Grass Valley iTX System v.2.6 - Manual (Page 247)

Media Import Configuration Tool
Media Import Configuration Tool
NOTE: Use of this tool can have a major impact on the functionality of your iTX system and
therefore MUST ONLY BE DEPLOYED BY AN EXPERIENCED iTX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR OR
GRASS VALLEY iTX SUPPORT ENGINEER.
As mentioned in the previous section there are now two mechanisms that can be used to
register media and its associated metadata in ITX. The standard method used by the Media
Watcher (MU registration mode) and an alternative method (FPP) that allows for ‘Deep
Analysis’ of the media.
By default, iTX uses the standard MU mode for all media types, with the exception of LXF and
AVC-Intra MXF files, which use the FPP mode.
Because Deep Analysis cannot be performed in the standard mode, you may wish to override
which media types are registered by which method, depending on your registration data and
metadata requirements.
This can be done via the Media Import Configuration Tool. It facilitates manual configuration of
global overrides that are applicable to iTX Desktop, Preview and Playout and local override
configurations on a specific instance of an application via an XML configuration file.
Global overrides are applied to both Import and Output of media files, i.e. both registration and
playout. Local overrides will only change which of the two methods are used to parse the
media on playback on an output server.
Installation
The Media Import Configuration Tool is installed via the main iTX Installer. When prompted to
Select Software (see iTX Installation Instructions page xxx) expand the Utilities tree and select
Import Configuration Tool:
This installs the tool to the location:
C:\Program Files\iTX 2.0\Applications\ImportConfigurationTool
NOTE: Because of the potential system wide implications of using this tool, unlike the rest of
the iTX software, it does NOT show up in the Windows Program Files menu, so a user must
navigate manually to this path and double click Omnibus.OPUS.Import.ConfigurationTool.exe
in order to run it.
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