Panasonic AJ-SF771AP, Reference Manual

Page 1: ...ClipCopy Application Ver 2 5 Reference Manual AJ P ...

Page 2: ...M CONFIGURATION 8 3 INSTALLING THE CLIPCOPY APPLICATION 9 3 1 Prior to Installation 9 3 2 Installing the ClipCopy Application 9 3 3 Installing the newsBYTE QuickCutter application 12 3 4 Registering the user in the video servers 12 4 STARTING UP CLIPCOPY 13 5 MEDIA BROWSING 15 5 1 Clip browsing 15 5 2 File browsing 17 5 2 1 Server setting 17 5 2 2 File browsing 20 ...

Page 3: ...ions 26 8 2 Other Options 30 9 CLIPCOPY MENUS 32 10 CLIPCOPY TOOLBAR 34 10 1 News Automation Mode 34 10 2 Other 34 11 CONCERNING THE USE OF THE BACKUP SERVER 35 Appendix 1 Troubleshooting 36 Appendix 2 How to check the WindowsNT network software 44 Windows and WindowsNT are the trademarks or the registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in United States and all other nations ...

Page 4: ... ClipCopy This Panasonic ClipCopy Reference Manual explains how the ClipCopy application is used This reference manual only intends to give detailed information of ClipCopy Ver 2 5 The functions and restrictions described in this manual may change without notice ...

Page 5: ...e now become established as part of the infrastructure are applied 1 2 ClipCopy Application The ClipCopy application is an add on software program which runs in Panasonic s AJ DE77 newsBYTE QuickCutter nonlinear editing system Use of ClipCopy opens the door to importing DVCPRO format data existing in the video servers etc to newsBYTE QuickCutter to be used as AV clips for editing and conversely to...

Page 6: ...isplayed correctly although this depends on the character string T Do not use the same name for BINs at the same hierarchical level Restrictions on processing during transfer As a general rule operations involving the keyboard or mouse must not be performed while clips are being transferred by ClipCopy Rather they should be performed either upon com pletion of transfer or after transfer has been a...

Page 7: ...enu and Help menu Tool Bar This consists of the News Automation Mode which selects the News Automation usage mode and the Copy and Paste buttons for copying and pasting files and clips Volume View This displays the volumes namely the BINs mounted video servers and local disks List View This displays the clips and files in the volume selected by Volume View Status Bar This displays the ClipCopy sta...

Page 8: ...2 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 8 Fig 2 1 shows an example of the ClipCopy application s operating environment Fig 2 1 News Automation Server newsBYTE QuickCutter Video Server Ethernet FibreChannel ...

Page 9: ...tware protocol services must have been installed appropri ately and they must be operating properly See Appendix 2 for details on how to check the WindowsNT network software 3 The newsBYTE QuickCutter application must have been installed appropriately 4 The user registration must have been completed with the video server and it must be possible to confirm the connection from newsBYTE QuickCutter 3...

Page 10: ...tion system software must be integrated separately 2 The dialog window shown in Fig 3 2 will now appear Click on the Next button Fig 3 2 3 The dialog window shown in Fig 3 3 will now appear Select NTSC or PAL as the signal type and click on the Next button Fig 3 3 ...

Page 11: ... or No radio button to select whether operations linked with the News Automation system See Note 3 below are to be supported and click on the Next button 5 The message box shown in Fig 3 5 indicating that installation has been completed will now appear Exit the installation procedure and restart WindowsNT Fig 3 5 ...

Page 12: ...on software program 3 4 Registering the user in the video servers The ClipCopy application performs FTP transfer between newsBYTE QuickCutter and the video servers For this reason it is necessary for a user account See Note 4 below to be established in the video servers Refer to the video server s manual and proceed with user registration When a multiple number of video servers are to be handled b...

Page 13: ... the ClipCopy application is launched This section describes how the ClipCopy application is started by the following steps 1 Start the newsBYTE QuickCutter application by following the instructions in the newsBYTE QuickCutter application manual 2 The newsBYTE QuickCutter application window shown in Fig 4 1 will now appear Double click on the Special button located in the Toolbox Fig 4 1 ...

Page 14: ...ING UP CLIPCOPY 3 The Setup Panel window will now appear as shown in Fig 4 2 Double click on the ClipCopy icon The ClipCopy application is now launched and the window shown in Fig 4 3 will appear Fig 4 2 Fig 4 3 ...

Page 15: ...yed on list view of ClipCopy as See Note 5 below shown in Fig 5 2 See Note 6 below Fig 5 1 Fig 5 2 The BIN manager of the newsBYTE QuickCutter application makes it possible to register BINs in TopBin and other BINs in accordance with the hierarchical structure called the BINTree To browse through the BINs in the BINTree click on the symbol See Fig 5 3 to the left of the TopBin icon displayed on vo...

Page 16: ... the left of the TopBin icon displayed as described above it is possible to display the BIN hierarchically below TopBin However this can also be accomplished by double clicking on the TopBin icon At the same time as the BIN hierarchically below TopBin is displayed on volume view its symbol is changed to a symbol as shown in Fig 5 4 Fig 5 6 Fig 5 4 Fig 5 5 Fig 5 7 An example of browsing the BIN cli...

