Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.0 User Manual

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NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide

25 May 2004

Chapter 3 Configuring the NewsBrowse System

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

2. Click

The Transfer Client application opens.

3. Configure as follows to check the connection to a NAS machine:

• Host:

localhost

• Port:

9230

4. Click

Connect

. Verify that the …Update… and …Transfer… buttons become

enabled, which means the connection is successful.

5. Configure as follows to transfer/transcode a thumbnail asset from a MPEG asset:

• Source Laid: Enter the path to a MPEG asset on a NAS machine. You can use

an asset created in an earlier test.

• (Source) Format:

video/proxy.mpeg

• Dest Laid: Enter a directory on the local ISS machine. This is for this test only.

The test files are written to the directory.

• (Destination) Format:

stillImage/proxy.thumbnail

6. Select the checkbox to enable the next row, then configure as follows to transfer/

transcode a storyboard asset from a MPEG asset: