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Baselight includes a system for monitoring media playback, which is displayed by selecting Views and Playback Monitor. Playback Monitor is a useful troubleshooting and benchmarking tool for determining how well the Baselight system is keeping up with reading media from storage and processing it in CPU and GPU.
In terms of storage performance, the Completed Reads bar at the top of the Playback Monitor is the most significant. This bar shows that Baselight can read frames from storage fast enough while maintaining enough read-ahead buffer for smooth playback. If this line falls all the way to the left, Baselight will drop frames.