SMART Play USER’S GUIDE Software version 3.0

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Revision Status

Revision Date Description

December 14,2007 Additional features added

February 12, 2008 New Version: 3.0 released

June 30, 2008 Additional features added

August 29, 2008 Major overhaul on section 1,2 and 3

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Contents: SMART Play USER’S GUIDE .................................................................................................................... 1 Contents: ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 1. Introducing SMART Play................................................................................................................... 4

1.1. What is SMART Play................................................................................................................... 4 1.2. System Requirements ............................................................................................................... 4 1.3. Terms You Should Know .......................................................................................................... 5 1.4. User Interface and other Components .................................................................................. 6

2. Using SMART Play............................................................................................................................ 11 2.1. Using Recorder Plugins .......................................................................................................... 11 2.2. Using Asset Pool....................................................................................................................... 13 2.3. Using Playlists ........................................................................................................................... 17 2.4. Using Player Plugins................................................................................................................ 20

3. Features ............................................................................................................................................... 28 3.1. Secondary Events ..................................................................................................................... 28 3.2. Playlist Plugin Features .......................................................................................................... 32 3.3. Multiport Plugin Features ....................................................................................................... 39 3.4. Asset Pool Features ................................................................................................................. 41

4. Installing SMART Play ..................................................................................................................... 45 4.1. Installing from Smart Suite CD.............................................................................................. 45 4.2. Installing from downloaded Setup ....................................................................................... 48

5. Configuring SMART Play ................................................................................................................ 52 5.1. General Settings........................................................................................................................ 52 5.2. Defining Video Server Ports................................................................................................... 55 5.3. Defining VTR for Ingest ........................................................................................................... 57 5.4. Adding Keyboard Shortcuts .................................................................................................. 58 5.5. Configuring Time Zone and Daylight Saving .................................................................... 60 5.6. Configuring Firewall Settings of Client Machine.............................................................. 61

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1. Introducing SMART Play

1.1. What is SMART Play SMART Play is a playout/ingest control system for Grass Valley’s Media Servers. It can use AMP protocol over TPC/IP or RS-422.

Profile Video Server

K2

M-Series iVDR

Media Servers

Turbo With SMART Play, users can start a crash ingest or a VTR ingest from a workstation that is on the same network with the iVDR. SMART Play’s ingest plug-in will control the VTR via RS-422 and Video Server with AMP (either over IP or RS-422). The playout plug-in of SMART Play allows the play out of a single clip or a playlist. Users can decide to play-out back-to-back or stop at the last frame of each clip. Loop mode is available for both single clip or for a part of a play-list. With the flexible configuration tool of SMART Play users can choose to control any of the channels of the iVDR from one single workstation. This manual shows you how to install, configure, and use SMART Play effectively.

1.2. System Requirements

Minimum Specifications • Processor: P4 3GHz or AMD equivalent • Memory: 1GB RAM • Network connection: 10/100 LAN

• Software: MS XML Parser 6.0, MS VS C++ 2005 Redistributable

Recommended Specifications • Processor: Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz or AMD equivalent

• Memory: 2GB RAM • Network connection: 10/100 LAN • Software: MS XML Parser 6.0, MS VS C++ 2005 Redistributable

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1.3. Terms You Should Know

Term Definition Clip A piece of media containing video, audio, or both

stored inside Video Servers. Placeholder

An item reserved for a clip that doesn’t yet exist or is not complete. When ingest of a clip is starts its placeholder is replaced with clip.

Event An object dedicated for actions triggered by playout application. (for example, GPI events)

Playlist A list that consist of clips, placeholders and events which are going to be played.

Item A single object which is a clip, placeholder or event from a playlist.

Cue An operation performed to ready clips for playout.

Story Story is a complete news report, consisting of multiple medias, camera input events and character generators.

Sequential event

Events that are simply scheduled to start after the end of previous event is called sequential event.

Secondary event

Events that can be triggered inside other events are considered as secondary events.

Time event Events that are scheduled to start in a timecode called time event.

Time-over Time-over is the timecode problem that happens when a time event object is going to start later than its start time.

Time-under Time-under is the timecode problem that happens when a time event object is going to start earlier than its start time.

Ingest Operation of transferring media from any external source into the Media Server.

Trim Operation of editing in and out points of a clip permanently.

Subclip Operation of creating a new clip from an existing clip using new in and out points.

