Omnia Audio F-XE User Manual
Omnia F/XE
Specially engineered for podcast and le origination
INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONAL MANUAL
SEPTEMBER 2011
Omnia ● 1241 Superior Avenue East, Cleveland, Ohio 44114 USA
TEL: +1 216.241.7225 ● FAX: +1 216.241.4103 ● www.omniaaudio.com
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Omnia F/XE – About
Omnia F/XE brings the power of Omnia Audio processing to the file system. With the ability to batch
process existing media as well as processing new, incoming audio, Omnia F/XE can prepare all media for
broadcast.
MPEG License & Music Copyright
Musical compositions and sound recordings are creative works that are protected by the copyright laws
of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) and other countries. Under U.S. law, the owner of a copyright
has the exclusive right to (and to authorize others to) reproduce the work, use parts of the work in a new
creation, distribute the work in whole or in part, and to publicly display or perform the work (including on
web pages and through webcasting). With few exceptions, it is illegal to reproduce, distribute or broadcast
a sound recording without the permission of the copyright owner. It is your responsibility to comply with
the copyright laws of the United States and other countries in which you broadcast and to pay all applicable
royalties to the copyright owners when you become a webcaster.
There have been recent amendments to the copyright law regarding webcasting of sound recordings. These
new provisions allow webcasting under the terms of a statutory license, as a way to help webcasters get
permission without having to go to each sound recording’s owner. The statutory license, however, has
strict requirements that you must follow. Some of these requirements include the payment of license fees,
limitations on the number of songs from the same album or artist that may be played in a three hour period
(called the sound recording performance complement); a prohibition on publishing advance playlists;
and a requirement to identify the song, artist and album on the website. There are other requirements as
well. The Recording Industry Association of America provides quite a bit of information on copyright law
as it applies to webcasting, and both ASCAP and BMI have created license agreements that they are willing
to grant to webcasters that they believe conform to the provisions of the new copyright rules for webcasting. For additional information on the statutory license and other aspects of webcasting, please visit the
following sites:
The U.S. Copyright Office
www.copyright.gov
The Recording Industry Association of America
www.riaa.com/issues/music/webcasting
ASCAP
www.ascap.com/weblicense/webintro.html
BMI
www.bmi.com/iama/webcaster/index.asp
Software Licensing and Registration
Omnia F/XE software must be activated with a license code for production use. If Omnia F/XE is run
unlicensed, it will operate in Demo Mode. A license is provided when the Omnia F/XE software is purchased. If a license code is not available or has been lost, please contact your sales representative or Omnia
Audio support staff.
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Getting Started
System Requirements
♦ Windows XP or later.
♦ Minimum 128MB RAM.
♦ 20MB free hard-drive space
The Omnia F/XE application runs on 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows XP or later.
Software Installation
The Omnia F/XE installer be a single file installer named OMNIAFXE.MSI. Double-click the installer
application file to install Omnia F/XE.
When you install Omnia F/XE for the first time you will be prompted by the following window:
Click the Next button. The License Agreement dialog will be displayed.
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Use the scroll bar to review the full text of the license agreement displayed. If terms are agreeable,
click the “I accept...” check box then click Next to continue, otherwise, click Cancel to exit the installer.
Press the Next button when the final confirmation dialog is presented:
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At the end of installation the installer can automatically register the software if a license is available. Leave
the “Enter license...” check box checked to enter license information or uncheck it if upgrading or if the
software is already licensed:
NOTE:
If you need to install a new version of Omnia F/XE, always uninstall the previous version rst.
Your application settings will be preserved.
Program Shortcuts
During installation, Omnia F/XE installs the following shortcuts under ALL PROGRAMS\OMNIA FXE in
addition to the File Processor, Folder Bot, and Preset Editor:
Locate OptionsBatch.xml File
Omnia F/XE’s BatchAXE command line processor reads all settings from a single file named OPTIONSBATCH.XML. This option opens a Windows Explorer window in the directory where the OptionsBatch.
xml file is located. This file uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) format for configuration. When
BatchAXE command line processor is used you can change options by editing OptionsBatch.xml.
Locate Logs Directory
The Locate Logs shortcut opens the System Logs directory. By default, a new log file is created each day. The
system logs are kept for 30 days, after which the oldest file is purged. The logs are the first place to check
when something is not working as anticipated. Additionally, if a problem occurs which requires technical
assistance, sending the log file for the day when the problem occurred will often be helpful.
