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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3.3 Session Configuration
Once the XFile application is started, the users can define the session configuration by
selecting Configuration > Config Session from the main menu.
The session configuration window is divided into 8 tabs:
Tab 1 - Autobackup
Tab 2 – MXF Metadata
Tab 3 – Manual Backup
Tab 4 – Scan Folder
Tab 5 – Grab
Tab 6 – Export
Tab 7 – XML
Tab 8 – User Parameters
3.3.1 Tab 1 - Autobackup
XFile allows the users to define three different selections of servers, cameras and pages
from which backing clips up in Autobackup mode.
For the three selections, the output files can be saved with different formats, and to
different paths.
In addition, each selection can be saved to a second output as soon as 2 disks are
available.
The Autobackup tab contains 4 sub-tabs highlighted in the next screenshot:
• Primary Selection (1)
• Secondary Selection (1)
• Third Selection (1)
• Autobackup Validation (2), displaying the current selection of Autobackup
Each of the three Selection tabs includes several areas:
• Selection list (3)
• Selection shortcuts (4)
• Additional autobackup criteria (5)
• Output parameters (6)










