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Grass Valley K2 Dyno PA Configuration Manual v.1.5

K2 Dyno PA
LIVE PRODUCTION CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Configuration Manual
Software Version 1.5
071-8763-01
October 2010
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K2 Dyno PA
LIVE PRODUCTION CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Configuration Manual
Software Version 1.5
071-8763-01
October 2010
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Contents

Grass Valley Product Support..................................................................................................7
Chapter 1: K2 Dyno Production Assistant Overview...............................................9
About K2 Dyno Production Assistant....................................................................................10
Using K2 Dyno PA ................................................................................................................11
About K2 Dyno PA User Interface.........................................................................................12
Customizing the K2 Dyno PA user interface..........................................................................14
Chapter 2: K2 Dyno PA prerequisites......................................................................17
System requirements ...........................................................................................................18
Hardware requirements.........................................................................................................18
Software requirements..........................................................................................................19
Chapter 3: Configuring the K2 Summit SAN and K2 Dyno PA..............................21
About configuring K2 Summit SAN systems ........................................................................22
About the FsNameServers file ..........................................................................................22
Ordering the network adapters for K2 Dyno PA.................................................................24
About the K2 Dyno PA application and the Grass Valley platform service............................25
Installing the Grass Valley platform service.......................................................................25
Installing the K2 Dyno PA application................................................................................26
Starting the K2 Dyno PA application......................................................................................27
Adding a server.....................................................................................................................28
Installing the generic iSCSI Client Software..........................................................................29
Configuring the iSCSI client on the K2 Dyno PA...................................................................29
Calculating K2 Dyno PA machine bandwidth.....................................................................31
Configuring SNFS for the DLC or iSCSI client on the K2 Dyno PA ......................................31
Contents
Chapter 4: Configuring the standalone K2 Summit system and K2 Dyno PA.....33
About standalone K2 Summit system and K2 Dyno PA DLC configuration...........................34
About the FsNameServers file ..........................................................................................35
Ordering the network adapters for K2 Dyno PA....................................................................36
Configuring the DLC server...................................................................................................37
About the DLC Tool............................................................................................................38
Installing the DLC Configuration Tool.................................................................................38
Configuring the DLC server with the DLC Tool..................................................................38
Configuring the DLC server manually................................................................................40
About the K2 Dyno PA application and the Grass Valley platform service............................42
Installing the Grass Valley platform service.......................................................................43
Installing the K2 Dyno PA application................................................................................44
Starting the K2 Dyno PA application......................................................................................45
Adding a server.....................................................................................................................46
Configuring SNFS for the DLC or iSCSI client on the K2 Dyno PA ......................................47
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Chapter 5: Managing K2 Dyno PA............................................................................49
Adding a server.....................................................................................................................50
Editing a server ....................................................................................................................51
Deleting a server...................................................................................................................51
Adding a bin..........................................................................................................................52
Adding a repository...............................................................................................................52
Configuring a rule..................................................................................................................53
Adding a managed channel ..................................................................................................55
Adding or replacing a K2 Summit system in an existing K2 Dyno PA system.......................56
Restoring the K2 Summit system to a pre-DLC configuration...............................................56
Restoring the network adapter order ................................................................................57
Undoing the DLC server configuration...............................................................................57
About K2 Dyno PA administrator and user logins..................................................................58
Creating a K2 Dyno PA user..................................................................................................58
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Grass Valley Product Support

T o get technical assistance, check on the status of a question, or to report a ne w issue, contact Grass Valley Product Support via e-mail, the Web, or by phone or fax.
Web Technical Support
To access support information on the Web, visit the product support Web page on the Grass Valley Web site. You can download software or find solutions to problems.
World Wide Web: http://www.grassvalley.com/support/ Technical Support E-mail Address: gvgtechsupport@grassvalley.com
Telephone Support
Use the following information to contact Product Support by phone.
International Support Centers
Our international support centers are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Authorized Local Support Representative
A local support representative may be available in your country. To locate a support center during normal local business hours, refer to the following list. This list is regularly updated on the website for Grass Valley Product Support
(http://www.grassvalley.com/support/contact/phone/) After–hours local phone support is also available for warranty and contract customers.
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+81 3 6848 5561Japan +603 7492 3303Southeast Asia - Malaysia +65 6379 1313Southeast Asia - Singapore
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Chapter 1
About K2 Dyno Production Assistant
This section contains the following topics:
• About K2 Dyno Production Assistant
• Using K2 Dyno PA
• About K2 Dyno PA User Interface
• Customizing the K2 Dyno PA user interface
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About K2 Dyno Production Assistant

