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1. cnennnnn 6 6 Descriptive Data 8 4 Deselect all 9 22 Edit Bun 8 4 8 15 end of clip u ceenn een 6 6 Exclude Folder 9 26 Rene ee ee eee 8 3 8 4 8 14 File system oo cceecccceeeecceueeeeeenees 5 2 Find it woe 5 13 5 14 frame backward cccceeeeeee eee 6 5 frame forward 6 5 Header Data 8 3 8 14 Nager 5 9 Include Folder 3 12 9 25 Job List 4 4 7 15 Loans e 5 12 Spycer User Guide Metadata 00 eee 4 3 8 2 NEW directory wo cece eeeeeee eee eee 5 5 one directory UP oo eee eee 5 5 Pause selected 7 17 play sinnericnnariieiadnnaiina i 6 6 Production o ae 8 9 8 15 Production Data 8 4 Refresh c cecceeceeeseeeeeeeeeeeees 9 13 Refresh list 7 17 Remove 3 11 9 23 9 26 Rename noice 7 2 8 6 Reset cecceeeeeceeee nese ees 5 12 9 2 Resume selected 7 17 Save nenn 5 13 8 4 8 15 Scheduler 4 6 7 18 Se lchvunssana een 5 10 Select all nnnn 9 22 set a marker ooo eecceeceee cece sees 6 6 start Of clip oo eee 6 6 Task Scheduler 4 5 VOX nee 5 9 VANC Data cece eee 8 3 8 9 C C notation n se 5 12 7 11 8 15 calculator unneneneenn 4 14 7 13 cancel job oo eee eee eeeeee ees 7 17 central server 2 6 central st
2. A 22 installation under Linux 3 2 installation under Mac 3 3 installation under Windows 3 5 MOVE un tsetinciactatabnovaebieratiasds 7 9 previewing clips 6 2 6 3 previewing images annnannnneee 6 3 search uaceannennnennenneeneeenee nen 5 14 starting of integrated Spycer 3 15 starting under Linux 00608 3 6 starting under Mac 3 6 starting under Windows 3 7 integrated Spycer 1 6 2 9 3 15 COMMGUPALION wiesen 3 17 USAGE ee 3 16 IP not available 9 13 IP address 20 2 020 0 3 9 9 12 J JOD SE u 4 2 4 5 7 15 Cancel job oo 7 17 pause JOD oo eee eeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeees 7 17 Progress bar ae 7 15 PVs Index refresh list 7 17 M resume JOD ooo eee eee eee eeee eee es 7 17 scheduled jobs 7 18 machine list nenne 4 7 start pending ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 7 17 MAaINntenance een A 18 job list record scheduler 4 7 manual job list area esse 4 5 REMI sda Gobsoeadudindnacebedol demaleicetants 4 17 jobs DOT nn 4 17 CANCE tosses teten een 7 17 Marker list ccccccccceeeseseseeseeeeeeeeeees 4 9 IN PFOQTESS noiiire 7 15 maximize preview area ese 4 16 job liSt tere 4 5 7 15 media player ccaanennnneeeeneeenneeenn 2 2 PAUSE onnnnneeennnnnennnnnnennnenennneneennn 7 17 menu FESUME Sana d
3. Figure 4 16 Submenu of the menu option License Management Software Reference Menu Option Explanation File request When selecting this menu option an auto matic e mail will be created with a license request for your local Spycer version This e mail has to be sent to DVS File update This menu option opens a directory win dow for you to browse the text file with the license code sent by DVS See section Li censing on page 2 9 for further reading License Server With the menu option License Server you make a set of floating licenses avail able to other Spycers in a network Further information about this and how to do It can be found in section Configuring a Dongle to Run as a License Server on page 2 12 For details about the license update on a dongle refer to section How to Update the License on the Dongle on page 2 15 4 3 4 The View Menu With the menu View you can change the layout of the user interface in certain ways It contains the following menu options Reset Layout Maximize Preview Area Figure 4 17 The View menu 4 15 Spycer User Guide Dvs Menu Option Explanation Reset Layout In case you have changed the layout of the user interface for example by hiding areas see section Exiting the Software on page 3 14 it can be reset with this menu option Then the layout of the
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5. il You can leave out the CodeMeter installation when you intend S 4 to run Spycer as Spycer Basic only However when using float ing licenses on a dongle see section Floating License on page 2 11 all involved systems must have the CodeMeter ap plication installed Details about the license currently assigned to your Spycer ap plication can be found in the About Spycer window e g for troubleshooting purposes see About in the table on page 4 17 In the following you find all information needed when licensing Spycer 2 3 1 Hardware License On several DVS video systems such as CLIPSTER or the Pronto family Spycer is integrated in the DVS software which makes it unnecessary to install Spycer as a stand alone application Therefore it is licensed properly depending on your requirements and you can start working with the software immediately For further information about the inte grated Spycer version see section The Integrated Spycer on page 3 15 2 3 2 The License File Licensing Spycer via a license request and a license file is the easiest way In this case you will receive a dedicated license in txt file for mat If you have installed a Spycer application as described in section Installing the Software on page 3 2 perform the following to be able to run Spycer with more than just its basic features Spycer User Guide DvS 2 10 e Start the Spycer application as de
