Here, you can define the configuration of the single SeaChange channel.
The first part is merely descriptive and shows data previously assigned:
•Code: the path of the resource you are editing is displayed
•Type: shows the resource type
•Number: indicates the ordinal number that identifies that resource in case others of the same type coexist.
•Name: description of the resource you are editing (in this case, the suffix CH-no. of the channel is added)
The second part allows you to set the connection and use the mode of the channel:
•Driver:
✓Input SEACHANGE to command the channel through the serial port,
✓Input SEANET to command the channel through the net.
✓Input SEACHANGEDC to command the channel through the serial port using the Deferred Commands(*).
✓Input SEANETDC to command the channel through the net by using the Deferred Commands(*).
(Attention, drivers which manage the Deferred Commands (SEACHANGEDC and SEANETDC) are supported only by the modules AUTOMATION, SPLIT and INGEST)
•Channels
✓Video In Indicate the input channel no. You want to use, keeping in mind that they start from no. 1 (0=not used). The input channel is usually indicated only if you have to record in SeaChange.
✓Video Out: Indicate the output channel no. You want to use, keeping in mind that they start from no. 1 (0=not used). The output channel has to be indicated if you want to see the video files recorded in SeaChange
In practice, set both video in and video out for a recording channel, while for a play channel, set video out only.
•Macro
If set, macro commands will be used if the video file is shorter than 5 seconds.
Read the Imagine protocol and videoserver manuals for further info about macro commands.
•E/E
-Besides, you can set the E\E for each channel. This is useful for systems without an automatic E\E. While recording, this allows you to simulate an E\E via software with a possible connected router, sending the source exit (VTR) to the monitor during the REC phase and returning the videoserver exit to the monitor during the PLAY phase.
•Proxy Address Card
If you have a proxy video acquisition card directly connected to the channel, set the IP address relative to the PC where the card is (e.g., 195.122.231.145).
The value of the local port must be included between 6501 and 6509
If you do not have such a card, or if the card is not fixed to the channel, leave the two boxes blank.
(*)Deferred Commands.
In this case, the correct timing of commands is ensured by the videoserver.
To activate this function, it is necessary that:
- the computer of automation is synchronized through a hardware card on the House Clock (timecode)
- server is synchronized on House Clock (timecode)
The timecode generator, if used, guarantees the maximum entrustment; each 'step' forward or a problem of timecode will be shown in an arrest of the system.
BMS resource editor - Channel user
After indicating which user and which software the resource has to be installed for, you have to set other data.
Com data appear only if the selected driver for Channel management is SEACHANGE.
•Com no.: Indicate the PC com number SeaChange is connected to.
•Com configuration:
✓Baudrate -38400
✓Parity - Odd
✓Databits - 8
✓Stopbits - 1
(Set the com with the above data. The SeaChange com must be set with the same values as the default ones.)
Video router
✓Input - Indicate the router output channel the resource input is connected to (-1=not installed)
✓Output - Indicate the router input channel the resource output is connected to (-1=not installed)
✓Monitor - Indicate the router output channel to which the prospective monitor is connected. (-1=not installed)
422
✓Device (out) - Indicate the no. of the device to be installed when you open the resource.(-1=not installed)
✓Controller (in) - Indicate the no. of the controller to be installed when you open the resource.(-1=not installed)
(Only in the special case where you have a centralized video router which allows you also to commute serial ports, set the data referred to above to 422)