EVS XTAccess Version 1.16 - November 2011 User Manual - Manual (Page 8)

Issue 1.16.A XTAccess Version 1.16 – User’s Manual
Author: Serge Comes - EVS Broadcast Equipment – November 2011
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1. Introduction
The Gigabit connection on EVS server makes it possible to transfer video and
audio material from the EVS servers to external systems via the TCP/IP network.
The external systems can be the following ones:
• A storage system or an archiving system, such as XStore, XFile or a 3 r d party
storage.
• A non-linear Editing system, such as EVS CleanEdit, Apple Final Cut Pro or
Avid.
• Another EVS server
However, the external systems cannot read the raw files coming from the EVS
servers. For this reason, XTAccess is used as a “gateway” between the EVS
Server and the IT world. It takes up the role of gateway used so far by
XFile/XStream as it creates file formats compliant with external systems.
XTAccess is directly connected to the EVS servers through the Gigabit network. It
runs on an XP workstation and is mainly controlled by the external systems (no
user interface) via XML files or other processes.