Pinnacle Systems Thunder Select Installation Manual
Avid® Thunder® Select
Installation and User’s Guide
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Contents
Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Welcome to Thunder Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing Thunder Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Compatibility with Prior Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing the Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing Thunder Select on iNEWS Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Configuring the ThunderMOS.cfg File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Configuring the ThunderMOS.ini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing Thunder Select Software on ENPS Clients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Configuring the Thunder Server and Thunder Select Client . . . . . . . . . 15
Configuring the Thunder Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Configuring the Thunder Select Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Changing the Database in ENPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Setting Up the ENPS Client to Use Thunder Select. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Launching Thunder Select from ENPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Using Thunder Select with ENPS in a Live-to-Air Environment . . . . . . 25
Creating a Story in ENPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Adding a Story to a Rundown in ENPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Playing Stories to Air in ENPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Common Setup Problems and Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Checklist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Accessing Online Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Technical Support Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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Obtaining IP Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Determining the IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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Using This Guide
The Avid® Thunder Select Installation and Configuration Guide is an instructional manual
for installing and configuring Avid Thunder Select.
If you are responsible for installing and configuring Thunder Select for use with iNEWS or
ENPS, carefully follow the instructions in this guide.
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References to the Newsroom Computer System, or NCS, apply to ENPS
Press and to iNEWS
made only where there is a difference.
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from Avid Technology. Specific references to ENPS or iNEWS are
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The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your
system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the
documentation.
Using This Guide
Symbols and Conventions
Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:
Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action
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> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the
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Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.
Courier Bold font
Ctrl+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you perform the mouse action. For
If You Need Help
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 document or on the unit itself when
handling electrical equipment.
order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the
File menu and then select the Import command.
This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a
list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.
Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.
example, Ctrl+drag.
If you are having trouble using Thunder Select:
1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It
is especially important to check each step of your workflow.
2. Check for the latest information that might have become available after the
documentation was published:
- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as printed release notes,
they ship with your application and are also available online.
- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as a ReadMe file, it is
supplied on your Avid installation CD or DVD as a PDF document and is also
available online.
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You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe
because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes
available. To view these online versions, select ReadMe from the Help menu. or visit
the Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/readme.
3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for
maintenance or hardware-related issues.
4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport. Online services are
available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find
answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates,
and to read or join online message-board discussions.
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Using This Guide
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Chapter 1
Welcome to Thunder Select
Thunder Select is an ActiveX plugin that allows a journalist to select, view, and preview
media assets (stills and clips) on a Thunder, and add them to their story in iNEWS or ENPS.
Thunder Select allows the journalist to preview stills and clips in a read-only format.
• For stills, right-click on the still and select Show Picture from the menu. You will get a
full screen hi-res view of the graphic.
• For clips, right-click on the clip and select Preview from the menu. The Proxy viewer
opens which enables you to play video and hear audio for the clip. You can also scrub
through the read-only clip. No editing can be done.
Chapter 1 Welcome to Thunder Select
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Chapter 2
Installing Thunder Select
This chapter contains information on installing Thunder Select for both ENPS and iNEWS.
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Setting up a Thunder system in an ENPS environment requires three steps: setting up the
Thunder broadcast device to communicate with the ENPS server via MOS, installing the
ENPS client software on a workstation, and configuring that workstation to use Thunder
Browse and the ThunderX ActiveX control.
Compatibility with Prior Versions
In order for Thunder Select to work correctly, your Thunder Server must be running version
7.1.0 or later.
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If you are upgrading to version 7.1 from a version prior to 7.0, you must ensure that your
Thunder server is running 7.1 or higher. You must also upgrade your SQL database. Please
run the "updateDatabase.sql" script that is included on the software CD.
Installing the Software
Due to the nature of a MOS newsroom computer system, the easiest method to install the
Thunder Select client software is not via the CD. We suggest you copy the Thunder Select
software installer onto a shared network drive and run the installer remotely from each
machine. This reduces your total installation time because you have a large number of client
machines that need to be updated all at the same time. Our suggestion is to do the following:
1. Create a shared folder on your SQL server.
2. Copy the installer to that folder.
Chapter 2 Installing Thunder Select
3. Browse to the installer from each client.
4. Run the installer from there.
Because iNEWS and ENPS use different methods to access different Thunders, installing
Thunder Select for iNEWS or for ENPS is done through different procedures.
For more information, see the following topics:
• “Installing Thunder Select on iNEWS Clients” on page 10
• “Installing Thunder Select Software on ENPS Clients” on page 12
Please select the appropriate installation and read the entire section before beginning your
installations.
Installing Thunder Select on iNEWS Clients
When installing Thunder Select for iNEWS, there are three files that are required during the
Thunder Select client software installation.
• ThunderSelectSetup.exe - Installs the Thunder Select ActiveX client and necessary files.
• ThunderMOS.cfg - Contains master data for the Thunder Select client to change
databases. Must reside on a shared network folder (one file per iNEWS system).
• ThunderMOS.ini - Provides a path to the ThunderMOS.cfg file. A copy must reside on
every client (one file per client).
Configuring the ThunderMOS.cfg File
The ThunderMOS.cfg file contains information that allows the Thunder Select client to find
your various Thunder servers and browse their respective MOS databases. This information
is set up in a line per Thunder server.
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The .cfg file can reside on any shared network folder, as long as every client can access that
folder. However, we recommend that it resides on the SQL server for easy maintenance
reasons.
For each Thunder server that you want your iNEWS clients to access using Thunder Select,
configure the ThunderMOS.cfg file.
To configure the ThunderMOS.cfg file:
1. Add a line in the ThunderMOS.cfg with the following information:
- An arbitrary name for the Thunder that the journalists at the clients will easily
recognize. This can be any name. Examples are “Control Room A,” “Morning
News,” “Sports,”, and so on.
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