User’s Manual Version 5.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 Issue 5.9.B C OPYRIGHT EVS Broadcast Equipment – Copyright © 2005-2011. All rights reserved. D ISCLAIMER The information in this manual is furnished for inform ational use only and subject to change without notice.
Issue 5.9.B II IP Director – Version 5.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 Issue 5.9.B Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................... III ABOUT THIS MANUAL.................................................................................................... IV WHAT’S NEW? ..............................................................................................................
Issue 5.9.B IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 About this Manual This manual is intended to cover all aspects of IPDirector. It should be seen as a reference guide that provides a detailed description on the various modules of IPDirector, as well as procedural information on how to work with the IPDirector system. The user manual for IPDirector Version 5.9 is divided into 9 parts. This is part 9 of the manual.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 Issue 5.9.B Chapter Description Keyword Management This chapter covers the management of keywords, i.e. the creation and setup of the various tools which allow the users to assign keywords to logs, clips, playlists or timelines in a unified manner.
Issue 5.9.B IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 Chapter Description Software Player This chapter provides information on the use of the Software Player. Video Display This chapter describes the configuration of the Video Display and its options to display the media associated to a player channel or the Software Player.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 Issue 5.9.B P ART 9: E DITING The ninth part contains the following chapter: Chapter Description Edit While Playout This manual describes the Edit While Playout mode of the IPEdit application. This mode allows playing out a timeline while the same timeline is being editing in IPEdit.
Issue 5.9.B IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 What’s New? The following table describes the sections updated to reflect the new and modified features on IPDirector from version 5.9 (compared to version 5.8). In the user manual, the icon has been added on left margin to highlight information on new and updated features.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 Issue 5.9.B 1. Edit While Playout 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1.1.1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION Purpose The Edit While Playout mode allows the users to play out a timeline in IPEdit while editing the same timeline in the same instance of the IPEdit application. • The timeline editing is performed on the IPEdit engine PGM3/4. The ‘edit timeline’ is called the TLE.
Issue 5.9.B IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 Note In the IPEdit user manual, we will shorten the ‘Edit While Playout mode’ into ‘EWP mode’. In the IPEdit user interface, it is currently referred to as ‘Edit To Air’. For this reason, we will use this term when it appears in the IPEdit user interface. 1.1.2 LIMITATIONS The EWP mode (Edit While Playout mode) has the following limitations: 1.1.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout Issue 5.9.B EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 1.2 MASTER/SLAVE REDUNDANCY 1.2.1 INTRODUCTION P URPOSE The Master/Slave redundancy feature is available with the Edit While Playout mode. It makes it possible to synchronize the content of a timeline being edited on the Master (main) EVS server running IPEdit to a Slave (backup) EVS server also running IPEdit.
Issue 5.9.B IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 Displayed information On M/S Meaning Connected to master On Slave server The EVS server is available and the SDTI connection is established between the Master and the Slave servers. Connected to slave On Master server The EVS server is available and the SDTI connection is established between the Master and the Slave servers.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 Issue 5.9.B 1.3 EDIT WHILE PLAYOUT CONTROL PANEL 1.3.
Issue 5.9.B 1.3.3 IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 LOCK BUTTON When the user clicks the Lock button , it becomes active . This means the PGM1/2 are locked, and the Transport Control commands and Commit button are no longer available. When the user clicks again the Lock button, it unlocks the PGM1/2, and the commands become available again. The lock on the player channels is however preserved, as usual. 1.3.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 Issue 5.9.B The user can execute this command from either the Master or the Slave IPEdit. A global message is displayed in the global status bar to inform the user if the timeline has been successfully synchronized, or if the synchronization has failed. It is recommended to synchronize the TLEs regularly after committing changes to the Master TLO.
Issue 5.9.B 1.3.7 IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 LOCATOR BUTTONS The Go To Next Locator button on the EWP Control Panel makes it possible to move the TLO nowline to the next locator defined in the timeline. The Go To Previous Locator button on the EWP Control Panel makes it possible to move the TLO nowline to the previous locator defined in the timeline.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout Issue 5.9.B EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 1.3.9 TLO COMMIT BUTTON / or + The Commit button allows applying the editing actions performed on the TLE to the TLO, even when the TLO Control Panel is locked. The button will have a white background, as long as the TLE is the same as the TLO. In this case, no changes have to be committed. The button will become red as soon as the user performs an editing action on the TLE.
Issue 5.9.B IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 1.4 TIMELINE DISPLAY IN EDIT WHILE PLAYOUT MODE 1.4.1 OVERVIEW When you are editing the timeline, you work on the TLE. As long as you have not applied the changes from the TLE to the TLO, the Timeline Display area will be similar to the following screenshot: 1.4.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout Issue 5.9.B EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 1.4.4 TLO REMAINING COMMIT DURATION This red zone in the upper lasso selection area above the Timeline display represents the duration between the TLO nowline and the first TLE elem ent that has not been committed yet. It corresponds to the TLO R emaining Comm it Duration field: 1.4.
Issue 5.9.B IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 After Commit After committing the changes, the TLE is the same as the TLO. The remaining Commit Duration is no longer displayed, and all timeline elem ents have their usual color. 1.5.
IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Edit While Playout Issue 5.9.B EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 1.6 EDIT WHILE PLAYOUT MODE IN A MASTER/SLAVE CONFIGURATION 1.6.1 CONNECTION BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE EVS SERVER Before you start working, you should check that the Master and Slave EVS servers are connected together. To do this, open IPEdit on the IPD workstations connected to the Master and Slave EVS servers, and check the connection messages on the Status bar of IPEdit.
Issue 5.9.B 1.6.3 IP Director – Version 5.9 – User’s Manual – Part 9: Part 9: Edit While Playout EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011 WORKING PROCESS IN A MASTER/SLAVE CONFIGURATION After both timelines have been loaded and synchronized for the first time in your Master and Slave IPEdit, you will typically work in the following way: 1. Start the TLO playout on the Master IPEdit. 2. On the Slave IPEdit, click 3. 4. to synchronize the TLO playout. Edit the TLE on the Master IPEdit.
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