Grass Valley Machine Control Interfaces V.12.0 - Manual (Page 9)

Kalypso Machine Control Interfaces Installation Instructions 9
Section
1
Machine Control Overview
Introduction
The Kalypso system uses special interfaces for Ethernet based machine
control. These interfaces reside outside the Kalypso system, on the con-
trolled devices themselves. Different installation procedures are used for
the various interfaces. After the interfaces are installed, Encore control
system software residing either on the Kalypso system or elsewhere in
your facility will need to be configured to recognize the devices that will be
used with the Kalypso system’s machine control capabilities.
This document covers the initial installation of machine control interfaces
(software and/or hardware) on the Kalypso system and on external
devices, and also describes the configuration required to support the
devices. It also gives a brief description of the Encore Operator User inter-
face (OUI).
Encore Control System Overview
Note An Encore control system is modular and scalable. Encore system capabili-
ties range from the simple machine control covered in this manual, to com-
plete facility wide resource management, including routing, automation, and
on-air playback. For information about Encore system features not covered
in this manual, see the Encore documentation provided with those products.
The Encore control system has a distributed, client/server architecture,
using standard Ethernet communications protocols (
Figure 1 ). The Encore
system consists of client, server, and central core components. The central
core (Sharer, Database, System Manager) is required since all other compo-
nents rely on its existence. An Encore OUI is also required since it is used
to configure the central core.