Creating Devices - Tightrope Media Systems Cablecast Setup Manual

F 3.4: A typical CMS
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screen after configuring a Cablecast
video server.

3.3 Creating Devices

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2. Give the new CMS a name of "Video Encoder"
3. In the Control Module dropdown list, select the "SXEncoderCM" that corre-
sponds to the Control Module Host you created in the previous section.
4. In the Port/IP/LocalPath field, enter the path to the content directory on the
Cablecast video server. This is the directory where your digital files reside.
Typically, "E:\".
When finished, your Control Module Sets should look something like figure 3.4.
Regardless of which of the Cablecast video server models you purchased, you
will need to create exactly two Control Module Sets per server. You will most
likely have several other Control Module Sets configured for the various other
devices being controlled by Cablecast.
Now that we have created the Control Module Sets for the Cablecast video server,
we need to define the specific playback and recording devices that are controlled by
the new Control Module Sets.
Each Cablecast video server has a collection of playback and recording devices.
You can think of these as inputs and outputs. Specifically, the Flex Lite and Flex
2 each ship configured with one recording input and one playback output. The
Flex 4 ships configured with one recording input and three playback outputs. The
Flex server IO configurations can be changed by using the Flex IO Configuration
Utility as covered in 2.2.4. In this section, we'll configure Cablecast to control
these input and output devices.
To begin, from the Main Menu, navigate to Location Settings, click on the IO tab,
and enter the Devices page.
In the following section, the specified settings must be configured as stated.
There are other settings available on each screen, and these extra settings can be
configured to suit your station's needs.
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