Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 - Recommended Operating Practices

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Quadro FX 4800/5800 and Quadro CX SDI User’s Guide – Version 1.0 13
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NVIDIA Graphics-to-SDI
Recommended Operating Practices
Thissectionprovidessomebasicoperatingpracticestofollowinordertoobtainthebest
SDIperformanceforyourapplication.
Initial On-Air Broadcast
WhenstartingalivebroadcastofSDIvideo,followthesequencebelowtoensureproper
allocationofsystemresourcesandtopreventvisualdisturbancesintheonairbroadcast.
1 SetuptheSDIformatsettingsand starttheSDIoutput
2 Starttheapplication tobebroadcast
3 Verifythevideoquality
4
ClosetheGraphicstoSDIcontrolpanel
5 Goonair
Toavoidvisualdisturbanceswhilebroadcastinglive,DONOT
• Startorstopthegraphicsorvideoapplication
• TurnonorofftheSDIoutput
• MakechangestotheSDIsignalformat
Changing Applications
Toavoidvisualdisturbanceswhileswitchingapplications,observethefollowing
sequence:
1 Stopthelivebroadcast(gooffair)
2 Stoptheapplication
3 Startthenewapplication
4 Verifyvideoquality
5 Resumethelivebroadcast