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Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.3.1 User Manual

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NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide

April 27, 2006

Chapter 3 Configuring the NewsBrowse System

• Clip Type: This should automatically fill in as

video/news.masterclip

7. Select the following to transfer/transcode proxy:

• MPEG-1

• Thumbnail

• Story Board

8. Click

Transfer (With Auto update)

. Watch the report in the State column to verify

that the proxy creation is successful. The proxy files are written to the location
configured on the Proxy Asset configuration page as “Default File System Folder”.

9. Using Windows Explorer, verify the MPEG, storyboard, and thumbnail proxy is

created. Open and play the MPEG clip. Validate video and audio.

Test: Advanced encoder stand-alone stage - MPEG proxy source

The following test exercises system functionality exclusive to configurations for
creating thumbnail and storyboard proxy from MPEG proxy. A successful test
verifies that the basic configurations are correct.

Test description: Thumbnail and storyboard proxy are created from MPEG proxy.

ASK configuration, as in

“MediaFrame stage” on page 59

, is required for this test.

NOTE: Run this test only in the stand-alone stage, with machines that have not yet
been added as managed devices (as in the + Server stage). Once the server is
connected, this test can result in corrupt database records.

Run the test as follows:

1. Make sure that the NewsBrowse system is not in use.

2. Make sure the Rules Wizard Service, Thomson Resolver service, and the Thomson

Metadata service are off on the NewsBrowse server.

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