Pinnacle Systems Media Distribute - 2.10 Installation Manual

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Media | Distribute

Installation and Configuration Guide

Version 2.10

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Media | Distribute Installation and Configuration Guide • Created 5/15/17 • This document is distributed by Avid in online (electronic) form only, and is not available for purchase in printed form.

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Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter 1 Installation for Media | Distribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Preparing the Installation Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Creating the USB Installation Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Mounting the USB Installation Drive on the MCS Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute on a Single Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute in a Cluster Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Identifying the Master and Non-Master Nodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Identifying the Virtual Cluster IP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Configuring Media | Distribute on the Master Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Configuring Media | Distribute on Non-Master Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Restarting PostgreSQL Service and Verifying the Cluster Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Verifying the Connection to ServiceMix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Modifying Media Distribute to Work with a Proxy Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Using the Social Messages and Web Story Panes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Using the Distribution Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Removing Media Distribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter 2 Configuration for Media | Distribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Verifying Your Media | Distribute Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Assigning Media | Distribute Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

MediaCentral | UX Security for Media | Distribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Configuring the Transcode Route. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Configuring the Video Transcoding Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Send to Playback Configuration for Media | Distribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Configuring a Telestream Vantage Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Validating the Vantage Transcode Route Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Configuring the Harmonic ProMedia Carbon Transcoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Configuring a RadiantGrid Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Configuring a MAM Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Configuring an E-mail Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Chapter 3 Configuring System Accounts for Media | Distribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Configuring the Bitly Link-Shortening Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Configuring a Twitter Publication Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Configuring a Facebook Publication Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Configuring a Facebook Page Publication Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

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Configuring a Vimeo Publication Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Configuring a Vimeo V3 Publication Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Configuring a YouTube v3 Publication Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Configuring a Brightcove Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Configuring a Kaltura Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Configuring an Ooyala Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Configuring a Flickr Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Configuring an Atex Polopoly Web CMS Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Configuring a WorldNow Web CMS Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Configuring thePlatform Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Configuring a WordPress CMS Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Configuring an Amazon S3 Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Configuring a Generic CMS Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Configuring a Generic CMS Extended Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Configuring a NoOpTranscoder Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Configuring a Generic OVP Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Chapter 4 Configuring User Profiles for Media | Distribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Configuring a User Profile for an Amazon S3 Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Configuring a User Profile for an E-Mail Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Configuring a User Profile for a Personal Facebook Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Configuring a User Profile for a Personal Facebook Page Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Configuring a User Profile for a Personal Flickr Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Configuring a User Profile for a Personal Twitter Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Configuring a User Profile for a Personal Vimeo V3 Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Configuring a User Profile for a Personal YouTube v3 Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Delegated Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Appendix A Media | Distribute Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Appendix B Working with Media | Distribute Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Appendix C Modifying the Transcoder Monitoring Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Appendix D Modifying the Settings for Interlaced Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Appendix E Sample XSL for the Generic CMS Extended Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Appendix F Custom Configuration for Avid Publish Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Installing Avid Publish Services Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Configuring the Avid Publish Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Appendix G Deleting Packages from Packages Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

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Using This Guide

This guide is intended for users of MediaCentral | UX with the Media | Distribute feature. This guide describes the installation and configuration procedures for Media Distribute, such as installing the Media Distribute software and configuring system accounts.

For information on using the publishing features of Media Distribute, see the Media | Distribute User’s Guide or the MediaCentral | UX Help. For administrative information for MediaCentral | UX, see the Avid MediaCentral | UX Administration Guide.

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1 Installation for Media | Distribute

Media Distribute is installed on the MediaCentral Platform Services (MCS) server as a plug-in that offers additional functionality within MediaCentral UX. The Media Distribute installation procedure assumes that you have a fully configured and functional MediaCentral Platform Services environment. If your MCS server or servers have not been installed and configured, see the Avid MediaCentral Platform Services Installation and Configuration Guide for detailed instructions.

The Media Distribute installation package is delivered as “Media_Distribute_<version>_Linux.zip”. You run the installation file itself from a shell script called needed for MediaCentral UX to access the Media Distribute functionality, as well as the avid-mpd service which provides the functionality for Media Distribute workflows.

Because Media Distribute requires access to the Internet to publish packages to public websites, direct Internet access is often granted to the MediaCentral server. However, Media Distribute can also be configured to communicate with the Internet through a proxy server for additional security. For more information, see “Using the Social Messages and Web Story Panes” on page 21.

Depending on your workflow, the following components might be required by Media Distribute:

• iNEWS (for MCS configurations with iNEWS)

• Interplay Production Engine (for MCS configurations with Interplay Production)

install.sh

. This installs the plug-in

• Interplay MAM (for MCS configurations with Avid Interplay Media Asset Manager)

• Avid Shared Storage Client

MediaCentral Platform Services includes a copy of both the Avid ISIS Client and the Avid NEXIS

Client software. Verify the version of the Avid NEXIS or Avid ISIS client required for your environment and upgrade the client software if necessary. For more information, see the Avid MediaCentral Platform Services Installation and Configuration Guide.

• MediaCentral Distribution Service

• Interplay Transfer Engine

• Interplay Production Services Engine

• Interplay Production Transcode provider (for creating video or audio mixdowns of Avid assets)

• Interplay Production STP Encode (only required if working with LongGOP media assets)

• An FTP server (for transferring assets between systems)

• A video transcoding host server such as Telestream Vantage or Harmonic ProMedia Carbon (depending on the workflow)

• Internet connection for publishing to social media sites

For specific information on software version compatibility, see the Avid Knowledge Base:

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/compatibility/Avid-Video-Compatibility-Charts

If you ever need to remove Media Distribute, see “Removing Media Distribute” on page 24.

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Preparing the Installation Package

The Media Distribute software installation package (Media_Distribute_<version>_Linux.zip) is available to Avid Support representatives only and can be downloaded from the Avid Gold Build repository.

Creating the USB Installation Drive

Media Distribute is installed on the MediaCentral Platform Services server through a USB drive. The following process provides instructions to prepare the USB drive for use with the MCS server.

To prepare and mount a USB drive for Media Distribute installation:

1. On a Windows system, format a USB drive of at least 1GB in size as a FAT32 volume.

2. Obtain the Media Distribute installation package file (Media_Distribute_<version>_Linux.zip) from your Avid representative.

3. Copy the compressed installation file to the USB drive.

4. Remove the USB device from the Windows system.

Mounting the USB Installation Drive on the MCS Server

After the Media Distribute installer has been copied to a USB drive, the drive must be connected and mounted on the MCS server. The package must also be uncompressed to extract the installer script.

To mount the USB drive on the MCS server:

1. Connect the Media Distribute installation USB drive to the MCS server. If you are running a clustered configuration, connect the device to the cluster master node. Once the installation is complete on the master node, you must repeat this procedure for all non-master nodes.

root

2. Log into the MCS server (at the Linux prompt) as the

user.

3. Use the display message command to verify the name of the USB device:

dmesg

Information relating to the hardware appears on the screen.

Information for the USB drive appears at the end of the output, in the list of SCSI devices. The name of the USB drive is found inside square brackets (for example, sdc). This is the name you use to mount the drive.

The

dmesg

command displays a great deal of information which can be difficult to review in the

Linux console. You can reduce the amount of information that dmesg returns by using the Linux

grep

command to show only items that contain certain text (such as “sd”). The following

command can be used as an alternative:

dmesg | grep sd

4. Create a mount point for the USB device by typing the following:

mkdir /media/usb

If this directory already exists, the following message is displayed:

mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/usb': File exists

5. Mount the USB key at the mount point you just created:

mount -t vfat /dev/<volume><partition> /media/usb

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Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute on a Single Server

The mount command requires you to specify the volume and a partition on the volume that needs to be mounted. The process of formatting the USB device in Windows creates this partition.

In the following example,

mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/usb

The USB device is now mounted and available for use.

6. Verify the USB key has been mounted:

Information is displayed about all mounted file systems and devices, and should include information about the USB drive, similar to the following (some output omitted for clarity):

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 7.5G 5.3G 2.2G 71% /media/usb

7. Navigate to the mount point for the USB drive:

cd /media/usb

8. Unzip the Media Distribute installer package by typing the following command:

unzip Media_Distribute_<version>_Linux.zip

The installer is compressed within a .tar.gz container which must be unpacked to reveal the Media Distribute installer script.

9. Unpack the Media Distribute installation file by typing the following command:

tar -xzf Media_Distribute_<version>_<build>_Linux.tar.gz

The compressed file extracts to a subfolder within the target directory called Media_Distribute_<version>_<build>_Linux.

sdc

is the volume and 1 (one) is the partition number:

df -h

The process for installing Media Distribute is different for single-server and clustered environments.

• If you are running MCS on a single-server, see “Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute on a

Single Server” on page 10 to continue the installation process.

• If your configuration consists of a set of clustered MediaCentral servers, see “Installing or

Upgrading Media | Distribute in a Cluster Environment” on page 13 to continue the installation

process.

Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute on a Single Server

The following process details the steps required to install or upgrade Media Distribute on a single MediaCentral Platform Services server. During the installation, the PostgreSQL database is updated for use with the Media Distribute service.

The procedure for upgrading Media Distribute follows the same process as that of a new installation. The existing packages are simply overwritten with new versions during the upgrade process.

When you upgrade your version of Media Distribute, all system and user settings are saved. You do

not need to create new settings. However if the software update includes new features, you might need to modify your settings to activate the features. For a list of new features, see the ReadMe documentation that came with your version of MediaCentral UX. For information on setting up account profiles, see “Configuring System Accounts for Media | Distribute” on page 59.

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The process of installing Media Distribute includes a restart of some core services. This process disconnects all users logged in to MediaCentral UX. Ensure that all users save their sessions and log off during the installation or upgrade procedures.

To install or upgrade Media Distribute:

1. Complete the process for “Mounting the USB Installation Drive on the MCS Server” on page 9.

2. Navigate to the installation directory on the USB drive:

cd Media_Distribute_<version>_<build>_Linux

3. Run the installation script:

./install.sh

The period-slash “./” in this command tells Linux to look for the script in the current directory.

The PostgreSQL database is updated with a custom user name of

resudpm

4. Once the installation process is complete, verify that the packages have been installed by typing

. The necessary database tables and schema in PostgreSQL database are also created.

the following command:

/usr/share/apache-servicemix/bin/mpd_version

The command returns the installed versions of ServiceMix and Media Distribute. For example:

ServiceMix Version: 4.5.1 MPD Version: 2.9.0.20161221_164247 MPD UI Version: 2.9.0.20161221_164247

mpduser

and a password of

Additional service packages might also be listed when using this command.

5. Type the following to open the MediaCentral UX Configurator:

/opt/avid/avid-interplay-central/configurator

An asterisk symbol indicates that a particular option is enabled. Verify that the Media Distribute plug-in is enabled within the Configurator as shown above.

6. Select OK to exit the MediaCentral UX Configurator.

A dialog box opens and asks if you want to restart the MediaCentral services. Use the Tab key to select Yes and press Enter.

When you restart the services, all users currently logged on to MediaCentral UX are logged out. Restarting the services is a required step in this process. Do not simply select Cancel and exit the tool.

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7. With the Media Distribute installation complete, it is important to verify the connection to the ServiceMix tool. To verify the connection, complete the following steps:

a. Type the following:

ssh Administrator@localhost -p 8101

If prompted to verify the DSA key fingerprint, type ServiceMix interface.

b. Enter the Administrator password:

A successful connection to the ServiceMix tool should look similar to the following:

c. Verify that the services are running properly by entering the

Enter.

If the ServiceMix installation is successful, all account endpoints should be listed as “Active” and the “Social Media Integration Routes” endpoint should be listed as “Started.”

avid

yes

to continue to connect to the

list

command, and pressing

If all endpoints are not active or if the “Social Media Integration Routes” endpoint is not started,

ServiceMix might not have completed restarting. Wait a moment and then retry these steps.

d. Type

8. Unmount the USB drive from the MediaCentral server by completing the following steps:

a. Type

b. Type the following to unmount the volume:

c. Physically remove the USB drive from the server.

logout

mount.

umount /media/usb

to quit the ServiceMix tool.

to change to the Linux root directory and navigate away from the USB drive

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The procedures in this section assume you have already configured your MediaCentral Platform Services servers in a clustered environment and that you have verified failover functionality. For more information on configuring the MediaCentral servers in a cluster, see the Avid MediaCentral Platform Services Installation and Configuration Guide.

The procedure for upgrading Media Distribute follows the same process as that of a new installation. The existing packages are simply overwritten with new versions during the upgrade process. If necessary, you can restore some of the original files by using the backup configuration files already in your configuration once the upgrade completes. For other files — for example, the Avid Publish Service configuration files — you must edit the new versions if you made any customizations to the original configuration.