6. compressed The whole video clip as well as pressed audio audio are stored in one file only container format Proprietary streaming video technol ogy developed by Apple REDCODE r3d 12 bit raw wavelet Raw 12 bit file format for the compression of RAW compressed au video at a variable bit rate Developed by dio RED Digital Cinema Camera Company foran on camera recording Windows wmv 3 x 8 bit RGB Video file format that supports various file Media compressed au storage formats Proprietary streaming video dio technology developed by Microsoft Only compressed variants are supported Furthermore the software supports different variants of MXF e g MXF OP Atom MXF OP 1a and P2 extension mxf as well as DV DIF ex tension dv files Both are container formats for audio and or video material P2 3D clips can be read and played out by the software too The formats are implemented with the following compression codecs A 9 Spycer User Guide Table A 3 Supported codecs a Video Bit Audio Bit Vi R r Form Codec deo Raste Rates Depth2 ormat AVC Intra 720p 23 98 25 29 97 50 50 100 16 bit MXF OP 1a 59 94 OP 1a also MXF OP Atom P2 1080i 25 29 97 24 bit 1080p 23 98 25 29 97 DV25 525i 29 97 4 1 1 25 16 bit DV DIF 625i 25 4 2 0 MXF OP 1a DV MXF OP Atom P2 MXF for Isis amp DVCPRO 25 525i 29 97 4 1
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8. As long as the defragmentation is in progress the system will have the status busy Depending on the amount of data to be defragmented this process may take a while The defragmentation operation ends au tomatically as soon as all selected data Is processed Then the files clips will be perfectly aligned on the storage and show a defragmentation status of 100 blue 7 1 3 High Speed Copying To copy vast amounts of video material from one storage location to an other is often a time consuming procedure when performed with the standard tools of an operating system such as a file manager To do this faster DVS integrated in Spycer a high speed copying routine 7 7 Spycer User Guide DvS 7 8 which deals with such tasks in about four times the speed of a standard operating system copy The high speed copying tool is truly integrated in Spycer It will be start ed and used as soon as a copying or moving is performed The copying moving can also be combined with an automatic il defragmentation of the copied or moved material For further information about how to set this please refer to section The im Group Jobs on page 9 16 Copying Moving Directories Files Copying directories files with the browse tool see section Browsing for Data on page 5 2 of Spycer can be performed without effort It of fers two browsing panes where you can do this easily via drag and drop When operating between st
9. Figure 9 10 The group General In the group General you find the following settings items drop down list Select from this drop down list the network IP address connection IP address that Spycer should use to connect to the SpycerNet The localhost address 127 0 0 1 disables the network con nection for Spycer Afterwards it can be used locally only The IP addresses that can be se lected are detected by Spycer automatically They are read from the currently active network connections of your system If there is more than one network connection available you can select between them via their IP addresses Under Windows you can gather the IP address of a network port via the net work connection icon in the system tray of the Windows task bar 9 12 The Menus REFRESH This button refreshes the IP addresses available in the drop down list IP addresses are gath ered from currently active network connec tions When a network connection Is inactive e g no cable connected its IP address will not be displayed in the drop down list Then es tablish a network connection at the respective connector and click the REFRESH button This will make its IP address available in Spycer Ad ditionally available is the localhost address 127 0 0 1 to disable the network connection for Spycer and run it locally only entry field hostname In this entry field type in the name that shoul
