Setup guide

50 • Avid|DS
Chapter 4 • Assembling the System
Peripheral Devices
Peripheral devices, such as VTRs and DATs, connected to your workstation
allow you to capture and output video/audio material. You can control this
equipment remotely with Avid|DS.
Video Connections You can connect HD VTRs and video monitors to your workstation.
Although you should use a house sync, Avid|DS can capture and output using
an internal sync signal generated by the Avid Equinox Break-Out-Box.
The following procedures and illustrations explain each of these variations.
For more information, refer to the documentation that comes with your
peripheral devices.
To connect video devices
1. Connect the HD In, on the Avid Equinox Break-Out-Box, to the HD Out
on the VTR.
2. Connect one of the HD Outs, on the Avid Equinox Break-Out-Box, to the
HD In on the VTR.
3. Connect the other HD Out, on the Avid Equinox Break-Out-Box, to the
HD In on the video monitor.
4. Set the VTR transport switch to Remote.
5. Plug the RS-232 end of your machine control cable into the COM 1 port
on your workstation.
6. Plug the other end of the cable to the REMOTE IN port on the VTR.
On a rack mount workstation, the input/output panel (which
contains the COM 1 serial ports) is to the left of the expansion card
slots when viewing the back of the workstation base unit.
You should not substitute the machine control cable with any
other cable. The supplied machine control cable is an RS-232 to
RS-422 converter.