Grass Valley K2 Media Client User Manual Oct.10 2006 - Manual (Page 3)

August 15, 2006 K2 Media Client User Manual 3
Contents
Safety Summaries .............................................................................................. 7
General Safety Summary ........................................................................................ 7
Safety Terms and Symbols ..................................................................................... 8
Service Safety Summary ......................................................................................... 8
Certifications and Compliances ............................................................................... 9
Finding Information ........................................................................................... 13
How this manual is organized ................................................................................. 13
Getting more information ......................................................................................... 14
Grass Valley Product Support ................................................................................. 16
Chapter 1 Product Description
System overview ..................................................................................................... 19
About remote operation and monitoring .................................................................. 21
About K2 Media Client storage options ................................................................... 21
Chapter 2 Getting Started
Getting Started with AppCenter............................................................................... 24
Prerequisites....................................................................................................... 24
Starting AppCenter ............................................................................................. 25
Starting AppCenter for the first time with a Control Point PC ............................. 25
Starting AppCenter after creating a channel suite .............................................. 28
Locking AppCenter ............................................................................................. 29
Shutting down AppCenter ....................................................................................... 30
Shutting down AppCenter locally........................................................................ 30
Shutting down AppCenter from a Control Point PC............................................ 30
Configuration Manager ............................................................................................ 32
Monitoring applications............................................................................................ 33
Status bar ........................................................................................................... 33
Status pane ........................................................................................................ 33
Export Logs ........................................................................................................ 34
Storage Utility .......................................................................................................... 34
Accessing Storage Utility .................................................................................... 34
K2 System Configuration......................................................................................... 35
Chapter 3 Using AppCenter
About AppCenter ..................................................................................................... 38
AppCenter user interface overview ......................................................................... 38
Tools in AppCenter ............................................................................................. 40
Conventions used in the AppCenter interface .................................................... 41
Terms and concepts used in AppCenter ............................................................ 42
Channels overview .................................................................................................. 43
Channel suites .................................................................................................... 43
Channels on an SD K2 Media Client .................................................................. 44
Channels on an HD/SD K2 Media Client ............................................................ 44
Channel applications overview ................................................................................ 45
Selecting a channel application .......................................................................... 45
Available channel applications ........................................................................... 45
Using on-screen transport controls..................................................................... 47
Chapter 4 Recording clips
About recording clips .......................................................................................... 50
About continuous record mode........................................................................... 50
Guide to using the Recorder application ............................................................ 52
Before you record: Recorder settings checklist .................................................. 54
To record a clip ................................................................................................... 55
Previewing a clip that is recording ...................................................................... 57