Page 17: ...rver has yet been mounted The procedure for mounting the video server is described here first Follow the steps below to mount the server 1 Select the Options menu item on the File menu as shown in Fig 5 8 Fig 5 8 Fig 5 9 2 The dialog window shown in Fig 5 9 will now appear Click the Add button Note NewsAutomation Tab in Fig 5 9 is displayed only if you define Yes button with Support NewsAutomation...

Page 18: ...me box See Note 8 below 4 Enter the name of the video server to be used in the Server box 5 Enter the user ID which is valid for video server and the password in the User ID box and Password box respectively 6 Enter the name of the directory in which the server is to be mounted in the DIF File Directory box 7 Click the Auto Mount check box to enable this setting 8 Click the Details button Fig 5 10...

Page 19: ...Chapter 8 Address any questions concerning serv er settings to your dealer 9 The dialog box shown in Fig 5 11 appears The detailed settings of the video server can be performed here Fig 5 12 Fig 5 13 Fig 5 11 An example of the setting was shown in Fig 5 12 and Fig 5 13 See note 9 below ...

Page 20: ...ps outlined above are performed the video server icon shown in Fig 5 14 is displayed 5 2 2 File browsing After mounting the video server the list of files in the video server s mount directory appears on list view as shown in Fig 5 16 by clicking the video server icon in volume view In this context mount directory refers to the DIF File Directory which was specified by Server Setup Fig 5 16 Note 1...

Page 21: ...is symbol is clicked the directory hierarchically below the mount directory is displayed by the icon shown in Fig 5 19 and at the same time its symbol is changed to a symbol as shown in Fig 5 18 Fig 5 17 Fig 5 18 Fig 5 19 Fig 5 20 When the icon of the desired directory is clicked the clips in that directory are displayed on list view and the icon of the directory changes to the type of icon shown ...

Page 22: ...of the BIN hierarchically below on Volume View to display the clips on List View 2 Use the mouse to drag the desired clip on List View 3 Drop the dragged clip onto the server icon on Volume View This operation is pictured in Fig 6 1 Fig 6 1 2 Drop 1 Drag When clip has been exported file is created on the video server using the name of the clip in the BINs See note 11 below Also along with exportin...

Page 23: ...ickCutter BINs To export a clip the clip icon displayed in the BIN at the newsBYTE QuickCutter end can be dragged onto the server icon of the ClipCopy application rather than dragging the clip icon displayed in List View This operation is pictured in Fig 6 2 2 Drop 1 Drag ...

Page 24: ...ecorded on the video server will now be described As a fundamental rule data is imported using FTP on a file by file basis so that when editing data using a part of an A V file recorded continuously by the video server it has been neces sary to import transfer the entire file but made it impossible to edit the data efficiently When Enable Sub Clip Mode is selected in the Server Setup of ClipCopy a...

Page 25: ...ion The Subclip radio button will be selected a part of a file can be specified by the start and end timecodes in the edit box The edit box which specifies the In and Out timecodes is found in the group box bottom left of the dialog box marked Subclip If necessary the name of the file to be imported can be changed Fig 7 3 shows an example where a file is designated using the subclip dialog box ...

Page 26: ...layed from the Options menu item on the File menu Fig 8 1 8 1 Server Options The information on the video server to be mounted is set with server options The Group refers to both the main server and backup server collectively and one group name is given to both To establish this setting select the Server Property tab Press the Add button to create a new server group To edit an existing server grou...

Page 27: ...er for the backup server to be used Main Backup Different settings can be provided for the main server and backup server by switching However no settings can be performed for the backup server if Use Backup Server is not checked Server Name Enter here the video server names Input the IP address or host name which can be recog nized by name resolution User ID Enter here the user IDs to connect the ...

Page 28: ...ase points for mounting into ClipCopy Enable Sub clip mode This activates the subclipping function Enable removing files on server This makes it possible to delete files on the server See note 15 below Remove files on Backup server If a backup server is used this activates the setting to automatically delete files with the same name on the backup server when files on the main server are to be dele...

Page 29: ...5 Prior to the file transfer Export from NLE to the server via ClipCopy software this makes it possible to inform the size of file to the server Clip Name Options When exporting clips this specifies clip file names and limits clip name length Enable Clip Name Validation Enable File Name Validation This checks the filenames when clips are to be exported to the server The characters which cannot be ...

Page 30: ...ing the DIF extension to the DIF files which are generated when clips are exported Enable Logging This creates the information relating to operation and error information and records it in log files Mount on local drives This option is for mounting the newsBYTE QuickCutter local drive hard disk drive connected in NT This makes it possible to import or export clips to or from the local drive as wel...

Page 31: ... before the clip is registered If the number of frames selected here is greater than the number of frames in the transferred clip the clip is registered after it has been transferred If Register Clip after specified time below has not been checked the clip is registered after it has been transferred Rename Clips in BIN after Exporting After exporting clip data this specifies whether clip names acq...

