Evs XTAccess Version 1.18 - July 2012 User Manual Bedienungsanleitung

User ManualVersion 1.18 - July 2012EVS Server Gigabit Ethernet Gateway

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 90 23.3 XTAccess configuration The Xedio referencing can

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 91 23.4 Registry Settings • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 92 24. Grab Field from EVS Server XTAccess is able to gra

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 93 25. Grab Field from File XTAccess is able to grab a f

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 94 26. Delete File from Disk XTAccess is able to delete a

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 95 27. Delete Clip from EVS Server XTAccess is able to d

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 96 28. Cancel Job XTAccess is able to cancel a job in pro

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 97 29. XTAccess Troubleshooting 29.1 XTAccess Error Mes

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 98 29.2.1 XTAccess.log XTAccess.log lists all the transact

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XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 1 1. Introduction The Gigabit connection on EVS server m

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 2 • Backup of clips or trains from an EVS server to EVS C

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 3 2. Hardware Recommendations The XTAccess software is

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 4 3. Software Installation The installation package is ba

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 5 4. Select “I accept the agreement” and press NEXT

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 6 6. You can select here the different XTAccess compon

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 7 7. Specify the start folder directory and then press

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 8 10. If you have selected “Install XSecure Manager”: the

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 9 4. XSecure Management From XTAccess v.1.07.22, XSecure

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Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 10 5. Unicode and XTAccess 5.1 Configuration To use diff

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 11 5.2 Metadata These Metadata Tags can be used in Unic

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 12 6. User Interface 6.1 Introduction XTAccess has been

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 13 Column heading Description Status Status of the job:

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 14 6.4 Application Title Bar 6.4.1 Introduction XTAccess

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 15 Reporting System This window allows you to activate

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 16 Graphical Settings These settings relate to the generat

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 17 Show Buttons Select this option if you want to see the

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 18 6.5 Contextual menu Command Name Description Abort

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 19 7. XML Jobs Scan 7.1 Introduction XTAccess is trigge

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A I Copyright EVS Broadcast Equipment – Copyright © 2008 -

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 20 Job_Type Supported from XTAccess version Supported

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 21 7.3 Creation of a XML Jobs Scan 7.3.1 Creating a New

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 22 Field/Button Description START/STOP This button is use

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 23 Title Bar The Title Bar displays one of the following

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 24 Audio Channels Map This setting is used to define how t

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 25 There is one example of template in the XTAccess folde

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 26 Field/Button Description Active Allows you to activat

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 27 Field/Button Description Services ( example : 8080) Y

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 28 FinalCutPro For FinalCutPro applications, these setting

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 29 Field/Button Description Quick Time Movies Local Pat

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 II

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 30 EVSEDL For EVS applications, these settings allow you t

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 31 Xedio For Xedio applications, the settings allow you t

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 32 7.4 XML Jobs Processing 7.4.1 Launch of Multiple XML

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 33 7.5 Load Balancing between Multiple XTAccess Devices

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 34 7.5.2 Control Parameters Some parameters have been add

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 35 Child Jobs (default value = 4): Maximum amount of chil

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 36 8. Scan Folder The scan folder allows you to restore /

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 37 The main window lists all the scan folders defined by

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 38 8.2 Add and Edit a Scan Folder Item When adding a new

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 39 Column Heading Description Source Name CLIP Source Nam

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A III Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ...

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 40 Column Heading Description 123C, 123D, 123E, 123F, 124A

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 41 Column Heading Description or Generate XML Referencin

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 42 8.3 XEDIO Integration with the Scan Folder 8.3.1 Over

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 43 • If the source file has no EVS Metadata file, XTAcc

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 44 and XTAccess will check the <File_Path_HiRes> tag

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 45 9. Backup of EVS Server Clips to Files This section c

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 46 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends a

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 47 <TCInDate>07-Mar-2008</TCInDate&g

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 48 10. Restore/Copy of Files to EVS Server This section c

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 49 2. XTAccess processes the XML job: a. It gets the fi

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 IV 8.5 Remarks on the Scan Process ...

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 50 11. Rendering of EDL to one file This section covers X

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 51 11.2 XTGATEWAY The rendering process will be in fact

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 52 11.3 Smart Rendering XTAccess will only transcode the

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 53 12. Rendering of EDL to one EVS Server clip This sect

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 54 Nothing has to be configured in this window, except

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 55 13. Backup of EDL to files This section covers XML Jo

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 56 Short Backup: In this case represented in the schema a

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 57 14. File Rewrap This section covers XML Jobs IDs: •

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 58 1. An external system (which can generate XML files fo

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 59 15. Additional Codec file on the fly XTAccess can tra

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A V 18.1 Backup EVS Server native codec + Creation of LOW

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 60 1. As transcoding is not yet available with XML job fi

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 61 Be careful this folder is updated at each new instal

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 62 15.3.1 Smart Rendering XTAccess automatically analyze t

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 63 16. Transcoding files XTAccess can also transcode fil

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 64 16.2 Example of XML File Rewrap <?xml version = &qu

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 65 Be careful this folder is updated at each new installa

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 66 17. Example of Encoder profiles Encoding profiles are

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 67 with XTAccess. You can find here an example of DNxHD®

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 68 18. Examples of Configuration You can find here some e

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 69 Result Each new Backup job from IPD will create: •

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 VI 29.1 XTAccess Error Messages ...

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 70 18.2 Transcode Native EVS Server clip XT[2] - DNxHDXT

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 71 18.3 Transocode one file to file XTAccessDNxHDIMX 1.

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 72 18.4 Double Transcoding XTAccessDNxHD OP1AMPEG1 Low R

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 73 • one MPEG 1 transcoded file in the Target Path folder

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 74 19. Backup of EVS Server Trains to Files This section

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 75 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 76 19.3 Example of XML Update Train <?xml version=&qu

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 77 19.6 Miscellaneous 19.6.1 Backup/Update of Trains and

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 78 20. Transfer to Avid Transfer Manager This section cov

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 79 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A VII What’s New? The former version of the XTAccess user

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 80 20.3 Example of XML Avid Transfer of Stream record tra

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 81 20.5 Local XTAccess Settings (non XML) Some XTAccess

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 82 21. Transfer to Avid WebService This section covers XM

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 83 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 84 22. EVS Server Copy This section covers XML Jobs IDs:

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 85 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 86 <Owner>XT Generic User</Owner>

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 87 23. Integration with XEDIO This section covers XML Jo

Issue 1.18.A XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 88 1. An external system, for example IPDirector, sends

XTAccess Version 1.18 – User Manual EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2012 Issue 1.18.A 89 23.2 Example of XML Transfer to Xedio File To identif