Document Outline

• Copyright
• Disclaimer
• Improvement Requests
• Regional Contacts
• Part 1: General Workspace
• Part 2: Logging
• Part 3: Browsing
• Part 4: Ingest
• Part 5: Playout – Control Panel
• Part 6: Playout – Playlist Panel
• Part 7: Editing
• 1. Introduction
• 2. User Interface
  • 2.1 OPENING OF DATABASE EXPLORER
  • 2.2 OVERVIEW OF THE DATABASE EXPLORER
    • 2.2.1 Database Explorer Window Outline
      • Toolbar (1)
      • Tree View (2)
      • Grid (3)
      • Status Bar (4)
      • Saved Filters Pane (5)
    • 2.2.2 Background Colour of Window Outline
  • 2.3 DATABASE EXPLORER TOOLBAR
    • 2.3.1 View Options
      • Tree Button
      • List View Button
    • 2.3.2 Print Button
    • 2.3.3 Browse and Play Options
      • Browse Mode
      • Play Mode
      • Auto-Play Mode
    • 2.3.4 Photo Button
      • Creating Thumbnails in Database Explorer
    • 2.3.5 Tools Menu
      • How to Manually Associate a Clip Element to an Existing Clip
    • 2.3.6 Assign Button
      • How to Assign Keywords to One or Several Clips
    • 2.3.7 Refresh Button
    • 2.3.8 Saved Filters Mode Button
  • 2.4 TREE VIEW
    • 2.4.1 Introduction
    • 2.4.2 Tree Structure Depending on User Rights
  • 2.5 ELEMENT GRID AND SEARCH OPTIONS
    • 2.5.1 Search Options
      • Quick Text Search Field
      • Grid Filter Bar
      • Quick TC Search Field
      • Clear All Button
    • 2.5.2 Element Grid
      • Grid Header Contextual Menu
      • Organizing Columns in the Element List
        • How to Add Columns to the Element List
        • How to Remove Columns from the Element List
        • Save Grid Organization
      • Changing the Sort Order of the Elements in the List
  • 2.6 STATUS BAR
    • 2.6.1 Element Number Zone
    • 2.6.2 Next Clip Zone
    • 2.6.3 Auto-Refresh Zone
    • Associated BEPlay Remote Zone
    • 2.6.5 Associated Channel Zone
• 3. Clips, Clip Elements and Nearline Files
  • 3.1 TERMINOLOGY
  • 3.2 WHAT COMPRISES A CLIP?
    • 3.2.1 Clip Element Types
  • 3.3 NEARLINE MANAGEMENT
    • 3.3.1 Files Types
      • Error Messages
    • 3.3.2 Supported Codecs
    • 3.3.3 Off-line Nearline Files
      • Display of Off-line Clips or Clip Elements
      • Operations on Off-line Clip or Clip Elements
    • 3.3.4 Status of Clip / Clip Elements
• 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
    • 4.5.1 Status Icons
    • 4.5.2 Clip Protection
  • 4.6 CLIP CONTEXTUAL MENU
  • 4.7 DELETING A CLIP
  • 4.8 EDITING A CLIP
    • 4.8.1 How to Edit a Clip From Within the Database Explorer
    • 4.8.2 Edit Clip Window
      • Window Overview
      • Fields in the Edit Clip Window
      • LsmID
      • TapeID
      • Name
      • VarID
      • UmID
      • Time Information Fields
      • Protect / Unprotect
      • Keywords
      • Interest Level
      • Clip Type
      • Metadata Fields
  • 4.9 COPYING OR MOVING A CLIP
    • 4.9.1 Copying or Moving a Clip Using Drag-and-Drop
    • 4.9.2 How to Duplicate or Move a Clip Specifying an Exact Location
    • 4.9.3 How to copy a Clip to an EVS video server through the Gigabit Ethernet
  • 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
      • New Archive Target Window
    • 4.10.5 How to Delete a Destination Target
    • 4.10.6 How to Send a Clip to an XStore Workstation (Running Clean-Edit Applications)
      • Required Configuration
    • 4.10.7 How to Send a Clip to an Avid System Using the AVID Transfer Manager
      • Required Configuration for Transfer
    • 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
    • 4.12.1 How to Publish a Clip
    • 4.12.2 How to View the Clip Properties
  • 4.13 LINKING CLIPS
    • 4.13.1 How to Link Clips
• 5. Clip Elements View
  • 5.1 INTRODUCTION
