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Cinemage User Manual
Version 4.1.x ©2010
Chapter 4: Useful Operations
Cinemage Preferences Control:
Setting Remote File Locations
The Cinemage and Cinemage B Series monitors feature a remote file access capability
that allows for storing and accessing media on remote file servers. This requires that
the remote server host a standard readable and writable SMB (i.e. Samba or Windows)
file share. Each type of file that can be accessed remotely (still, input LUT, 3d LUT,
preset) has a unique share associated with it. Additionally, there is a modal switch that
allows the user to access these files either remotely from the share, from a USB
memory key attached to the monitor, or on the monitor’s local storage.
The advantages to using remote storage are that there are no storage restrictions
(beyond that on the server) and that multiple monitors can use the same pool of
presets, images and LUTs.
Setting the remote file location can be done either from the front panel or through the
preferences file, prefs.xml. Using the front panel controls where this file can be backed
up to, saved to, or loaded from a USB memory key.
Here is the procedure for saving the current preferences file to a USB key, manually
adding the server information, adding it to the monitor, then connecting and verifying the
connection.
Note
: This is only one technique for establishing the connection; the alternative is to
program it in from the front panel using the trackball.
Step 1: Copy the preferences to a USB key.
1.
Insert a USB memory key that’s prepared for the Cinemage (consult your manual for
details).
2.
From the Main Menu, Select “SETUP MENUS”.
3.
Select “PRESET & PREFERENCES SETUP”.
4.
Select “MANAGE PREFERENCES”.
5.
Select “SAVE PREFERENCES TO USB”.
Step 2: Edit the preferences file.
1.
Move the USB key to a computer and open the file “cinetal/prefs.xml” in a text editor or
xml editor.
2.
Find the “connection_info” tag for the desired file type, in this case we’re changing the
remote path for stills, so that would be “connection_info_stills”.
Text:
<
connection_info_stillsxsi
:
type
="a1:connect_data"
xmlns
:
a1
="http://schemas.microsoft.com/c
lr/nsassem/Philo/PhiloController%2C%20Version%3D1.0.2168.38160%2C%20Culture%3Dneutral%2C%
20PublicKeyToken%3Dnull">
<
usernamexsi
:
null
="1"/>
<
pathxsi
:
null
="1"/>
<
passwordxsi
:
null
="1"/>
</
connection_info_luts_input
>