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1.4. User Interface and other Components

1.4.1. SMART Play UI

The SMART Play UI consist of 4 panels; 2 Single Port panel (Left and Right), 1 Asset Pool panel and 1 Multi-Port panel. All SMART Play Controls reside in these panels. These panels can be made visible or hidden with using the Panel Control buttons. There is a Timecode Screen in the upper left corner and “Settings” button where you can configure SMART Play for your needs.

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Panel Control:

You can change panels’ size by clicking and dragging their borders, or hide/show them with Panel Control buttons. Panel Control buttons’ shortcut keys are F1, F2, F3 and F4. You can add/remove SMART Play Controls to Panels from the Settings button. Single-Port Panels:

As you can see in the picture above, only SPL, AP and SPR (Single Port Left, Asset Pool, Single Port Right respectively) button’s are pressed in Panel Control so only these panels are visible in program. Singe Port plugins can reside inside these panels, just like the playlist control plugin on the screenshot above.

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Multi-Port Panel:

As you can see in the picture above, only MP and AP (Multi Port Left, Asset Pool respectively) button’s are pressed in Panel Control so only these panels are visible in program. Multi Port plugins can reside inside this panel, just like the A/B player control plugin on the screenshot above. Timecode Screen:

Timecode Screen shows Windows system time or LTC/VITC timecode input if computer has a TC Board. It also has time zone and day-light saving options. You can configure Timecode Screen from Settings button.

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Port Control:

Each server port defined under SMART Play panels is represented with a port control. These port controls act as major information screen. Also by using the VTR-like controls, users can control media server’s player or recorder ports manually. Asset Pool: The SSDB Asset pool shows clips/placeholders inside a media server and predefined events on the playout application. It can sort and filter clips by their durations, names, track, status, compression type, media type, etc. It gets clips from the SSDB Service so when a SMART Play deletes a clip or creates a placeholder every SMART Play using the same SSDB shows the change in real-time. The Control Asset pool shows pre-defined events (for example GPI events). These events can be added to playlists, and triggered automatically when their place in playlist comes. SSDB Server and GPI box triggers can be configured from Settings button. 1.4.2. Other Components: Smart Suite Database Service Smart Suite Database (SSDB) Service controls MS SQL server and holds all media information in database. SMART Play clients may be connected to SSDB for some extra features like placeholders and any number of extra metadata fields on asset pool. It notifies everyone connected to it when a media in database is updated, removed or created; improving network performance when there are multiple SMART Play clients.

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Smart Suite Watch Dog Service The WD service searches for media changes in Media Servers and SSDB services. When it detects new media in Media Server or detects deleted media in SSDB, it synchronizes Media Server and SSDB. Smart Suite MOS Gateway Service The MOS Gateway Service is the MOS translator of all other Smart Suite applications. When it’s connected to SMART Play, SMART Play can get Run Downs from any News Room Computer System on the other side of the MOS Gateway.

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2. Using SMART Play

2.1. Using Recorder Plugins Video servers generally have two options for ingesting media: recording media directly into video server or transferring clips through the network. In both cases SMART Play can sense ongoing ingest/transfer operation and displays the new clip as under construction and its duration changes dynamically. Under construction clips are colored as pink on asset pool.

SMART Play has two different recorder plugins, Crash Record plugin and VTR Sync Record plugin. Record using Crash Record Plugin: The Crash Record plugin is a recorder plugin dedicated to ingest media manually from any source input into the video server.

In order to start a record, first you have to create an empty clip. To create a clip you have to select the target Bin and fill the clip name. You can also use “<” button to create a clip name based on a predetermined pattern on settings. You can also enter extra metadata before creating a clip. When you press “Create Clip” button, an empty clip will be created and cued into port for record. When the target clip is ready, you can start recording by pressing the red record button. You can stop recording using the stop or eject button on the Port Control.

Auto subclip function at the end of the plugin is disabled by default. You can use this function to automatically create a new subclip from the original record on desired time intervals. It also has a selection for target Bin, or uses the same bin as the source clip.

