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Chapter 3: Installation and Setup

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MMG Installation, Setup, and Operations Guide

Setting up Blue Codecs

The following section describes how to set up various codecs and formats in blue. The description 
includes configurations needed during the XSend workflow. For more information on the XSend 
workflow, see 

Using XSend

 on page 58.

1.

To setup a codec, go to Edit menu > Control Panel and select Site Tab.

2.

Double click Codec Presets.

Figure 3-31: Select Codec Presets

At this point the configuration differs for the possible codec’s you can setup for the use with the 
MMG 2.5 suite. We currently support:

Preset 1: SD PS 420 IBBP

Preset 2: SD PS s422 IBBP and SD PS e422 IBBP

Preset 3: SD MXF s422 I-Frame only and SD MXF e422 I-Frame only 

Preset 4: HD 420 IBBP (includes 1088i@25, 1088i@30 and 720p@60)

Preset 5: HD 422 IBBP (includes 1088i@25, 1088i@30 and 720p@60)

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Страница 5: ...22 To configure users 22 Configure Speed Limits 23 Configure the MMG 24 Installing the MMG Server on the Gateway 27 Liquid Blue Setup 29 Setting Up a Timeline in Blue 29 Editing While Transfer 30 Audi...

Страница 6: ...g Audio 60 CHAPTER 5 WORKFLOW SCENARIOS 61 Workflow 1 XReceive From SAN to Blue 62 Workflow 2 XSend from Blue to SAN 66 Workflow 3 XReceive from San to PS100 69 Workflow 4 XSend from PS100 to SAN 70 W...

Страница 7: ...nd newcopy operations between and within MediaStream Server Clusters Additional hardware components include one or more MSS 8000 NS servers and the MediaStream Networked Storage System Figure 1 1 Syst...

Страница 8: ...formats resulting in format independence and eliminating transcoding and degradation by recompression Any combination of DV DVCAM DVCPRO25 50 MPEG 2 MPEG IMX Digital Betacam and uncompressed D1 D5 ca...

Страница 9: ...d configuring your MediaStream network and the ConnectPlus 1000 gateway connecting your Liquid blue workstation components and installing and working with Palladium Exchange see the specific documenta...

Страница 10: ...Chapter 1 Introduction 10 MMG Installation Setup and Operations Guide...

Страница 11: ...S 8000 NS Installation and Site Guide Figure 2 1 System Connection Overview Liquid blue Connections First complete the steps for connecting the components of a stand alone system See your Liquid Insta...

Страница 12: ...k of the computer The dongle is wrapped in plastic and packaged with your Liquid computer You may have a parallel port dongle or a USB port dongle Figure 2 3 Liquid blue Dongles Attach the USB type of...

Страница 13: ...d blue client com puter as shown in Figure 2 4 Tighten the thumbscrews on the parallel port dongle to ensure that it is attached securely Figure 2 4 Liquid Dongle Parallel Port Placement Liquid Client...

Страница 14: ...The Gigabit Ethernet port is typically a standard RJ 45 Ethernet connection cable that you either connect to any port on the Gigabit Ethernet Switch or directly to the LAN WAN See your ConnectPlus 10...

Страница 15: ...click Liquid blue Setup exe 2 Click Yes to accept the license agreement 3 After the Welcome screen is displayed click Next 4 Complete the registration information your name and company and press Next...

Страница 16: ...ocate your serial number call Pinnacle technical support Figure 3 3 Serial Number Dialog 11 After Liquid blue is installed files are extracted for the TitleDeko setup When prompted select the language...

Страница 17: ...tion Completed Screen 17 Before using Liquid blue you need to install the service packs Insert the MMG program CD and find the directory Liquid V6 10SP2 18 Run the application liquid XML Setup exe in...

Страница 18: ...ange To install the MMG client 1 Insert the MMG installation disk into the workstation s CD drive Locate the MMG Client exe and double click it to start the installation Figure 3 6 MMG Client Install...

Страница 19: ...9 Installation Status Window 8 After the installation is complete the InstallShield Wizard Complete window is displayed Click Finish Note The FileZilla server automatically initiates a console connec...