About K2 Dyno Production Assistant
K2 Dyno Production Assistant (Dyno PA) is a software platform composed of the Dyno PA application and the Grass Valley platform service. The platform service allows users on various Dyno PA clients to access assets as well as share saved searches, keywords, and transfer rules.
NOTE: The Dyno PA application can be used with K2 Media Clients, K2 Summit Production Clients, and K2 Solo Media Servers. When a procedure can be applied to any of these, the term K2 system is used. A K2 Summit Production Client with internal storage is referred to as a standalone K2 Summit system. A K2 Summit Production Client with external storage (an FSM server and a RAID) is referred to as a K2 Summit SAN system. Where a procedure can be applied to a K2 Summit Production Client (in a standalone or SAN system) or a K2 Solo Media Server, the term K2 Summit system is used. The Dyno P A application runs on a machine referred to as the Dyno PA client.
Dyno PA can manage various K2 systems to perform several different tasks.
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Related Links
About K2 Dyno PA User Interface on page 12 Customizing the K2 Dyno PA user interface on page 14 Using K2 Dyno PA on page 11

Using K2 Dyno PA

This section describes three of the common workflows for the K2 Dyno PA application.
Content Management/Controller workflow
This workflow describes a role that principally deals with assets. The user can be manually exporting or transferring assets about the network, creating playlists, loading assets onto managed channels, creating rules for automatic transfers/exports, creating searches, managing repositories, setting up scheduled transfers, and adding keywords to assets.
Logger workflow
This workflow is more about metadata enrichment of record trains from the K2 Dyno Replay Controller. Users load source clips into the Browse pane and then using the keyframe logging mode add keyframes (keywords with timecode context) to assets. Users can also add Dyno P A ke ywords to Dyno highlights or other assets in the system.
Judiciary/Review workflow
This workflow describes the use of the Browse pane to review footage from a live event from multiple angles, possibly as part of a formal judiciary process such as a
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video referee. The Browse, Recording Assets and K eyframe panes are used to quickly find points within the record trains and then to switch between trains keeping the current timecode context.
Related Links
About K2 Dyno Production Assistant on page 10 About K2 Dyno PA User Interface on page 12 Customizing the K2 Dyno PA user interface on page 14

About K2 Dyno PA User Interface

The K2 Dyno PA user interface is composed of several panes that can be hidden or dragged to different areas of the screen. Highlighted items, such as bins, playlists, or managed channels, are displayed with a blue background.
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The Dyno PA panes are described below.
NOTE: If your Dyno PA system is not licensed to use a particular feature, that pane is not displayed in the Dyno PA application.
Navigator pane: Lists all the K2 systems that have been added as a serv er to the Dyno P A client, the current Dyno session, bins (folders on a K2 system), repositories (folders on a user-defined location), and any search queries that hav e been sa ved. The Refresh
and Filter buttons let you update the list or select which K2 systems you want to display. You can add, edit or delete servers, bins, repositories, and searches in this pane.
Server Information pane: If a K2 system in the Navigator pane is highlighted, the Server Information pane displays, showing the status and version information of that K2 system. When the K2 system is not highlighted, the Server Information pane is not accessible.
Playlist pane: Displays the playlist currently being edited. In this pane, clicking the Locate button causes the Asset List pane to display the bin on the K2 system
where this playlist is located. Asset List pane: Lists, either in thumbnail or list view, all the assets on the bin,
repository, or Dyno session currently highlighted in the Navigator pane. The Filter button lets you view all the assets in a system or view assets from a specific camera angle. The Sort button lets you group assets by criteria such as name, creation
date, rating, and so on. Rules pane: Displays all the rules currently configured. In this pane, you can add,
edit, activate or delete rules that tell K2 Dyno PA when to transfer an asset and where to transfer it to. Clicking the Rules tab displays the Rules pane if it is covered by other panes.
Managed Channels pane: Displays all the currently configured record and play channels on K2 systems that can be controlled through the Dyno PA application. If you have administrator-level privileges on Dyno PA, you can add, edit, or delete channels in addition to playing, recording, stopping, fast-forwarding, rewinding, or ejecting assets or putting an asset in loop playback mode. Clicking the Managed Channels tab displays the Managed Channels pane if it is covered by other panes.
Recording Assets pane: Displays all the records currently in progress on the K2 systems. You can view the records in list or thumbnail view, browse a record or load it to one of the K2 systems. The tabs above the record trains let you choose whether to view record trains on one K2 system or all av ailable systems. Clicking the Recording Assets tab displays the Recording Assets pane if it is covered by other panes.
T ransfer Scheduler pane: Displays the scheduled transfers. You can add, edit, cancel or delete scheduled transfers in this pane. Clicking the Transfer Scheduler tab displays the Transfer Scheduler pane if it is covered by other panes.
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Browse pane:Allows you to load assets from a K2 Summit system and view them in Dyno PA. You can create cue points, mark in or mark out points, create subclips, unload the asset or locate it in the Asset List, and toggle between Live mode and
Keyframe Logging mode. In this pane, clicking the Locate button causes the Asset List pane to display the bin on the K2 Summit system where the asset loaded in the Browse pane is located.
Info pane: Allows you to view the video and keyword information of a highlighted asset. Clicking the Info tab displays the Info pane if it is covered by other panes. In
this pane, clicking the Locate button causes the Asset List pane to display the bin on the K2 system where the asset loaded in the Info pane is located.
Active Transfer pane: Allows you to view transfers currently in progress as well as failed transfers, if any. Clicking the Active Transfer tab displays the Active Transfer pane if it is covered by other panes.
Completed Transfer pane: Allows you to view the status of completed transfers. Clicking the Completed Transfers tab displays the Completed Transfer pane if it is covered by other panes.
Quick Logging pane: Allows you to associate Dyno PA keywords and keyframes (keywords linked to a specific timecode) with assets or remov e them from assets. Y ou can also add, edit, delete or export Dyno P A k eywords from categories and vie w Dyno keywords and ratings. Clicking the Quick Logging tab displays the Quick Logging pane if it is covered by other panes.
Menu Ribbon: The menu is based on the W indo ws Ribbon interface. When you click on the Lock button , the menu ribbon displays. If you double click on the button,
the menu remains fixed at the top of the user interface. Double clicking the button again hides the menu ribbon again.
Related Links
About K2 Dyno Production Assistant on page 10 Customizing the K2 Dyno PA user interface on page 14 Using K2 Dyno PA on page 11

