Pipeline SC - Figure 4-7. Confidence Monitoring Is Performed by Pipeline 4 Via Internal Ethernet Bridge

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Pipeline User’s Guide

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Table 4–2. Configure Panel controls and descriptions.

Confidence Monitoring

Confidence monitoring is the process of employing channel 4 on the Pipeline Quad to sniff the exact same

video packets being captured from any of the other Pipeline channels on the Quad and processed by the

client application during a capture operation (or crash recording), for the purpose of verifying that the

output is a true representation of the input, or that the output meets certain quality limits or other metrics.

Confidence monitoring can be enabled when you are performing a capture operation or crash recording

from channels 1, 2, or 3 on a Pipeline Quad. When enabled, Pipeline 4 is also dedicated to the capture

operation for the duration of the capture operation.

Figure 4–7. Confidence monitoring is performed by Pipeline 4 via internal Ethernet bridge

As SDI is being fed into the capture channel’s SDI In port, it is encoded and sent out in TCP packets on the

Ethernet port to the client application (Pipeline Direct, FlipFactory, Episode, Final Cut Pro, and other media

systems). Unlike other confidence monitoring that just re-encodes the media directly in the same device,

the channel 4 Pipeline sniffs the very same packets on the Ethernet just as the client does; it then decodes

the Ethernet input, and outputs the resulting SDI on its own SDI Out port.

Control Description

Confidence Monitoring

Normal Operation – no

monitoring

Check to disable confidence monitoring. When confidence monitoring is

disabled, channel 4 (Pipeline 4 on the Quad) operates normally, and can

be used for capture/playout operations.

Note: This option is only enabled when you log on to channel 4. You

cannot make this change from other channels.

Monitor channel 1 | 2 | 3 Check to enable confidence monitoring and encode and send the

rendered stream of the selected channel on channel 4 SDI Out as well.

Click Save Changes when you’re done to update the settings.

Ethernet Out

SDI Input

SDI Output

Pipeline Quad

Confidence monitoring of channel 1 enabled.

Internal Ethernet bridge

Pipeline Quad’s Channel 1 is performing an capture operation –

decoding SDI from the SDI Input to Ethernet out, to the client application.

Channel 4 is confidence monitoring

channel 1 – sniffing the outbound

traffic on the internal Ethernet circuit

and re-encoding it, outputting the

resulting SDI on SDI Out for review.