Страница 20: ...the default values given for the local host IP address 127 0 0 1 and the port 14147 for administrative connections No password is required 2 The FileZilla server window is displayed Figure 3 10 Figure...

Страница 21: ...pe a new password Click OK To change the home directory 1 From the FileZilla window click edit users and the users configuration window appears Figure 3 12 User Edit Dialog 2 Click on Shared Folders F...

Страница 22: ...to ensure the PS100 has ample bandwidth for real time operations Create a folder on the PS100 V drive for each Blue client i e V Blue1 V Blue2 etc Perform the following steps on the PS100 To configure...

Страница 23: ...Check all 8 checkboxes in the Shared Folders group box and click the Set as home dir button 5 Repeat steps 2 4 for each Blue client connected to the PS100 Configure Speed Limits 1 From the FileZilla...

Страница 24: ...he MMG Config icon on the desktop This launches the MMG configuration tool as shown in Figure 3 17 Figure 3 17 Configuration Tool There are two sections in the configuration tool the TCS servers and t...

Страница 25: ...ort 2119 3 Enter a label for the host This can be the hostname or any unique label to identify the machine The label appears in the Source Media List dropdown list and the Destination Host dropdown li...

Страница 26: ...pdown menu To delete TCS servers or hosts 1 Choose the TCS or host from the dropdown menu 2 Click the delete button A confirmation dialog appears click Yes to delete To edit TCS servers or hosts 1 Cho...

Страница 27: ...tion click the Back button until you return to the appropriate window Make your changes and return to your previous location by clicking Next Click Cancel at any time to quit the installation 4 The Ac...

Страница 28: ...Install window is displayed Click Install 10 A progress bar shows the installation status 11 The Completing the Setup window is displayed Click Finish 12 After the MMG server has been installed the I...

Страница 29: ...ting on Blue is non dropframe To setup a dropframe timeline click the create new timeline icon Click on the advanced button and check the use drop frame timecode box shown in Figure 3 23 Click the che...

Страница 30: ...access the file through the Import Media dialog box in Liquid blue Figure 3 25 Liquid blue Import Media If you check the box labeled Trust Media Metadata your Liquid blue station uses the clip length...

Страница 31: ...busses To configure Blue to XSend with 8 tracks of audio use the Audio icon to open the audio tool On the Settings tab Figure 3 26 check the box next to Logical Output Bus under Visible Mixer Elements...

Страница 32: ...hoose Stereo Figure 3 28 Figure 3 28 Stereo Setting The column now shows Stereo 2 Repeat these steps until you have the number of audio pairs desired Figure 3 29 shows an audio setup with four logical...

Страница 33: ...lation and Setup MMG Installation Setup and Operations Guide 33 Figure 3 30 shows the output mapping for four pairs of audio Figure 3 30 Output Mapping When you are finished click the exit icon to exi...

Страница 34: ...e 58 1 To setup a codec go to Edit menu Control Panel and select Site Tab 2 Double click Codec Presets Figure 3 31 Select Codec Presets At this point the configuration differs for the possible codec s...

Страница 35: ...e preset you want to create in the textfield For this example enter SD PS 422 IBBP 3 To edit the Codec Properties click the top Edit button In Codec Properties select a maximum Bitrate of 25 MBit s Ke...

Страница 36: ...opdown list box select the Codec Preset value you just created For this example we select the Preset 1 SD PS 420 IBBP Figure 3 35 Timeline Properties XSend a sequence with 420 1 To XSend a sequence ri...

Страница 37: ...default settings and click OK Figure 3 37 XSend to XSend to MSS dialog 3 The IBP Settings dialog appears Select the MPEG 2 MP ML Reference Set Change the Bitrate mode to Constant CBR Drag Maximum Bit...

Страница 38: ...l and select Site Tab 2 Double click Codec Presets 3 Select the MPEG 2 MP HL M2V codec as starting point Click the two plus symbols on the right to duplicate this preset see Figure 3 32 on page 35 4 T...

