User Manual Owner's manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- What’s New in Version 2.19?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Software Installation
- 3. XFile Module
- 3.1 System Configuration
- 3.2 Startup
- 3.3 Session Configuration
- 3.3.1 Tab 1 - Autobackup
- 3.3.2 Tab 2 – MXF Metadata
- 3.3.3 Tab 3 – Manual Backup
- 3.3.4 Tab 4 – Scan Folder
- 3.3.5 Tab 5 – Grab
- 3.3.6 Tab 6 – Export
- 3.3.7 Tab 7 – XML
- 3.3.8 Tab 8 – User Parameters
- Autostart
- Autobackup at Startup
- Confirm Manual Backup
- Confirm Manual Restore
- Confirm Manual Update
- Cancel Backups Scheduled when Stopping Autobackup
- Use Fixed Size Font for Clipnames and Keywords
- Publish Clips with Original UmID (Warning publish will failed if UmID already present on XNet)
- Publish Clips with Original VarID (Warning publish will failed if VarID already published on XFile)
- Import: Use Filename to fill Clipname Metadata
- Dual Path Editing
- 3.4 User Interface
- 3.4.1 Overview of the main Window
- 3.4.2 XFile List
- 3.4.3 Network status
- 3.4.4 Disk Usage and Disk Mode
- 3.4.5 Jobs Status Area
- 3.5 Autobackup Mode
- 3.6 Backup Mode
- 3.7 Restore Mode
- 3.8 Publish Mode
- 3.9 Maintenance Mode
- 3.10 Clip Maintenance
- 3.11 Disks-Folders Maintenance
- 3.12 Playlist Maintenance
- 3.13 Job Status
- 3.14 Re-Scan Disks
- 3.15 Statistics
- 4. XStream
- 4.1 Scheduler and QuickStart Modes
- 4.2 Information & Menu Area
- 4.3 Time Grid
- 4.4 Channels Area
- 4.5 Status Area
- 4.6 System Configuration
- 4.7 Record Grid Menu
- 4.8 Contextual Menu in the Scheduler
- 4.9 Creating and Editing Jobs in Scheduler Mode
- 4.10 Creating Jobs in QuickStart Mode
- 5. External modules
- Appendix 1: XF2 Hardware
- Notes

XFile Version 2.19 – User Manual
EVS Broadcast Equipment – November 2012
Issue 2.19.A
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Appendix 1: XF2 Hardware
Hardware Description
The XFile software is installed in a workstation operating under Windows XP Pro,
Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 (32 bits). The standard system is Intel Core2 Duo
E6300 Processor, Intel Motherboard with DRAM 1GB and an EVS PCX board.
Note
The PCX1 board is not compatible with XFile v2.00 and higher.
The hardware components of the XF2 platform (formerly called XFile[2]) are housed in a
3U rack cabinet equipped with 2 x ATA 133 1TB or 2TB Mobile Cartridges.
The XF2 platform is included in the XNet in which EVS video servers interact via SDTI
network.
This XF2 platform is also equipped with two additional Gigabit Ethernet adapters that
support the jumbo frame mode for connections with the EVS video server GigE ports and
third parties.










