Avid Technology AirSpeed Multi Stream User manual

Avid AirSpeed®Multi Stream
Installation and User’s Guide

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Contents
Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 1 AirSpeed Multi Stream Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
AirSpeed Multi Stream Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
AirSpeed Multi Stream Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Hardware and Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Optional Avid Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Ethernet Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Time-of-Day Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Internal Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Serial Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Software Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Digital Input and Output Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Supported Media Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Capture Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
MXF Media Formats and Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Media Destination Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Protecting Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Headframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Playout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Studio Playout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Play While Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Play While Record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Edit While Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Closed Caption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Up/Down/Cross (UDX) Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
UDX Terms and Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Pillarbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Letterbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Center-Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anamorphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Active Format Description (AFD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
AutoAFD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
ATC and VITC Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Video Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
International Character Support (ICS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Front and Rear Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Visual Status Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Rear Media Connections (All Models). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chassis Label Location (All Models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Control Connections (All Models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Video/LTC Connections (SD Model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Video/LTC Connections (MPEG-2 HD Model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Video/LTC Connections (DNxHD Model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Video/LTC Connections (AVC-Intra Model). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Keyboard and Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Chapter 2 Installing the Hardware and Setting Up Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Unpacking and Inspecting Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Unpack and Inspect Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Unpacking Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Verifying Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Inspecting Components for Damage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installing AirSpeed Multi Stream in a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Rack-mount Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Rack-mount Kit Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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Positioning the AirSpeed Multi Stream in the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Securing the AirSpeed Multi Stream Chassis in the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Inserting the Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Cabling Up the AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Connecting SDI and Video Reference Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Connecting Video Reference Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Connecting SDI Video Input Cables (for SD Models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Connecting SDI Video Input Cables (for MPEG-2 HD Models). . . . . . . . . . 73
Connecting SDI Video Input Cables (for DNxHD Models). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Connecting SDI Video Input Cables (for AVC-Intra Models). . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Connecting SDI Video Output Cables (for SD Models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Connecting SDI Video Output Cables (for MPEG-2 HD Models) . . . . . . . . 77
Connecting SDI Video Output Cables (for DNxHD Models) . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Connecting SDI Video Output Cables (for AVC-Intra Models) . . . . . . . . . . 79
Connecting Time of Day (TOD) LTC Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Connecting Control and Communications Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Connecting USB Devices (Mouse and Keyboard). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Connecting Ethernet Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Connecting to AirSpeed Multi Stream Over the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Connecting Expansion Port Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Connecting Remote Serial Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Connecting the Console Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Connecting the VGA Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Connecting the Power Cords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Setting Up Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
AirSpeed Multi Stream System Setup Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Changing the Computer Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Adjusting the Date, Time and Time Zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Configuring Media Drives for RAID 0 Striping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Creating RAID 0 Striping in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Reconfiguring Media Drives for RAID 0 Striping (for Previously Striped Drives) 92
Verifying Your Network Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Creating a Windows User Account on the AirSpeed Multi Stream. . . . . . . . . . . 95

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Configuring Your Shared Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Setting Up Remote Access to the AirSpeed Multi Stream Server. . . . . . . . . . . 96
Chapter 3 General Configuration Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
User Names and Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
User Names and Passwords for Interplay and ISIS Environments . . . . . . 98
User Names and Passwords When Using a Standalone Transfer Manager 98
License Agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Configuration Requirements for AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
AirSpeed Multi Stream Configuration Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
(Option) Installing the AirSpeed Multi Stream Device Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Creating a New Database in the AirSpeed Multi Stream Application . . . . . . . 102
Setting the Default Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Configuring Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Configuring Channels on AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Configuring Channels for Capturing Ancillary Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Configuring Channels for Playing Out Ancillary Timecode (SD Only) . . . 116
Configuring Channels for Remote Control with Avid iNEWS Command. . . . . 117
Configuring Communication Protocols in AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . . 121
Configuring General Purpose Interface (GPI) Inputs and Outputs . . . . . . . . . 123
Configuring Your Avid Editor to Work with AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . 125
Optional AirSpeed Multi Stream Configuration Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Setting Database Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Configuring Auto Logon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Locking Channel Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Avid IsoSync Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Configuring International Character Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Chapter 4 Configuring the Software in a Workgroup Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 133
AirSpeed Multi Stream Workgroup Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Configuration Requirements for AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
AirSpeed Multi Stream Workgroup Configuration Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Configuring the Avid Service Framework Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Configuring the Avid Service Configuration for Interplay Workgroup . . . . . . . 136