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VTR Sync Record Plugin: The VTR Sync Record plugin is a recorder plugin dedicated to ingest media automatically only from video tape recorders (also other devices acts as VTR) into the video server. It

needs an RS422 com port on the client PC in order to work. The RS422 port is used for connecting VTR to SMART Play client. In order to start a record, you have to select target Bin and fill the clip name. You can also enter extra metadata. Then you have to select target VTR device from VTR Control. Then you can enter in and out timecodes to the respective fields and start the record using “INGEST” button. When you start record, media between in and out point of the VTR is automatically recorded to the video server. Record operation stops when timecode reaches out point or you can manually stop record using “ABORT” button. You can use the “=>” buttons near the in and out point to preroll VTR to in or out point. VTR Control can also control any device that supports BVW protocol.

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2.2. Using Asset Pool

All media and events are stored in the Asset Pool. Any media that is transferred into video server also drops into the media asset pool. The Asset Pool contains all media information about the clips and also extra metadata information if it’s connected to the SSDB. You can sort this list by the name, length, creation date and media track counts or even by extra metadata fields.

The “Refresh” button on the Asset Pool resynchronizes all media, getting all information again. The “Delete” button on the Asset Pool deletes selected media clips after asking for confirmation. New Pool opens a new floating Asset Pool.

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Asset Pool is a useful tool to manage and edit the media in the video server. By using its filter options you can find any media with ease. On the screenshot below you can see the user is searching for “1179” and SSDB is filtering the Bin so only clips whose name contains “1179” can be seen.

After selecting a clip by left clicking on the clip, you can open the context menu using right mouse button. You can manage and edit your media using this menu.

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The context menu which opens when you right click on any media in the Asset Pool contains useful functions for managing and editing your clips

Bin.

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f the selected clip into the target Bin.

• Rename: Rename selection changes the name of the selectedclip.

• Move: Move selection moves the selected clip into the target

Bin.

• Copy: Copy selection copies the selected clip into the target

Subclip: Subclip selection copies only the media between the in and out points o

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• Properties: The “Properties”

selection shows the properties of the selected media. On the properties window, you can see all of the media properties as well as extra metadata entered before. You can also change or add a new metadata.

Deleting media: In order to delete media’s from your video server you have to use the “Delete” button at the top of the Asset Pool. It will ask for a confirmation and delete all clips listed in the confirmation window if you click on “Yes”.

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2.3. Using Playlists

SMART Play has two player plugins, both with different abilities. But playlist operations covered in this section are the same on both of the plugins. Adding and Removing Media and Events into Playlists: All media and events in the Asset Pool can be added into playlists using drag and drop action.

If you wish to use the keyboard for these operations you can use the asset finder. You can access the asset finder when you click the “Insert” key on the keyboard. Using asset finder you can filter, select and add clips by only using your keyboard. “Esc” key on the keyboard closes the Asset Finder.

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In order to remove unnecessary media or events from your playlist you can use the “Delete” button on the plugin after selecting one or more clips. Selected clips will be removed only from the playlist. You can’t use “Delete” function on a clip that is on-air.

If you want delete all items, you can use “Clear” function on the right click context menu, which will clear items on the playlists. “Clear” function will ask for a confirmation before clearing all items on the playlist. You can’t use “Clear” function while the some of the clips on the playlist are on-air. Saving and Loading Playlists: You can save your playlists and use them later by loading them on the same SMART Play client or a different client. You can access the save dialog by opening the right click context menu.

There are two different load options available; the first one is “Load” which will clear the current playlist and load the selected playlist. “Insert”, however, will not clear the playlist, but will insert the selected playlist over the selected clip. If there is no selection on the playlist, the “Insert” function will insert the selected playlist at the end of the current playlist.

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Importing external playlists: Playlist files generated by other scheduling systems can be also opened in SMART Play. SMART Play has a generic import system, and new import settings can easily be created by editing sample import files. New import types can be added to the context menu by editing the necessary fields of the import file inside SMART Play folder.

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2.4. Using Player Plugins

Back to Back Playlist Plugin: The Back to Back Playlist Plugin is designed for the needs of a Master Control Room and it works as an automated playout. It can import playlists created in external scheduling systems and play them in a back to back order automatically. Editing items in a playlist: • You can change a clip’s in and out timecodes by selecting it on the playlist and right clicking to open context menu >> Properties. Note that you can’t do this operation on events that are on-air.

• You can also split a clip into two parts using the “Create Splice Point” button. When you use this button the selected clip will be split into two parts at the target timecode shown above the button.

