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1 About Avid | Illuminate
The Avid Illuminate suite enables users to automatically verify captioning, video description, and
languages with unrivalled speed, accuracy, and scalability. Avid Illuminate frees you from the
time, expense, and stress of validating content. Whether you’re authoring captions, preparing
them for online or OTT distribution, reporting on broadcast compliance, or working in
multilingual playout and distribution environments, Avid Illuminate eases the burden of quality
control to ensure the best viewer experience possible.
Supported Host Systems
Avid Illuminate can be installed in any of the following environments:
• CentOS 7.x 64-bit
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or later. Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 or later.
• Docker – For any OS
What’s Provided
Avid Illuminate consists of the following components:
Component Function
Software The Avid Illuminate main software package. When you unzip
Language Packs One or more language packages are delivered separately from
Activatio n ID and System ID Required to license the software, these ID codes are provided
Documentation Release Notes and User's Guide are included in the software
Note: The documentation included in the Avid Illuminate archive is created in the Markdown
language format. To view the documentation, you will need a viewer capable of displaying the
content correctly such as Notepad++. For download locations and more information on
Notepad++, see https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
this archive, two sub-folders are created:
• Centos7-x64 — Contains the Linux and Docker ve rsions
• Win-x64 — Contains the Windows version
the main software archive.
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package. Once extracted, the files can be located at:
/avid/illuminate/doc.
.
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2 Before You Begin
Prior to installing Avid Illuminate, review the following information as it applies to your
installation method (Windows, CentOS, or Docker).
Networking and Security
Avid Illuminate supports both static and dynamic IP addressing of the host machine.
Some aspects of the installation, such as licensing, and package installation, require a connection
to the Internet. Prior to starting the installation, make sure that the host server has public network
access.
Avid supports Avid Illuminate with network firewalls enabled. However when licensing the
software, you must ensure that port 3443 is allowed to communicate through the firewall. For
more information on port usage for Avid software, see:
Installing antivirus applications on the host machine is supported by Avid.
Operating System Notes
Microsoft Windows:
When activating Avid Illuminate, you should be logged into Windows as a user with local
Administrator access. When running Avid Illuminate, only standard user-level access is requ ired .
CentOS:
When installing Avid Illuminate, you should be logged into CentOS as a user with wheel/sudoer
privilege; however, do not activate as root or use the sudo command when activating; you will be
prompted for your password when it is required during activation.
Avid supports running Illuminate with SE Linux enabled
Docker:
This document includes information on running Avid Illuminate as a container on an operating
system configured with Docker. The process to install Docker is not covered in this document. If
you plan to use Docker, make sure that the Docker components are already installed.
For more information see the Docker website at: https://www.docker.com/
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3 Installation and Activation
This section details the process to install and activate Avid Illuminate in one of three host
environments. To begin the installation process, refer to one of the following sections:
• Installing Avid Illuminate on Microsoft Windows
• Installing Avid Illuminate on CentOS
• Installing Avid Illuminate for Docker
Installing Avid Illuminate on Microsoft Windows
Avid Illuminate does not use a traditional installation wizard that is common to many Windows
applications. Instead, the application is run within a command line interface that is immediately
available after unzipping the software package. However, you must install multiple prerequisite
components and activate the Illuminate software license prior to first use.
Complete the processes in this section to ins ta ll and activate Avid Illuminate.
Preparing the Software Package
Before you can start the installation, you must obtain the Avid Illuminate software and copy it to
your Windows system. The following packages are provided by Avid:
•
Avid Illuminate Language Pack — For example: IntlEnglish TeleUniversal-<version>.msi
• Avid Illuminate — avid-illuminate-<version>.zip
To prepare the software package:
1. Log in to Windows as a user that has administrator-level access to the machine.
2. Download and copy the Avid Illuminate software packages to a permanent location such as:
C:\avid_illuminate
3. Unzip the avid-illuminate-<version>.zip software packag e.
4. Unzip any language packs provided by Avid.
Installing the Language Pack
Language packs are used for performing comparisons of text and speech and are used in the SDH
(caption) measurements.
To install the Language Pack:
1. Use Windows Explorer to navigate to the location of the downloaded software.
2. Double-click on extracted .msi file to begin the installation.
3. Select the default options during the installation process.
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