Evs XTAccess Version 1.17 - May 2012 User Manual User Manual

User ManualVersion 1.17 - May 2012EVS Server Gigabit Ethernet Gateway

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 2 • Backup of clips or trains from an EVS server to EVS Cle

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 92 24. Grab Field from EVS Server XTAccess is able to grab

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 93 25. Grab Field from File XTAccess is able to grab a fi

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 94 26. Delete File from Disk XTAccess is able to delete a f

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 95 27. Delete Clip from EVS Server XTAccess is able to de

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 96 28. Cancel Job XTAccess is able to cancel a job in progr

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 97 29. XTAccess Troubleshooting 29.1 XTAccess Error Mess

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 98 29.2.1 XTAccess.log XTAccess.log lists all the transactio

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XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 3 2. Hardware Recommendations The XTAccess software is i

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 4 3. Software Installation The installation package is base

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 5 4. Select “I accept the agreement” and press NEXT

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 6 6. You can select here the different XTAccess componen

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 7 7. Specify the start folder directory and then press

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 8 10. If you have selected “Install XSecure Manager”: the XS

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 9 4. XSecure Management From XTAccess v.1.07.22, XSecure

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 10 5. Unicode and XTAccess 5.1 Configuration To use differ

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 11 5.2 Metadata These Metadata Tags can be used in Unico

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Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 12 6. User Interface 6.1 Introduction XTAccess has been de

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 13 Column heading Description Status Status of the job: •

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 14 6.4 Application Title Bar 6.4.1 Introduction XTAccess T

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 15 Reporting System This window allows you to activate t

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 16 Graphical Settings These settings relate to the generatio

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 17 Show Buttons Select this option if you want to see the

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 18 6.5 Contextual menu Command Name Description Abort jo

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 19 7. XML Jobs Scan 7.1 Introduction XTAccess is trigger

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 20 Job_Type Supported from XTAccess version Supported f

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 21 7.3 Creation of a XML Jobs Scan 7.3.1 Creating a New

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C I Copyright EVS Broadcast Equipment – Copyright © 2008 - 2

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 22 Field/Button Description START/STOP This button is used

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 23 Title Bar The Title Bar displays one of the following i

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 24 Audio Channels Map This setting is used to define how the

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 25 There is one example of template in the XTAccess folder

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 26 Field/Button Description Active Allows you to activate

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 27 Field/Button Description Services ( example : 8080) Yo

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 28 FinalCutPro For FinalCutPro applications, these settings

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 29 Field/Button Description Quick Time Movies Local Path

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 30 EVSEDL For EVS applications, these settings allow you to

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 31 Xedio For Xedio applications, the settings allow you to

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 II

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 32 7.4 XML Jobs Processing 7.4.1 Launch of Multiple XML Jo

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 33 7.5 Load Balancing between Multiple XTAccess Devices M

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 34 7.5.2 Control Parameters Some parameters have been added

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 35 Child Jobs (default value = 4): Maximum amount of child

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 36 8. Scan Folder The scan folder allows you to restore / c

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 37 The main window lists all the scan folders defined by X

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 38 8.2 Add and Edit a Scan Folder Item When adding a new sc

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 39 Column Heading Description Source Name CLIP Source Name

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 40 Column Heading Description 123C, 123D, 123E, 123F, 124A,

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 41 Column Heading Description or Generate XML Referencing

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C III Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ...

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 42 8.3 XEDIO Integration with the Scan Folder 8.3.1 Overvi

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 43 • If the source file has no EVS Metadata file, XTAcce

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 44 and XTAccess will check the <File_Path_HiRes> tag i

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 45 9. Backup of EVS Server Clips to Files This section co

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 46 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends an

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 47 <TCInDate>07-Mar-2008</TCInDate>

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 48 10. Restore/Copy of Files to EVS Server This section cov

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 49 2. XTAccess processes the XML job: a. It gets the fil

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 50 11. Rendering of EDL to one file This section covers XML

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 51 11.2 XTGATEWAY The rendering process will be in fact d

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 IV 9. BACKUP OF EVS SERVER CLIPS TO FILES ...

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 52 11.3 Smart Rendering XTAccess will only transcode the ef

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 53 12. Rendering of EDL to one EVS Server clip This secti

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 54 Nothing has to be configured in this window, except th

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 55 13. Backup of EDL to files This section covers XML Job

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 56 Short Backup: In this case represented in the schema abo

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 57 14. File Rewrap This section covers XML Jobs IDs: •

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 58 1. An external system (which can generate XML files for

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 59 15. Additional Codec file on the fly XTAccess can tran

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 60 1. As transcoding is not yet available with XML job file

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 61 Be careful this folder is updated at each new install

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C V 18.2 Transcode Native EVS Server clip ...

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 62 15.3.1 Smart Rendering XTAccess automatically analyze the

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 63 16. Transcoding files XTAccess can also transcode file

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 64 16.2 Example of XML File Rewrap <?xml version = "

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 65 Be careful this folder is updated at each new installat

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 66 17. Example of Encoder profiles Encoding profiles are XM

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 67 with XTAccess. You can find here an example of DNxHD® e

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 68 18. Examples of Configuration You can find here some exa

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 69 Result Each new Backup job from IPD will create: • o

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 70 18.2 Transcode Native EVS Server clip XT[2] - DNxHDXTAc

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 71 18.3 Transocode one file to file XTAccessDNxHDIMX 1.

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 VI 29.2 XTAccess logs ...

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 72 18.4 Double Transcoding XTAccessDNxHD OP1AMPEG1 Low Res

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 73 • one MPEG 1 transcoded file in the Target Path folder

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 74 19. Backup of EVS Server Trains to Files This section co

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 75 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends a

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 76 19.3 Example of XML Update Train <?xml version="

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 77 19.6 Miscellaneous 19.6.1 Backup/Update of Trains and

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 78 20. Transfer to Avid Transfer Manager This section cover

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 79 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends a

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 80 20.3 Example of XML Avid Transfer of Stream record train

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 81 20.5 Local XTAccess Settings (non XML) Some XTAccess s

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 1 1. Introduction The Gigabit connection on EVS server ma

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 82 21. Transfer to Avid WebService This section covers XML

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 83 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends a

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 84 22. EVS Server Copy This section covers XML Jobs IDs: •

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 85 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends a

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 86 <Owner>XT Generic User</Owner>

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 87 23. Integration with XEDIO This section covers XML Job

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 88 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends an

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 89 23.2 Example of XML Transfer to Xedio File To identify

Issue 1.17.C XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 90 23.3 XTAccess configuration The Xedio referencing can be

XTAccess Version 1.17 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2012 Issue 1.17.C 91 23.4 Registry Settings • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\