Grass Valley NewsShare v.5.5 - Manual (Page 66)

Chapter 9 Testing Your NAS System
64 Digital News Production
Testing NewsEdit
To verify that the NewsShare NAS system is working properly:
1. Record a short DV, MPEG2, or I-frame-only clip on a Media Server such as
a Profile or M-Series.
2. Start NewsEdit on each NewsShare workstation and verify that the main title
bar indicates that it is running in shared mode.
3. Select the appropriate options for the sequences you recorded.
4. Create and open a test bin, and then open ContentShare Explorer and drag
the clip you recorded on the Media Server into the new NewsEdit bin.
5. Create a new sequence and drag the clip from the Bin to the Timeline.
6. Cue to the head of the sequence and play it.
7. Leave the sequence open on that workstation.
8. On a second NewsEdit workstation, navigate via the Bin Explorer to the
sequence you created on the first NewsEdit workstation.
9. Open the sequence.
10. Acknowledge the message that the sequence is edit-locked on the first machine.
11. Cue to the head of the sequence and play it.
12. Close the read-only sequence.
13. On the first NewsEdit workstation, save the sequence and close it.
14. Create a send destination for the Media Server.
15. Send the sequence to that destination.
16. On the NAS Server, open the sequence and play it.