Customizing the K2 Dyno PA user interface

The K2 Dyno PA interface is based on the standard Microsoft Dockable Windows user interface. The Asset List pane is fixed; it cannot be moved or closed. However,
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you can arrange the other panes around it, which effectiv ely moves the Asset List pane in relation to the other panes.
Any changes made to your layout are automatically saved when you log out of the Dyno PA application. The layout information is saved by the Grass Valley platform service, so your customized layout can be accessed, if you log into Dyno PA with the same username and password, from any Dyno PA client that shares that particular Grass Valley platform service.
1. To close or hide/unhide a pane in Dyno PA, you can do the following:
• To hide a pane, click the Thumbtack button . A hidden pane remains off to
the side, with only its title visible. This allows you to customize the interface for a particular workflow. For example, you could close down some panes so that you can view more assets at one time in the Asset List pane.
• To display a hidden pane briefly, hover the mouse over the pane title.
• To unhide the pane, hover the mouse over the pane title and then click the
Thumbtack button.
• To close the pane click the X in the upper-right corner of the pane.
• To open the pane up again, right-click on the title of another pane and select
the closed pane from the options. In the following illustration, the Quick Logging pane has been closed, and right-clicking on the title of the Browse pane displays the Quick Logging pane unchecked.
NOTE: This list displays the panes that are visible; that is, panes that are not hidden beneath other panes. For example, the Completed Transfers pane is not shown here because it is hidden beneath the Quick Logging pane. The Customize pane is not available in this release.
2. To move a pane around in Dyno PA, you can do the following:
• T o open a pane as a separate window, double click the pane status bar. T o restore
a pane to its previous location, double click the pane status bar again.
• To drag a pane from one location to another in the user interface:
a) Click the status bar and hold the mouse button down.
While the mouse button is being held down, a cursor appears and direction arrows are displayed in the center of the user interface and on each side of the screen.
b) Drag the cursor until it is over the arrow where you w ant the pane to be placed.
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c) Release the mouse button.
The pane appears in the new location.
3. If panes are grouped together, you can separate one of the panes from its group by clicking on its tab and dragging it to another section of the UI. To add a pane to a group, drag the pane to the group and drop it onto the center of the four-way arrow.
4. To change the font type, style, or size, select Users & Preferences from the menu and select the desired font options.
5. Layouts are automatically saved on the Grass Valley platform service PC when you exit the Dyno PA application. To export a layout, select Users & Preferences from the menu and click the Save Layout button.
6. To open a layout that has been stored locally, select Users & Preferences from the menu and click the Load Layout button.
7. To restore the default layout, select Users & Preferences from the menu, highlight the user, clickDefault Layout and then click Yes.
When you next restart Dyno PA, the layout returns to the default settings.
Related Links
About K2 Dyno Production Assistant on page 10 About K2 Dyno PA User Interface on page 12 Using K2 Dyno PA on page 11
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Chapter 2

K2 Dyno PA prerequisites

This section contains the following topics:
• System requirements
• Hardware requirements
• Software requirements
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K2 Dyno PA prerequisites

System requirements

To run K2 Dyno PA, you need the following system requirements.
NotesComponent
At least one K2 Production Client, K2 Solo Media Server, or K2 Media Client.
A PC to run the Grass Valley platform service.
At least one PC to run the Dyno PA client application.
Related Links
Software requirements on page 19 Hardware requirements on page 18

Hardware requirements

Before installing K2 Dyno PA, verify the hardware requirements.
The Dyno PA application and the Grass Valley platform service have the same hardware requirements, with the exception of the video board. The hardware specifications are listed in the following table.
Dyno P A is compatible with K2 3.3.x systems (e xcept for the Browse feature) and K2 7.2.x systems.
One platform service can accommodate multiple Dyno PA clients.
The Dyno P A application and the platform service can be run from the same PC.
Required hardwareComponent
Platform
Video board
Related Links
Software requirements on page 19 System requirements on page 18
PC desktop or laptop Core 2 Duo @ 2 GHz minimum
English (US) Windows XP 32b SP3Operating system Integrated or discrete graphics with a
minimum of 128 MB of memory (not required for the platform service)
2 GB (minimum)RAM 1 GigE EthernetNetwork 80GB 7200 rpmDisk StandardKeyboard and mouse
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