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Test your system setup using VdrPanel

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PVS 2000 Installation Guide

23 February 2004

3. Load and play a clip on each Play Channel as follows:

a. Click anywhere in the panel for a Play Channel.

b. Select

VideoClip | Load Clip

to open the Load Clip dialog box.

c. Select clip #1 in the clip list, then click

OK

to load the clip.

d. Click

Play

and verify that video, audio are present at the channel outputs. If you

have a problem, refer to the Chapter 10, “Solving Common Setup Problems” in
the Profile XP System Guide.

4. Use steps 2 and 3 to test all record and play channels.

5. Continue with the next procedure in this guide to adjust video timing.

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Summary of Contents for Profile XP PVS1000

Page 1: ...Profile XP PVS2000 MEDIA PLATFORM FOR HIGH DEFINITION Installation Guide SOFTWARE VERSION 5 4 071 8288 00 FEBRUARY 2004 the most watched worldwide ...

Page 2: ...s subject to change without notice The information in this manual is furnished for informational use only is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by Thomson Broadcast and Media Solutions Inc Thomson Broadcast and Media Solutions Inc assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this publication U S Government Restri...

Page 3: ...r PVS2000 is shipped with default Recorder and Player channels These default channels are named Vtr1 Vtr2 Vtr3 and so on The following table describes the video and audio connections you ll make for the two channel types On the pages that follow you ll find specifics about the type and number of default channels in your system and their video and audio I O connections Rack mounting the PVS2000 Ser...

Page 4: ...o f X P S e r ie s G r a s s V a l l e y G r o u p Release Notes Path for the Installer Path for the Operator System Guide User Manuals Other Manuals Contains the latest information about Profile XP hardware and software shipped with your system P r o f i l e X P M a n u a l F a m il y o f X P S e r ie s G r a s s V a l l e y G r o u p Release Notes Contains the latest information about Profile XP...

Page 5: ...er power off sequence 2 Wait approximately 30 seconds for the disk drives to spin down then power on all RAID Expansion chassis then all RAID Controller chassis Always power on the RAID Expansion chassis prior to or at the same time as the RAID Controller chassis 3 Wait for RAID storage initialization as follows PFR700 RAID Storage systems Wait until all disk access LEDs are steady approximately 4...

Page 6: ... is off and all disk access LEDs are steady green approximately 2 minutes Refer to the PFC500 Instruction Manual to interpret other front panel LED behavior 4 On the Profile XP Media Platform shut down and restart the Windows operating system Wait for auto logon as described in Start your system on page 15 ...

Page 7: ...nections with Embedded Audio Record Play NTSC PAL SD SDI HD SDI 1In 3Out PVS 2013 Channel names Video Connections Vtr1 Vtr2 Vtr3 Vtr4 HD SDI 1In 3Out Record Play Play HD SDI 2In 2Out PVS 2022 Channel names Video Connections Vtr1 Vtr2 Vtr3 Vtr4 HD SDI 2In 2Out Monitor HD SDI 4Out PVS 2004 Channel names Video Connections Vtr1 Vtr2 Vtr3 Vtr4 Notes Video I Os are assigned beginning with Vtr1 and the b...

Page 8: ...h Push Push Push Push Push Push Push 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push Push In Out In Out BNC216 PAC216 PACXLR XLR216 AES EBU Breakout Panels Mon Out AES EBU Monitor Monitor Audio I O Connections One Audio Board Installed Audio I O Connections Two Audio Boards Inst...

Page 9: ... D B 9 7 5 3 1 0 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 E C A 8 6 4 2 F D B 9 7 5 3 1 Top Switch always set to 0 Set Fibre Channel Loop Address ID settings Refer to the table Maximum of 5 PFC 500 Chassis 0626 13 Media Platform Port A Port B 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 2 4 1 3 5 6 8 10 7 9 11 System Check LED Power LED Power up Verification Power LED is on System Check LED turns off after approximately 90 seconds The PFC500 re...