When you upgrade your version of Media Distribute, all system and user settings are saved. You do

Installing Media Distribute in a cluster entails the following steps:

• “Identifying the Master and Non-Master Nodes” on page 14

Media Distribute is installed on all cluster nodes, but some installation steps are completed on the Master node only, so it is important to know the role of each node before beginning the process.

• “Identifying the Virtual Cluster IP” on page 14

The virtual cluster IP address must be clearly identified as you are required to manually add this information to multiple configuration files after the installation is complete.

• “Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute” on page 15

This process installs the software on each of the cluster nodes.

• “Configuring Media | Distribute on the Master Node” on page 16

After the installation, multiple configuration files need to be updated with custom information.

• “Configuring Media | Distribute on Non-Master Nodes” on page 18

This process updates the configuration files on the non-master nodes.

• “Restarting PostgreSQL Service and Verifying the Cluster Installation” on page 19

This process validates changes to the PostgreSQL database and tests cluster failover.

• “Verifying the Connection to ServiceMix” on page 20

Checks the connection to the ServiceMix tool from each cluster node.

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Identifying the Master and Non-Master Nodes

There are three types of nodes in a cluster: master, slave, and load-balancing. The master “owns” the cluster IP address. The slave assumes the role of master in the event of a failover. Any additional nodes play a load-balancing role, but can never take on the role of master.

Prior to beginning the installation, identify the current role of each cluster node.

To identify the master, slave, and load-balancing nodes:

1. Identify the master node of the cluster through the Cluster Resource Monitor. Log in to any machine in the cluster as root and type:

crm_mon

2. To identify the master and slave, look for the line containing “Master/Slave Set.”

For example:

Master/Slave Set: ms_drbd_postgres [drbd_postgres] Masters: [ wavd-mcs01 ] Slaves: [ wavd-mcs02 ]

In this example, the master node is wavd-mcs01 and the slave node is wavd-mcs02.

3. To identify the load-balancing nodes, look for the line containing “Clone Set.”

For example:

Clone Set: AvidAllEverywhere [AvidAll] Started: [ wavd-mcs01 wavd-mcs02 wavd-mcs03 wavd-mcs04 ]

In this example, the load-balancing nodes are wavd-mcs03 and wavd-mcs04.

4. Exit crm_mon by pressing CTRL-C on the keyboard.

Identifying the Virtual Cluster IP

Some files used in the configuration of Media Distribute require the virtual cluster IP. Prior to beginning the installation, identify the IP address assigned to the cluster.

To identify the virtual cluster IP:

t Log in to the master node of the cluster and type the following command:

The following is an example of the output of a typical network interface configuration. The virtual cluster IP is the IP assigned to the 'eth0:c10' network adapter.

In this example, the virtual cluster IP is 192.168.10.50:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:55:E6:83:E1 inet addr:192.168.10.51 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::226:55ff:fee6:83e1/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4321802 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3628475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1374391088 (1.2 GiB) TX bytes:1086706641 (1.0 GiB)

eth0:cl0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:44:E6:83:E1

inet addr:192.168.10.50 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:38 Memory:fbde0000-fbe00000

ifconfig

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lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:7331022 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7331022 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:8040287442 (7.4 GiB) TX bytes:8040287442 (7.4 GiB)

Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute

If you install Media Distribute in a cluster environment, you must install it first on the master node of the cluster since the database service runs on this node. The installation process updates the PostgreSQL database for the Media Distribute service. These updates can only be completed on the node running PostgreSQL service. After completing the installation of Media Distribute on the master node, you must repeat the process to install the software on all non-master nodes.

Prior to installing Media Distribute in a cluster, make sure that all cluster nodes are online. During the installation, changes are made to the PostgreSQL database. If the cluster is in standby mode, this does not occur and the installation fails.

To install or upgrade Media Distribute:

1. Complete the process for “Mounting the USB Installation Drive on the MCS Server” on page 9.

2. Navigate to the installation directory on the USB drive:

cd Media_Distribute_<version>_<build>_Linux

3. Run the installation script:

./install.sh

The period-slash “./” in this command tells Linux to look for the script in the current directory.

For master node installations, a default user in the PostgreSQL database is created with a user name

mpduser

of database are also created.

4. Once the installation process is complete, verify that the packages have been installed by typing the following command:

/usr/share/apache-servicemix/bin/mpd_version

The command returns the installed versions of ServiceMix and Media Distribute. For example:

ServiceMix Version: 4.5.1 MPD Version: 2.9.0.20161221_164247 MPD UI Version: 2.9.0.20161221_164247

and a password of

resudpm

. The necessary database tables and schema in PostgreSQL

Additional service packages might also be listed when using this command.

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5. Type the following to open the MediaCentral UX Configurator:

/opt/avid/avid-interplay-central/configurator

An asterisk symbol indicates that a particular option is enabled. Verify that the Media Distribute plug-in is enabled within the Configurator as shown above.

Use the Tab key to select

6. Unmount the USB drive from the MediaCentral server by completing the following steps:

a. Type

mount.

b. Type the following to unmount the volume:

umount /media/usb

c. Physically remove the USB drive from the server.

7. Repeat steps 1 - 6 of this procedure on all non-master nodes.

When installing Media Distribute on the non-master nodes, you might see the following message:

“Not running a database PG on localhost. Please enter IP of database server.” If you see this message, press Enter. You do not need to provide an IP address for your database server when installing Media Distribute on a non-master node.

8. After Media Distribute has been installed on all cluster nodes, restart the AvidIPC cluster resource from any node to restart the avid-interplay-central service and enable Media Distribute:

crm resource restart AvidIPC

When you restart the resource, all users currently logged on to MediaCentral UX are logged out.

Restarting the services controlled by the cluster resource might take up to a minute.

to change to the Linux root directory and navigate away from the USB drive

Cancel

and press Enter to exit the Configurator.

Configuring Media | Distribute on the Master Node

After you install Media Distribute, you must edit several configuration and property files and restart services on the master cluster node.

Although multiple text editors exist, the tool used throughout this document is “vi”. If needed, a short introduction to vi is included in the MediaCentral Platform Services Concepts and Clustering Guide.

To configure PostgreSQL to allow remote hosts access to the Media Distribute database:

1. Using the Linux vi editor, open the PostgreSQL configuration file for editing:

vi /mnt/drbd/postgres_data/pg_hba.conf

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2. Add the following information on a new line at the end of the file:

host mpd mpduser 0.0.0.0/0 trust

3. Save and exit the vi session. Press

To configure the User Management Service (UMS) properties file (new installation only):

<ESC>

and type:

:wq

1. Using the Linux vi editor, open the UMS properties file for editing:

vi /usr/share/apache-servicemix/config/application.properties

2. Remove the “#” character from the beginning of the following line:

#com.avid.mpd.uls.host.retriever=application.properties

3. Using the arrow keys, navigate to the line containing the parameter for:

com.avid.osgi.uls.host=

4. Replace the default UMS REST address of

https://localhost:10443/ws/rest

with the

cluster’s virtual IP address. For example:

com.avid.osgi.uls.host=https://192.168.10.50:10443/ws/rest

5. Save and exit the vi session. Press

To configure PostgreSQL to allow remote hosts access to the Media Distribute database (new installation only):

<ESC>

and type:

:wq

1. Using the Linux vi editor, open the Media Distribute database configuration file for editing:

vi /etc/apache-servicemix/avid-mpd-wrapper.conf

2. Locate the following line in the configuration file:

#set.default.DB_HOST=hostname or IP

3. Remove the “#” character from the beginning of this line:

set.default.DB_HOST=hostname or IP

4. Replace the

set.default.DB_HOST=192.168.10.50

5. Save and exit the vi session. Press

To modify the bus configuration file (new installation only):

hostname or IP

value with the cluster’s virtual IP address. For example:

<ESC>

and type:

:wq

1. Navigate to the directory containing the MediaCentral configuration file:

cd /etc/apache-servicemix

2. Using the Linux vi editor, open the following configuration file for editing:

vi com.avid.acs.bus.broker.rabbitmq.RabbitMqBusAccessFactory.cfg

3. Using the arrow keys, navigate to the line containing the parameter for:

brokerConnectURL=

4. Replace the default URL of

amqp://localhost/acs

with the cluster’s virtual IP address. For

example:

brokerConnectURL=amqp://192.168.10.50/acs

5. Save and exit the vi session. Press

<ESC>

and type:

:wq

6. After this file has been saved, restart the Media Distribute service:

service avid-mpd clean-restart

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To restore and move the Servicemix configuration files (upgraded systems only):

t For Media Distribute upgrades, restore the Servicemix configuration files by doing the

following:

a. Type the following to navigate to the Servicemix directory:

cd /etc/apache-servicemix/

b. Type the following commands to restore the backup configuration files:

mv avid-mpd-wrapper.conf.rpmsave avid-mpd-wrapper.conf mv com.avid.acs.bus.broker.rabbitmq.RabbitMqBusAccessFactory.cfg.rpmsave

com.avid.acs.bus.broker.rabbitmq.RabbitMqBusAccessFactory.cfg

Configuring Media | Distribute on Non-Master Nodes

The configuration files that you just edited on the master node also be edited on the non-master nodes. Since the configuration and property files need to be identical on all nodes, you can simply copy the edited files from the master to the non-master nodes.

To copy the edited Media Distribute files from the master to the non-master nodes:

1. From the cluster master node, enter the following commands to copy the configuration files to the non-master nodes:

scp /etc/apache-servicemix/avid-mpd-wrapper.conf root@<hostname>:/etc/apache-servicemix/

Where <hostname> is the host name of your non-master node.

2. After issuing the above command, Linux might display the following message:

The authenticity of host '<hostname (IP address)>' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is <fingerprint alphanumerical id>. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

If this occurs, type:

yes

The terminal window displays the following message:

Warning: Permanently added '<hostname, IP address>' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.

If prompted for a password, type the password for your

root

user account.

The edited files are copied to the non-master node.

3. From the cluster master node, enter the following commands to copy the remaining configuration files to the non-master nodes:

scp /etc/apache-servicemix/com.avid.acs.bus.broker.rabbitmq.RabbitMqBusAcc essFactory.cfg root@<hostname>:/etc/apache-servicemix/

scp /usr/share/apache-servicemix/config/application.properties root@<hostname>:/usr/share/apache-servicemix/config/

Where <hostname> is the host name of your non-master node.

4. Once the three configuration files have been copied, restart the Media Distribute service on the non-master node:

service avid-mpd clean-restart

5. Repeat steps 1 - 4 for each non-master node.

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Restarting PostgreSQL Service and Verifying the Cluster Installation

Before you verify your Media Distribute installation on the master and non-master nodes, you need to perform a failover of the servers. This restarts the PostgreSQL service and validates the mpduser. It also tests your new installation and verifies that both Media Distribute and MediaCentral Platform Services are running properly.

For more information about cluster failover procedures, see the Avid MediaCentral Platform

Services Concepts and Clustering Guide.

To perform a failover and verify your installation:

1. Open a terminal window and log in to any non-master node in the cluster as the

2. Open the Cluster Resource Monitor to view the status of the cluster resources:

crm_mon -f

In addition to the resource status information, the Migration Summary and Failed Actions (if applicable) sections displayed at the bottom of the screen shows errors and fail counts per node.

3. Place the master node in standby by typing the following command and pressing Enter:

crm node standby <hostname>

Replace

4. Monitor the Cluster Resource Monitor on the non-master node.

As the master node enters standby, the former slave node becomes the new master. It takes ownership of the cluster IP address, the PostgreSQL database, and other resources.

Be patient as this process takes several moments to complete

5. When the updated cluster is stable, take former master node out of standby mode by typing the following command and pressing Enter:

crm node online <hostname>

Replace

The node is brought back up and takes the role of the cluster slave node.

6. Monitor the Cluster Resource Monitor on the non-master node.

with the hostname of the master node — for example, wavd-mcs01.

with the name of the standby node (e.g. wavd-mcs01).

root

user.

When the standby node comes back online, verify that its status is that of the slave node.

7. Repeat the process to test failover in the opposite direction.

As the master node goes into standby node, the status of the slave node returns to that of the master node. When the standby node comes back online, its status is that of the slave node.

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Verifying the Connection to ServiceMix

With the Media Distribute installation complete, it is important to verify the connection to the ServiceMix tool. This process must be completed locally on each cluster node.

To verify the ServiceMix installation:

1. Type the following to access the ServiceMix tool:

ssh Administrator@localhost -p 8101

If prompted to verify the DSA key fingerprint, type ServiceMix interface.

2. Enter the Administrator password:

A successful connection to the ServiceMix tool should look similar to the following:

3. Verify that the services are running properly by entering the

avid

yes

to continue to connect to the

list

command, and pressing Enter.

