Special Situations; What's A Card Set - Matrox DigiSuite Installation Manual

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Special situations

What's a card set?

Appendix A: Special Installation Instructions
DigiSuite is designed to be a modular system, so it's possible to modify
your system hardware combinations to meet your changing needs. This
flexibility is an important feature, but it also means that in some cases
you have to install DigiSuite hardware and software in very specific
sequences.
The following situations require the special instructions in this appendix.
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Installing more than one card set in a system.
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Changing an existing card set by adding or removing one or more
cards.
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Removing an entire card set.
Before going any further, it's important for you to understand what the
DigiSuite software considers a card set.
In DigiSuite systems, a card set is considered to be one or more DigiSuite
cards recognized as a single functional unit by DigiSuite software.
Let's say you have a single DigiMix installed by itself in your system.
DigiSuite software considers this to be Card Set 1. Perhaps you're using
Inscriber/CG Supreme with DigiMix for a character generation system.
After some time, you upgrade your system to three DigiMix cards in
order to take advantage of Inscriber's ability to work with multiple
DigiMix cards. The software would recognize them as:
First DigiMix........................................................................... Card Set 1
Second DigiMix ...................................................................... Card Set 2
Third DigiMix.......................................................................... Card Set 3
One of the most common situations occurs with people who have a
DigiMix-DigiMotion card set installed for nonlinear video editing. They
decide to add a Miranda DigiLinx for D1 input/output capability. The
three cards still constitute one card set, but the software must be
reinstalled in order to recognize the new set.
DigiMix-DigiMotion .......................................................... Old Card Set 1
DigiLinx-DigiMix-DigiMotion ........................................... New Card Set 1