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Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 

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9. Scheduling 

9.1 Create a daily schedule 

 

1.

 

Create two more playlists and put 
Titles as “Morning” and “Evening” 

 

 

2.

 

Select Control Tab, drag “Power 
On” and drop it to the first row at 
control column in Daily Schedule 
window. 

 

 

3.

 

Select Playlist Tab, drag 
“Morning” and drop it to the 
second row at playlist column in 
Daily Schedule window. 

4.

 

Select Playlist Tab, drag “New 
Products” and drop it to the third 
row at playlist column. 

5.

 

Select Playlist Tab, drag “Evening” 
and drop it to the 4

th

 row at playlist 

column. 

 

 

6.

 

Right click “Morning”, select “Change End Time”, enter 
“12:00:00” and click OK. 

7.

 

Right click “New Products”, select “Change End Time”, 
enter “15:00:00” and click OK. 

8.

 

Right click “Evening”, select “Change End Time”, enter 
“18:00:00” and click OK. 

 
 

 

Summary of Contents for BZNP-D1

Page 1: ...Sony Electronics Inc www sony com nsp1 Sony NSP 1 BZNP D1 Tutorials Revision 1 10 2 11 2005 ...

Page 2: ...BZNP D1 when necessary 4 Equipment and Configuration 5 Setup of NSP 1 6 Setup of BZNP D1 7 Ingest content 8 Create a playlist 9 Scheduling 10 Content Production guidelines 11 FAQ 12 Appendix A Video file conversion with Canopus ProCoder Express B Video file conversion with Discreet Cleaner XL ...

Page 3: ...est content create a playlist schedule play out distribute content and monitor status BZNP D1 can manage up to 210 units of NSP 1 BZNP D1 software can be purchased as BZNP D1EXD a package product that consists of BZNP D1 software 10 player license and Canopus ProCoder Express software Canopus ProCoder Express software can encode almost all types of video file to MPEG2 file that is compatible with ...

Page 4: ...ll system PC Hardware General spec Nothing special Graphics Sound card Microsoft DirectX compatible card is recommended PC OS OS Microsoft Windows XP professional 3 Direct X Microsoft DirectX 9 1 or later is required 4 PC Software 2 BZNP D1 software w 1 player license comes with NSP1 though Canopus ProCoder Express software is not included 3 Sony does not guarantee but BZNPD1 may run on Windows 20...

Page 5: ...V2 0 Discreet Cleaner XL Network 100BT router switch hub Nothing special Ethernet cable Regular straight cable to connect PC and NSP1 via router switch hub Cross over cable to connect PC and NSP1 directly Display for NSP1 Display Any kind of display with VGA HD15 interface such as Plasma display LCD or CRT monitor NSP1 supports following resolutions VGA WVGA 848x480 SVGA and XGA Display cable VGA ...

Page 6: ... Subnet mask Confirm network connection In the cmd exe window Type ping 192 168 0 1 Confirm Reply from 192 168 0 1 When ping fails please refer to this foot note6 Launch Web browser and connect to NSP1 Launch Web browser such as Internet Explore Enter http 192 168 0 1 4980 at the address Then a login window is popped up Type NSP1admin at User name case sensitive Type NSP1admin at Password case sen...

Page 7: ...and composite 8 WVGA 848x480 is recommended to drive a plasma display because square pixel ratio makes it easy to produce content Select Orientation from Landscape or Portrait WVGA Landscape is assumed in the following trainings 2 Click Send Reboot NSP1 1 Click Reboot 2 Click Reboot 7 Time Zone does matter only when NTP is utilized to adjust date and time automatically over network Currently NSP1 ...

Page 8: ...ProCoder Express if you purchased BZNPD1EXD This software installs DirectShow compatible MPEG2 codec software that is important to ingest MPEG2 video content 6 2 BZNP D1 GUI 6 3 Set up BZNP D1 Following setups are required on BZNPD1 software before you do a regular operation Register NSP1 Create a group Setup a group Create a template Assign NSP1 to a group 6 3 1 Register NSP1 1 Select Setup Group...

Page 9: ...lick Tutorials on the right side in the Group Setup window 2 Click NSP A on the left side 3 Click Add 4 Close this window 6 4 Group In order to simplify operations creating playlists scheduling playout and distributing content are based on groups If you do NOT purchase BZNPD1EXD and install a license you can create only one group 6 5 Template NSP1 can play back several types of content with layere...

Page 10: ...ect Video tab 2 Drag AWSG500 mpg and J30 mpg files in video folder from Explorer and drop to the Content Management window 3 In case Duration shows 00 00 00 9 double click the duration and enter 00 00 15 Preview Video content 1 Right click the video content and select Send to NSP1 and Preview Ingest Graphics content 1 Select Graphics tab 2 Drag BG AWSG bmp BG HDV bmp BG NH A bmp and BG NH B bmp fi...

Page 11: ...erial management window and select New 3 Select Arial at Font and 18 at Font Size 4 Click Read Text File and Select NAB txt in Text folder and Click Open 5 Click properties 6 Select Scroll at Effect 7 Select Slow at Scroll Speed 8 Click OK in Text Properties window 9 Click OK in Edit Text window ...

