Grass Valley K2 Media Client System Guide v.3.3 - Manual (Page 90)

90 K2 Media Client System Guide June 9, 2009
Chapter 3 System connections and configuration
• The Pathfire Transfer Service software must be licensed on the stand-alone K2
Media Client or on the K2 Media Server. This is a Pathfire software license. If you
are importing both HD content and SD content, two licenses are required.
• The K2 Pathfire capture service’s watched folder must be configured as a
destination for Pathfire-delivered content. You do this configuration as a part of the
installation of the Pathfire Transfer Service software on the stand-alone K2 Media
Client or on the K2 Media Server.
• The Pathfire system in your facility must be installed and operating correctly
before you integrate it with the K2 Pathfire capture service.
Use procedures later in this section as appropriate to satisfy prerequisites.
Considerations for the Pathfire capture service
When you are configuring and using the K2 Pathfire capture service, bear in mind the
following considerations:
• You must be logged in with administrator privileges on the stand-alone K2 Media
Client or the K2 Media Server as well as having the appropriate security
permissions to access the watched folder.
• If using the Pathfire capture service on a K2 SAN, the K2 Capture Services utility
and the watched folder must be on a K2 Media Server that is also an FTP server. If
your K2 SAN has multiple FTP servers, the utility must be on the primary FTP
server.
• After the capture service imports media into K2 media storage successfully, the
capture service immediately deletes the original media files from the watched
folder. If the import fails, the original media files are retained in the watched folder
for the number of days specified as the Cleanup Frequency.
• The transfer from the Pathfire system to the watched folder must be 100% complete
before the K2 Pathfire capture service begins the import into K2 media storage.
• Imports are serialized. For example, if you drop two clips of Pathfire-delivered
content into the watched folder, the Pathfire capture service does not queue the
second clip for import until the first clip is imported. This is different than the
ordinary K2 transfer process.
• Pathfire capture service imports are serialized with other K2 transfers. For
example, if fourteen items are already queued up from ordinary K2 transfers, and
you drop Pathfire-delivered content into the watched folder, the import triggered
by the Pathfire capture service becomes the fifteenth clip in the transfer queue.
• When the Pathfire-delivered content becomes a K2 clip, it is given 16 audio tracks
by default. If the original Pathfire-delivered content has less than 16 audio tracks,
the remaining audio tracks of the K2 clip are silent.
Configuring the Pathfire capture service
To configure the K2 Pathfire capture service, follow these steps:
NOTE: Once configured, the service deletes files in the watched folder (source
directory) that are older than the specified cleanup frequency.