If the ServiceMix installation is successful, all account endpoints should be listed as “Active” and the “Social Media Integration Routes” endpoint should be listed as “Started.”

If all endpoints are not active or if the “Social Media Integration Routes” endpoint is not started,

ServiceMix might not have completed restarting. Wait a moment and then retry these steps.

4. Type

logout

to quit the ServiceMix tool.

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Media Distribute requires a connection to the public Internet to post packages to sites such as Facebook or Twitter. This connectivity requirement might create potential security issues for certain customers. For secure deployment considerations, you can configure Media Distribute to communicate with the Internet through a proxy server.

Using a proxy server — such as a Squid server or any other proxy server running on another machine in the network — allows you to restrict the ports that Media Distribute and it’s dependent systems use to communicate with the Internet. This solution involves configuration changes only and does not affect the existing Media Distribute installation process. After installing Media Distribute, you need to modify certain configuration file to include the proxy settings to ensure that all requests and responses go through the proxy server. After restarting the appropriate Media Distribute services, external traffic is forwarded to the proxy server.

You can also specify some systems in your configuration to bypass the proxy server. This can be useful in some configurations where you need to access the intranet — for example, when using a Vantage transcoder — where direct access works better.

Depending on how you use Media Distribute, you might need to alter one or more files to configure the system to operate through a proxy server. The following two sections include information on configuring Media Distribute to use a proxy server:

• Using the Social Messages and Web Story Panes

• Using the Distribution Pane

See the documentation that came with your proxy server for information on how to configure it for proxy operation. The following processes assume that the proxy server is available and fully configured.

If your MediaCentral servers are configured in a cluster, complete the following processes on the master node first. Once complete, repeat the processes on all non-master nodes.

Using the Social Messages and Web Story Panes

When using either the Social Messages or Web Story panes, you must configure the proxy server with the following information:

• IP addresses of all ServiceMix instances, so that only data originating from Media Distribute are allowed to the proxy server

• Social media targets for the destination domains — for example, api.twitter.com

To modify the configuration file for using ServiceMix with a proxy server:

1. Navigate to the directory containing the Media Distribute database configuration file:

cd /etc/apache-servicemix

2. Using the Linux text editor, vi, open the avid-mpd-wrapper.conf file for editing:

vi avid-mpd-wrapper.conf

3. Locate the section called Proxy configuration, and then type i (lower case “i”) to enter insert mode.

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4. Locate the following lines, type i (lower case “i”) to enter insert mode, and then use the arrow

keys and backspace to erase the

(comment indicator) on all lines except those for setting the

proxy user name and proxy password (these are optional parameters):

#wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttp.proxySet=true #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttp.proxyHost=<the proxy host> #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttp.proxyPort=<the proxy port> #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttp.proxyUser=<the proxy username> #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttp.proxyPassword=<the proxy password> #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttps.proxySet=true #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttps.proxyHost=<the proxy host> #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttps.proxyPort=<the proxy port> #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttps.proxyUser=<the proxy username> #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttps.proxyPassword=<the proxy password>

5. (Optional) If you want to specify systems to bypass the proxy server, add the following line:

#wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=<the proxy hosts>

For example, you might be connecting to a transcode server that is in your network and you do not want or need that traffic passing through the proxy server. In this case, you could add the IP address, short hostname, or FQDN to this line. The server hosting the MediaCentral Distribution Service (MCDS) is another possible example of a machine that might be added to this field.

If you add this line to the file, Avid recommends matching the information that is added to the profile in the MediaCentral UX System Settings. For example, if you enter the transcode server’s IP address in the system settings, add the IP address to this line. If you plan to enter the FQDN, enter the FQDN here.

You can add systems to this exclusion by separating them with a pipe symbol (|).

6. Delete the numeral variable (.n) and number the lines for which you have removed the comment indicator.

7. Delete the <proxy host> or <proxy port> variable and then replace it by typing the IP address of your proxy server or by typing the port configured by your proxy server for both the HTTP and HTTPS settings.

Typically the proxy port is 3128.

The modified configuration should look like the following example:

wrapper.java.additional.1=-Dhttp.proxySet=true wrapper.java.additional.2=-Dhttp.proxyHost=12.345.67.89 wrapper.java.additional.3=-Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttp.proxyUser=<the proxy username> #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttp.proxyPassword=<the proxy password> wrapper.java.additional.4=-Dhttps.proxySet=true wrapper.java.additional.5=-Dhttps.proxyHost=12.345.67.89 wrapper.java.additional.6=-Dhttps.proxyPort=3128

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#wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttps.proxyUser=<the proxy username> #wrapper.java.additional.n=-Dhttps.proxyPassword=<the proxy password>

8. Press the Escape key to return to command mode, then type quit the text editor.

9. To restart the MediaCentral service, type the following command:

service avid-mpd restart

Using the Distribution Pane

Introduced in Media Distribute v2.7.0, the Distribution pane uses avid-publish-* services rather than the original ServiceMix connectors. If using this pane, you must configure the individual services to communicate with the proxy server.

You only need to configure the services that you plan to use. If you only plan to use the YouTube

service and not the Twitter service for instance, only the YouTube service needs to be adjusted.

To modify configuration files for using the Distribution pane with a proxy server:

1. Navigate to the directory containing the Media Distribute service files:

cd /opt/avid/sbin/

2. Use the Linux directory:

ls avid-publish*

Output similar to the following is displayed:

avid-publish-amazon-s3 avid-publish-flickr avid-publish-vimeo avid-publish-brightcove avid-publish-kaltura avid-publish-youtube avid-publish-facebook avid-publish-twitter

list

command to show the Media Distribute “publish” packages included in this

:wq

and press Return to write and

These are the files that must be altered to enable a proxy server workflow with the Distribution pane.

3. Open the desired configuration file for editing. For example:

vi avid-publish-youtube

4. Locate the following lines in the file (located near the beginning of the file):

# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and AVID_PUBLISH_<connector>_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.

DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS=""

5. Add the proxy server’s http and https connection information within the quotes:

DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=<http_IP> -Dhttp.proxyPort=<http_port>

-Dhttps.proxyHost=<https_IP> -Dhttps.proxyPort=<https_port>"

Where the following variables are used:

<http_IP>

<http_port>

<https_IP>

<https_port>

— The IP address of the proxy server used for HTTP communication.

— The port on the proxy server used for HTTP communication.

— The IP address of the proxy server used for HTTPS communication.

— The port on the proxy server used for HTTPS communication.

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The following example shows a completed configuration change:

DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=192.168.10.220 -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128

-Dhttps.proxyHost=192.168.10.220 -Dhttps.proxyPort=3129"

6. Save and exit the vi session. Press

7. To activate the change, restart the service associated with the file you just updated. For example:

service avid-publish-youtube restart

8. Repeat the process above to update additional services as required by your workflow.

<ESC>

Removing Media Distribute

If you need to uninstall the software, Media Distribute v2.10 includes a script that quickly and easily removes the Distribute components for you. If you are uninstalling the software in a cluster configuration, begin the following process from the master node.

When you remove Media Distribute, the Media Distribute Producer role remains in

MediaCentral UX.

To remove Media Distribute:

1. Refer to the process for “Preparing the Installation Package” on page 9 to create a USB drive loaded with the Media Distribute software.

2. Once the software package is unpacked, run the uninstall script from the USB drive:

./uninstall.sh

Be sure to use the dot-slash (“./”) notation, which tells Linux to look for the script in the current

directory. Otherwise you will receive the following error message:

and type:

:wq

-bash: uninstall.sh: command not found

3. If in a cluster configuration, repeat the above two steps on all cluster nodes in any order.

4. To complete the uninstall process, type one of the following commands to restart the MediaCentral services:

t For single-server systems:

t For cluster configurations:

If you need to reinstall Media Distribute, see “Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute on a Single

Server” on page 10 or “Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute in a Cluster Environment” on page 13.

service avid-interplay-central restart

crm resource restart AvidIPC

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Before you use Avid Media Distribute to publish your content to multiple channels and devices, you need to configure MediaCentral | UX for each platform or service you want to use for publishing. This allows you to link your media packages and iNEWS stories with distribution to the Web and to social media outlets and assists you with automating file preparation and transcoding.

Before you configure your system accounts, you need to need to configure MediaCentral UX for Media Distribute. For more information, see the following topics:

• “Assigning Media | Distribute Roles” on page 25

• “Configuring the Transcode Route” on page 30

You can then configure your system and user accounts for Media Distribute:

• “Configuring System Accounts for Media | Distribute” on page 54

• “Configuring User Profiles for Media | Distribute” on page 114

Once you have configured your platforms and services, users can log in to MediaCentral UX and start working with the application. For more information on using MediaCentral UX, see the Avid MediaCentral UX User’s Guide.

Verifying Your Media | Distribute Installation

Before you start to configure Media Distribute, you can test your installation to verify that all Media Distribute components are functioning correctly.

To verify your Media Distribute installation:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Click the Layout selector and select Media Distribute.

If Media Distribute has installed correctly, the following panes display in the Media Distribute layout:

- Social Message

-Web Story

- Packages

Assigning Media | Distribute Roles

Media Distribute provides two basic roles for publishing to multiple platforms and managing the layouts and permissions associated with them. Before you assign roles, you need to set up an administrative account for Media Distribute. Once this administrative account appears in the System Settings, the necessary roles are available for Media Distribute.

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If your MediaCentral configuration includes iNEWS, you need to assign an Advance License to the two Media Distribute roles before you assign these roles to users. For Interplay Production configurations, you can use the default Basic License type for these roles.

For more information about licenses and roles, see the Avid MediaCentral | UX Administration Guide.

When you have set up an administrative account and assigned the appropriate license type, you can then assign either the Advance Journalist or the Media Distribute Producer role to Media Distribute users. Only Media Distribute Producers have access to the review and approval features in the Packages pane.

You can assign roles in two ways:

• In the Role Details pane

• In the User or Group Details pane.

If you are upgrading from Media Distribute v1.8 to v2.x, you need to add the Media Distribute layout to the Advance Journalist role and to modify the legacy Interplay Pulse Producer role.

To set up an administrative account for Media Distribute:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

4. Click the Publication Type menu below the list of Profile Names and Publication Types and select IPC.

5. Click the + (plus) button to the right of the Publication Type list in the Details section.

Clicking the + (plus) button creates the profile. If you do not click the + button, the profile options are displayed, but the Apply button in the bottom-right corner cannot be selected.

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6. Specify the required settings:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your administrative profile)

- Administrator Username

- Administrator Password

7. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

If your profile is valid, a message displays: “Profile configurations is valid.” If any settings are incorrect, a message displays and indicates which fields are incorrect. All invalid settings names change to red.

The setting, “Transform iNEWS stories to lower case,” applies only to Media Distribute accounts

that publish packages containing iNEWS stories. The option does not affect this setting.

8. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

To assign an Advance License to the Media Distribute roles in the Role Details pane (iNEWS configurations only):

1. Select Users from the Layout selector.

2. In the Roles pane, double-click either Advance Journalist or Media Distribute Producer to assign to a user or group.

Information about the role is displayed in the Details pane.

3. In the Details pane, select Advance License as the License Type for the following roles:

- Advance Journalist

- Media Distribute Producer

4. Click Apply to save your changes or click Revert to cancel your changes.

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To assign a Media Distribute role to a user in the Role Details pane:

1. Select Users from the Layout selector.

2. In the Roles pane, double-click either Advance Journalist or Media Distribute Producer to assign to a user or group.

Information about the role is displayed in the Details pane.

3. Click the User Tree pane.

4. Select the user or group to which you which you want to assign the role and drag it to the Users and Groups by MediaCentral Zone section of the Details pane.

MediaCentral UX User Settings, with the User Tree and Roles panes.

5. Click Apply to save your changes or click Revert to cancel your changes.

To assign the Media Distribute layout and create the Media Distribute Producer role (for MediaCentral UX upgrade installations only):

1. Select Users from the Layout selector.

2. In the Roles pane, double-click Advance Journalist.

Information about the role is displayed in the Details pane.

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3. Click the Layouts pane, select the Media Distribute layout, and drag it to the Layouts section.

The Media Distribute layout is added to the Layouts list.

4. In the Roles pane, double-click Media Distribute Producer.

Information about the role is displayed in the Details pane.

5. Click the Layouts pane, select the Media Distribute layout, and drag it to the Layouts section.

The Media Distribute layout is added to the Layouts list.

6. Click Apply to save your changes or click Revert to cancel your changes.

To assign a role in the User or Group Details pane (iNEWS configuration only):

1. Select Users from the Layout selector.

2. In the Roles pane, double-click either Advance Journalist or Media Distribute Producer to assign to a user or group.

Information about the role is displayed in the Details pane.

