In BEYOND we have multiple tools to help you monitor your BEYOND software and your PC to
check the recourses, and health of the system.
Those tools can be found while in grid, under tools, we have:
FB4 Data Transmission Monitor Core Monitor
Network Monitor Recourse Monitor
We also have a couple other tools that are related:
Network Statistics And Performance tuning
The FB4 Data Transmission monitor is where you can monitor the communication between
BEYOND and the FB4’s you have on the network.
Under FB4 Diagrams, we have a main overview which shows one graph per FB4,
this graph compares the expected timing between when BEYOND sends a frame of data to the FB4 and
when the FB4 receives it.
If you are having issues with your output, like stuttering, delay, lag, or dropouts,
you can reference here to see what type of data issues you are having,
sometimes you will see red or yellow bars for delays, or dropouts for lost packets.
This can help identify network issues you may be having.
You can also click details, if you need more info, change the timeframe here, or display
more graphs at once.
Next, we have the core monitor, similarly to before, this is a live graph of performance,
but instead of network, it is of the BEYOND software itself.
Under Calculation duration, this shows the overall milliseconds it takes for BEYOND to
complete one cycle.
The Calculation per second shows how busy overall BEYOND is.
And the load shows how much CPU load the PC is experiencing.
If your software is lagging, or having trouble having high framerates, this is a great place
to check to see if it is your PC performance causing the issue.
Under Drawing Duration, this shows timing related to frame calculation specifically.
And under script duration, you can see the timings related to mostly pangoscripts, so
if you are having issues with pangoscripts you can check here to see where those issues
are.
Below that, we have the Network monitor.
Network monitor lets you see all the active connections on your PC, their IP’s and some
data related to those connections, like if that port is communicating to FB4’s or to
other BEYOND or QS systems.
Our last monitor, the Recourse monitor shows your overall system memory usage in relation to BEYOND,
as well as the overall Graphic processing usage related to BEYOND.
Now we have two other tools related to performance and monitoring, first being the Network Statistics
window.
This mainly provides detailed information about protocols, and for each individual connection
the PC has.
This data isn’t super useful on a day to day but could be useful in very complex network
setups for your shows.
Lastly, we have the performance tuning window.
Now let’s say you do have an issue, like lag, or frame delays, or something like that
and you have discovered it using the tools we just talked about, what do you actually
do?
This is where the performance tuning comes into play, while it doesn’t fix a bad network
connection, or speeds up your PC, it can change how BEYOND works with your network and your
PC to optimize how it will calculate, and often this can help stabilize your system
over the short term.
It is important to note, this is not telling your PC how to interact with BEYOND, but telling
BEYOND how to work with your PC, so if you are having lag, or flickering output, you
don’t actually want to go higher, you will want to go lower on the amount of usage.
The best way to use performance tuning is to play whatever cue, or timeline, or script
that is giving you the issue, and try each optimization profile to find which gives you
the best performance, sometimes the economized profile will give you substantially better
performance on a lower end PC, so give all of them a try to find the best for your PC
and your specific setup.
Thank you for watching this video on BEYOND monitoring tools and performance tuning.
If you are still having trouble you can contact support by emailing support@pangolin.com and
we will help you as soon as possible.