Specifications

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Figure 2. Windows error when you select a drive without a P2 card in it.

Note: For more details on configuring your monitor, click the Help button with the monitor’s

editor panel displayed to view the online help page.

6. Save your factory settings and close the Manage Factories window.

7. Now, display the System Status window and observe your new P2 monitor come online. The

P2 Local Folder monitor first displays “Initializing” in the Status column. When the Status col-

umn displays “Online: E:\CONTENT, no new file(s) detected”, the monitor is operational.

Insert the P2 Card

With your factory’s product and P2 Local Folder monitor correctly configured, insert a P2 card into

any slot in the reader.

For each new XML file detected, a job is automatically submitted to the specified factory. The

factory parses the XML file and uses the MXF codec to process the associated media files and

produce the output specified in your factory.

Accessing Media Directly on P2 Card on a Network Server Share

To access P2 media directly from a card in a P2 memory drive/recorder on a Windows server

separate from your FlipFactory server, follow these steps:

Set Up the Factory With a P2 Network Folder Monitor

1. Install a P2 memory drive/recorder on a Windows server (as directed by the manufacturer)

that is network-accessible by the FlipFactory server.

2. Insert a blank P2 card into each slot in your memory drive/recorder that you plan to create a

monitor for, so that when the monitor initializes, it recognizes that the directory is empty (there

are no XML files to process).

3. Configure the lettered drive as a share, and make sure that the user account which the Flip

Engine is operating under has credentials to access the media.

4. Add a P2 Network Folder monitor to your P2 factory (for each card slot you want media pro-

cessed from) and configure it. First, provide an optional description for this monitor.

5. Look in Subfolders: Check Look in Subfolders. Make sure the checkbox is checked so that the

feature is enabled.

Note: If you do not check this, the job will fail, because the media is stored in special folders

below CONTENT.

6. Enter your domain name in the Domain Name/Workgroup Name field first.

7. Next, click Browse, navigate to the P2 share, select the CONTENT folder and click Select. For

example, Win_Server_9/E_P2_Share/CONTENT.

Note: If you select a letter drive without a P2 card inserted, Windows displays an error: