User's Manual Instruction Manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright
- Disclaimer
- Improvement Requests
- Regional Contacts
- User Manuals on EVS Website
- 1. Introduction
- 2. User Interface
- 2.1 OPENING OF DATABASE EXPLORER
- 2.2 OVERVIEW OF THE DATABASE EXPLORER
- 2.3 DATABASE EXPLORER TOOLBAR
- 2.4 TREE VIEW
- 2.5 ELEMENT GRID AND SEARCH OPTIONS
- 2.6 STATUS BAR
- Clips, Clip Elements and Nearline Files
- 4. Clips View
- 4.1 INTRODUCTION
- 4.2 UNDERSTANDING CLIP STRUCTURE ON AN EVS VIDEO SERVER
- 4.3 VIRTUAL LSM ID / REAL LSM ID
- 4.4 CLIP TREE STRUCTURE
- 4.5 CLIP DATA COLUMNS
- 4.6 CLIP CONTEXTUAL MENU
- 4.7 DELETING A CLIP
- 4.8 EDITING A CLIP
- 4.9 COPYING OR MOVING A CLIP
- 4.10 SENDING A CLIP TO A DESTINATION TARGET
- 4.10.1 Send To Menu
- 4.10.2 How to Send a Clip to the Default Archive
- 4.10.3 How to Send a Clip to a Destination Folder (Destination Target)
- 4.10.4 How to Add a Destination Target
- 4.10.5 How to Delete a Destination Target
- 4.10.6 How to Send a Clip to an XStore Workstation (Running CleanEdit Applications)
- 4.10.7 How to Send a Clip to an Avid System Using the AVID Transfer Manager
- 4.10.8 Transfer Monitoring
- 4.11 HOW TO MODIFY THE T/C IN OR THE DATE OF A CLIP
- 4.12 PUBLISHING A CLIP
- 4.13 LINKING CLIPS
- 5. Clip Elements View
- 6. Playlists View
- 7. Timelines View
- 8. Bins View
- 9. Logs View
- 9.1 INTRODUCTION
- 9.2 LOGS TREE STRUCTURE
- 9.3 HOW TO CREATE A LOGS DIRECTORY
- 9.4 HOW TO RENAME A LOGS DIRECTORY
- 9.5 HOW TO DELETE A LOGS DIRECTORY
- 9.6 HOW TO PUBLISH A LOG DIRECTORY OR A LOG SHEET
- 9.7 HOW TO VIEW THE LOG DIRECTORY OR LOG SHEET PROPERTIES
- 9.8 HOW TO DELETE A LOG DIRECTORY OR A LOG SHEET
- 9.9 HOW TO EXPORT A LOG SHEET FROM THE TREE
- 9.10 HOW TO EXPORT A LOGGING PROFILE FROM THE TREE
- 9.11 PRINTING A LOG SHEET
- 9.12 LOG EVENT COLUMNS
- 10. Media Files View
- 11. Searching the Database
- 12. Loading and Playing Media from the Database Explorer
- 13. Database Explorer Shortcuts

Issue 5.9.B IPDirector Version 5.9
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User Manual
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Part 3
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Browsing
EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011
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Options related to
the element list
display
Description
Fill Key Displays a simple list of Fill & Key elements.
Multiline List with
Thumbnails
Displays related information in columns with some
parameters displayed on several lines.
Also shows a thumbnail associated to the elements.
Thumbnails View Displays a larger version of the thumbnails.
Note
Thumbnails can be created automatically when there is an XFile or an
XTAccess designated within the thumbnails configuration in the Remote
Installer application of IPDirector. Refer to the Technical Reference
manual for further details.
Thumbnails can be created manually from the Control Panel (refer to
section about Grab Thumbnail button in part 5 of the manual) and from
the Database Explorer (refer to section ‘Photo Button’ on page 7).
2.3.2 PRINT BUTTON
Clicking the Print button opens the Print Log Sheet window from which you can
print the element list currently displayed in the grid.
2.3.3 BROWSE AND PLAY OPTIONS
These browse and play options allow you to:
• automatically load an element on a player channel, ready to play
• automatically play an element on a player channel
• automatically play a list of elements
as they are selected in the Database Explorer.
Details are described below.
Note
These options can only be used when a channel is assigned to the
Database Explorer. Refer to section 12.1 ‘How to Assign a Player
C
hannel to the Database Explorer’ on page 113.










