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

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11.2 BRANCH SELECTION IN THE DATABASE TREE .................................................................... 94
11.3 QUICK SEARCH OPTIONS ....................................................................................................... 95
11.3.1 Quick TC Search ................................................................................................................... 95
11.3.2 Quick Text Search................................................................................................................. 97
11.4 WHEN THE SEARCH ON ALL COLUMNS OPTION IS ACTIVATED, THE SEARCH
PROCESS MAY BE SLOWER. ............................................................................................................ 98
11.5 GRID FILTERS ........................................................................................................................ 100
11.5.1 Search Fields Types ........................................................................................................... 101
11.5.2 Grid Filter Rules .................................................................................................................. 101
11.5.3 How to Perform a Search through Grid Filter Fields ............................................................ 101
11.5.4 How to Perform Advanced Search through Keywords Grid Filter Field ............................... 106
11.6 CLIPS NOT IN A SELECTED PLAYLIST ................................................................................. 108
11.7 USING SAVED FILTERS ......................................................................................................... 109
11.7.1 How to Save Filters ............................................................................................................. 109
11.7.2 How to Apply Saved Filters ................................................................................................. 110
11.7.3 How to Update a Saved Filter ............................................................................................. 110
11.7.4 How to Rename a Saved Filter ........................................................................................... 111
11.7.5 How to Delete a Saved Filter .............................................................................................. 111
11.7.6 How to Publish a Saved Filter ............................................................................................. 112
12. LOADING AND PLAYING MEDIA FROM THE DATABASE EXPLORER ......... 113
12.1 HOW TO ASSIGN A PLAYER CHANNEL TO THE DATABASE EXPLORER ......................... 113
12.1.1 From the Channel Explorer ................................................................................................. 113
12.1.2 From the Status Bar of the Database Explorer ................................................................... 114
12.2 LOADING MEDIA ..................................................................................................................... 114
12.2.1 On the Player Channel Associated to the Database Explorer ............................................. 114
12.2.2 On the Player Channel Associated to the Control Panel ..................................................... 115
12.3 PLAYING MEDIA ..................................................................................................................... 115
12.3.1 How to Load and Immediately Play an Element .................................................................. 116
12.4 PLAYING A LIST OF ELEMENTS ........................................................................................... 117
12.4.1 How to Load and Immediately Play a List of Elements ....................................................... 117
12.4.2 Modifying the Playout Sequence in Auto-Play Mode ........................................................... 117
12.4.3 Using Auto-Play Mode in Several Database Explorer Windows .......................................... 118
12.5 VIEWING A LOG SHEET EVENT ............................................................................................ 118
12.6 HOW TO CREATE CLIPS AUTOMATICALLY FROM A LOGGED EVENT ............................. 118
12.7 VIEWING LOG EVENT DETAILS ............................................................................................ 119
13. DATABASE EXPLORER SHORTCUTS .............................................................. 345H120
174HINDEX ............................................................................................................................ 346H123










