Grass Valley SmartBins User Manual

Number: 510057.001

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Issued for the first time: June 14, 2000

SmartBins

Digital News Production

Instruction Guide

SOFTWARE VERSION 5.0

07183700
OCTOBER 2004

Copyright

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Nevada City, California 95959-7900

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Rev Date Description

October 18, 2004 Initial release of part number 071-8370-00

Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 1 Introducing SmartBins

SmartBins on an Open SAN System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

SmartBin Folder Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Updating the Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Updates to the Profile Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Updates to the NewsEdit Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Limitations of Open SAN SmartBins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

SmartBins on a NAS System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Chapter 2 Installing the Software

Installing the Profile Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Installing the SmartBin Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Obtaining a Software License Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 3 Configuring SmartBin Service on a NAS System. . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 4 Creating SmartBins in NewsEdit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Grass Valley Product Support

To get technical assistance, check on the status of problems, or report new
problems, 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 by searching our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) database.

Grass Valley Product Support

World Wide Web:
Technical Support E-mail Address:

http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/support/

[e-mail].

Phone Support

Use the following information to contact product support by phone during
business hours. Afterhours phone support is available for warranty and contract
customers.

United States [phone] (Toll Free) France [phone]

Latin America [phone] (Toll Free) Germany [phone]

Eastern Europe [phone] Greece [phone]

Southern Europe [phone] Hong Kong [phone]

Middle East [phone] Italy [phone]

Australia [phone] Netherlands [phone]

Belgium [phone] Poland [phone]

Brazil [phone] Russia [phone]

Canada [phone] (Toll Free) Singapore [phone]

China [phone] Spain + 34 91 512 03 50

Denmark [phone] Sweden [phone]

Dubai + 971 4 299 64 40 Switzerland [phone]

Finland [phone] UK [phone]

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