10. Spycer User Guide DvS Basic connecting to the network will run with the limited feature set on ly To share the license of a dongle in the SpycerNet the dongle has to be configured as a license server It will then monitor the shared licenses and assign them anew when available again Dedicated licenses i e single workstation licenses and float ing licenses can be used together in a SpycerNet To use floating licenses the CodeMeter application has to be installed on all participating systems i e on the system that distributes the licenses as well as the ones that receive them see section Installing the Software on page 3 2 You can download the CodeMeter software from the CodeMeter inter net pages Configuring a Dongle to Run as a License Server To enable a floating license and share the license of a dongle in the SpycerNet the dongle has to be configured as a license server For this perform the following e f appropriate start Spycer and select from its menu bar see sec tion The Integrated Spycer on page 3 15 Tools License Management License Server This will open the following dialog window License Server Figure 2 3 License server setup e Activate the Enable license server radio button to enable the license server for the connected dongle e Confirm your selection with the OK button After this another message window appears asking you again whether you are really
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12. License Server Management License Server View Reset Layout View Reset Layout Maximize Preview Area View Maximize Preview Area Help About Spycer About Spycer Manual html Help Manual html Manual pdf Help Manual pdf Browsing and Searching In the lower part of the Spycer user interface you find the browse and search area With it you can browse local or network storages in up to two browsing panes This area provides the directory trees and the contents areas of the soft ware It also contains Spycer s marker feature and the search tool en abling you to find any searched for material easily by combining various search parameters such as file names or metadata information This chapter first explains the browse tool followed by a description how to initiate and perform a search with Spycer Spycer User Guide PVs 5 1 Browsing for Data With the button FILE SYSTEM at the top left side of the browse and search area you can activate the browse tool of Spycer if not already visible in the user interface Ufo Night All Files Tet All Files Online Figure 5 1 The browse tool It offers two browsing panes for overview purposes and drag and drop procedures The following figure gives an overview of one of the brows ing panes directory directory contents status tree controls area bar Network Se File Name HBP Ho 3 o A rn i audio ine Bh
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14. To create file names with a proper frame numbering as meta il data for video clips you have to observe the C notation usually with the syntax lt string gt 0Yd lt ext gt see section The Search Parameter Area on page 5 10 e Check whether the check boxes of the values that should be changed in the file header s are enabled e Afterwards save the metadata with the button SAVE This will change the values stored in the file header s Depending on the selected file range for the changes it may take some time When fin ished the original header data view is restored and you can see the al terations in the information displayed 8 3 2 Changing the Production Metadata Production metadata can also be changed They will be stored virtually in the database of the Spycer application e Single out the material whose metadata you want to change as described in section How to Single out Data on page 6 7 e If not already displayed switch to the production metadata with the button PRODUCTION of the metadata controls see section The Metadata Controls on page 8 3 e From the metadata controls activate the button EDIT This enables you to change the metadata displayed in the metadata ar ea e Type in or alter the respective metadata information in the available fields e Afterwards save the metadata with the button SAVE The metadata will be stored and written to the material s data record in the database
15. and video clips By creating and using proxy clips video material can also be viewed in real time The contents of the material then can be seen in the video overlay Below the video overlay a scrub bar of the materi al s timeline is available as well as the preview controls Additionally you can preview image and video data via the thumbnails provided in the contents areas when browsing or searching Spycer User Guide DVS 6 1 Previewing Data via Thumbnails When in the thumbnail view video and image data can be seen with thumbnails in the contents areas of the browse and search tools Each thumbnail is created on the fly and displayed as soon as a directory is selected that holds video or image data Further details about the contents areas of the browse and search tools not explained in the following can be found in sec tion Browsing for Data on page 5 2 Path V section31 clips al 74 File Name Riesenrad_ 05d tif File Path s File Format TIFF Modification BR Resolution 2048 x 1080 Pixel Frame Count be Aspect Ratio 1 89629630 Color Depth Frame Rate Color Mode Duration TC Start Defrag Size File Name Se 5d tif File Path tion Frame Rate Duration Figure 6 1 A contents area Still images i e single image files in the browse and search area just provide their thumbnails For video clips however the complete time line can be previewed via the little scrub bar below its thumbnail To d