Страница 39: ...Reference Set Change the Bitrate mode to Constant CBR Drag Maximum Bit Rate slider to 50 00 Its ok to leave the other settings as default Click the checkbox to accept settings Check the 4 2 2 box and...

Страница 40: ...n the Fileformat pull down list box select MXF 4 Type a descriptive name for the preset you want to create in the textfield For this example enter SD MXF s422 5 To edit the Codec Properties click the...

Страница 41: ...he Codec Preset value you just created For this example we select the Preset 3 SD MXF s422 Figure 3 43 Timeline properties settings for MXF XSend a sequence with MXF Standard 422 s422 1 To XSend a seq...

Страница 42: ...ame for the preset you want to create in the textfield For this example enter HD420 80MBit s Figure 3 45 HD 420 settings 5 To edit the Codec Properties click the top Edit button In Codec Properties se...

Страница 43: ...ith HD420 1 To XSend a sequence right click the sequence you want to send select the submenu XSendTo and here the menu point XSendToMSS 2 When the XSend to XSend To MSS dialog appears leave settings a...

Страница 44: ...on the right to duplicate this preset Figure 3 47 Codec Presets for HD 422 4 Type a descriptive name for the preset you want to create in the textfield For this example enter HD422 80MBit s Figure 3 4...

Страница 45: ...80MBit s Figure 3 49 Timeline Properties HD 422 XSend a sequence with HD422 1 To XSend a sequence right click the sequence you want to send select the submenu XSendTo and here the menu point XSendToM...

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Страница 47: ...le into the Liquid blue editing application using the Liquid blue watch folder Transfers from a Liquid blue workstation to the SAN where it is played by a Media Stream Server A finished sequence is se...

Страница 48: ...nectPlus 1000 gateway Source media list Depending on your workflow the source can be the Storage Area Network SAN PS100 or the Liquid blue workstation Destination host Either the Storage Area Network...

Страница 49: ...ou select the Transfer Control Server and add files to the queue the drop down menu to choose the TCS is grayed out You cannot change your selection in this window To change the TCS close this window...

Страница 50: ...nd click the Add Files button The file or files you select are added to the job queue for transfer Use standard Windows Shift Click or Ctrl Click to select multiple files Note Multiple files can be qu...

Страница 51: ...ansfer To view files you added for transfer to your Liquid blue workstation click the Pending Transfer tab Note The Pending Transfer tab and Jobs Controlled tab show transfers for the local machine on...

Страница 52: ...fy the beginning and ending points of the portion of the clip you want to transfer You can indicate these by Timecode Frame Count or Mark In and Out Figure 4 5 Partial Transfer Click Save Changes when...

Страница 53: ...nd Operations Guide 53 Monitoring Jobs After the file is accepted for transfer you can monitor it via the Job Controlled tab Figure 4 6 The job transfer is shown as transfer in progress which after co...

Страница 54: ...allation Setup and Operations Guide The Jobs on Server tab lists all of the jobs from the Transfer Control Server that are in progress or have been completed and error messages for jobs that have not...

Страница 55: ...onfiguration This configuration only needs to be done once 1 From the File menu choose XReceive 2 This launches the XReceive dialog box Choose XReceive from MMG in the drop down menu Figure 4 8 XRecei...

Страница 56: ...lly Navigate to your import folder This is the same folder that you configured FileZilla to use as it s home directory If you are using a PS100 system the watched folder should be on the mapped V driv...

Страница 57: ...ide 57 5 As soon as the transfer status shows transfer in progress Figure 4 11 close the MMG Client Figure 4 11 MMG Client Transfer in Progress 6 The Auto import dialog appears Figure 4 12 Click the c...

Страница 58: ...out Important Make sure the timeline is configured to the format you wish to use Timeline Codec Setup is described in detail in Setting up Blue Codecs on page 34 Determine the name of the sequence you...

Страница 59: ...rmat dialog review the detailed section Setting up Blue Codecs on page 34 Figure 4 16 Fuse Dialog 7 When the fuse is complete the XSend dialog appears Choose the TCS server destination and audio forma...