3. Click the User Tree pane.

4. Select the user or group to which you which you want to assign the role and drag it to the Users and Groups by MediaCentral Zone section of the Details pane.

MediaCentral UX User Settings, with the User Tree and Roles panes.

5. Click Apply to save your changes or click Revert to cancel your changes.

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MediaCentral | UX Security for Media | Distribute

A MediaCentral client requires user login credentials in order to gain access to the underlying functionality. All data transfered to and from the MediaCentral client (user credentials, session information, user configuration settings, media images and files, text, and machine instructions) are transported in a secure manner to the MediaCentral server using HTTPS protocol.

MediaCentral clients that connect through the public Internet require a virtual private network (VPN) access to the server network. All connections pass through the VPN router/firewall through identified ports. Once the data has passed into the “house network” it is secured using the customer’s existing network security infrastructure.

For Media Distribute, ports are used for outgoing HTTP traffic and pass through a network firewall. In some cases, a platform or a system account might require a separate port for outgoing FTP data. Media Distribute does not require any ports for incoming data.

Do not enable a firewall on the MediaCentral servers in your Media Distribute configuration.

For more information on specific ports used with MediaCentral Platform Services and Media Distribute, see the Avid Networking Port Usage Guide on the Avid Knowledge Base.

For more information on MediaCentral security, see the Avid MediaCentral | UX Security Architecture and Analysis.

Configuring the Transcode Route

Media Distribute delivers video to the configured online video platforms using the following workflow. An understanding of this workflow might help to complete the Send to Playback settings.

• The user publishes a bundle to endpoints that include video assets — for example, YouTube and Vimeo. The source videos are stored in Interplay Production.

• To start the publishing process, Media Distribute sends the source video to the MediaCentral Distribution server in a send-to-playback operation.

• The Interplay Production media files are mixed down to MXF-wrapped OP1a media. In the Packages pane, Media Distribute monitors the process as the status displays as “mixing down.”

You can send only sequences for mixdown and transfer to an FTP location.

• The Transfer Manager moves the MXF file to the FTP location specified in the Mixing Down FTP Path in the Send to Playback system settings — see “Send to Playback Configuration for

Media | Distribute” on page 35.

This location is independent of the transcoder. The system supports multiple transcode

configurations which you can assign to various endpoints. By not delivering the video directly to a transcode watch folder, the transcode route is built in a manner that allows for support of multiple transcode endpoints.

• The Media Distribute orchestration engine monitors the FTP location. Once the MXF media arrives at the FTP location, Media Distribute delivers it to the appropriate transcoder /in folder, based on the configuration for your transcoder service (ftp://<transcoder>/transcoding/in).

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ftp://[transcoder]/transcoding/out

ftp://[transcoder]/transcoding/in

File Share in Path (mixing down) folder

Third-Party Transcoder Service

Online Video

Provider

(For example:

Vimeo, YouTube

(mapped folders)

• Media Distribute submits the transcoding job to the transcoder:

- The File Share in Path value (\\<transcoder_hostname>\avid\transcoding\in) should be

configured and mapped to the FTP “in” path (ftp://<transcoder>/transcoding/in). The file share folder must have the appropriate read/write permissions set. For more information, see

“Configuring the Video Transcoding Host” on page 32.

- The transcoder workflow should be configured to provide output to the

ftp://<transcoder>/transcoding/out folder.

• After transcoding, the Media Distribute orchestration engine obtains the transcoded video file from the transcoder “out” folder and delivers it to the designed online video provider (OVP) endpoint for publication.

In order to enable this workflow, you must configure the Send to Playback system settings to provide the necessary information.

The following illustration outlines the overall workflow for publishing video using Media Distribute. Note that some details depend on the specific configuration of your transcoder service — for example, Telestream Vantage or Harmonic ProMedia Carbon transcoder.

1 A user creates a media package with video and clicks Post to send it for review and approval. When a

producer approves the package, it is sent for publication.

2 The sequence, with the source files stored in the Interplay Production database, is mixed down to

MXF-wrapped OP1a media. In the Packages pane, the status displays as “mixing down.”

3 Media Distribute uses the MediaCentral Distribution Service to monitor the send-to-playback status.

When the sequence is mixed down, the Transfer Manager profile, configured in Interplay Transfer, allows Interplay Transfer to move the MXF file to the Mixing Down FTP Host location.

4 Interplay Transfer moves the media to the Mixing Down FTP Path folder. This folder, specified in the

STP profile, matches the configuration the Transfer Manager profile. The folder is configured as a shared folder.

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5 Media Distribute monitors the shared folder, and when the media has been transferred, Media Distribute

copies the MXF file from the Mixing Down FTP folder to the transcoding/in FTP folder on the transcoder service system. The shared folder is mapped to the transcoding/in FTP folder on the transcoder server. It is transcoded and moved to the transcoding/out folder.

6 Media Distribute downloads the transcoded media from the transcoder service.

7 Media Distribute publishes the video package to the specified online video provider.

To transcode and publish video with Media Distribute, you need to provide the following configuration:

• Configuration requires that the following servers are available: Avid MediaCentral Distribution Service, Interplay Production Services, Interplay Transfer, and MediaCentral Platform Services.

• You must configure the Send to Playback settings to provide mixdown output to an FTP server. For more information, see “Configuring for Send to Playback” in the Avid MediaCentral | UX Administration Guide.

• You must configure each transcoding host — for example, Vantage and Carbon Coder. See

“Configuring the Video Transcoding Host” on page 32.

• You also need to configure an STP profile in the System Settings > Media Distribute section. See

“Send to Playback Configuration for Media | Distribute” on page 35.

• You must configure the Media Distribute system accounts as described in “Configuring System

Accounts for Media | Distribute” on page 54.

If your iNEWS stories use uppercase characters, you can select the option to transform iNEWS

stories to lowercase. This changes all text to lowercase characters when you load an iNEWS story in the Media Distribute layout.

Configuring the Video Transcoding Host

You must configure Windows network share folder structure and folders before using a third-party transcoder such as Telestream Vantage File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service running on your transcode server. For the FTP process to work, each media file function must be mapped to specified folders. The following table describes the required structure of the Windows network share folder and FTP folders on a Vantage host server:

Windows Network Share FTP Folder

avid ftp://<Vantage_hostname>/transcoding/in

The Windows network folder for incoming media must be accessible and mapped to the FTP folder (for the transcoded media). This FTP structure is required for retrieving MXF files from Send to Playback and for providing the transcoded output for Media Distribute workflows.

to transcode video for your media package. You also need a

ftp://<Vantage_hostname>/transcoding/out

ftp://<Vantage-hostname>/transcoding/mixdown

You also need to set the Interplay Transfer Manager options in the Send to Playback configuration for Media Distribute. For information on configuring Send to Playback, see “Send to Playback

Configuration for Media | Distribute” on page 35.

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To configure your FTP service, you need to install an FTP server application. The procedure in this section uses the open source FTP server application called FileZilla Server. You can download the software from the following Web site: https://filezilla-project.org/.

To set up Windows network share:

1. On your transcoding server, create the following folder if it does not exist already: <transcoder_hostname>\<drive:>\avid\transcoding\in

2. Right-click the <transcoder_hostname>\<drive:>\avid folder and select Sharing and Security.

The avid Properties dialog box opens.

3. Click the Sharing tab, and then select the Share this folder option.

4. Click Permissions.

The Permissions dialog box opens.

5. Select Everyone, and then select Allow for all permissions in the Permissions for Everyone list.

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6. Click OK to return to the avid Properties dialog box, and then click OK.

7. Open FileZilla Server, and log in to your server.

8. Select Edit > Users.

The Users dialog box opens.

9. Click Add.

The Add User Account dialog box opens.

avid

10. In the text box, type

, and then click OK.

11. In the Users dialog box, select the following options:

- Enable account

- Password, and type a password for the user account

- Bypass userlimit of server

12. In the Page list, select Shared folders.

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13. In the Shared folders area, click Add, and then navigate to the <drive:>\avid folder, and then click OK.

The folder is added to the Shared folders list.

14. Select the following options for Files and Directories:

-Read

- Write

-Delete

-Append

-Create

-Delete

-List

-+Subdirs

15. Click OK.

Send to Playback Configuration for Media | Distribute

The MediaCentral UX administrator needs to specify Send to Playback configuration information before you can use publish using Media Distribute. The Transfer Manager Destination Profile must be the same as the profile name specified in the Interplay Transfer settings. The FTP host name, user name, and password also reflect the same settings in Interplay Transfer.

The send-to-playback operation uses the credentials of the MediaCentral UX workgroup user specified in the Interplay profile and not the currently logged in user, so the user must have read/write privileges for the Interplay database used for sending media assets to the FTP host. For information on setting up MediaCentral UX users and roles, see “Managing Users and Groups” in the Avid

MediaCentral | UX Administration Guide.

You can create only one Send to Playback configuration for each Media Distribute installation.

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To configure Send to Playback publish settings:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

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4. Click the Publication Type menu and select STP.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

An STP profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings:

- Profile Name: use the same name used for the FTP server profile configured in the Interplay

Transfer Configuration tool. For more information, see “Configuring an FTP Server Profile” in the Interplay | Transfer Setup and User’s Guide.

- Target VCID: Select a VCID from the list of supported resolutions.

AVC Long GOP formats are not supported with Media Distribute.

- Audio: Options are Direct, Stereo, or Mono. When you use Direct to send a export a clip for

Send to Playback, the channel order reflects the channel order used when you captured the audio. For example, if your source audio is 5:1 multichannel audio, you should select Direct to preserve the channel mappings.

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- Audio Bit Depth: Options are 16 and 24.

- Audio Target Sample Rate: Options are 32000, 44100, 48000, and 96000.

- Shared ISIS Workspace — The STP service requires this Avid shared storage workspace to

store video prior to delivery to the transcode service. Select a valid shared workspace from the menu to be used as a temporary location for storing media.

The user specified in this profile must have read/write privileges for the shared storage workspace.

- Transfer Manager Host — select a Transfer Manager host from the menu. You can use the

values from your Transfer Manager configuration. For more information, see the Interplay | Transfer Setup and User's Guide.

- Transfer Manager Destination Profile — Select an existing destination profile from the

menu.

- TransferManager Profile Type — Select a profile from the following options:

Profile Type Description

IFrame For send-to-playback operations using I-frame media. The source media clips must

match the target VCID format. The output file uses an OP1a format.

IFrameAMS For send-to-playback operations using I-frame media and sent to an Avid AirSpeed

server. The source media clips must match the target VCID format. The output file uses an OP Atom format.

LongGoP For send-to-playback operations using Long GOP media. Since the

send-top-playback encoding creates a new media clip, the source media clips do not need to match the target VCID format. The output file uses an OP1a format.

LongGoPAMS For send-to-playback operations using Long GOP media and sent to an Avid

AirSpeed server. Since the send-top-playback encoding creates a new media clip, the source media clips do not need to match the target VCID format. The output file uses an OP Atom format.

- Mixing Down FTP Host — Type the FTP host name. The FTP host name must be the same

as the FTP server name associated with the destination profile and specified in the FTP configuration in Interplay Transfer. For more information on FTP configuration in Interplay Transfer, see Interplay | Transfer Setup and User's Guide.

In the sample profile setting above, the Transfer Manager Destination Profile is listed as

xdcamhd1080i50

and the Mixing Down FTP Host is

xxx-srmonia

. This corresponds to the

following components of the Interplay Transfer FTP configuration:

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- Mixing Down FTP Path — Type the path to the FTP destination where MXF output is

staged for transcode. This should be the same as the destination directory specified in the FTP configuration in Interplay Transfer. In the example here, the Mixing Down FTP Path is

/transcoding/mixdown

Do not set the Mixing Down FTP Path to the same delivery folders used by your third-party transcoding application — for example, the FTP Transcode/in Path in your Vantage profile. The FTP location must be independent of the transcoder path.

- Mixing Down FTP Username — Type the user name for your FTP service credentials.

- Mixing Down FTP Password — Type the password for your FTP service credentials.

You cannot use either an at sign (@) or a colon (:) in your password. You can substitute %40 (@) or

%3a (:) instead.

7. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

8. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

Configuring a Telestream Vantage Profile

Before you can use the Telestream Vantage video transcoding service with Media Distribute, you must install Telestream Vantage on your system and then configure the Vantage settings in MediaCentral UX.

Before you set up your Vantage workflow, you must configure your video host transcoding. For more information, see “Configuring the Video Transcoding Host” on page 32.

The following procedures assume you have created a Vantage account. For more information, see

http://www.telestream.net/vantage/.