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• You can change an event’s start type (sequential or time event) or end type (back-to-back or freeze on last frame) by right clicking to open context menu >> Start Event or End Event. This operation also cannot be done on events that are on-air. Cueing and Playing Clips You can cue a playlist using the “Cue” button. If the starting media is a time event, it will start when its start timecode comes. If the starting media is a sequential event then it will start immediately when you press the “Play” button.

When a clip finishes its playout, SMART Play checks for that its end event and does the necessary actions: • If the finished media’s end event is “back-to-back” and the next media is “time event” then playlist will continue with next media unless there is some time before its start timecode. Then SMART Play automatically fills that time with black output. • If the finished media’s end event is “freeze on last frame” and then playlist will stop at the last frame of the current playing media. • If the finished media’s end event is “back-to-back” and the next media is “sequential event” then the playlist will continue with the next media once the current playing media finishes. • If the finished media’s end event is “freeze on last frame” and the next media is a “sequential event” then playlist will stop at the last frame of the current playing media. Clips with durations less than 6 seconds are chained with next media for frame accuracy reasons.

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While a playlist is currently cued and playing, you can edit that playlist or insert a playlist at the end of current playlist. Additional features: You can find information about additional features and functions about the Back to Back Playlist Plugin at section 3.2.

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A/B Multiport Plugin: The A/B Multiport Plugin is designed for the needs of a studio and is generally used in news studios for manual playout. The A/B Multiport Plugin can import external playlists as well as get NCRS Rundowns over MOS Gateway. The A/B Multiport Plugin can have more than one player port with one playlist for ease of preview and playlist make-up. When you add video server ports to the Multiport Panel, they will be enumerated alphabetically. Default installations usually have 2 ports but this can be increased or decreased from settings. Creating and editing stories: • You can manually create a playlist by simply dragging and dropping media items (clips or placeholders) from the asset pool panel to A/B’s playlist. You can create new stories when your cursor becomes a red arrow pointing left:

You can add media into an existing story when your cursor becomes a red arrow pointing up or down: If the cursor is pointing down, the media will be added to the start of that story.

If the cursor is pointing up, the media will be added to the end of that story.

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If there is no arrow near your cursor then the media will be added to the exact location of your mouse cursor on the story. You can change the mouse cursor by moving it over playlist stories.

• You can change the order of clips by dragging a clip from one place to another in the playlist. This can’t be done on cued clips.

Saving: As explained in section 2.3, you can save your playlists by right clicking in the playlist panel and selecting playlist >> Save on the right click context menu.

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Opening Rundowns over MOS Gateway The A/B Multiport plugin can also select a Rundown from MOS Gateway to link SMART Play with a Newsroom Computer System. In order to do this, right click on the playlist of the A/B Multiport panel and select the “Select RO” under “RO Control”.

After this selection a new dialog will be appear and show all available Running Orders (Rundowns). In the new dialog select the Rundown you want to use and click the select button.

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To break the link between NRCS and SMART Play, right click on the playlist of the A/B Multiport plugin and in the context menu select “Break Sync” under the “RO Control”.

To starting manual control over the RO but maintain the link, right click to playlist of the A/B Multiport plugin and in the context menu select “Manual Control” under the “RO Control”.

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Cueing and Playing Clips Unlike the Back to Back Playlist Plugin, the A/B plugin has a “Cue” button for every item in the playlist. This allows a very fast manual control of the playlist. When a clip is cued, “Next”, “Eject” and “Play” button is created for it. Pressing the “Play” button will start playing the clip immediately. When the clip reaches its end, it will trigger the end event defined in the settings (check section 3.3 for more details).

You can eject the clip by pressing the “Eject” button on the item or using the “Next” button, which will both eject the clip and cue the next unused clip. Used clips are marked as “Played” and cannot be cued again unless their “Played” status is removed using “Unmark Played” selection on the right click context menu.

Additional features: You can find information about additional features and functions about A/B Multiport Plugin in section 3.3.

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3. Features

3.1. Secondary Events • GPI Events: You can add events inside clips just like you can add them into playlists. To do this; you need to open the property table of a clip inside a playlist, or just alt + double click to that clip.

Then simply drag and drop the control actions you want to trigger inside the clip and enter the trigger time by giving the offset from the start time of clip. With this feature you can enter or remove logos, send GPI outputs and control other ports from within a clip.

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• Advanced Character Generator Control: SMART Play’s new Vizrt control plugin can import scenes from VizEngine.