Page 32: ...for copying selected files or clips to the clipboard Paste menu item This is for copying transferring a file or clip on the clipboard to the selected volume The Copy or Paste operation can be performed by drag drop Select All menu item This is for selecting all the files and clips View menu This menu is for changing the List View display format Status Bar menu item This is for displaying the ClipC...

Page 33: ...S3600 or CMX 3600 Discreet Help menu This menu is for providing the information on ClipCopy About ClipCopy menu item This opens the information on ClipCopy dialog box The version information on ClipCopy and on the libraries used by ClipCopy is displayed Volume menu This menu is for performing volume operations Mount menu item This opens the video server mounting dialog box shown in the Fig 9 1 Sel...

Page 34: ...ow and News Automation system operates normally to register the clips under these names in the automation server Register Only mode In this mode the run down list is not referenced and the News Automation system operates solely to register the clips under their current names in the automation serv er 10 2 Other Copy button Fig 10 1 Fig 10 2 10 CLIPCOPY TOOLBAR Note17 This is the list of the video ...

Page 35: ...ed to the backup server Compared with regular transfer sorely to the main server it takes double the transfer time to send the target clips to the backup server after they have been transferred to the main server When the backup server is used one of the following four statuses is established depending on the operating modes of the main server and backup server and the connection mode of the netwo...

Page 36: ...ommunication destination des ignated using the IP address When the server name is used the network must be set in such a way that the name res olution can be performed properly Files cannot be imported or exported even though the server icon is displayed indicating the connected status on Volume View and the serv er s files are displayed on List View The user who has been set as an option may not ...

Page 37: ...s save them as A V clips after rendering and then export them Although ClipCopy does not support the importing and exporting of audio clips they can be rendered using a sequence editor to create A V clips which can then be imported or exported Format Error occurs when importing clips from the server newsBYTE QuickCutter has specifications which support only the DVCPRO format and prohibits the impo...

Page 38: ...e opened File already exists File does not exist File icon does not exist There is not enough disk space Remote file is write protected System error has occurred Incorrect data format Failed to shuffle data Failed to reverse shuffling data Failed to render NLE System disk space insufficient Cannot retrieve Clip Icon Invalid video format The file is too large for ClipCopy This Clip has illegal Time...

Page 39: ...l not supported Socket type not supported Operation not supported Protocol family not supported Address family not supported by protocol family Address already in use Cannot assign requested address Network is down Network is unreachable Network dropped connection on reset Software caused connection abort Connection reset by peer No buffer space available Socket is already connected Socket is not ...

Page 40: ...record of requested type NBFTP unknown error was occurred NBFTP read write timeout was occurred NBFTP FTP error code NBFTP invalid socket File transfer error was occurred Import GXF Specified file not found No disk space to record File transfer error was occurred Export GXF File already exists or could not open EDL Import Readline error EDL Import Analyze error EDL Import Create Store Information ...

Page 41: ...ws Automation error has occurred Cannot rename clip in a BIN There is no such file or directory on server Please refresh ClipCopy The directory list could not be retrieved ClipCopy cannot execute duplication The server might not be running or the connections to it might be down Clip does not exist in bin Please refresh ClipCopy File permission denied You can not use following characters as the cli...

Page 42: ... input backup server name Please input userID for backup server Please input password for backup server Please input DIF files directory for backup server Please input Meta files directory for backup server News Automation Error News Automation system error has occurred News Automation Error Cannot connect to News Automation server News Automation Error Network error News Automation Error Request ...

Page 43: ...ror This function is not supported on this News Automation News Automation Error Unknown error has occurred Please select EDL file Server Group Information is not registered Selected Server does not support specified format Selected Server does not support specified protocol Rendering was halted The account does not have Write permission on the Video Pool The account does not have Write permission...

Page 44: ...owing the steps below If it has not been installed consult your dealer 1 Exit all applications and click the Start button on the WindowsNT task bar See Fig 1 and 2 If the task bar is not on the screen move the cursor near the bottom of the dis play and the task bar will appear below the display area Fig 1 Fig 2 2 Move the cursor to Settings in the Start menu See Fig 3 Click the Control Panel item ...

Page 45: ...peared click on the Protocols tab Caution If a network card has not been installed a message dialog window will appear prompting the user to check whether a network card is to be installed In this case it means that the conditions which are to be satisfied by the system environment in which the ClipCopy application is to be installed have not been satisfied Abort the check procedure and consult yo...

Page 46: ...ed in the network Appendix2 How to check the WindowsNT network software 5 Click on the Protocols tag on the network settings panel See Note 19 below Fig 5 Fig 6 6 Check that the TCP IP protocol is displayed in the network protocol field of the protocols tab See Fig 6 Caution If it is not displayed the TCP IP protocol has not been installed Consult your deal er ...

Page 47: ... set tings 8 Refer to the instructions in the WindowsNT manual and proceed with name resolution for the video server name For details on name resolution consult your system administra tion manager 9 Upon completion of the checks click on the OK button to close the properties sheets A message box prompting you to decide whether to restart the system may appear when the network properties sheets are...

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