Page 10: ...installed 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Order of daisy chain A B Loosen retaining screws Remove both Loop Bypass Board modules to access the chassis address switch on the midplane board Set the switch to the appropriate address as shown in the Chassis Address diagram 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 D Port B Installing a GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter Copper SFPs IMPORTANT If you are installing your PVS2000 as part of...

Page 11: ...r to configure RAID Controller B if installed Maximum of 9 Expansion Chassis If Installed This cable used for PFR500s with optional RAID Controller B This cable used for PFR500 with optional RAID Controller B Standard Serial Cable Serial Cabling Detail Applies to primary and redundant cabling Always plug the end connector of dasiy chain cable into last expansion chassis Always plug the first conne...

Page 12: ...alled 4 3 2 1 0 Order of daisy chain A B Loosen retaining screws Remove both Loop Bypass Board modules to access the chassis address switch on the midplane board Set the switch to the appropriate address as shown in the Chassis Address diagram 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 D Port B Installing an SFP Small Form Factor Pluggable Interface Optical SFPs IMPORTANT If you are installing your PVS2000 as part of an...

Page 13: ...pansion Chassis Caution See serial cabling detail below Media Platform After RAID Controller A is configured the standard serial cable will be moved to this connector to configure RAID Controller B if installed Maximum of 4 Expansion Chassis If Installed This cable used for PFR600s with optional RAID Controller B This cable used for PFR600 chassis with optional RAID Controller B Standard Serial Ca...

Page 14: ... cables Diagnostic cables Power Cords 115V 230V 5 Power up Verification Ready LEDs on RAID controllers are steady ON Front panel Power LED is ON Service LED is OFF after approximately 3 minutes Refer to the PFR700 Instruction Manual if there is a problem Power LED Ready LED Ready LED Connect power cords and turn on power as shown You must power up the PFR700E Expansion chassis prior to or at the s...

Page 15: ... up verification steps on pages 9 14 3 Turn on the Profile XP Media Platform using the front panel standby switch and wait for Windows NT to initialize and perform auto logon The Windows NT desktop will appear after successful auto logon During initialization the Profile XP system software checks the RAID storage system for a video file system Since at first power up one is not found an error mess...

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Page 17: ... using the Disk Utility NOTE If you want to configure some drives as hot spare drives do not perform this procedure Instead perform the procedures found in Chapter 3 of the Profile XP System Guide in the section titled Configuring RAID storage using GVG Disk Utility then proceed with the next procedure in this guide To create a video file system 1 Start Configuration Manager using the desktop shor...

Page 18: ...troller chassis has finished initializing restart the Windows NT operating system on the Profile XP Platform f Start Configuration Manager using the desktop shortcut or by selecting Start Programs Profile Applications Configuration Manager g In Configuration Manager dialog box appears click File System to start the GVG Disk Utility 4 Expand the tree view and identify bound LUNs and unbound disks b...

Page 19: ...rs take less than a minute to bind a LUN but can bind only one LUN at a time You must wait until binding is completed before binding the next LUN PFC500 and PFR700 controllers can take several hours to bind a LUN but allow multiple binding processes at the same time f Upon 100 completion click Close in Progress Report window NOTE Do not proceed until all LUNs are finished binding g Restart the Win...

Page 20: ...ruary 2004 7 Enter a volume name or accept the default name then click Next 8 Select Yes create a file system using all RAID3 LUNs then click Finish 9 Click OK in the warning message box The Progress Report window appears showing the create file system task status ...

Page 21: ...00 Installation Guide 21 10 Upon 100 completion click Close in Progress Report window 11 When the reboot message appears click OK then restart the Windows NT operating system on the Profile XP Platform 12 Continue with the next procedure in this guide ...

Page 22: ...Create a video file system 22 PVS2000 Installation Guide 23 February 2004 ...