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Configuring the Avid Service Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Setting Up your Credentials for Connection to Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Setting Up User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Setting Up Record and Destination Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Selecting Default Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Setting Up Inventory Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Launching Transfer Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Configuring Channels for Remote Control with Avid iNEWS Command, CaptureM-
anager, or Interplay Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Chapter 5 Configuring the Software with a Standalone Transfer Manager . . . . . 155
Standalone Transfer Manager Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Configuration Requirements for AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Software Requirements for the Avid Editing Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
AirSpeed Multi Stream Configuration Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Enabling Transfers for AirSpeed Multi Stream Servers in a Standalone Environ-
ment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Installing, Configuring and Starting the Interplay Transfer Engine . . . . . . . . . . 160
Installing the Interplay Transfer Engine on the Avid Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Configuring the Interplay Transfer Engine for a Standalone Environment 162
Starting the Interplay Transfer Engine on the Avid Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Configuring the Standalone Settings for the Avid Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Configuring the AirSpeed Multi Stream for Standalone Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Configuring the Integration Service on the AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . 168
Enabling Standalone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Setting Up User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Setting Up Record Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Selecting Default Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Setting Up Inventory Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
(Option) Installing the AirSpeed Multi Stream Device Service . . . . . . . . . 176
Chapter 6 Setting Up for Team Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Team Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Configuration Requirements for AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Software Requirements for the Avid Editing Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

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AirSpeed Multi Stream Configuration Checklist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Configuring the Standalone Settings for the Avid Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Configuring the AirSpeed Multi Stream for Team Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Configuring the Integration Service on the AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . 187
Enabling Standalone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Setting Up User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Setting Up Record and Destination Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Selecting Default Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Setting Up Inventory Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
(Option) Installing the AirSpeed Multi Stream Device Service . . . . . . . . . 198
Chapter 7 Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Starting AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
AirSpeed Multi Stream Database Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Opening a Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Closing a Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Locking and Unlocking a Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Showing Properties for a Database File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
File Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
File > Preferences Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
File > Advanced Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Edit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
View Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Air Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Window Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Help Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Network Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Expanding the Network Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Browse Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Changing the Order and Number of Fields in the Browse Window. . . . . . . . . 217
Changing the Sort Order of Clips in the Browse Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Headframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

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Selecting Headframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Changing Headframe Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Clip Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
MiniMonitor Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Preview Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Dockable Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Main Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Air Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Right-Click Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Selecting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Background Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Keyboard Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
General Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Preview Dialog Box Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Chapter 8 Working with Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Recording a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Playing While Recording a Clip (PWR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Clip Recording Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Copying or Moving Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Deleting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Editing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Editing Clips Using the Item Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Editing Clips Using the Preview Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Playback Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Renumbering Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Playing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Cueing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Clip Headframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Selecting a Default Headframe for a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Selecting the Timecode for a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

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Performing a Take. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Changing a Clip’s Headframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Transferring a Clip to Interplay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Sending Sequences from an Avid Editor to AirSpeed Multi Stream. . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Transfer Setup Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Transferring Sequences from your Avid Editor to AirSpeed Multi Stream. . . . 255
Modifying Clip File Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Editing the Current Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Template for Channel and Item Properties — General Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Template for Channel and Item Properties — Clip Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Template for Channel and Item Properties — Record Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Template for Channel and Item Properties — Audio Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Searching for Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Search Syntax Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Chapter 9 AirSpeed Multi Stream Studio and Playout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Studio Concept. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Creating a Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Adding the Studio to Your WorkGroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Using the Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Connect to Playout Server or Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Send to Playout Server or Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Monitoring Studio Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Transfer Status Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Chapter 10 Working with the Remote Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Installing the Remote Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Starting the Remote Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
File Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Options Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
About Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Channels Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Transport Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

