Pinnacle Systems NewsCutter - 2.0 User's Guide
Avid® NewsCutter
Site Preparation Guide
Release 2.0
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tools for storytellers®
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Contents
Using This Guide
About This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Related Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Avid NewsCutter Site Preparation
Avid System Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
NewsCutter Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Avid Unity for News Workgroup Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Fibre Channel Workgroup Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
NewsCutter Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Avid Meridien I/O Box Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Cabling Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Component Weights and Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Site Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Power Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Source Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Synchronization Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Printing Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Telephone Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Environmental Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Networking Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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Fiber-Optic Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Ethernet Hub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Patch Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Pin Assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Serial Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
VGA Monitor Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Keyboard and Mouse Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
RJ-45 Jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
GPI Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SDTI Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Regulatory and Safety Notices
FCC Notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Canadian ICES-003. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
European Union Notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Australia and New Zealand EMC Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Taiwan EMC Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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Using This Guide
This guide provides site requirement information for the Avid
NewsCutter® system.
About This Guide
The guide provides specifications for your Avid system components in
the following areas:
• Connectors
• Environmental
• Physical (dimensions and weight)
• Electrical
Use this guide if you are responsible for preparing a site for
installation.
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Symbols and Conventions
This guide uses the following special symbols and conventions:
1. Numbered lists, when the order of the items is important.
a. Alphabetical lists, when the order of secondary items is
important.
• Bulleted lists, when the order of the items is unimportant.
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A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations,
and strong suggestions.
A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to
your computer or cause you to lose data.
A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm.
Follow the guidelines in this guide or on the unit itself when
handling electrical equipment.
If You Need Help
If you are having trouble using NewsCutter, you should:
1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that
task in this guide.
2. Check the documentation that came with your hardware for
maintenance or hardware-related issues.
3. Check the release notes supplied with your Avid application for
information on accessing the Avid Web site and the Avid
Knowledge Center.
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4. For customer support, contact your local Avid Reseller, or contact
Avid Customer Support directly:
• Broadcast customers — call 800-NEWS-DNG (639-7364).
• Postproduction customers — call 800-800-AVID (2843).
Related Information
The Help system and the following documents provide more
information about NewsCutter:
• Avid NewsCutter Getting Started Guide
This guide explains the basic concepts and terminology of
NewsCutter as well as how to create a project; work with bins;
record source material; and compose, edit, and trim a sequence.
• Avid NewsCutter Setup Guide
This guide provides installation and configuration instructions as
well as suggestions for troubleshooting problems that might arise
with system hardware.
• Avid NewsCutter User’s Guide
This guide provides complete information on all editing tasks,
such as recording footage, viewing and marking footage, editing,
trimming, importing, exporting, and generating final output. This
guide also provides a glossary that defines and explains many
industry terms.
• Avid NewsCutter Effects Guide
This guide describes techniques for using digital video effects,
titles, third-party plug-in effects, mattes, keys, and layering
options.
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• Avid NewsCutter Release Notes
This document describes new features, hardware and software
requirements, software installation instructions, and summary
information on system and memory requirements.
• Avid NewsCutter Upgrade Instructions
This document explains how to upgrade the hardware and
software in NewsCutter systems in accordance with the latest
feature and performance enhancements.
• Avid NewsCutter Quick Reference Card
This folded card lists convenient keyboard shortcuts
• Avid Products Collaboration Guide
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for transferring
project files, audio files, and graphics and effects files between
various Avid products.
The most recent update of the Avid Products Collaboration Guide is
provided online. Check the release notes supplied with your Avid
application for information on accessing online documentation.
If You Have Documentation Comments
Avid Technology continuously seeks to improve its documentation.
We value your comments about this guide, the Help, the Online
Publications CD-ROM, and other Avid-supplied documentation.
Simply e-mail your documentation comments to Avid Technology at
TechPubs@avid.com
Please include the title of the document, its part number, revision, and
the specific section you are commenting on in all correspondence.
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How to Order Documentation
To order additional copies of this documentation from within the
United States, call Avid Telesales at 800-949-AVID (2843). If you are
placing an order from outside the United States, contact your local
Avid representative.
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Avid NewsCutter Site Preparation
This guide provides information about requirements for the site where
the Avid NewsCutter system will be installed. Electrical and physical
specifications on the system components are also included. Connector
information and pin assignments are given if customized cabling is
required.
Avid System Layouts
This section provides typical system layouts. Diagrams of the Avid
system components identify the rear interface connectors. The exact
orientation of the equipment depends on:
• Available space in the work area — This document provides the
dimensions of the equipment (see “Component Weights and
Dimensions” on page 27). However, Avid recommends
additional space for access and ventilation.
• Length of the cables — Avid does not recommend excessively long
cables. See “Cabling Guidelines” on page 24 for cabling
information.
• User preference — Whether the monitor, video deck, and system
are on the left or right side is up to the user. The order from top to
bottom in the rack can also differ due to accessibility of the
controls or viewing indicators.
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NewsCutter Layout
Figure 1 shows all standard and optional NewsCutter components
except for a video reference source (such as a black burst generator).
Set up your system components, especially the User Interface (UI) and
Playback monitors, video deck, and keyboard, in positions that give
you easy access to them.
Video deck
Speaker UI monitor
Keyboard
Figure 1 Sample NewsCutter Layout
NewsCutter has the following features:
• Internal hard drive with an NTFS partition; primary drive that
contains the operating system.
• 3.5-inch diskette drive; reads and writes to 1.44-MB diskettes.
• CD-ROM reader; required for loading software. Avid software is
distributed on CD-ROM.
Playback monitor
Mouse
Speaker
Amplifier
VLX
44.1 kHz
kHz
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SCSI IDSCSI ID
Slots Slots
ActAct
WideWide
DualbusDualbus
FansFans
Pwr 2Pwr 2
Pwr 1Pwr 1
V-LAN VLX
PULL DOWN
AUDIO SYNC
POWER
VIDEO SYNC
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Industry-standard rack
(optional)
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Meridien I/O box
NewsCutter
MediaDock
• Fast and wide SCSI connector; for connecting SCSI media drives.
Media drives must be formatted as NTFS.
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• Ethernet network interface; required for Avid network
connections.
• High-resolution monitor (1024 x 768); required for viewing the
media edits.
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• Windows NT
Windows NT service pack.
Workstation Version 4.0 operating system with
Avid Unity for News Workgroup Layout
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NewsCutter can work as a standalone system or as part of a broadcast
network such as an Avid Unity
The Avid Unity for News workgroup environment consists of the
following functional components:
• Supported Avid editing systems (such as NewsCutter).
• Avid Unity MediaManager server to track and manage Avid Unity
media files. When connected to an F/C network, a workgroup
client uses the MediaManager server to share Avid Unity files
with clients within the workgroup.
• Avid Unity TransferManager server to manage the transfer of
media files to and from another workgroup’s TransferManager
server (typically, over an Ethernet network). The TransferManager
server also allows you to transfer media files from a feed (ingest)
device or send finished sequences to a playback device.
The TransferManager server is not required equipment in a MediaNet
environment. However, you must connect a TransferManager server in your
workgroup if you want to share media files with other workgroups in the
MediaNet environment.
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for News workgroup.
• Avid Unity MediaNet file server and storage subsystem.
• A Fibre Channel (F/C) network that connects the Avid editing
systems, MediaManager server, and TransferManager server to
the file server and storage subsystem.
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