User guide

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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
example, via import and export functions (import via the I/O Tool and
export via the Edit Tool).
Integrated Spycer
With Spycer, the innovative content management software by DVS,
you can manage your content easily. It is a software application capable
of handling large amounts of video data and their corresponding meta-
data, providing you with integrated browse, search and management
tools to retrieve data and gather information about them locally as well
as via a network. Additionally it can be used to preview clips and add
them to the bin of the DVS software, thus offering you even more pos-
sibilities than a file manager. Spycer is already integrated in the DVS
software. It can be accessed the same way as the other software mod-
ules and is thus not needed as a stand-alone application. For CLIPSTER
users it comes with the complete feature set and, furthermore, works
seamlessly together with other available DVS products, such as the
DVS-SAN.
The Configuration Tool
For the configuration and setup of the whole DVS system and its soft-
ware you can use the Configuration Tool. Here you can set up, for ex-
ample, the period for the automatic save function of the project file
(autosave) as well as more software specific settings, such as the bin
properties.
Tools and Services
Also part of the DVS software are various tools that can be used for a
more basic configuration of the DVS system or may be of help during
service and maintenance tasks, e.g. monitoring and error diagnostics of
the hard- and software.
For instance, among them you can find the defragmentation tool which
is a process automatically started with the DVS software and running in
the background of the system. During stand-still times of the system
the defragmentation tool will reorganize the files present on the storage
for an optimized performance of real-time tasks such as a play-out or
record. Among the tools it is the only process that runs in the system’s
background.