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IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C Table of Contents 1. 1.1 System Management ............................................................................................ 1 Shortcut Definition .................................................................................................................. 1 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.1.5 1.2 Video Display.............................................................
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C Document History Date Author Document Modifications Issue Oct. 2007 Anne Delbruyère 4.3.C User manual for IP Director version 4.3. • User Manual split into four parts Sections on new features: • Metadata on clips Part 1: sections 2.2.5, 2.7 Part 2: section 3.2.6 Part 3: section 4.7, 4.9, 4.19.3 • Control Panel: Clip-List tab Part 3, section 4.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C from Play-List Name field Part 3: new section 6.6.5 • Terminology changes Control Panel: View pane Î Channel Media pane Layout: Layout pane, Layout toolbar and Layout shortcuts Mini Database Explorer: Object list Î Element list Sep. 2007 Mike Davis, 4.3.B James Stellpflug, Martin Tirtiaux Reviews and comments modified sections. Sep. 2007 Anne Delbruyère Initial draft version 4.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C About this Manual This manual is intended to cover all aspects of IP Director. It should be seen as a reference guide that provides a detailed description on the various modules of IP Director, as well as procedural inform ation on how to work with the IP Director system. The user manual for IP Director Version 4.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Chapter Issue 4.3.C Description and easily find it back. Database Explorer This chapter explains the Database Explorer module, which has been designed to allow the users to organize and search all media and data available within the XNet network. Mini Database Explorer This chapter explains the Mini Database Explorer, i.e.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C P ART 4: S YSTEM T ROUBLESHOOTING AND Chapter Description System Management This chapter contains a description of overall system settings: Troubleshooting viii M ANAGEMENT • shortcut definitions • ShuttlePRO configuration and button layout This chapter contains descriptions on the problems you could encounter when configuring the system.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C 1. System Management 1.1 SHORTCUT DEFINITION 1.1.1 INTRODUCTION For each application in the IP Director there are keyboard shortcuts available to make operation faster to the Operator. All shortcuts can be redefined to suit individual preferences. A list of the default shortcuts applied on system delivery is shown under the heading for each application. 1.1.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C IP Director tab shows all short cuts which are global to the system and not specific to one application. Select a shortcut action from the list. It is entered into the shortcut properties area at the base of the window.
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IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C 1.1.4 CHANNEL MANAGEMENT SHORTCUTS In the IP Director main window, the menu Tools > Define Shortcuts in the menu bar allows the users to define shortcuts for most of the common operations with the IP Director. Shown in the screenshots below are all Channel Management shortcuts that are available, the default values are shown.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment 1.1.5 Issue 4.3.C CLIP EDITOR SHORTCUTS In the IP Director main window, the menu Tools > Define Shortcuts in the menu bar allows the users to define shortcuts for most of the common operations with the IP Director. Shown in the screenshots below are all items that are available in the Clip Editor with shortcuts, the default values are shown.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C 1.2 VIDEO DISPLAY 1.2.1 INTRODUCTION The Video Display allows the user to see a display of video in a window on the VGA output of an IP Director Workstation. Open the Video Display panel by selecting the Video Display icon from the Application toolbar in the IP Director main window.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment 1.2.2 Issue 4.3.C DISPLAYING VIDEO ON THE VIDEO DISPLAY WINDOW To be able to display a channel in the Video Display window, a physical connection must be made from the required video source to the input of the IP Director workstation A/V board. Note To display video on the VGA uses around 25% of the CPU power of the workstation for a display size of 384 x 288, more if a larger display is required.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C The Channel Management allows you to link a Player channel of one specific XT to one Video Display (Video Board). To define a link between a PGM and a video display, proceed as follows: 1. Check the box in the Linked column 2. Select which video display device it is linked to from the drop down list in the video display column.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment 4. Issue 4.3.C Select the audio and video settings in the dialog box and click. The player channel will open in the Video Display window. 1.2.5 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PLAYER CHANNEL IN VIDEO DISPLAY AND DATABASE EXPLORER To create thumbnails, a video display window must be associated to the Database Explorer.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C From this menu, you can open the following windows: • Video Properties window • Audio Properties window In the above-mentioned windows, you can specify the settings for the A/V board used in the workstation. Please refer to the Video board User Manual for information on the required settings.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C 1.3 SHUTTLEPRO CONFIGURATION 1.3.1 INTRODUCTION ShuttlePRO consists of two components: • the ergonomically designed device • the software that allows you to manage it It has a Jog wheel and a Shuttle ring that are programmable, and fifteen programmable buttons.
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IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C 2. Troubleshooting Guide 2.1 CONNECTIONS: MAIN STATUS IN THE IP DIRECTOR INTERFACE T HE DATABASE STATUS IS RED . It means the IP Director has not established the link with the IP Director database.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C you are running LSM mode) o on the IP Director side, check in the routing service in the transport tab, the type of the connection (C OM or USB) and the host ID. The host ID must correspond to the num ber of the XT server the IP Director workstation is connected to.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C O NE XT SERVER APPEARS WITH A GREY FONT IN THE C HANNEL E XPLORER AND I CANNOT CONTROL ITS CHANNELS This means that there are no direct serial connections to that XT Server, you cannot control the channels of that XT Server. 2.
IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment Issue 4.3.C channel when no key elem ent is loaded. In that case, the output of the channel can be black. 2.4 IP LOGGER T HE T/C IS NOT RUNNING IN THE ‘ LIVE ’ ZONE The T/C information is taken from the preview recorder. The preview recorder is defined in the 3 r d step of the ‘new log sheet wizard’: Relevant recorders definition.
Issue 4.3.C IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 4 – System Management & Troubleshooting EVS Broadcast Equipment T HE KEYWORDS ASSOCIATED WITH MY LOGS ARE NOT PUSHED TO ITS ASSOCIATED CLIPS The clips are created on an XT server which has no serial connection to any IP Director workstation. Check if the Edit Clip by Network parameter is activated on the corresponding XT server. This allows the IP Director to edit the clips on the server to be able to assign keywords to them.
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