Страница 60: ...ce clips if the destination uses separate audio files Audio extraction is necessary for the Edit while Transferring feature Figure 4 18 Extract Audio A check mark next to the source file name indicate...

Страница 61: ...narios This chapter describes three common workflows Workflow 1 XReceive from SAN to Blue Workflow 2 XSend to SAN from Blue Workflow 3 XReceive from SAN to PS100 Workflow 4 XSend from PS100 to SAN Wor...

Страница 62: ...rkflow 1 but it utilizes the XReceive capability of Blue Figure 5 1 Workflow 1 Follow these steps 1 From the File menu choose XReceive 2 The XReceive dialog box appears Choose XReceive from MMG and cl...

Страница 63: ...lus gateway and in most installations there is only one 4 Select the source host from the Source Media drop down list For this workflow the source host is the same as the TCS 5 Select the destination...

Страница 64: ...s transferred The Frames option allows you to choose the first frame and number of frames to transfer The Mark In Out option allows you to transfer the part of the clip between the mark in timecode an...

Страница 65: ...t editing utilizing the edit while transfer feature Note Any transfer jobs that show a status of Accepted are not yet on disk and are not auto imported if the MMG application is closed while in this s...

Страница 66: ...re 5 6 Workflow 2 Follow these steps 1 Determine the name of the sequence you want to send The name of the sequence currently on the timeline can be found above the inlay Figure 5 7 Name Sequence 2 Lo...

Страница 67: ...ide 67 3 Right click the sequence and choose XSend To XSend to MSS Figure 5 9 XSend to MSS menu 4 The fuse dialog appears click OK Figure 5 10 Fuse dialog 5 Depending on the format the timeline is con...

Страница 68: ...ears Choose the TCS server destination and audio format You may also rename the clip When you are finished click send Figure 5 11 XSend dialog 7 The Progress Viewer appears and gives the status of the...

Страница 69: ...s Guide 69 Workflow 3 XReceive from San to PS100 Figure 5 12 Workflow 3 Workflow 3 is identical to workflow 6 on page 73 except for step 5 For this workflow choose the PS100 as the destination SAN Con...

Страница 70: ...llation Setup and Operations Guide Workflow 4 XSend from PS100 to SAN Figure 5 13 Workflow 4 This workflow is identical to Workflow 2 XSend from Blue to SAN on page 66 SAN Connect Plus 1000 NS Liquid...

Страница 71: ...n the MSI decoder window and click the Trim button in the toolbar The Trimming Window appears Figure 5 14 Trimming Window 2 Use the Mark In and Mark Out controls to set the beginning and end of the su...

Страница 72: ...r the TSC Transfer Control Server Source Gateway and Destination Gateway 5 Select Blue for Destination Type 6 Indicate the type of transfer you want Full or Subclip and whether the audio should be sen...

Страница 73: ...nsfer MMG Copy Status from the menu bar The Transfer Status window appears Figure 5 17 Transfer Status 10 Enter the IP address for the TCS if it is not present You should see the last 30 attempted tra...

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Страница 75: ...nds sent to each FTP server involved in the transfer for a normal transfer For transfers using audio demux or newcopy functionality this file contains the output of the process handling the transfer F...

Страница 76: ...and or destination host WARNING couldn t verify if copied file is ok After a transfer is done the TCS couldn t establish an FTP connection to the destination host to verify that the files are actually...

Страница 77: ...script to retry the transfer Note If this is the first time the transfer has been attempted consult your automation vender regarding why the automatic attempted to transfer this file without first de...

Страница 78: ...SC to register the size as zero If there is no failure message associated with the truncating message and the number of bytes transferred matches the actual size of the file attempt to retrieve the fi...

Страница 79: ...ption to this is any kind of socket error indicated by sockerr 2 Verify that there is enough free disk space on the Liquid blue hard disk for the transfer to complete 3 Search the ConnectPlus 1000 gat...

Страница 80: ...leaks and a subsequent lack of resources and that filezilla is running and correctly configured on the destination Read of source file failed Check C fsc logs for IFS and fibre channel errors logged...

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