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Locate Presets Directory
The Locate Presets shortcut in the start menu will open the folder containing the Omnia F/XE processing
preset files. The Preset Files are text files generated by the Omnia F/XE Preset Editor application containing
the parameters for a particular processing preset.
Enter License Information
Omnia F/XE’s license information application can be used if license information was not entered during
the setup or if a new license needs to be entered. Omnia F/XE will run in demo mode if no license is entered,
however, a hissing noise will be added after 20 seconds of file processing.
File Processor, Folder Bot or Preset Editor
These are shortcuts to Omnia F/XE main applications. Each application will be described in a separate
section in this manual below.
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Omnia F/XE File Processor
File Processor is an application which can process audio files using the Omnia F/XE’s 3-band audio processing engine. File Processor uses the presets stored on the computer and can decode and encode MP2, MP3,
WAV and AAC file formats. Files can be added to multiple processing instances each with different settings
to be later started and processed all together.
Getting Started
When the File Processor is launched, the File Processor window will open. If it is the first time that the File
Processor has been run, there will already be a Default Processor Instance visible in the main area of the File
Processor application window.
File Processor includes three panels that can be switched from the main toolbar using the >> or << buttons
♦ Main panel
♦ Files panel
♦ Log Information panel
The File Processor window’s main toolbar contains the Start and Stop controls for all instances contained
within File Processor, and the global Options button. The Omnia F/XE File Processor version info and
license status can be displayed via the window’s help
selector.
The File Processor window contains the following controls which will show above the panel:
♦ Start or stop all instances with the Start and Stop buttons.
♦ Edit File Processor’s global options with the Options button.
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Main Panel
♦ Create a new File Processor instance with the Create new button.
The Main panel contains a window for each configured File Processor instance. Within each instance are
the following controls:
Instance Editing
♦ Edit instance
♦ Duplicate instance
♦ Delete instance
File Target can be used as a button to open a file dialog or as a target for the drop of a drag from
Windows Explorer. Each instance will provide its own target.
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Files Panel
Files panel allows doing the following:
♦ Change the processing instance for files which are not yet started to process with menu at the
“Preset” column
♦ Add new files by dragging and dropping them from windows file explorer
♦ Edit global options described in the section of this manual below with button
♦ Go to the product website when clicked on Omnia F/XE logo
Once the files are loaded into the panel, each file in the list will provide a selector to choose between all
configured instances.
Note:
Before any processing can be started on the les, the Preset must be set for each le.
All active processing can be started and stopped with the Start and Stop buttons in the FileProcessor menu bar.
The status column of each file will show the current status of processing for that file.
♦ Waiting.. Either a preset has not been selected for the file or the FileProcessor has not been started.
♦ Processing.. File Processor is currently processing the listed file.
♦ Done. File Processor has completed work on the listed file.
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Logs panel
In the Logs panel, the application log events are displayed. There are three types of events: information messages,
warnings and errors. Each type is color coded to allow easier to distinguish them – warnings are orange,
errors are red and information messages are black.
Creating or Editing a Processing Instance
In order to prepare audio for broadcast, processing is used to prepare the audio for airplay. Whether the
audio will be archived, automated, or used as a one-off piece, processing can systematically maintain a common sound throughout the digital audio collection. Omnia Audio’s proven audio processing can be used to
lock down a common denominator for each digital collection to which the media is being added.
When installed to a new system File Processor provides the “Default” processing instance. The default preset
uses Sparkle Omnia processing preset and 128 kbps 44100 Hz stereo MP3
instance will try to output the file to C:\OUTPUT folder. If the folder does not already exist, the instance will
log an error due to being unable to write the output folder and not complete the process.
The instance name can consist of numbers, English alphabet letters, space, and characters “-” or “_”. The
name cannot be blank and must be unique within the list of other instances.
file as output. By default this
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When creating a new processing instance or editing an existing one, a tabbed dialog will be displayed:
Instance
The instance name information tab is where the File Processor instance can be named. The instance name
can consist of numbers, English alphabet letters, space and characters “-” or “_”. Names cannot be blank and
must be unique within the list of other instances.
Process/Encode
The Process/Encode tab allows you to select the preferred Omnia processing preset. The processing presets
can be added by Omnia F/XE Preset Editor described in another section of this manual. The output encoder
can be selected between AAC, MP3 or PCM WAV. Each encoder has different output parameter sets which
can be chosen with “Select” button.
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The Output encoder can be selected between AAC, MP3 or PCM. Each of the encoders has different output
parameter sets which can be adjusted with “Select” button which will open each of the codec’s respective
Encoder Options window.
MP3:
ACC:
WAV:
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