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

IPDirector Version 5.9
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User Manual
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Part 3: Browsing
EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011
Issue 5.9.B
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Column Name Description
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T/C IN The IN timecode of the clip, without guardbands.
T/C OUT The OUT timecode of the clip, without guardbands.
Duration The clip duration from T/C IN to T/C OUT.
Limit IN The Protect IN timecode of the clip including guardbands.
Limit OUT The Protect OUT timecode of the clip including
guardbands.
Keywords A list of the standard keywords that have been associated
with the clip.
Participants A list of the participant keywords that have been
associated with the clip.
Level A rating can be given to a clip, from zero to three stars.
This can be done during clip creation or later on and can
provide a useful search filter for use in the Database
Explorer.
None, , ,
Ganged If the clip is linked to other clips, because it has been
created on ganged recorders, the gang icon is displayed
Type If the clip is a Key Clip, a Fill clip or a normal clip.
Creation Date The date when the clip was created.
Source Name The record source name of the channel where the clip was
created. This name is assigned in the EVS video server
set up menus.
The source name is always the one of the hi-res element,
even if the element is off-line. If there is no hi-res
element, the field is empty.
Storage Concatenation of the storage locations of all the clip
elements.
Category Category assigned to the clip in the Ingest Scheduler.
Tape ID TapeID as ingested in the VTR engine or from an AVID
system.
SLSM Indicates if a clip is a Super Motion clip or not
Owner Clip owner identification.
Published All the groups the clip has been published to.