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After importing scenes, SMART Play shows editable items on scenes which contain control objects (like TRIO scenes). You can save these scenes as new CG pages after editing them. Using “!!” special character, you can tell the scene to take the scene values from the clip’s metadata.

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Just like GPI events that can be added into a clip’s secondary event list, saved CG pages can be added as secondary events.

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3.2. Playlist Plugin Features

• Asset Finder:

You can access the asset finder when you click the “Insert” key on the keyboard. Using the asset finder you can filter and select clips with your keyboard. The “Esc” key on the keyboard closes the Asset Finder.

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• Trim/Subclip with Preview:

If you cue a clip into a player port, you can trim/subclip the clip by opening the context menu and selecting “Trim”:

Before trimming a clip you must set appreciated in and out points for trimming operation. To set in or out, you can simply click “In” and “Out” buttons on the desired timecode while previewing the clip. When you use trim, the original clip will be replaced with the trimmed clip. If you wish to maintain the original clip, you should create a subclip.

• Loop: If you want to loop one or more clips you can select them, then select “loop” on the right click context menu.

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• Backup Events:

You can backup your on air playout from any port with a synchronized VTR. To do this; you need to open the property table of a clip inside playlist, or just alt + double click on that clip.

Then enter the start timecode inside the VTR.

Then use “Sync” button to start synchronization between VTR and Video Server or you can wind VTR tape to start timecode with “Prepare” button.

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After synchronization, VTR and Video Server run the clip in sync.

You can see the VTR status in the Backup Event column.

You can remove Backup Events using “Remove” button.

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• Splice:

While playing a long clip like a movie, you may wish interrupt the long clip to play one or more clips and return to the original on the exact location it was interrupted. You can do this operation using the “Splice” button over the playlist.

After selecting the interrupting clips you can click on the “Splice” button to put them on-air. The current clip will be skipped into the target clips and it will be also be cued at the end of the target clips, starting on the interrupted timecode.

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• Main Event (ME):

Media which are longer than a pre-defined duration (defined on settings) will be shown as main events on the playlist. They will have [ME] token in front of their names.

• Counter: If you double click on any clip on the playlist or select a clip, open context menu >> Show >> Counter; a counter box will appear:

The Counter shows the time left until the end of selected clip by default. Users can arrange the counter to “time left until start” or “time left until end” by pressing the “<” and “>” buttons respectively. You can also open multiple Counters for different clips. You can close the counter by double clicking on counter box.

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• Duration:

If you select multiple clips and open context menu >> duration >> duration; a duration box will appear:

Duration shows total duration of selected clips. You can close the duration box by double clicking on it.

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3.3. Multiport Plugin Features

• Chaining:

Our new A/B port now supports chaining of multiple clips into same port as one clip.

• Thumbnail: Our new A/B port playlist control now supports clip thumbnails in playlist.

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• Port Assignments:

This version of SMART Play has a more flexible port assignment mode. You can assign each clip into a specific port or you can let SMART Play assign an empty port automatically

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• End Modes and Automatic Actions: You can define multiple end modes so that when a clip reaches EOM the desired mode will be activated. Show last frame, Show black and Show EE are the available options. You can define automatic actions triggered when a clip reaches EOM. You can define automatic eject or auto-cue next. You can also define “Wait” duration.

• Page: The new page feature acts as a shortcut for stories. When you enter a page number that exists in the playlist, you can cue it using the enter key.

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3.4. Asset Pool Features

• Clip Metadata:

In the Asset Pool panel you can add new metadata to clips using the popup menu accessed by the right mouse button. You can use these metadata for information, extensive logging or for vendor specific needs like dynamic data for Vizrt plugin.

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• Rename/Copy/Move:

In the Asset Pool panel you can access Rename, Copy and Move features using the popup menu accessed by the right mouse button.

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• Sub clip:

You can access the sub clip feature from the popup menu accessed by right clicking on the Asset Pool panel. You can enter the new sub clip’s name, target bin and Mark In/Out in the sub clip dialog.

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• New Pools:

You can create a new Asset Pool using the “New Pool” button. By creating new pools, you can browse in different bins at the same time.

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4. Installing SMART Play

4.1. Installing from Smart Suite CD

1. Insert the SMART Suite CD into your disk drive. 2. If AutoPlay is enabled, a title screen should appear. If AutoPlay is not enabled, or the installation does not start automatically, click on the Start button on your Windows® taskbar, then on Run. Type D:\ Setup and click on OK. Note: If your installation drive is assigned to a letter other than D, substitute that letter.

