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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EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011
Issue 5.9.B
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Command Description
Paste Not implemented
Copy/Move Timeline Opens a window from which you can create a copy of the
timeline on a selected EVS video server.
Copy Clips locally >
Copy short
Creates a local copy of the timeline clips that are not
stored on the same EVS video server as the timeline. This
copy will only include the media needed inside the edit
with minimal guardbands created during copy.
Copy Clips locally >
Copy long
Creates a local copy of the timeline clips that are not
stored on the same EVS video server as the timeline. This
copy will include the complete original clips in their
entirety.
Publish Opens the Publish window in which you can specify the
user groups the selected timeline should be published to.
The timeline will be published to the selected groups
providing that they have the adequate rights.
Edit/Rename Opens the Edit a Timeline window in which you can modify
the timeline properties as entered when the timeline was
created. The audio configuration can however not be
modified.
Delete Deletes the timeline from the EVS video server. This does
not delete the related clips.
Delete Timeline and
Clips
Deletes the timeline, as well as the clips created by the
timeline engine, from the EVS video server.
Send to Provides a list of possible destinations to which the
selected timeline can be sent.
Possible destinations are:
• the user’s default bin
• the user’s default playlist
• a default archive target
• any target destination visible on the GigE network that
has been defined in the Remote Installer (CleanEdit
targets, Avid targets, Final Cut Pro targets, File targets,
XT targets). This is used to make A/V material available
to external systems.
Flatten to XT Displays a list of hi-res EVS servers and pages available
on the XNet network to which the user can store a
consolidated clip out of the open timeline.
The flattened clip will have the same VarID as the original
timeline.