    • 5.1.1 Limitations
  • 5.2 CLIP ELEMENTS TREE STRUCTURE
  • 5.3 CLIP ELEMENTS DATA COLUMNS
  • 5.4 CLIP ELEMENT CONTEXTUAL MENU
  • 5.5 DELETING CLIP ELEMENTS
• 6. Playlists View
  • 6.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 6.2 PLAYLISTS TREE STRUCTURE
  • 6.3 PLAYLISTS DATA COLUMNS
  • 6.4 PLAYLIST CONTEXTUAL MENU
  • 6.5 COPYING OR MOVING A PLAYLIST
  • 6.6 HOW TO DELETE A PLAYLIST
  • 6.7 PLAYLIST IMPORTS
    • 6.7.1 Import Options
    • 6.7.2 How to Import a Playlist
• 7. Timelines View
  • 7.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 7.2 TIMELINE CONTEXTUAL MENU
• 8. Bins View
  • 8.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 8.2 BINS TREE STRUCTURE
  • 8.3 BIN ELEMENT VIEW
  • 8.4 BIN DATA COLUMNS
  • 8.5 BIN CONTEXTUAL MENU
  • 8.6 OPENING A BIN IN A SEPARATE BIN WINDOW
  • 8.7 PUBLISHING A BIN OR A BIN DIRECTORY
    • 8.7.1 How to Publish a Bin
    • 8.7.2 How to Un-Publish a Bin
    • 8.7.3 Rules when Publishing a Bin Directory
  • 8.8 BIN RULES
    • 8.8.1 What is a Bin Rule
    • 8.8.2 How to Define a New Bin Rule
    • 8.8.3 How to Use a Filter to Define a Bin Rule
    • 8.8.4 How to Modify an Existing Bin Rule
    • 8.8.5 How to Apply an Existing Bin Rule
    • 8.8.6 How to Delete an Existing Bin Rule
    • 8.8.7 Bin Rules Window
      • Filter Rules Area:
      • Post Process Area
      • Validity Area
• 9. Logs View
  • 9.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 9.2 LOGS TREE STRUCTURE
    • 9.2.1 Logs Branch Contextual Menu
    • 9.2.2 Log Sheet Contextual Menu
  • 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
  • 10.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 10.2 MEDIA FILES TREE STRUCTURE
  • 10.3 MEDIA FILES DATA COLUMNS
  • 10.4 MEDIA FILES CONTEXTUAL MENU
• 11. Searching the Database
  • 11.1 SEARCH TYPES
  • 11.2 BRANCH SELECTION IN THE DATABASE TREE
  • 11.3 QUICK SEARCH OPTIONS
    • 11.3.1 Quick TC Search
      • Introduction
      • Quick TC Search Field Display
      • How to Perform a Quick TC Search
    • 11.3.2 Quick Text Search
      • Introduction
      • Search on Displayed Columns
      • Search on All Columns
      • Quick Text Search Field Display
      • How to Perform a Quick Text Search
      • How to Clear All Filters on the Grid Filter Bar
      • Quick Text Search Rules
  • 11.5 GRID FILTERS
    • 11.5.1 Search Fields Types
    • 11.5.2 Grid Filter Rules
    • 11.5.3 How to Perform a Search through Grid Filter Fields
    • 11.5.4 How to Perform Advanced Search through Keywords Grid Filter Field
  • CLIPS NOT IN A SELECTED PLAYLIST
  • 11.7 USING SAVED FILTERS
    • 11.7.1 How to Save Filters
    • 11.7.2 How to Apply Saved Filters
    • 11.7.3 How to Update a Saved Filter
    • 11.7.4 How to Rename a Saved Filter
    • 11.7.5 How to Delete a Saved Filter
    • 11.7.6 How to Publish a Saved Filter
• 12. Loading and Playing Media from the Database Explorer
  • 12.1 HOW TO ASSIGN A PLAYER CHANNEL TO THE DATABASE EXPLORER
    • 12.1.1 From the Channel Explorer
    • 12.1.2 From the Status Bar of the Database Explorer
  • 12.2 LOADING MEDIA
    • 12.2.1 On the Player Channel Associated to the Database Explorer
    • 12.2.2 On the Player Channel Associated to the Control Panel
  • 12.3 PLAYING MEDIA
    • 12.3.1 How to Load and Immediately Play an Element
  • 12.4 PLAYING A LIST OF ELEMENTS
    • 12.4.1 How to Load and Immediately Play a List of Elements
    • 12.4.2 Modifying the Playout Sequence in Auto-Play Mode
    • 12.4.3 Using Auto-Play Mode in Several Database Explorer Windows
  • 12.5 VIEWING A LOG SHEET EVENT
  • 12.6 HOW TO CREATE CLIPS AUTOMATICALLY FROM A LOGGED EVENT
  • 12.7 VIEWING LOG EVENT DETAILS
• 13. Database Explorer Shortcuts