MediaCentral | UX Administration Guide : Administration and System Settings : Configuring for Send to Playback : Creating or Editing a Send-to-Playback Profile

Creating or Editing a Send-to-Playback Profile
 
A send-to-playback operation requires a profile, which a MediaCentral UX administrator creates in the Send to Playback settings Details pane.
The values displayed in some fields are retrieved from the Interplay Production system. Make sure the send-to-playback configuration in Interplay Production is done correctly before creating profiles in MediaCentral UX.
The following procedure provides general steps in creating or editing a send-to-playback profile. For more information, see Send-to-Playback Profile Examples.
*The first time you sign in, information might not be available to create a profile. In this case, sign out and sign in again to MediaCentral UX. MediaCentral UX can then get the send-to-playback information from the Interplay Production engine, and you can create a send-to-playback profile.
To create or edit a send-to-playback profile:
1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an Administrator.
2. Select System Settings from the Layouts list.
The Settings pane and Details pane open.
3. In the Settings tab, select Send to Playback.
The top part of the Details pane lists the send-to-playback profiles, and the bottom part lists the profile details.
*If you are unable to select a device from the Servers menu, verify the “Interplay Transfer Settings” in the Interplay Production Administrator tool. The settings may contain incorrect or missing Transfer Engines. If the “Interplay Transfer Settings” are correct but the menus still do not display any values, the connection to Interplay Production might not be working. Try signing out and signing back in, or check the configuration between MediaCentral UX and Interplay Production. For more information, see the MediaCentral Platform Services Installation and Configuration Guide.
4. Do one of the following:
*To create a new profile, click the + (plus) button in the Send to Playback Profiles section.
A profile named “New Profile” is created in the Send to Playback Profiles section.
*To edit an existing profile, select the profile in the Send to Playback Profiles section.
5. In the Details tab, specify the required settings, as described in the table at the end of this procedure.
6. Click Apply to save the profile. If you are editing a file, click Revert to return to the original settings.
The following table describes the settings in each group.
 
Send to Playback Setting
Description
Name
A name for the profile. Choose a meaningful, descriptive name because this name is displayed to users.
Individual Device or Studio
Specifies if the profile applies to a single playout server or to an AirSpeed Studio.
If you select Individual Device, the following fields are displayed:
Servers. Select the Transfer Engine server for the profile. This list includes all Interplay Transfer Engines and AirSpeed Transfer Engines in the Interplay Production workgroup. See Selecting a Transfer Server.
Playback Device. Select the playback device for the profile. This list includes device profiles created on an Interplay Transfer Engine as well as individually named AirSpeed servers. This list can also include individual devices in an AirSpeed Studio if the following option is selected in the Interplay Transfer Settings view in the Interplay Administrator: “Show individual studio hosts in Send to Playback choices.”
If you select an AirSpeed Multi Stream or AirSpeed 5000/5500 server, you have a choice of a playback device with the name of the server and a playback device with the name of the server followed by -HD. Use the HD device for Long GOP media only. See Selecting a Playback Device.
If you select Studio, the following fields are displayed:
Studio. Select the AirSpeed Studio group for the profile. This list displays the AirSpeed Studio groups in the Interplay Production workgroup.
Playback Device. Select the playback device for the profile. You have a choice of a playback device with the name of the server and a playback device with the name of the server followed by -HD. Use the HD device for Long GOP media only.
Video Options
Long GOP: Select Long GOP if this profile will be used to transfer Long GOP media (for example, XDCAM-HD or AVC-LongG). Long GOP media is transferred through the STP Encode service.
AirSpeed: Select AirSpeed if this profile will be used to transfer to any AirSpeed server.
Accelerated STP: If you select both Long GOP and AirSpeed, the Accelerated STP option is activated. Select this option if this profile will be used with an AirSpeed Multi Stream server version 1.7 or later, or an AirSpeed 5000/5500. This feature allows an AirSpeed Multi Stream user to play media while it is being transferred.
Dalet: Select Dalet if this profile will be used to transfer the audio part of story sequences or other sequences for further reuse in a Dalet audio system. To completely enable this feature, you also need to install a dll file that was developed by Dalet especially for this workflow. You need to contact Dalet to obtain this dll file.
*Selecting this option enables transfer of audio only. There is currently no support for transferring video.
Video Target Resolution
Select the resolution for the sequence that you want to send to the playback device. This list includes video resolutions that are supported in the Interplay Production workgroup.
If you select Long GOP as a video option and a Long GOP resolution, the MediaCentral Distribution Service uses the Interplay Production Dynamic Relink technology to link to media in a similar resolution (closest match) if media is not available in the target resolution.
If you do not select Long GOP as a video option, and media is not available in a target resolution, the send-to-playback operation fails with an error message.
In both cases, audio is linked to a similar resolution (closest match).
Video Frame Rate
Select a frame rate that matches the selected video target resolution. Some resolutions specify a frame rate and others do not. The frame rate is also a more exact value. For example, for XDCAM-HD 50 mbps 1080i 60, select 29.97.
Audio Target Sample Rate
48 kHz (this is the only choice)
The audio target format is always PCM
Audio Target Bit Depth
Select 16 bit or 24 bit.
Audio Target Mixdown Mode
Select Stereo or Direct Out. The maximum number of audio tracks supported for send to playback is 16.
Stereo: Maps to a left/right alternating pan (odd tracks on one channel, even tracks on the other channel), creates a stereo mixdown of all audio tracks, and outputs the resulting two tracks to two channels when sent to playback. This results in two channels of audio.
Direct Out: Does not combine audio in any way; all audio tracks remain as they are in the source media, which creates separate output channels for each audio track in the source media when it is sent to playback. Select this option to retain the greatest flexibility to do further audio manipulation after the source media is sent to the playback device.
Interplay | Production ISIS Workspace
Select a workspace for storing media that results from an audio mixdown or an STP Encode operation.
To delete a profile, select the profile you want to delete and click the minus (-) button in the Send to Playback Profiles section.
For information about performing a send-to-playback operation, see Specifying Send to Playback Settings.