You must select your Telestream Vantage video transcoding service profile when you set up your

system accounts — for example, your YouTube or Vimeo account — for publishing your media packages. Depending on your configuration, you might need to configure your system accounts before configuring MediaCentral UX for your Vantage account. For more information, see

“Configuring System Accounts for Media | Distribute” on page 54.

To install and configure Telestream Vantage:

1. Install Vantage on your Windows system.

2. Use the Vantage Management Console to configure your Vantage license.

3. Configure your Vantage workflow, and then edit your Flip tasks to set the output folder to the \\<hostname>\avid\transcoding\out folder you created when you set up your video host transcoding. A typical Vantage workflow usually includes at least a Receive and a Flip task. See your Vantage documentation for more information on creating and configuring workflows.

4. Make sure that you select H.264 as the Encoder and .mp4 as the Extension in your Flip tasks.

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You cannot change the output file name by adding file name prefixes or suffixes. This causes the

publish job to fail.

5. Type the following URL in a browser address bar to obtain your Vantage workflow ID: http://<hostname>:8676/DomainRest/GetWorkflows.

A Web page displays your Vantage workflow ID.

6. Save your workflow ID.

To configure MediaCentral UX for your Vantage account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Vantage.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A Vantage profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the configuration on your Vantage system:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Workflow ID (from your Vantage workflow configuration)

- Host Name (your Vantage hostname — for example, vantage-host)

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- FTP Hostname (optional — if you use different servers for your FTP transcode in/out

location and for your File Share path, you can specify a different FTP server. If the transcode in/out and File Share are on the same server, you can leave this setting blank.)

- FTP User Name (from your video host transcoding configuration)

- FTP Password (from your video host transcoding configuration)

- FTP Transcode/In Path (for incoming files, from your video host transcoding configuration.

You can use a subpath expression — for example,

- FTP Transcode/Out Path (for outgoing files, from your video host transcoding configuration.

You can use a subpath expression — for example,

- File Share In Path (from your video host transcoding configuration — see “Configuring the

Video Transcoding Host” on page 32. You must use the path to the Network Share path for

this setting — for example,

7. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

8. (Optional) If your iNEWS stories use uppercase characters, you can select the option to transform iNEWS stories to lowercase. This changes all text to lowercase characters when you load an iNEWS story in the Media Distribute layout.

\\my_vantage\avid

transcoding/in.

transcoding/out

)

9. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

Validating the Vantage Transcode Route Configuration

When you have configured video transcoding for your Vantage video host system as well as the Telestream Vantage profile, you can validate the configuration by publishing a test media package to make sure all components work successfully. For information on configuring video transcoding and the Vantage profile, see “Configuring the Video Transcoding Host” on page 32 and “Configuring a

Telestream Vantage Profile” on page 38.

To publish a media package, you first need to set up and configure at least one system account. For

more information, see “Configuring System Accounts for Media | Distribute” on page 54.

The validation procedure includes monitoring the progress of the transcode procedure in the following applications:

• the ServiceMix log in your MediaCentral server

• the Job Status tab of the Vantage Workflow Designer

• the Vantage server Avid transcode folders

• the Media Distribute layout in MediaCentral UX

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To validate the Vantage transcode configuration:

1. Log in to the MediaCentral server, either locally or using a terminal emulator application such as PuTTY, and type the following in a terminal window:

a. To open the ServiceMix application, type the following command:

ssh Administrator@localhost -p 8101

b. Type

yes

to continue connecting to the host, and then type the default password

avid

The ServiceMix interface displays in the terminal window.

c. To move to the end of the log, type

log:tail

, and press Enter.

2. On your Vantage server, do the following:

a. Open Vantage Workflow Designer, and then select File > Job Status.

b. In a file browser, navigate to <drive>:/avid/transcoding so you can see the following folders:

- <drive>:/avid/transcoding/in

- <drive>:/avid/transcoding/out

3. Sign in to MediaCentral UX, and then click the Layout selector and select Media Distribute.

The Media Distribute layout opens.

4. Click the Social Message pane.

The Social Message pane opens.

5. Add some text in the Message text box.

Changes you make in the Message text box apply globally to all social media targets you select. You can also modify the story text for individual targets in the text boxes for those targets.

6. Select a social media target — for example, YouTube.

7. Click the Profiles menu, and select the Vantage transcoding service profile.

8. Double-click a video asset in the Asset pane or drag the video asset to the Media viewer.

The video asset displays in the Media pane. You can select a master clip, a subclip, or a sequence.

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9. Click Attach Video.

The video displays in the Video area of the Social Media pane.

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10. Click Post, and then click Yes.

11. Click the Packages pane, and then click the Refresh button.

The Packages pane displays the media package status as Pending.

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12. Click Publish.

The Packages pane displays the media package status as Mixing Down. When the mixdown process completes, the status displays as Mixing Down Finished.

13. In the ServiceMix console displaying in the MediaCentral server terminal window, check the log for the following entries:

- Transcoded MediaItem is found transcodedMediaItemID=<ID number>

- Starting to copy MXF <media object ID> to transcoder machine FTP <Vantage_hostname>

When the media package is published, the ServiceMix log displays the transcoded media item as

released.

14. In the file browser on the Vantage server, check the <drive>:/avid/transcoding/in folder for the MXF media file to be transcoded.

When the media package is published, the transcoded media item is deleted from the transcoding/in

and transcoding/out folders.

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15. In the Job Status tab of the Vantage Workflow Designer, check the status of the transcode job.

16. When the Job Status tab reports the transcode process as completed, check the <drive>:/avid/transcoding/out folder in the file browser for the transcoded MXF media file.

17. In the MediaCentral UX Packages pane, check the status of the media package.

When the publish procedure completes, the status displays as Published and the link to video included in the package appears in blue. Clicking the link opens a browser and displays the video on the Web page for the selected online platform.

Configuring the Harmonic ProMedia Carbon Transcoder

Before you can use the Harmonic ProMedia™ Carbon transcoder with Media Distribute, you must install ProMedia Carbon on your system and then configure the CarbonCoder settings in MediaCentral UX.

Before you set up your Carbon system, you must configure your video host transcoding. For more information, see “Configuring the Video Transcoding Host” on page 32.

The following procedures assume you have created a ProMedia Carbon account. For more information, see http://www.harmonicinc.com/product/promedia-carbon.

To install and configure ProMedia Carbon:

1. Install Harmonic ProMedia Carbon on your Windows system.

2. Start ProMedia Carbon.

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3. In Carbon, create a new profile by doing the following:

a. In the Target tab, add a new target and select a target preset.

b. In the Target Parameters window, modify the Destination Base Name to

Destination Path to \\hostname\avid\transcoding\out.

and the

c. Click Save Profile, and name the new profile

Avid MPD

4. Locate the profile ID by using one of the following:

t The Preset Editor in Carbon Admin

t ListProfiles.exe in the Carbon SDK

To configure MediaCentral UX for your ProMedia Carbon account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select CarbonCoder.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A CarbonCoder profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

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6. Specify the required settings, using the using the parameter fields from ProMedia Carbon:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Workflow ID (from your CarbonCoder profile)

- Host Name (your CarbonCoder hostname — for example, carboncoder-host)

- FTP Hostname (optional — if you use different servers for your FTP transcode in/out

location and for your File Share path, you can specify a different FTP server. If the transcode in/out and File Share are on the same server, you can leave this setting blank.)

- FTP User Name (from your video host transcoding configuration)

- FTP Password (from your video host transcoding configuration)

- FTP Transcode/In Path (for incoming files, from your video host transcoding configuration)

- FTP Transcode/Out Path (for outgoing files, from your video host transcoding

configuration)

- File Share In Path (from your video host transcoding configuration — see “Configuring the

Video Transcoding Host” on page 32)

7. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

9. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

Configuring a RadiantGrid Profile

In order to use the RadiantGrid™ transcoding engine with Media Distribute, you need to install and configure the RadiantGrid software on a supported server. See your RadiantGrid representative for more information.

The following procedures assume you have created a RadiantGrid account and password. For more information, see http://www.wohler.com/RgProduct.aspx.

Once you have your RadiantGrid profile credentials, you need to create new transcode profile. This profile must transcode media from the MXF format to the H.264 (.mp4) format. The following procedure does not describe all of the options required for creating the profile using the RadiantGrid application.

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Configuring the Transcode Route

To set up a RadiantGrid profile for use with Media Distribute:

1. Open your browser and log in to your RadiantGrid account.

2. Create a new Transcode profile. For details on creating a RadiantGrid transcoding profile, see your RadiantGrid documentation.

3. (Optional) Configure a workflow template.

If you create a new transcode profile, you might be able to skip this step. However, if you use an

existing transcode profile, you might need to reconfigure your workflow template.

4. Configure an FTP service. For information on configuring the FTP service, see “Configuring the

Video Transcoding Host” on page 32.

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To configure MediaCentral UX for your RadiantGrid account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

Configuring the Transcode Route

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select RadiantGrid.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A RadiantGrid profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the configuration on your RadiantGrid system and your FTP configuration:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- RadiantGrid User Name (from your RadiantGrid configuration)

- RadiantGrid Password (from your RadiantGrid configuration)

- Transcoding Profile Name (the profile name is listed on the Workflow > Transcode Web

page of your RadiantGrid configuration)

- Host Name (your RadiantGrid server hostname — for example, radiant-host)

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Configuring the Transcode Route

- FTP Hostname (optional — if you use different servers for your FTP transcode in/out

location and for your File Share path, you can specify a different FTP server. If the transcode in/out and File Share are on the same server, you can leave this setting blank.)

- FTP User Name (from your video host transcoding configuration)

- FTP Password (from your video host transcoding configuration)

- FTP Transcode/In Path (for incoming files, from your video host transcoding configuration)

- FTP Transcode/Out Path (for outgoing files, from your video host transcoding

configuration)

- File Share In Path (from your video host transcoding configuration)

- File Share Out Path (from your video host transcoding configuration)

7. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

9. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

Configuring a MAM Profile

Starting with Media Distribute v2.7, you can publish media packages using assets stored in Interplay Media Asset Management (MAM) databases. If your configuration includes a MAM system, you can create a MAM profile for Media Distribute to the following platforms:

• Amazon S3

• Facebook

•Flickr

•Twitter

•Vimeo

•YouTube

Your MAM configuration provides you with the following information needed to complete your MediaCentral UX configuration:

• MAM Process Name (defined by your MAM workflow; the default is MEDIA_DISTRIBUTE)

• Service Realm (listed in the MediaCentral UX System Settings for Interplay MAM)

• Output FTP Hostname (the name of the FTP server accessible from MAM and from MCS systems)

• Output FTP Path (the path to the FTP server accessible from MAM and from MCS and Media Distribute systems)

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• Output FTP User Name (the user name associated with the FTP server)

• Output FTP Password (the user password associated with the FTP user)

Configuring the FTP site allows Media Distribute to acquire assets from Interplay MAM and publish them to the selected platform. For information on configuring Interplay MAM for Media Distribute, see the Interplay | MAM Media Distribution Process Reference, part of the Interplay MAM documentation that comes with Interplay MAM.

To configure MediaCentral UX for your MAM database:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select MAM.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A MAM profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the configuration on your AAF system and your FTP configuration:

- Profile Name: Type a descriptive name for your profile.

- MAM Process Name: Type the process name specified by your MAM configuration; the

default is MEDIA_DISTRIBUTIOIN.

The MAM Process Name is case-sensitive.

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- Service Realm: Type the name of the service realm associated with your MAM

configuration. The MAM service realm is listed as the Bus Realm in the MediaCentral UX System Settings for Interplay MAM.

- MAM Video Output Format: Use a format from the list. The options are MOV, MP4, MXF.

- MAM Image Output Format: Use a format from the list. The options are JPEG and PNG.

- Output FTP Hostname: Type the name of the FTP server accessible from MAM and from

MCS systems. This can be the same server listed as the Server Name in the System Connection section of the MediaCentral UX System Settings for Interplay MAM.

- Output FTP Path (the path to the FTP server accessible from MAM and from MCS and

Media Distribute systems)

- Output FTP User Name (the user name associated with the FTP server)

- Output FTP Password (the user password associated with the FTP user)

7. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

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Configuring an E-mail Profile

If you use the Distribution pane to publish media packages, you can configure an e-mail profile to send e-mail notifications to one or more users when a package is published. The e-mail profile uses the e-mail information configured for MediaCentral UX in the Messages & Sharing panel of the System Settings to send the e-mail.

For information on using the Distribution pane, see “Publishing MediaCentral Assets with the Distribution Pane” in the Media | Distribute User’s Guide. For information about configuring e-mail settings in MediaCentral UX, see “Configuring E-Mail Forwarding” in the Avid MediaCentral | UX Administration Guide.

