NDI® connection in ViewControl every time DashBoard is launched.