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Inventory Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Filter Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Status Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
View Playlists Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Playlist Information Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Clip Information Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Right-Click Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Connecting to an AirSpeed Multi Stream Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Enabling Transfers for AirSpeed Multi Stream Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Using the AirSpeed Multi Stream Remote Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Selecting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Changing the Sort Order of Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Showing or Hiding Columns in the Inventory Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Filtering on a Clip Name or Video ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Playing Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Cueing and Playing Clips Directly from the Current Video ID Field. . . . . . 304
Cueing and Taking Clips via the Next Video ID Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Recording Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Crash Recording Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Cueing Clips for Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Recording Clips with Only a Video ID Specified (no Duration or Name) . . 306
Recording Clips with Both a Video ID and Duration Specified . . . . . . . . . 306
Recording Clips with Only a Name Specified (no Duration or Video ID) . . 306
Recording Clips with Only a Duration Specified (No Video ID or Name) . 307
Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Editing the In and Out Points of a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Deleting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Protecting or Unprotecting Clips from Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Transferring Clips to Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Transferring Clips to an Avid Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Working with Playlists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Creating Playlists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Playlist Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

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Saving Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Opening Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Clearing Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Taking Control of a Playlist for a Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Setting Loop Behavior in the Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Working with Clips in the Playlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Reordering Clips within the Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Modifying Mark In/Mark Out Points for Clips in the Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Setting the Follow Behavior for Clips in the Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Deleting Clips from the Playlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Cueing a Playlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Cueing From a Specific Clip in the Playlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Playing Clips in the Playlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Pausing Clips in the Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Stopping and Unloading Clips in the Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Performing an Edit While Capture (EWC) with Drag and Drop . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Performing an Edit While Capture (EWC) with Auto Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Inventory Pane Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Channel Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Playlist Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Chapter 11 Maintaining Your AirSpeed Multi Stream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Copying and Restoring Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Reimaging Your System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Checklist for Reimaging Your System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Saving and Restoring Your Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Loading the Windows XPE Restore Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Installing the Avid Service Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Installing AirSpeed Multi Stream Application Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Rebuilding a Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Identifying Bad Media Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Replacing Media Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Windows XPe Security Update Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

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Viewing System Health Status Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Accessing the Knowledge Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Chapter A Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Physical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Power and Environment Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Audio Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Video Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Control and Synchronization Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Data Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Rear Panel Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Connector Pinouts and Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
RS-422 Serial Control Mechanism Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
RS-422 Serial Remote RJ45 Connector Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Sony BVW Extensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Supported Optional VDCP Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Ethernet Connector Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Expansion Port Connector Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
LTC Timecode Connector Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
USB 2 Connector Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Chapter B Performing Hardware Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Diagnostic Window Explained. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Reviewing Hardware Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Starting the Hardware Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Playing a Video Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Capturing from an External Video Source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Testing Audio Outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Capturing from the Play Frame Video (Loopback Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Error Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Diagnostic Test Failed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Chapter C Network Teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Setting Up Network Teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Chapter D Up, Down, Cross Convert (UDX) Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

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Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Up Convert AFD Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Down Convert AFD Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
HD Cross Convert AFD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
SD Cross Convert AFD Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Warnings and Cautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
FCC Notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Class A Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
LED Safety Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Canadian ICES-003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
European Union Declaration of Conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Disposal of Waste Equipment by Users in the European Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Australia and New Zealand EMC Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Taiwan EMC Regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Using This Guide
Congratulations on your purchase of an Avid ingest and playout server. You can use your
AirSpeed Multi Stream to capture incoming media directly into Avid shared storage or play
out media to air. Media can be captured directly into Avid Unity workspaces unattended,
freeing the Avid editing system for editing. Use the Avid editing system to edit the captured
media into sequences and send the sequence back to the AirSpeed Multi Stream for playout.
This guide contains all the installation, configuration, and task-oriented instructions,
conceptual information, and reference material you need to install, configure and use the
Avid product.
This guide is intended for all users, from beginning to advanced.
Unless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the Windows®XP operating
systems.The majority of screen shots in this document were captured on a Windows XP
system.
nThe 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.

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Symbols and Conventions
Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:
Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action
nA note provides important related information, reminders,
recommendations, and strong suggestions.
cA caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to
your computer or cause you to lose data.
wA 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.
> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the
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.
(Windows), (Windows
only), (Macintosh), or
(Macintosh only)
This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified
operating system, either Windows or Macintosh OS X.
Bold font Bold font is primarily used in task instructions to identify user interface
items and keyboard sequences.
Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.
Courier Bold font Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.
Ctrl+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the
mouse action. For example, Command+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.