EVS IPDirector Version 4.3 - October 2007 Part 1 User's Manual - Manual (Page 13)

Issue 4.3.C IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 1: Introduction
EVS Broadcast Equipment
Each IP Director system can function as a standalone
workstation providing all applications on a production, or several
workstations can be used, running only the applications required
for a specific task and each workstation can be connected via
Ethernet with a central Database. When networked together, IP
Director Database information is available to all other
workstations that are being used in other areas of the production
and enhances the overall production workflow.
IP Director can control channels of several XT servers. Each
workstation sees the XNet network as one large server whose
storage is divided into various volumes accessible by any
channel from any XT within the XNet network.
In the Diagram below, different areas of the production workflow
are identified:
RECORD
LOGGING
ARCHIVE
PLAY OUT BROWSE
EDITING
Conventionally, in a simple show a recording is made, logged on
paper sheets and then edited or played into the final production
or to Air, making reference to the logs. The desired media will
then be archived, generally by compiling onto a new tape and a
new log is created to match the new recording.
The diagram below shows which application within IP Director is
designed to assist in each stage of the workflow, not only to
produce an integrated database with video, audio, and time code
information for each clip created, and also all metadata
associated with that clip such as: name, keywords, description,
creation date, original location (server s/n, clip position, etc),
but also to control the ingest, manipulation and play out of the
media.
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