Page 12: ...ooking at the Background column you will understand followings BG AWSG plays 15 seconds then BG HDV plays 10 seconds then BG NH A plays 8 seconds then BG NH B plays 7 seconds Looking at the first row you will understand followings Through 00 00 00 and 00 00 15 BG AWSG is played at Background layer LED_CLOCK is played at Graphics layer AWSG500 is played at Video layer and Come visit is played at Te...

Page 13: ...in Content Management window and drop it to the Playlist Window Notice that the Start Time of the second column becomes 00 00 15 2 Select Graphics tab drag BG AWSG in Content Management window and drop it to the first row at Background column in the Playlist Window Notice that three columns Background Graphics and Logo are highlighted because still graphics can be placed one of these layers so tha...

Page 14: ...ls 14 3 Drag BG HDV and drop it to the second row at Background column 4 Select Video tab drag J30 and drop it to the third row at Video column 5 Select Graphics tab drag BG NH A and drop it to the third row at Background column ...

Page 15: ...ound column in the Playlist Window and select Change Duration 7 Enter 00 00 08 in the Change Duration Window and click OK 8 Drag BG NH B and drop it to the 4th row in the Playlist Window 9 Select Flash tab drag LED_CLOCK and drop it to the first row at Flash column ...

Page 16: ...sit in the playlist window select Change Duration enter 00 00 40 and click OK 13 Select Playlist Save from the menu and select Playlist tab You will see one playlist with blank at type and title Enter Tutorials at Type and New Products at Title by double clicking the cell 14 Right click the playlist and select Send to NSP 1 and Preview BZNPD1 will send the playlist and associated content to NSP1 a...

Page 17: ...aylist will be played back as loop when there is no scheduled playlist at that time This is convenient to utilize NSP1 when scheduling is not required 17 Select NSP 1 Remote Control select NSP A at NSP 1 pull down menu and click Update BZNP D1 will retrieve list of content from the NSP1 Click Periodic Schedule tab You will see one item with 12 31 9999 at Start Date and End Date This represents the...

Page 18: ...hange Duration and enter the duration 2 Overwrite or Insert When you drag and drop content on existing content in a playlist it is Overwrite When you drag and drop content on existing content in a playlist with Ctrl key pressed it is Insert 3 Trim end point of Video or FLASH content You can trim end point of Video or FLASH by editing Duration or End Time ...

Page 19: ...Morning and drop it to the second row at playlist column in Daily Schedule window 4 Select Playlist Tab drag New Products and drop it to the third row at playlist column 5 Select Playlist Tab drag Evening and drop it to the 4th row at playlist column 6 Right click Morning select Change End Time enter 12 00 00 and click OK 7 Right click New Products select Change End Time enter 15 00 00 and click O...

Page 20: ...t Daily Schedule tab and enter Tutorials at Type cell and Weekday at Title cell 9 2 Assign a daily schedule to a specific day 11 Right click the daily schedule Weekday and select Periodic Schedule Settings 12 Select appropriate date at Period uncheck Sun and Sat at Day of the week and click OK 13 Click Periodic Schedule tab right click a periodic schedule Weekday and select Send to NSP1 ...

Page 21: ... MPEG4 it is also possible to do live streaming Please refer to a white paper about MPEG4 live streaming In order to utilize MPEG2 video file Sony certified following software and hardware encoders Canopus ProCoder Express software encoder Canopus ProCoder 2 software encoder Discreet Cleaner XL software encoder Canopus MPEG PRO MVR hardware encoder Optibase MPEG MovieMaker 200S hardware encoder Pl...

Page 22: ... Mid night in Japan Time is day time in US Q I d like to change color of text but I can not change Base Character Color in the Text Properties window A Base Character Color can be changed before you type any text If you d like to change color of text you have already typed right click words in Edit Text window and select Change Character Color Q I received NSP1 with a default playlist that plays b...

Page 23: ...g program followings are suggested parameters File format AVI or QuickTime Video Compression DV M JPEG or uncompressed Audio 48k Hz 16 bits uncompressed 1 Launch Canopus ProCoder Express 2 Click Convert a source file to a different format then click Next in a Welcome window 3 Click Load and select a source file then Click Next in a Load Source window Check Config Source File Setting if trimming is...

Page 24: ...dow 7 Click Advanced Output Settings in a Job Summary 8 Enter the following value in each item then Click Close Interlacing Lower Bottom Field First Video Bit Rate between 4000 and 9000 Quality Speed Highest Quality Stream Format DVD MPEG Program Elementary Stream Stream Type MPEG 2 Program Stream Use Audio Use Always Audio Stream Type MPEG Audio Layer 2 Audio Bit Rate 224kbps ...

Page 25: ...Sony NSP 1 BZNP D1 Tutorials 25 9 Click Convert in a Job Summary window ...

Page 26: ...n DV M JPEG or uncompressed Audio 48k Hz 16 bits uncompressed 1 Double click a file NTSC_NSP cjb 10 and then CleanerXL is launched with correct setups 2 A warning window may appear if you use a newer version of CleanerXL than that was used to create the cjb file Then click OK 3 Select File Save As and save it in a different name 4 Select View Destination Editor and select a folder where encoded fi...

Page 27: ... ProCoder and MPEG PRO MVR are registered trademarks of Canopus Corporation Discreet and Cleaner are registered trademark of Autodesk Incorporated Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Element are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated Apple Final Cut Pro and Live Type are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Microsoft Windows2000 WindowsXP Excel and PowerPoint are registered trademark...

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