To configure e-mail notifications:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Messages & Sharing.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

Configuring the Transcode Route

4. Make sure E-mail Forwarding has been configured for your MediaCentral environment. If it has not been configured, see the Avid MediaCentral | UX Administration Guide for information on configuring e-mail settings.

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5. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

Configuring the Transcode Route

6. Click the Publication Type menu and select E-mail.

7. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

An E-mail profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

8. Specify the required settings:

- Profile Name: Type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Recipients: Type the e-mail address of any user you want to receive notifications. Multiple

e-mail addresses must be separated by a semicolon (;).

9. Select Send If Publication Fails if you want to receive e-mail notifications when publication fails to complete.

10. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

11. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

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3 Configuring System Accounts for

Media | Distribute

You can set up multiple accounts in the System Settings layout for the services you want to use for publishing to multiple platforms. For information on the supported system accounts, see the following topics:

• “Configuring the Bitly Link-Shortening Service” on page 55

• “Configuring a Twitter Publication Account” on page 56

• “Configuring a Facebook Publication Account” on page 60

• “Configuring a Facebook Page Publication Account” on page 68

• “Configuring a Vimeo Publication Account” on page 73

• “Configuring a Vimeo V3 Publication Account” on page 77

• “Configuring a YouTube v3 Publication Account” on page 80

• “Configuring a Brightcove Account” on page 83

• “Configuring a Kaltura Account” on page 85

• “Configuring an Ooyala Account” on page 87

• “Configuring a Flickr Account” on page 89

• “Configuring an Atex Polopoly Web CMS Account” on page 92

• “Configuring a WorldNow Web CMS Profile” on page 94

• “Configuring thePlatform Profile” on page 98

• “Configuring a WordPress CMS Profile” on page 100

• “Configuring an Amazon S3 Profile” on page 102

• “Configuring a Generic CMS Profile” on page 103

• “Configuring a Generic CMS Extended Profile” on page 107

• “Configuring a NoOpTranscoder Profile” on page 111

• “Configuring a Generic OVP Profile” on page 112

If your iNEWS stories use uppercase characters, you can select the option in the Media Distribute >

General section of the System Settings to transform iNEWS stories to lowercase. This changes all text to lowercase characters when you load an iNEWS story in the Media Distribute layout.

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Configuring the Bitly Link-Shortening Service

You can configure the Bitly™ URL shortening service using MediaCentral UX settings. Using a link shortening service is optional, but it can aid in ensuring that URLs do not exceed character limits on some social media postings.

The following procedures assume you have created a Bitly account at https://bitly.com/ and you have generated a Bitly API key at http://dev.bitly.com/.

To configure Bitly for Media Distribute:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Bitly.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A Bitly profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

-Login

-API Key

7. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

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Configuring a Twitter Publication Account

The setting, “Transform iNEWS stories to lower case,” applies only to Media Distribute accounts

that publish packages containing iNEWS stories. The option does not affect this setting.

8. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

Configuring a Twitter Publication Account

Before you can publish a package to Twitter from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first set up a Twitter account to which you want to publish, and you must configure a Twitter publication account.

This section describes configuring corporate or group house accounts. When you publish to these accounts, your packages require review and approval For information on configuring a personal account, see “Configuring a User Profile for a Personal Twitter Account” on page 125.

The following procedures assume you have created a Twitter account at https://twitter.com.

The user interface for Twitter might change without notice. The procedure below outlines the general

steps to create the elements needed to configure Media Distribute. For more information on creating a Twitter application, see your Twitter account documentation.

To set up a Twitter application account for MediaCentral UX multi-platform delivery:

1. Log on to your Twitter account and navigate to the My Applications Web page at

https://dev.twitter.com/apps.

2. Click Create New App.

The Create an application Web page opens.

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Configuring a Twitter Publication Account

3. Type your information for the required fields, which might include the following:

-Name

- Description

- Website (the public URL for your Twitter application, where users can download your

application or get more information about it; use a placeholder URL if you do not have an application URL yet)

4. In the Developer Agreement section, read the rules agreement and select Yes, I agree.

5. If required, type the security text.

6. Click Create your Twitter application.

Your Twitter application opens in the Application Management page.

7. Click the Permissions tab.

The Permissions tab opens.

8. In the Access area, select Read, Write and Access direct messages, and then click Update this Twitter application’s settings.

Your settings are saved.

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9. Click the Keys and Access Tokens tab.

The Keys and Access Tokens tab opens.

Configuring a Twitter Publication Account

10. In the Application Settings area, click Create Consumer Key and Secret.

If you already created an access token, the button in this area is labeled “Recreate Consumer Key

and Secret.”

11. In the Your Access Token area, click Create My Access Token and Token Secret.

If you already created an access token, the button in this area is labeled “Recreate My Access Token

and Token Secret.”

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Configuring a Twitter Publication Account

12. Save the following parameter fields so you can enter them in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX settings:

- Consumer key

- Consumer secret

- Access token

- Access token secret

To configure MediaCentral UX for your Twitter application:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Twitter.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A Twitter profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the parameter fields you copied from your Twitter application Web page:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Access Token

- Access Secret

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-Consumer Key

- Consumer Secret

7. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

8. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

You can add multiple Twitter profiles.

Configuring a Facebook Publication Account

Before you can publish a package to Facebook from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first set up a Facebook profile account to which you want to publish, and you must configure a Facebook publication account in MediaCentral UX. You also need to set permissions for your Facebook application so it can post to your Facebook account.

Before you attempt to publish your package to Facebook, Avid recommends that you test your

account privileges.

The following procedures assume you have created a Facebook account at

https://www.facebook.com.

The user interface for Facebook developers might change without notice. The procedure below

provides general guidelines to create the elements needed to configure Media Distribute. For more information on creating a Facebook application, downloading and installing any necessary SDK applications, see Facebook support documentation.

To set up a Facebook developer account:

1. Log on to your Facebook account, and then go to the Facebook developers Web page at

https://developers.facebook.com.

2. If you have not registered as a Facebook developer, do the following:

a. Click Apps and select Register as a Developer.

The Register as a Facebook Developer dialog box opens.

b. Follow the prompts to register as a Facebook developer.

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To set up a Facebook application account for MediaCentral UX multi-platform delivery:

1. Log on to your Facebook account, and then go to the Facebook developers Web page at

https://developers.facebook.com.

2. Click Apps, and select Create New App.

If you previously created an app for Facebook, select My Apps > Add a New App.

The Create New App ID dialog box opens.

3. Type a display name for your app. The display name appears in a Facebook posting when media is published.

4. Type a contact e-mail address for your app.

5. Click the Choose a Category menu and select a category for your app — for example, Apps for Pages.

6. Click Create App ID.

The Security Check dialog box opens.

7. Type the required security text, and then click Submit.

The Product Setup dialog box opens.

8. In the navigation panel, click Dashboard.

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The Dashboard for your app opens.

9. Click Show to display the app secret.

The Please Re-enter Your Password dialog box opens.

10. Type your Facebook password, and then click Submit.

Configuring a Facebook Publication Account

11. Save the following parameter fields so you can enter them in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX settings:

-App ID

- App Secret

You can save these parameters to a text file. This makes it easier to add the information to the Media

Distribute profile for your Facebook account.

12. In the navigation panel, click Settings.

The Basic Settings page opens.

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Configuring a Facebook Publication Account

13. Click Add Platform, and select a platform for your app — for example, Website.

A section for your platform opens in the Basic Settings page.

14. Supply the appropriate information for the platform for your app.

If you type a URL, it is embedded in the App Name in Facebook postings. When visitors click the

credit for posting, a new browser tab opens at the URL entered here

15. Click Save Changes.

To set Facebook permissions for your Media Distribute application:

1. In the navigation panel, click Dashboard.

The dashboard for your app opens.

2. Click Tools and Support at the top of the dashboard.

The Tools and Support Web page opens.

3. Click Graph API Explorer.

The Graph API Explorer Web Page opens.

4. Click the Application menu, and select your Facebook application.

The Graph API Explorer Web page opens.

5. Click the Get Token menu, and then select Get User Access Token.

The Select Permissions dialog box opens.

6. Select the following permissions:

- publish_actions

- user_friends

- user_photos

- user_videos

- manage_pages

- publish_pages

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7. Click Get Access Token.

A confirmation dialog box opens.

8. Click Continue as Name, where Name is the first name of your Facebook profile account.

A dialog box opens to allow you to select who can view your Facebook posts.

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9. Click the Friends menu and select the appropriate access, and then click OK, and then click OK in the confirmation dialog box.

The Graph API Explorer page for your app opens and displays the new access token.

This token remains valid for only one or two hours. If you plan on completing your Media Distribute

Facebook account profile in this time, you can extend the expiration date within Media Distribute. If you cannot complete your configuration before then, you can extend the expiration of your user access token from the Facebook developer Web site.

10. Click Submit.

11. Save the following parameters so you can enter it in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX setting.

- Access token

- User ID (for the FB Profile ID option in your Media Distribute Facebook profile account)

To verify permissions and extend the access token expiration from the Facebook developer Web site:

1. In the Tools and Support Web page, click Access Token Tool.

The Access Token Tool page opens and displays the token information for all of your apps.

2. Click Debug for the user token for your app.

The Access Token Debugger for your app opens, showing the permissions you selected in the Scopes field.

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Configuring a Facebook Publication Account

3. Click Extend Access Token, and then re-enter the account password in the validation dialog.

The new access token displays.

Facebook automatically extends the long-term access token prior to the expiration date, except for

apps that are unused.

4. Save the new access token so you can enter it in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX settings.

To make your app available to be viewed by the public:

1. Log on to your Facebook developers account, click My Apps, and select your app.

The Dashboard page for your app opens.

2. Click App Review.

3. In the Status tab, click the Yes button to activate your app.

A confirmation dialog box opens.

4. Click Confirm.

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Configuring a Facebook Publication Account

To configure MediaCentral UX for your Facebook application:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Facebook.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A Facebook profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the parameter fields you copied from your Facebook Apps Web page:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile — for example, [MyCompany]

Facebook News)

-FB Profile ID

- Application ID

- Application Secret

- Access Token

- (Optional) Album ID

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Configuring a Facebook Page Publication Account

You can specify the name of a Facebook album if you want to publish images directly to an album that

you have created for your Facebook account. By default, images are published to an album named after the App you created.

7. (Optional) Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

You cannot publish video directly to Facebook unless you specify a transcoding profile.

8. (Optional) Click Get Expiration Date.

Media Distribute checks the expiration date of your access token and updates the entry in the Expiration Date field. This shows you how much time is left on your Facebook access token.

9. (Optional) Click Get Long-Term Token.

Media Distribute converts your access token, which often remains valid for a couple of hours, to a long-lived token. For more information on short-lived and long-lived tokens and their expiration periods, see your Facebook developer documentation.

10. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

11. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

You can add multiple Facebook profiles.

Configuring a Facebook Page Publication Account

You can publish packages to a corporate Facebook Page account from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute. Once you set up a Page account on Facebook, you then can configure a Facebook Page publication account.

Facebook Pages allow businesses to connect with customers and users. Facebook Page accounts allow official representatives of a business or organization to create and contribute to Pages. For more information on Facebook Pages, see Facebook Pages support information at

www.facebook.com/help.

You do not need to configure a Facebook publication account in Media Distribute in order to publish to your Facebook Page, but you do need to have a Facebook account to set up a Facebook Page. For information on configuring a Facebook publication account, see “Configuring a Facebook

Publication Account” on page 60.

Before you attempt to publish your package to a Facebook Page, Avid recommends that you test your

account privileges.

The following procedures assume you have created a Facebook account and created a Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.

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The user interface for Facebook developers might change without notice. The procedure below

provides general guidelines to create the elements needed to configure Media Distribute. For more information on creating a Facebook application, see Facebook support documentation.

To set up a Facebook Page for MediaCentral UX multi-platform delivery:

1. Log on to your Facebook account, click the Edit Account button, and select Manage Pages.

The Pages page opens.

2. Click your Page in the Pages list.

Your Facebook Page opens.

3. Click About, and then select Page Info.

Your Facebook Page displays the page information.

4. Save your Facebook Page ID so you can enter it in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX setting.

To set Facebook Page permissions for your Media Distribute application:

1. Log on to your Facebook developers account, and click Tools & Support > Graph API Explorer.

2. Click the Application menu and select the Facebook application associated with your Facebook Page.

The Graph API Explorer Web page displays.

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3. Click the Get Token menu, and then select Get Access Token.

The Select Permissions dialog box opens.

4. Click the User Data Permissions tab, and then select the user_friends, the user_photos, and user_videos options.

5. Click the Extended Permissions tab, and then select the manage_pages, publish_actions, and publish_pages options.

6. Click Get Access Token.

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The Web page generates a new access token and sets the necessary permissions for your application.