16. changes with the button OK the directory file will be named accordingly You can use F2 to se lect this option as well When called for a video clip whose il frames consist of still images it will open the renaming tool for clips see section Renaming on page 7 2 Scan metadata Use this menu option to rescan the currently se lected drive directory and refresh its entries in the database Any virtually added metadata such as the production metadata will be retained You can use F7 to select this option as well Refresh This menu option refreshes and updates the view of the currently selected drive directory Defragment Initiates a defragmentation of the currently se lected file directory or drive Further information about this can be found in section Defragment er on page 7 4 Create meta clip s When you select this menu option Spycer cre ates a metaclip or several metaclips from the file s in the selected folder For further informa tion see section Metaclips on page 7 28 View The menu option View enables you to configure which items to see in the directory tree and or the contents area When invoked on the directory tree it shows the menu option Hide unwatched folders With it you can hide all drives directories that are not watched by the SpycerAgent Once the menu op tion is activated it shows a cross in front and only the watched folders will be displayed
17. e Open the installation file of Spycer Spycer lt version no gt dmg e g with a double click of the mouse This will mount the Spycer application as a volume and display its con tent on the screen e From this volume open the installation file of the CodeMeter appli cation CmRuntimeUser lt version no gt dmg e g with a dou ble click of the mouse This as well will mount the CodeMeter application as a volume and dis play its content on the screen e From the last volume install the CodeMeter application by execut ing its mpkg file The installation routine of the CodeMeter application is started which will guide you through the installation e Follow the instructions given on the screen The CodeMeter application is then installed on your computer The in stallation is finished as soon as a message reports this After this con tinue the installation with the installation of the Spycer application Spycer Installation To install Spycer perform the following e f not already the case open the installation file of Spycer which will mount itasa volume Spycer lt version no gt dmg e g with a double click of the mouse e From this volume install the Spycer application by executing its mpkg file The installation routine of the Spycer application is started which will guide you through the installation e Follow the instructions given on the screen This installs all necessary files and librari
18. see section The Task Sched uler s List on page 7 19 and section Creating and Editing Scheduled Jobs on page 7 20 7 3 2 The Task Scheduler s List The list of the task scheduler details the scheduled jobs according to the setting of the Select drop down list see section Managing Sched uled Jobs on page 7 18 It provides the following information Column Explanation Job Type Specifies the type of job that is scheduled to be performed e g copy delete defrag etc Created by Details the system that created the entry in the task scheduler Src Peer The source peer Details the source of the data in the SpycerNet i e the name of the system where the source data is stored Source States the location of the source files on the source peer Dest Peer The destination peer Details the destination of the data in the SpycerNet i e the name of the system where the data is to be transferred to If empty a job is selected that does not require a destination Destination Details the target directory on the destination peer If empty a Job is selected that does not re quire a destination Start Indicates the interval date and time of the event In case of intervals a date refers to the day when the task is carried out for the first time Duration Details how long to perform the job 7 19 Spycer User Guide PVs The entries in the task scheduler
