User`s guide

Important Information
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For example:
• An Op1A MXF file contains 1 video track, with 8 mono-channel PCM (16 bits or 24
bits) tracks at 48kHz.
Ingest results: All 8 mono-channel PCM audio tracks are ingested.
• An Op1A MXF file contains 1 video track, with 16 mono-channel PCM (16 bits or 24
bits) tracks at 48kHz.
Ingest results: Only the first sequential 8 mono-channel PCM audio tracks are ingested.
The rest of the tracks are ignored.
• An Op1A MXF file contains 1 video track, with 4 mono-channel PCM (16 bits or 24
bits) tracks at 48kHz and 2 Dolby-E pairs wrapped as pseudo-PCM (for a total of
equivalent of 8 mono-channel tracks).
Ingest results: All 8 mono-channel tracks are ingested, with the first 4 tracks as
mono-channel PCM and the last 4 tracks as pseudo-PCM tracks.
• An Op1A MXF file contains 1 video track, with 8 mono-channel PCM (16 bits or 24
bits) tracks at 48kHz and 4 Dolby-E pairs (for a total of equivalent of 16 mono-channel
tracks).
Ingest results: Only the first sequential 8 mono-channels PCM are ingested and the last
8 pseudo-PCM tracks are ignored.
K2 User Accounts and Folder Permissions
Before you can ingest or use Send to Playback with a K2 media server you need to create a
user account on the K2 media server and set the correct permissions on the ingest and
playback folders. For complete details, see the Thomson Grass Valley documentation.
The K2 media server provides two user accounts:
• mfxmovie—used with MXF format files.
When you use this account, you can create any folder structure on the K2 media server
that meets your needs.
• movie—used with GXF format files. Avid does not support the GXF format, therefore
do not use the movie user account.
You can also choose to use any name you want when creating a user account on the K2
server. However, you must create top level folders with the name MXF to identify that the
files in the MXF folder are MXF format. These folders must have the correct permissions to
allow the transfers to complete.