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3. Follow the remainder of the on-screen instructions to finish installing SMART Play.

4. First read the License Agreement then click I Agree radiobox button.

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5. Click Next button to start the installation.

6. Wait until installation is complete then close setup with close button.

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7. Once installation is complete, double-click the SMART Play icon on your desktop to open SMART Play. You can also start the program from the Start menu by choosing Programs >> ISOFT >> SMART Suite >> SMART Play

4.2. Installing from downloaded Setup 1. Go to the directory that holds the setup and run setup.

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2. Follow the remainder of the on-screen instructions to finish installing SMART Play.

3. First read the License Agreement then click I Agree radiobox button.

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4. Click Next button to start the installation.

5. Wait until installation is complete then close setup with close button.

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6. Once installation is complete, double-click the SMART Play icon on your desktop to open SMART Play. You can also start the program from the Start menu by choosing Programs >> ISOFT >> SMART Suite >> SMART Play

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5. Configuring SMART Play

5.1. General Settings Once you have installed the program and run SMART Play you should open settings and configure SMART Play for MCR or News Studio. Both usage versions have some common settings.

The image below is the settings dialog which will be opened when you click Settings button.

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First you must configure your video format options (PAL).

Then you enter SSDB tree and configure SSDB server. Click use SSDB and enter your SSDB Server IP. SSDB Port is 10216 by default.

Then right click to Video Servers to open context menu.

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Click Create Video Server and define the server that you want to control.

Enter Alias, IP address of Server, and select your server type in the combo box.

Then select your connection type, default is SOCKET (TCP/IP). Also check the “Use SSDB” check box.

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5.2. Defining Video Server Ports

You must add video ports to panels in order to control your Media Servers. Setup for Recorder Plugins: Right click on your Video Server to open the context menu and select “create video server port”

Then enter Alias, Port type (must be a recorder port in order to make ingest), Timecode and GUI Panel. GUI Panel must be a Single-Port panel (left or right).

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Setup for Back to Back Playlist Plugin: Right click on your Video Server to open context menu and select “create video server port”

Then enter Alias, Port type (must be a player port), Timecode and GUI Panel. GUI Panel must be a Single-Port panel (left or right).

Setup for A/B Multiport Plugin: Right click on your Video Server to open context menu and select “create video server port”.

Then enter Alias, Port type (must be a player port), Timecode and GUI Panel. GUI Panel must be Multi-Port panel. Note: You can add more than one video port into Multi-Port panel; they will automatically enumerate and built into multi port panel.

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5.3. Defining VTR for Ingest

You must define at least one VTR to start ingest from, also the Client machine using SMART Play should connected to VTR using RS-422. To add a VTR, create a VTR Type.

Enter Alias.

Then create a VTR Controller.

Then enter Alias of VTR, select Com port of RS-422 connection made with VTR and VTR Type.

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5.4. Adding Keyboard Shortcuts

You can add keyboard shortcuts to SMART Play from “Manage Triggers” under the Triggers tab inside settings panel. To add Default key mapping right click mouse over panel and select “Add Default Player Shortcuts” and then select a video port.

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You can edit shortcuts by clicking their trigger column.

You can add and remove shortcuts manually using “add” and “remove” Trigger buttons.

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5.5. Configuring Time Zone and Daylight Saving

While you are using SMART Play you may need to change time zone of SMART Play. In order to do this: select [Player Control] >> Properties, under the Plugins tree.

In Properties table you change Time zone field by your need in minutes. Check DST (daylight saving time) check box in order to open or close DST.

Note: You must check “Use AMP Schedule commands” if you are going to use timecode board in SMART Play Client.

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5.6. Configuring Firewall Settings of Client Machine

SMART Play uses various TCP/IP ports to connect other applications. These ports must be opened and allowed to be used by SMART Play if there is a firewall on the computer it’s installed.

• SMART Play uses 3811 port for AMP commands (controlling Media Servers) • SMART Play uses 10216, 10217 ports for SSDB connection (this ports are default

settings that can be changed from SSDB plug-in settings) • SMART Play uses 12218 for MOS Gateway connection (this port is default settings

that can be changed from MOS plug-in settings)

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