User`s guide

Contents
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Adding Clips to the SGI Media Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Transferring Clips to the SGI Media Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Proxy Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
MPEG-2 Index File Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Clip Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Degree of Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Minor Alignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Major Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Notifying the SGI Media Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Transferring a Clip Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Overriding Clip Segment Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Removing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
MXF Record and Playout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6. Virtual Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Virtual Clip Command Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
File Operations on Virtual Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Creating and Opening Virtual Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Building a Non-Virtual Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Saving, Closing, and Removing Virtual Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Working with Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Adding Segments to Vclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Listing Segments in a Vclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Removing Segments in Vclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Working with Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Inserting Empty Frames into a Vclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
7. Configuring and Using External Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Configuring and Using the Sony (P2) Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Configuring Sony Protocol Control Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Changing the Clip Loaded in a Sony Controlled Logical Unit . . . . . . . . . 91
Configuring the SGI Media Server to Control a VTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91