Specifications

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10. Select (or enter) content name, select a specific Flip Engine if you’re working in a FactoryArray

and need a specific Flip Engine to process this job (due to licensing or other configurations),

and a specific store, as required. Optionally, check metadata and enter it.

11. To submit the job, click Flip It! The specified factory will ingest the XML file, and parse it to

transcode the media and produce the output file specified in the factory.

To observe the job’s progress, display the Job Status window. View details by double-clicking the

job entry in the job table. When the job is complete, FlipFactory delivers the single output media

file to the destination specified in your factory, or to the default store if no destination is specified.

Processing Spanned P2 Files

When a P2 media file spans two media cards (a single logical file split into two separate files – one

on each P2 card), two complete P2 file sets are created – one on each card. The P2 XML files that

are part of a spanned file set have special elements within them. These elements are named head,

next, and prev. Each file has a head element so that the MXF codec can identify and locate the top

of the chain – the logical first file – and then work back down through the chain.

The MXF codec plays these chained files ordinally from the list, producing a single output file when

the job is done being processed by FlipFactory.

Note: Although it is possible to copy the directories onto Windows servers, Telestream

recommends processing them directly from the P2 cards for simplicity.

Due to the complex directory structure on P2 cards, it is usually easier to access spanned files

directly from the P2 cards. To copy spanned files to a Windows server for processing by

FlipFactory, copy the files – from each directory on each card – into a single CONTENT directory

and the appropriate sub-directories on the WIndows server.

Stitching Multiple Files Into a Single File

P2 spanned file support provides a method for producing chained XML files that identify multiple

clips that represent a single file. By providing similarly-formatted XML files, you can submit a job

that produces a single file in FlipFactory. For details, please contact Telestream Customer service.

Note. The inclusion of start timecodes from each XML may produce a playlist with a

discontinuous timecode.