This token remains valid for only one hour.

7. Save your access token so you can enter it in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX setting.

8. Click Debug.

The Access Token Debugger page opens and displays information about your access token.

9. Save your App ID and User ID so you can enter them in the appropriate locations in the MediaCentral UX setting.

10. Select Apps > [your Facebook app].

Configuring a Facebook Page Publication Account

The Dashboard for your app opens.

11. Click Show to display your App Secret.

12. Save your App Secret so you can enter it in the appropriate locations in the MediaCentral UX setting.

To configure MediaCentral UX for your Facebook Page:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

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3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select FacebookPage.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A FacebookPage profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the parameter fields you copied from your Facebook Page Web page:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile — for example, [MyCompany] Page)

- FB Profile ID — the Facebook Profile ID of the user who administers your Facebook Page

- FB Page ID — from your Facebook app settings

- Application ID — from your Facebook app settings

- Application Secret — from your Facebook app settings

- Access Token — from your Facebook app settings

- (Optional) Album ID

You can specify the name of a Facebook album if you want to publish images directly to an album that

you have created for your Facebook account.

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Configuring a Vimeo Publication Account

7. (Optional) Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

You cannot publish video directly to Facebook unless you specify a transcoding profile.

8. (Optional) Click Get Expiration Date.

Media Distribute checks the expiration date of your access token and updates the entry in the Expiration Date field. This shows you how much time is left on your Facebook access token.

9. (Optional) Click Get Long-Term Token.

10. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

11. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

You can add multiple Facebook page profiles.

Configuring a Vimeo Publication Account

Before you can publish a package to Vimeo from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first set up a Vimeo account to which you want to publish, and you must configure a Vimeo publication account. The configuration requires that you request and receive upload access for you app from Vimeo.

Media Distribute works with both the Advanced API and the standard API used by Vimeo

applications. For both, you need to check the OAuth tab in the My Apps Web page for the required parameters used in configuring your Vimeo account. To use OAuth2 authentication, see “Configuring

a YouTube v3 Publication Account” on page 80.

The following procedures assume you have created a Vimeo account at https://vimeo.com/.

The user interface for Vimeo might change without notice. The procedure below outlines the general

steps to create the elements needed to configure Media Distribute. For more information on creating a Vimeo application, see your Vimeo account documentation.

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Configuring a Vimeo Publication Account

To set up a Vimeo application account for MediaCentral UX multi-platform delivery:

1. Log on to your Vimeo account, and then go to the Vimeo My Apps Web page at

https://developer.vimeo.com/apps.

2. Click “Create a new app.”

The Create an new App Web page opens.

3. Type your information in the required text fields:

-App Name

-App Description

- App URL (the public URL for your Vimeo application, where users can download your

application or get more information about it; use a placeholder URL if you do not have an application URL yet)

4. Accept the Vimeo API License Agreement (https://developer.vimeo.com/guidelines/terms) and the Vimeo Terms of Service (https://vimeo.com/terms), and then click Create app.

The My API Apps Web page opens.

5. To request upload access, do the following:

a. Click the Basic tab, and in the Upload Access section click Request Upload Access.

The Request Upload Permissions Web page opens.

b. On the Request Upload Permissions page, answer the three questions and then click Request

Upload Access.

The message, “Requested - Pending decision,” displays. If Vimeo approves the request, the My API Apps page for your app displays the approval in the Upload Access section. Approval from Vimeo might take up to five business days from the time of the request.

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6. Click the OAuth tab, and save the following parameter fields so you can enter them in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX settings:

- Client ID (Also known as Consumer Key or API Key)

- Client Secret (Also known as Consumer Secret or API Secret)

- Access token

- Access token secret

By default, Vimeo assigns Read, Write, and Delete permissions for your application.

To configure MediaCentral UX for your Vimeo application:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

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3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

Configuring a Vimeo Publication Account

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Vimeo.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A Vimeo profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the parameter fields you copied from your Vimeo My Advanced API Apps Web page:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Access Token

- Access Secret

-Consumer Key

- Consumer Secret

7. Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

8. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

9. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

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Configuring a Vimeo V3 Publication Account

The Vimeo V3 publication profile uses the V3 API for your Vimeo application. This allows you to employ the OAuth2 authentication protocol for your app.

The following procedures assume you have created a Vimeo account at https://vimeo.com/.

The user interface for Vimeo might change without notice. The procedure below outlines the general

steps to create the elements needed to configure Media Distribute. For more information on creating a Vimeo application, see your Vimeo account documentation.

To set up a Vimeo application account for MediaCentral UX multi-platform delivery:

1. Log on to your Vimeo account, and then go to the Vimeo My Apps Web page at

https://developer.vimeo.com/apps.

2. Click “Create a new app.”

The Create an new App Web page opens.

3. Type your information in the required text fields:

-App Name

-App Description

- App URL (the public URL for your Vimeo application, where users can download your

application or get more information about it; use a placeholder URL if you do not have an application URL yet)

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Configuring a Vimeo V3 Publication Account

4. Accept the Vimeo API License Agreement (https://developer.vimeo.com/guidelines/terms) and the Vimeo Terms of Service (https://vimeo.com/terms), and then click Create app.

The My API Apps Web page opens.

5. Click the OAuth2 tab.

6. To request upload access, do the following:

a. Click the Basic tab, and in the Upload Access section click Request Upload Access.

The Request Upload Permissions Web page opens.

b. On the Request Upload Permissions page, answer the three questions and then click Request

Upload Access.

7. Click Generate Token, and save the access token value displayed in the Your new Access token field so you can enter it in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX settings:

By default, Vimeo assigns Read, Write, and Delete permissions for your application.

To configure MediaCentral UX for your Vimeo V3 application:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

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3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

Configuring a Vimeo V3 Publication Account

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Vimeo V3.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A Vimeo V3 profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the access token you copied from your Vimeo My Advanced API Apps Web page:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Access Token

7. Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

8. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

9. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

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Configuring a YouTube v3 Publication Account

Before you can publish a package to YouTube from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first set up a Google account to manage the publication of your media package to YouTube, and you must configure a YouTube v3 publication account in MediaCentral UX.

The following procedures assume you have created a Google account at

https://accounts.google.com/.

The user interface for Google accounts might change without notice. The procedure below outlines

the general steps to create the elements needed to configure Media Distribute. For more information on creating and managing a Google or YouTube application, see your Google developer account documentation.

You can use the Avid Media Distribute Integration application to generate the necessary access token and refresh token. MediaCentral UX also supplies the following default parameter values when it creates a new YouTube v3 profile so it can use the Avid application:

•Client Id

• Client Secret

•Scopes

• Redirect URI

To use the Avid Media Distribute Integration application to generate default values for your YouTube

v3 account, you must be logged in to the Google account you use for publishing videos from Media Distribute.

If you want to create your own YouTube application, you can replace the profile parameter values with those copied from your YouTube application. You need to generate the Client ID and Client Secret from the OAuth 2.0 credentials in the Credentials Web page in the APIs and auth section of your application in the Google Developers Console. You also need to supply the values for the Scopes and Redirect URI parameters. For more information, see the Google Developers documentation.

To configure MediaCentral UX for your YouTube v3 account:

1. Log on to your Google account at https://accounts.google.com/.

2. If you have never used this account to upload a video, do the following to create a YouTube channel:

a. In your browser, navigate to https://www.youtube.com/my_videos.

b. Create a new channel. For information creating a new YouTube channel, see the YouTube

online help.

3. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

4. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

5. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

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Configuring a YouTube v3 Publication Account

6. Click the Publication Type menu and select YouTube v3.

7. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A YouTube v3 profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section, and the following parameter fields are automatically filled by default:

-Client ID

- Client Secret

-Scopes

- Redirect URI

8. Specify a Profile Name by typing a descriptive name for your profile.

9. Click the Privacy Settings menu and select one of the following options:

t Public — Everyone can view your published videos.

t Unlisted — Only those with whom you share a URL link can view your published video.

t Private — Videos cannot be viewed by the public.

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Configuring a YouTube v3 Publication Account

10. Click Get Tokens.

The Avid Media Distribute Integration application opens a Web page asking permission to manage your YouTube account. This allows the application to generate the necessary access tokens so you can publish videos to your YouTube account.

If you already received the access and refresh tokens, clicking Get Tokens does not supply you with

new tokens. You need to click Revoke Tokens, and then click Get Tokens.

11. Click Allow.

The Avid Media Distribute Integration application generates the access tokens and displays them on the application Web page.

12. Copy the Access Token value to the parameter field for Access Token in your MediaCentral YouTube v3 profile.

13. Copy the Refresh Token value to the parameter field for Refresh Token in your MediaCentral YouTube v3 profile.

14. Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

15. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

16. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

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Configuring a Brightcove Account

Before you can publish a package to Brightcove from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first set up a Brightcove account to which you want to publish, and you must configure the Brightcove Media API settings for your account.

The following procedures assume you have created a Brightcove account at

http://www.brightcove.com/en/.

You must have a paid Brightcove account to use the Brightcove Video Cloud Media API to publish

packages from MediaCentral UX to the Brightcove service.

The Media Distribute settings for Brightcove allow you to select some rendition options when you publish to your Brightcove account. A rendition is a copy of your video transcoded to a specific bit rate and resolution. If your video is supported for transcoding, you can use Media Distribute to create multiple renditions as specified in your transcoding profile. If you use a video with the H.264 format, you can also retain this format as a rendition when you create multiple renditions.

To set up a Brightcove account for MediaCentral UX multi-platform delivery:

1. Log on to your Brightcove account, and click the Account Settings tab.

The Account Settings Web page opens.

Configuring a Brightcove Account

2. In the navigation panel on the left, click API Management.

The API Management Web page opens.

3. To create tokens, do the following:

a. Click the Add a: menu and select Read Token with URL Access, and then click Add.

b. Click the Add a: menu and select Write Token, and then click Add.

The tokens appear in the Token list.

4. Save the following parameter fields from the API Management Web page so you can enter them in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX settings:

- Read Token with URL Access

- Write Token

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To configure MediaCentral UX for your Brightcove account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

Configuring a Brightcove Account

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Brightcove.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A Brightcove profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the parameter fields you copied from your Brightcove API Management Web page:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Read Token

- Write Token

7. Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

8. (Optional) If you want to create multiple transcoded versions of your media as specified in your transcoding profile, select Create multiple renditions.

9. (Optional) If you want to keep a copy of your video at the source H.264 rendition in addition to any other renditions created, select Preserve source rendition. This option is selected by default.

10. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

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11. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

Configuring a Kaltura Account

Before you can publish a package to Kaltura from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first set up a Kaltura account to which you want to publish, and you must configure the Kaltura Media API settings for your account.

The following procedures assume you have created a Kaltura account at http://corp.kaltura.com/.

To set up a Kaltura account for MediaCentral UX multi-platform delivery:

1. Log on to your Kaltura account at http://corp.kaltura.com/, and click the Settings tab.

The Account Settings Web page opens.

2. Click Integration Settings tab.

The Integration Settings Web page opens.

Configuring a Kaltura Account

3. Save the following parameter fields from the Integration Settings Web page so you can enter them in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX settings:

- Partner ID

- Administration Secret

To configure MediaCentral UX for your Kaltura account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

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3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

Configuring a Kaltura Account

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Kaltura.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A Kaltura profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the parameter fields you copied from your Kaltura API Management Web page:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Partner ID

- User ID (your login credential)

- Admin Secret

7. Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

8. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

9. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

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Configuring an Ooyala Account

Before you can publish a package to Ooyala from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first set up an Ooyala account to which you want to publish, and you must check the Backlot API settings for your account.

The following procedures assume you have created an Ooyala account at

https://backlot.ooyala.com/backlot/web.

To set up an Ooyala account for MediaCentral UX multi-platform delivery:

1. Log on to your Ooyala Backlot account.

The Ooyala Backlot Web page opens.

2. Click the Account tab, and then click the Developers tab.

The Backlot API Web page opens.

Configuring an Ooyala Account

3. Save the following parameter fields from the Backlot API Web page so you can enter them in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX settings:

-API Key

- API Secret

To configure MediaCentral UX for your Ooyala account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

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3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

Configuring an Ooyala Account

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Ooyala.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

An Ooyala profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the parameter fields you copied from your Ooyala Backlot API Web page:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

-API Key

- API Secret

7. Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

8. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

9. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

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Configuring a Flickr Account

Before you can publish a package to Flickr from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first set up an Flickr account to which you want to publish, and you must check the Flickr App Garden settings for your account.

The following procedures assume you have created an Flickr account at https://www.flickr.com, and that you have created your Flickr app. For information on creating apps for Flickr, see the Flickr documentation at https://www.flickr.com/services/api/.

