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Configuring a Media Watcher
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Select templates for the Media Watcher to use when registering media files.
Templates define default values for various properties of SD and HD video clips.
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Specify paths to mirror folders, for the storage of back-up copies of media files that
are placed in the Inbox. The Media Watcher does not manage mirror folders.
You make these settings under the Setup tab of the Media Watcher user interface; see below,
You cannot configure a Media Watcher as a back-up service. You can, though, configure a spare
Media Watcher and have it on "cold standby" (i.e. ready to take on the tasks of a Media
Watcher that fails) but not active until it is required.
The Setup tab
You configure a Media Watcher, while it is running, by using the features under the Setup tab
of its user interface:
Under this tab, the Media Watcher shows the name of the specified Inbox folder.
It also displays a File Stores list, containing the details of all file stores it has access to. It can
store media files in these file stores and/or get files for playout from them. The first file store
contains the Media folder to which the Media Watcher moves files from the Inbox.
You can modify the File Stores list by adding file stores, removing file stores or changing their
order.
When searching for a media file, the Media Watcher starts with the first file store in the list and
works through the others (but not mirror folders) in order, until it finds the file.
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System Administrator Guide
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