Grass Valley NewsBrowse XRE Conformance Server Distribution - Manual (Page 2)

2 NewsBrowse XRE Conformance Server Distribution October 26, 2004
NewsBrowse XRE Conformance Server Distribution
Introduction
This document describes the components that need to be assembled together to create
a NewsBrowse XRE Conformance Server. The XRE server conforms an EDL created
by the NewsBrowse Advanced Edit to High Resolution movies on the Profile XP
server. The hardware components are listed in the next section, followed by the
software modules.
Features new in 2.0
• Audio Voice-overs. NewsEdit AdvancedEdit 2.0 supports audio voice-overs.
These voice-over clips can the be conformed and sent to a Profile.
• Rendering of selected Video Transitions. NewsEdit AE 2.0 supports the
following transitions: Dissolve, Push, Slide. Video Compression types supported
by XRE ConformServer 2.0 are: DV25, DVCPro25, DV50, MPEG2 (I-frame
only).
Hardware Components
The XRE server is designed to run on a Windows 2000 Server platform. The
minimum hardware configuration is as follows:
• 1.0 GHz Pentium 4 processor
• 512 Mbytes of RAM
• Ethernet card (On-board Gigabit Ethernet in the case of DELL 1650 or 2650)
• Fiber Channel Card (Qlogic or Emulex)
• 40 Gbytes hard disk (longer movies require larger drives)
The current hardware platform tested in Engineering is Dell 2650. The XRE server is
connected to two separate IP subnets. The first subnet, connected via the Ethernet
card, is shared with all the NewsBrowse Advanced Edit work stations. The second
subnet is connected via the Fiber Channel card to communicate with the Profile XP
servers.
Software Components
The following software components are required to run the XRE server:
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4
• Microsoft IIS 5.0
• Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000)
• GrassValley Profile Client software
• GrassValley Vibrint DLLs:
• CDRip.dll
• ProfileObject.dll