Grass Valley K2 Media Client User Manual v3.3 - Manual (Page 5)

June 5, 2009 K2 Media Client User Manual 5
Contents
Finding Information ........................................................................................... 11
How this manual is organized ................................................................................. 11
Getting more information ......................................................................................... 12
Grass Valley Product Support ................................................................................. 14
Telephone Support ............................................................................................. 14
Chapter 1 Product Description
System Overview .................................................................................................... 17
About remote operation and monitoring .................................................................. 17
About K2 Media Client storage options ................................................................... 18
Licensing ................................................................................................................. 18
Software version licenses ................................................................................... 18
Licensable options .............................................................................................. 18
Chapter 2 Getting Started
Getting Started with AppCenter............................................................................... 22
Prerequisites....................................................................................................... 22
Starting AppCenter ............................................................................................. 23
Starting AppCenter for the first time with a Control Point PC ............................. 23
Starting AppCenter after creating a channel suite .............................................. 26
Locking AppCenter ............................................................................................. 27
Shutting down AppCenter ....................................................................................... 28
Shutting down AppCenter locally........................................................................ 28
Shutting down AppCenter from a Control Point PC............................................ 28
Configuration Manager ............................................................................................ 30
Opening and closing Configuration Manager ..................................................... 30
Saving and restoring configuration settings........................................................ 31
Monitoring applications............................................................................................ 32
Status bar ........................................................................................................... 32
Status pane ........................................................................................................ 32
Export Logs ........................................................................................................ 33
Storage Utility .......................................................................................................... 33
Accessing Storage Utility .................................................................................... 34
K2 System Configuration......................................................................................... 34
Chapter 3 Using AppCenter
About AppCenter ..................................................................................................... 36
AppCenter user interface overview ......................................................................... 36
Tools in AppCenter ............................................................................................. 38
Conventions used in the AppCenter interface .................................................... 39
Terms and concepts used in AppCenter ............................................................ 40
Channels overview .................................................................................................. 41
Channel suites .................................................................................................... 41
Channels on an SD-00 K2 Media Client ............................................................. 42
Channels on an SDA-00 or HD-00 K2 Media Client ........................................... 42
Channel applications overview ................................................................................ 43
Selecting a channel application .......................................................................... 43
Available channel applications ........................................................................... 43
Using on-screen transport controls..................................................................... 45
Using remote protocols ........................................................................................... 45
About remote control and supported protocols................................................... 45
Configuring a channel for remote control ........................................................... 46
Chapter 4 Recording clips
About recording clips .......................................................................................... 50
About continuous record mode........................................................................... 50
Guide to using the Recorder application: Control view....................................... 52