Page 23: ...RAID controllers must be configured if the optional RAID Controller B is installed Refer to the Profile XP Service Manual for information on using NetCentral Lite Modifying network and SNMP settings on RAID Controller A This procedure assumes the PFR500 or PFR600 is cabled and powered up as shown on page 10 and page 11 or page 12 and page 13 To configure PFR500 or PFR600 network and SNMP settings ...

Page 24: ...ng the power on the RAID Controller chassis You can leave the Expansion chassis on The boot screen should appear Rebooting now this will kill this shell Ciprico Web Manager Copyright Ciprico Inc 2000 NETWORK INTERFACE PARAMETERS IP address on LAN is 192 168 0 11 LAN interface s subnet mask is 255 255 255 0 COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS Serial channels will use a baud rate of 9600 HARDWARE PARAMETERS Th...

Page 25: ...1 or 2 2 Type 1 then press Enter NOTE The default value may appear different than shown here Mail and SNMP notification level 1 most verbose through 5 off 2 Press Enter Modify User Password N Type y then press Enter Modify SNMP Trap Information N Type public then press Enter Trap Community Name Type the Profile XP IP address then press Enter Add additional trap destinations if needed up to four to...

Page 26: ...rico Network Server Mail and SNMP notification will occur for Hardware changes Warnings and Critical events SNMP TRAP CONFIGURATION TRAP COMMUNITY NAME public TRAP MANAGER 1 IP Address 192 168 0 10 After board is reset start up code will wait 10 seconds Type c then press Enter M odify any of this or C ontinue M Wait for non volatile storage update Updating non volatile storage This may take a whil...

Page 27: ...l use a baud rate of 9600 HARDWARE PARAMETERS This board s MAC Address is 0 20 46 11 15 81 APPLICATION PARAMETERS Boot Ciprico Network Server Mail and SNMP notification will occur for Warnings and Critical events SNMP TRAP CONFIGURATION TRAP COMMUNITY NAME public TRAP MANAGER 1 IP Address 192 168 0 10 After board is reset start up code will wait 10 seconds To change any of this press any key withi...

Page 28: ...Set up PFR500 or PFR600 network settings 28 PVS2000 Installation Guide 23 January 2004 ...

Page 29: ...ice Manual for information on using NetCentral Lite Configuring PFR700 network and SNMP settings Network and SNMP settings are set and stored on the LAN card Therefore the PFR700 RAID chassis including its one or two RAID controllers is a single networked device This is different than other PFR series RAID devices in which each controller is a networked device You can use the GVG Disk Utility to c...

Page 30: ...toring the PFR700 E with your NetCentral Lite on your Profile XP Media Platform enter its IP address If you are monitoring the PFR700 E with NetCentral enter the IP address of the NetCentral server NetCentral 4 x and higher or NetCentral monitoring station NetCentral 3 x and lower 4 Click OK to save settings and close Now that the RAID controller network and SNMP settings are configured you can pr...

Page 31: ...d to reconfigure network settings you must refer to the NetCentral Lite setup instructions in the Profile XP Service Manual to reconfigure SNMP settings Starting NetCentral Lite on the Profile XP system Use the following steps to start NetCentral Lite and begin monitoring the Profile XP Media Platform To start NetCentral Lite 1 Click Start Programs NetCentral NetCentral Lite After NetCentral Lite ...

Page 32: ...ick File Add Device 2 In the Add Device dialog box enter the IP address or host name for RAID Controller A then click OK You can use the following default address if you have not modified network settings controller A 192 168 0 11 NetCentral contacts RAID Controller A and adds it to the device list The RAID Controller is labeled using the controller IP address or the host name if network name reso...

Page 33: ...l A and analog audio formats An interface chassis is required for analog audio and AES EBU digital audio If you are using only embedded audio no interface chassis is required Select audio input format To select audio input format 1 Click Audio Routing in the Configuration Manager window The Audio Input Routing dialog box appears 2 Select the audio input format for each PVS2000 audio channel pair S...

