Display Mode - SDI Interface Instrument

  

 
 
General Description  

In display mode, the TouchMonitor shows the instruments and their layout defined in the currently loaded preset.

Touching the screen area of an instrument will put this instrument into focus. This is recognized by a colored frame instead of a grey one. The frame color conforms to the identifier set for the group the focused instrument belongs to.

The Control Bar positioned at the lower screen edge contains several keys. It is displayed permanently if the "Control Bar" option in the "General" section of the "System" menu is set to "permanent". Otherwise, it will be displayed temporarily after touching the screen.

The Control Bar has two sections. The left (upper) section shows the specific keys defined for the focused instrument. This makes it very fast to access a specific function of one of the instruments on screen – just touch the instrument and select the desired function.

  

Please note:
The specific keys that are displayed in the left (upper) Control Bar section can be defined individually for each instrument. To do this, touch the "Edit Instrument" key and select the "Configure Keys" option in the menu. The default value for each key can be set in the menu as well.

  

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Instrument Description  

The SDI Interface instrument has access to the 3G-SDI deembedder interface (option) and the audio streams included in SDI data streams and displays its state on the screen. The interface automatically detects the validity of the applied stream, the frequency (SD/HD/3G) and the contained formats. Audio channels contained in valid audio groups are then deembedded. If single link mode (SD/HD/3G) was used, up to 4 audio groups with 4 audio channels each are available. If dual link mode (3G) was used, up to 8 audio groups with 4 audio channels each are available. With SDI selected as input source, the input routing menu provides these audio channels. Normally, the audio channels contain AES3 signals. Different parameters (e. g. status bytes, audio bit activity) of the routed signals additionally can be monitored with the AES Status instrument. A total of 32 channels can be displayed on the TouchMonitor.

  

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Control Bar - left (upper) section: SDI Interface instrument functions  

For this instrument there are no function keys available.

  

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Control Bar - right (lower) section  

The right (lower) section of the Control Bar always contains the following four keys:

  

• Edit Instrument
This key is used to directly access the menu parameters of the focused instrument. Any edits in the menu are saved to the current preset using the "Save" key.

  

• Load Preset
This key is used to load one of the presets stored in the unit’s internal memory or on an USB storage medium connected to one of the USB ports.

  

• Menu
This key is used to enter the Main Menu. This is the starting point for global system configuration, licence handling and preset management.

  

• Help
This key is used to enter the onscreen help for normal display mode (this text). Depending on the focused instrument, the help page will also describe the individual keys of this instrument.

  

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