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Conservative Planning of Physical Outputs
Some installations are wary of being caught out by physical board failures when replacement may be delayed. As a result, they have spread the risk - and the outputs.
Each output card has eight physical outputs. You could plan outputs so that if one output card failed, you would not lose all functions. For example, your main output could be from output #1 (on the "Out 1" card), and your ISO or Clean Feed could be from output#9 (on the "Out 2" card). If the "Out 1" card failed, your program can still go ahead using the ISO video path. Similarly, an M/E1 preview could come from one output card, and an M/E2 preview could come from another, thereby preventing the loss of both previews should one card fail. If a repair is not possible before air-time and you absolutely NEED to see M/E1, not M/E2, you can remap the output to show M/E1 on the output that usually shows M/E2.
Always have a saved copy of your standard Eng Setup file before making any changes. You will need an EIC login to change or load Eng Setups.
In offering this idea, I am not in any way suggesting that output cards are prone to failure.
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