Page 34: ...list arrow in the Embedded column for the channel pair you want to configure and select a video input as shown NOTE With one audio board only the first 4 video inputs are selectable b Click the right hand drop down list arrow in the Embedded column for the channel pair you want to configure and select an audio group and channel pair as shown NOTE Up to two audio groups 8 audio channels can be extr...

Page 35: ...audio formats are selected automatically when the system sees the audio interface is attached 3 Select embedded audio output using the following steps a For embedded audio select the Embedded check box for each audio channel pair that require embedded audio b Click the left hand drop down list arrow in the Embedded column for the channel pair you want to configure and select a video output as show...

Page 36: ...o audio groups 8 audio channels can be embedded on a single video output Embedded audio can only be allocated by groups of 4 channels In some cases with two audio boards installed you may have to select embedded audio outputs first then select the audio inputs for each audio board to be able to select all the desired embedded outputs 4 Click Finish to save your settings 5 Continue with the next pr...

Page 37: ...drPanel 1 Start VdrPanel using the desktop shortcut or by selecting Start Programs Profile Applications VdrPanel The VdrPanel window appears NOTE The first time VdrPanel runs a panel opens for each default record and play channel The number of default channels depends on your PVS2000 model Refer to Default Video Connections on page 5 2 Record a short clip a few seconds in duration as follows a Cli...

Page 38: ... Clip to open the Load Clip dialog box c Select clip 1 in the clip list then click OK to load the clip d Click Play and verify that video audio are present at the channel outputs If you have a problem refer to the Chapter 10 Solving Common Setup Problems in the Profile XP System Guide 4 Use steps 2 and 3 to test all record and play channels 5 Continue with the next procedure in this guide to adjus...

Page 39: ...load a clip and verify the output timing for each play channel To adjust video output timing 1 In VdrPanel load and playback a clip as follows a Click anywhere in the panel for the first Play Channel b Select Video Clip Load Clip to open the Load Clip dialog box c Select a clip to load then click OK d Click the ee button in the panel e Repeat step a through step d for all Play channels Adjust vide...

Page 40: ...ck Next to navigate to page 2 of 3 4 Select the video output from the list then adjust the video output timing with the timing controls NOTE Use the Select All button to enter the same offset for all video outputs 5 Repeat step 4 for each video output 6 Click Finish to save your settings 7 Continue with the next procedure in this guide to select RS 422 control protocol Delay Advance ...

Page 41: ... remote control 1 If VdrPanel is not already running start it using the desktop shortcut or by selecting Start Programs Profile Applications VdrPanel The VdrPanel window appears 2 In VdrPanel click in the panel you want to set up for remote control 3 Choose Controller Configure to open the Channel Configuration dialog box then select a control protocol using the Protocol drop down list as shown Pr...

Page 42: ...ear panel P1 through P8 are RS 422 ports on the I O Panel Figure 1 dialog box 5 Click OK in the Channel Configuration dialog box 6 Repeat step 2 through step 5 for the remaining panels 7 Test the system using your automation controller This completes all the procedures in this Installation Guide Refer to the Profile XP System Guide for more information on customizing settings for your application ...

Page 43: ...by selecting Start Programs Profile Applications Prolink 3 Select an RS 422 serial port then click Select The Prolink window appears 4 Test the PVS3000 system using your controller 5 Repeat steps 2 4 for the number of control ports you need to control the PVS3000 using Profile protocol NOTE For more information on the Prolink user interface see Chapter 8 Controlling the Profile XP Remotely in the ...

Page 44: ...Select an RS 422 control protocol 44 PVS2000 Installation Guide 23 February 2004 ...

Page 45: ...tative may be available in your country To locate the support representative for your country visit the product support Web page on the Grass Valley Web site Profile Users Group You can connect with other Profile XP Media Platform users to ask questions or share advice tips and hints Send e mail to profile users thomson net to join the community and benefit from the experience of others United Sta...

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