To set up an Flickr account for MediaCentral UX multi-platform delivery:

1. Log in to your Flickr account.

2. Select Explore > App Garden.

3. In the Your Apps section, click Apps By You.

The App Garden page displays your apps.

4. Click the name of your app and save the following parameter fields so you can enter them in the appropriate location in the MediaCentral UX settings:

-API Key

- API Secret

Configuring a Flickr Account

To configure MediaCentral UX for your Flickr account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

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Configuring a Flickr Account

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Flickr.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

An Flickr profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings, using the parameter fields you copied from your Flickr app in the App Garden.

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- API Key (from your app settings in the Flickr App Garden)

- API Secret (from your app settings in the Flickr App Garden)

7. To get your Access Token and Access Secret, do the following:

a. Click Get Access Token.

The Get Access Token dialog box opens.

b. Click Request Token.

The Get Access Token dialog box updates and provides a URL link for the access token.

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c. Click the URL link in the Get Access Token dialog box.

The authorization Web page for your Flickr app opens.

d. Click OK, I’ll Authorize It.

Configuring a Flickr Account

The Flickr authorization Web page displays your authorization code.

e. Type your authorization code in the Verifier text box in the Get Access Token dialog box,

and then click Exchange token.

The Get Access Token displays your Flickr app account data.

f. Click Save Token and Close.

The Get Access Token dialog box closes, and the following fields are automatically filled in the Flickr Profile:

- Access Token

- Access Secret

8. Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

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Configuring an Atex Polopoly Web CMS Account

9. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

10. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

Configuring an Atex Polopoly Web CMS Account

Before you can publish a package to Polopoly from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first have a Polopoly account with Atex and set up a Polopoly environment.

You can create multiple Polopoly profiles in the System Settings layout, but you can only configure one Web CMS account at a time — for example, you can configure MediaCentral UX either for Polopoly or for WorldNow, but not for both.

The following procedures assume you have already created the necessary Polopoly environment. See your Polopoly documentation for more information.

To configure your Polopoly server for MediaCentral UX multi-platform delivery:

1. Log on to your Polopoly server using one of the following set of credentials.

root

-Log in as

with the your root password.

centos

with your centos password.

SSH is turned off by default.

2. To make the Polopoly user interface accessible through the server firewall, type to following to open a port:

iptables -I INPUT 1 -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT

3. If the Polopoly services are not running, do the following:

a. Type

and press Return.

b. At the prompt, type the password you used to log in to the server.

c. Start the MySQL database by typing the following:

/usr/local/mysql/support-files./mysql.server start

d. Navigate to the Jboss directory by typing

following:

bin/run.sh -b 0.0.0.0 &

e. Navigate to the Tomcat directory by typing

typing the following:

To configure MediaCentral UX for your Polopoly account:

bin/startup.sh

cd /opt/jboss

cd /opt/tomcat

and then start Jboss by typing the

and then start Tomcat by

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

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Configuring an Atex Polopoly Web CMS Account

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select Polopoly.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A Polopoly profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings for the following parameter fields:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Server (the name of your Polopoly host — for example, http://localhost :80080)

- User Name (your Polopoly login name)

- Password (your Polopoly login password)

- Service Address (the address of the Polopoly REST service — for example, polopoly)

- External ID (from your Polypoly account settings)

7. Click OVP Profile and select one of the available profiles. OVP profiles are created when you configure your online video provider settings — for example, when you set up MediaCentral UX for your Vimeo or YouTube account. For more information, see “Configuring a Vimeo

Publication Account” on page 73 or “Configuring a YouTube v3 Publication Account” on page 80.

8. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

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Configuring a WorldNow Web CMS Profile

9. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

Configuring a WorldNow Web CMS Profile

Before you can publish a package to the WorldNow platform from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first have a WorldNow account and set up a WorldNow environment.

The following procedures assume you have already created the necessary WorldNow environment. Your WorldNow account provides you with the following information needed to complete your MediaCentral UX configuration:

• Account user name

• Account password

• Affiliate number

•Producer host

• Ingest FTP host

• Ingest FTP path

• Ingest FTP user name

• Ingest FTP password

The following notes apply to using WorldNow with MediaCentral UX:

• Once you have configured MediaCentral UX for your WorldNow CMS, the fields available to you in the Web Story pane change to reflect the options and metadata provided by WorldNow.

• You can create multiple WorldNow profiles in the System Settings layout, but you can only configure one Web CMS account at a time — for example, you can configure MediaCentral UX either for WorldNow or for Atex Polopoly, but not for both.

• You can set the default values for some options used when you publish to a WorldNow account so you do not have to set them in the Web Story pane each time you create a story. Some values display as automatically selected options and some control the size and placement of graphics when you attach images to your story. These options correspond to those available in your WorldNow CMS.

See your WorldNow documentation for more information, or see the WorldNow Web site at

www.worldnow.com.

A limitation in the current version of Media Distribute might cause an SSLHandshakeException

error to occur and prevent posting video to WorldNow. This is caused by a problem where the client and server cannot negotiate the desired level of security. To work around this problem, you can disable SSL validation for HTTPS connections.

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Configuring a WorldNow Web CMS Profile

To configure MediaCentral UX for your WorldNow account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select WorldNow.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A WorldNow profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings for the following parameter fields:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Username (your WorldNow login name)

- Password (your WorldNow login password)

- Affiliate Number (from your WorldNow account information)

- Producer Host (from your WorldNow account information)

- FTP Ingest Hostname (from your WorldNow account information)

- FTP Path (optional) — if your ingest FTP location is configured to use a directory other than

the root folder, you can specify a different FTP directory or subdirectory. If the transcode in/out has not changed, you can leave this setting blank.

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Configuring a WorldNow Web CMS Profile

- FTP Username (from your WorldNow account information)

- FTP Password (from your WorldNow account information)

7. Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

8. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

9. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

To set default values in MediaCentral UX for your WorldNow account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > WorldNow.

The Settings pane displays the WorldNow settings.

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Configuring a WorldNow Web CMS Profile

4. Select the WorldNow options that you want to use as default values in the Web Story pane.

- Story options can be set to use your Story Headline in some additional areas for your Web

story. You can also select a default classification for your story from the Content Classification menu.

- Use Headline as Abridged Title

- Use Headline as Browser Title

- Use Headline as Page URL

- Content Classification

- Graphics options control the default size (in pixels) and alignment of images in your Web

story.

- Story Body Image Size

- Summary Image Size

- Summary Image Alignment

- Abstract Image Size

- Abstract Image Alignment

- Video options can be set to use your Headline in some additional areas for your Web story.

You can also enable closed captions for your story and select a default classification from the Content Classification menu.

- Use Headline as Abridged Title

- Use Headline as Browser Title

- Use Headline as Page URL

- Enable Closed Captioning

- Content Classification

5. Click Apply to save the settings.

The WorldNow options display in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing your WorldNow settings, click Revert to return to the original settings.

To disable SSL validation:

1. In a terminal window on the master cluster node, type the following to stop ServiceMix:

service avid-mpd stop

2. Navigate to the directory containing the Media Distribute database configuration file:

cd /etc/apache-servicemix

3. Using the Linux text editor, vi, open the avid-mpd-wrapper.conf file for editing:

vi avid-mpd-wrapper.conf

4. Locate the following line in the JVM Parameters section, and then edit the SSL validation to true:

# wrapper.java.additional.<NUMBER>=-Dmpd.ssl.trust.all=true

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5. Press the Escape key to return to command mode, then type quit the text editor.

6. To restart the Media Distribute service, type the following command:

service avid-mpd restart

Configuring thePlatform Profile

Before you can publish a package to thePlatform® video CMS from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first have an account for thePlatform and set up an administrative role.

The following procedures assume you have already created the necessary thePlatform environment. Your thePlatform account provides you with the following information needed to complete your MediaCentral UX configuration:

• Account user name

• Account password

Once you have configured MediaCentral UX for your thePlatform account, you can use the fields available to you in a separate thePlatform pane that reflect the options and metadata provided by thePlatform. You can also specify upload servers for your media package if these servers are part of your thePlatform configuration. Media Distribute uploads media directly to these servers when you publish your media package. If you configure an FTP ingest server instead, Media Distribute uploads your media to this server. If you do not configure either upload servers or an FTP server, Media Distribute automatically selects an appropriate upload server.

:wq

and press Return to write and

See your thePlatform documentation for more information, or see thePlatform Technical Resource Center at help.theplatform.com.

To configure MediaCentral UX for your thePlatform account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

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3. In the Settings pane select Media Distribute > Profiles.

The Settings pane displays the settings in that group.

Configuring thePlatform Profile

4. Click the Publication Type menu and select thePlatform.

5. Click the + (plus) button in the Details section.

A new thePlatform profile named “New Profile” is created in the Details section.

6. Specify the required settings for the following parameter fields:

- Profile Name (type a descriptive name for your profile)

- Username (your thePlatform login name)

- Password (your thePlatform login password)

7. Click Transcoding Profile and select one of the available profiles.

8. (Optional) If your thePlatform configuration specifies upload servers, do the following:

a. Click Get Upload Servers by Username and Password.

The upload servers for your thePlatform account are retrieved.

b. Click the Upload Server options used in your thePlatform profile and select the appropriate

server for the following options:

- Metadata Upload Server

- Video Upload Server

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- Image Upload Server

- CC [Closed Captioning] Upload Server

If you use an FTP ingest server, do not specify upload servers.

9. If you use an FTP ingest server for publishing to thePlatform, type the hostname of the FTP ingest server and the path to the FTP server.

10. If applicable, type the FTP user name and the FTP password.

11. Click Verify Profile Settings to validate the profile settings.

12. Click Apply to save the profile.

The profile displays in the Details section with the new information.

If you are editing a profile, click Revert to return to the original settings. If you want to delete a profile, select the profile and click the minus (-) button in the Details section.

Configuring a WordPress CMS Profile

Before you can publish a package to the WordPress® platform from MediaCentral UX using Media Distribute, you must first set up your WordPress CMS and have a WordPress administrative account.

The following procedures assume you have already created the necessary WordPress CMS environment. Your WordPress installation provides you with the following information needed to complete your MediaCentral UX configuration:

• Blog ID — Media Distribute uses a default blog ID of “1.” If your WordPress configuration uses multiple blog sites, you might need to assign a different blog ID.

• Administrator account user name

• Administrator account password

• Your WordPress host’s API URL — The default XML-RPC API is “http://[your_WordPress_IP]/xmlrpc.php. You can disable or reconfigure this URL if needed.

WordPress allows you to configure your site in many ways and the default Media Distribute settings might not be appropriate for your corporate needs. See your WordPress administrator or the WordPress documentation for more information on customizing your account details, or see the WordPress Web site at wordpress.org.

To configure MediaCentral UX for your WordPress account:

1. Sign in to MediaCentral UX as an administrator.

2. Select System Settings from the Layout selector.

The System Settings layout opens.

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Pinnacle Systems Media Distribute - 2.10 Installation Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

Using This Guide

1 Installation for Media | Distribute

Preparing the Installation Package

Creating the USB Installation Drive

Mounting the USB Installation Drive on the MCS Server

Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute on a Single Server

Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute in a Cluster Environment

Identifying the Master and Non-Master Nodes

Identifying the Virtual Cluster IP

Installing or Upgrading Media | Distribute

Configuring Media | Distribute on the Master Node

Configuring Media | Distribute on Non-Master Nodes

Restarting PostgreSQL Service and Verifying the Cluster Installation

Verifying the Connection to ServiceMix

Modifying Media Distribute to Work with a Proxy Server

Using the Social Messages and Web Story Panes

Using the Distribution Pane

Removing Media Distribute

2 Configuration for Media | Distribute

Verifying Your Media | Distribute Installation

Assigning Media | Distribute Roles

MediaCentral | UX Security for Media | Distribute

Configuring the Transcode Route

Configuring the Video Transcoding Host

Send to Playback Configuration for Media | Distribute

Configuring a Telestream Vantage Profile

Validating the Vantage Transcode Route Configuration

Configuring the Harmonic ProMedia Carbon Transcoder

Configuring a RadiantGrid Profile

Configuring a MAM Profile

Configuring an E-mail Profile

Configuring the Bitly Link-Shortening Service

Configuring a Twitter Publication Account

Configuring a Facebook Publication Account

Configuring a Facebook Page Publication Account

Configuring a Vimeo Publication Account

Configuring a Vimeo V3 Publication Account

Configuring a YouTube v3 Publication Account

Configuring a Brightcove Account

Configuring a Kaltura Account

Configuring an Ooyala Account

Configuring a Flickr Account

Configuring an Atex Polopoly Web CMS Account

Configuring a WorldNow Web CMS Profile

Configuring thePlatform Profile

Configuring a WordPress CMS Profile