Grass Valley K2 Avid Plug-In V.7.0.0.99 - Manual (Page 3)

2010-05-17 Page 3 of 69
Table of Contents
Installation and User Guide and Release Notes ....................................................... 1
Introducing Grass Valley DHM for K2 Media Client, K2 Summit Production Client and
PVS1xxx ....................................................................................................................... 4
Streaming Workgroup Overview ................................................................................... 4
K2 Media Client and K2 Summit Production Client system requirements ...................... 6
PVS system requirements............................................................................................. 6
Avid system requirements ............................................................................................. 6
Setting up PVS fibre channel network for Avid connectivity ........................................... 8
Setting up the K2 system for Avid connectivity .............................................................. 8
Install overview ............................................................................................................. 9
Uninstall previous installed version ............................................................................... 9
Installing TServerSvc on the K2 Media Client & K2 Summit Production Client ............ 11
Prerequisite for Installing the TserverSvc on the K2 Summit Production Client ........... 11
Verify TserverSvc is installed correctly ........................................................................ 17
Installing TServer on Profile PVS Clients .................................................................... 18
Installing K2-AvidTM Software on Avid devices .......................................................... 22
Installing the K2AvidDHM software ............................................................................. 22
Verify K2AvidDHM is installed correctly ...................................................................... 27
Installing the K2AvidIngest software ........................................................................... 28
About K2-AvidTM software licensing ........................................................................... 34
Requesting a license ................................................................................................... 34
If you encounter difficulties when requesting a license ................................................ 38
Generating a unique id ................................................................................................ 38
Obtaining and maintaining licenses ............................................................................. 38
Adding a license ......................................................................................................... 38
Deleting licenses ......................................................................................................... 39
Archiving licenses ....................................................................................................... 39
Modifying / verifying the services file on the K2 / PVS ................................................. 40
Set up hosts files ........................................................................................................ 40
Modifying the Hosts file on the Avid Unity TransferManager or Avid Interplay system for
single send ................................................................................................................. 41
Modifying the Hosts file on the Avid Unity™ TransferManager or Avid Interplay system,
server for dual send .................................................................................................... 42
Modifying the Hosts file on K2 or PVS for single send to playback .............................. 44
Modifying the Hosts file on K2 or PVS for dual send to playback ................................ 44
Configuring the Avid Transfer Manager / Interplay engine .......................................... 45
Configuring the Avid Editor for Transfer ...................................................................... 47
Configuring the Avid system to use other bins / folders for send to playback .............. 48
Verify the Send To Playback ....................................................................................... 50
Verify the Ingest to Avid from the K2 system ............................................................... 51
This section outlines the registry keys used by the receiver ........................................ 59
This section outlines the registry keys which can be used on the Avid Editor Clients .. 60
This section outlines the registry keys which can be used on the K2 Media Client ...... 60
What’s new in this release .......................................................................................... 61
Feature limitations in this release ................................................................................ 61
Changes in previous releases ..................................................................................... 61
Common install or configuration faults ........................................................................ 64