19. you can use the search feature see section Searching for Data on page 5 10 to find the clips by its descriptive data Activate the descrip tive data view by clicking the button DESCRIPTIVE DATA to the top left of the Spycer user interface see section The Metadata Controls on page 8 3 If the selected file contains descriptive data you will see all data fields and entries that are enabled for the specific file and or that are typical for the file format If the file carries no descriptive data this will be indicated in the metadata area see section User Interface in the Working with Metadata Metadata Mode on page 4 3 If the file carries descriptive data the metadata area in your Spycer software will look similar to the following figure Task Scheduler Record Scheduler Serial Number Video VFR Ratio Start UB Pulldown Type Marker Figure 8 7 The descriptive data Data groups containing the entry fields and the respective data are la beled in white font and non editable are labeled in grey The entry fields that can be edited or that are read only can be defined in the clip file Editing the Descriptive Data To edit the descriptive data of a clip perform the following e Select the respective clip file from the directory tree and click it in the contents area e Click the button EDIT to the bottom left of the metadata area see section User Interface in the Metadata Mode on page 4 3
20. 5 4 NEW nein 5 5 9 29 9 32 one folder up een 5 5 properties 9 30 9 33 9 35 SION Area en 5 5 thumbnail c ccececeeceeeeeeeeeee ees 5 8 TOG ee 5 3 view in contents area 9 30 9 33 view in directory tree 9 30 9 3 directory tree oe eeccccececceeeeeeceeeeeeeeees 4 8 disable local content management 9 14 distributed see 2 6 dongle CodeMeter 3 2 A 21 floating license 2 9 2 11 grabbing a floating license 2 14 INPOrMAtION reset 4 17 ordering floating licenses 2 14 returning floating license 2 15 serial NUM Er u ues0lse 4 17 SpycerAgent u 2 11 Update seriesas incdeucdel vedeedecteaces 2 15 download of proxy u 6 7 9 22 drive ICON aan 5 4 Properties 2 ececceeeeeeeeeeeeeees 9 35 thumbnail 5 8 duration of scheduled job 7 21 DVS service department A 22 DV S SAIN een 1 6 E edit scheduled job 7 21 task scheduler 7 21 edit job permissions 00 7 22 edit metadata button a einen 8 4 permission aeeeeenseeeeseeenennnenn 9 22 working with metadata 8 14 editing descriptive metadata 9 33 enable local content management 3 9 9 14 exiting integrated Spycer une 3 18 exiting the program 3 14 4 12 expiration date and time license 4 17
21. Status Bar on page 5 9 If the original video image format of the material differs from the destination format the image s will be skewed accordingly so that they fit optimal ly in the new format After the conversion the source file s are not de leted but remain at their location for further use 7 1 5 Calculator With the calculator of Spycer you can calculate from a set video format its maximum recording time by a given amount of storage capacity or the required storage by a given duration of video data It can be ac cessed from the menu bar of Spycer e From the menu bar of Spycer see section The Integrated Spycer on page 3 15 select Tools Calculator or press F11 This will open the calculator of Spycer Calculator ey Resolution 1920 1080 iode RGB 4 4 4 Quantization 10 bit Frame Rate 30 fps Size 0 000 MiB 17 7 Duration 00 00 00 Q Figure 7 6 The calculator of Spycer With the upper settings you determine the video format Once the vid eo format is set the calculation will be straight forward e Select the video format from the settings items by choosing the appropriate values e Next you have two possibilities at hand To determine the maximum length of the video data by a given storage capacity enter in the field Size the storage space or enter in the field Duration the duration of the video data if you want to know the required storage space It has t
22. administer the background process DVS offers you under all oper ating systems the SpycerAgent tool Furthermore under Linux and Mac operating systems you can also administer the SpycerAgent via a script The SpycerAgent Tool With the SpycerAgent tool DVS offers you under all supported operat ing systems a graphical user interface to administer the background process It can be started by performing the following Linux a Call up a command line shell and enter SpycerAgentTool Mac 2 Select from the Applications folder of Mac OS the entry SpycerAgent Tool app Windows 2 Select from the START button menu of Windows in the submenu DVS the entry Maintenance From the opening submenu select the entry for the SpycerAgent tool for example All Programs DVS Maintenance SpycerAgent Tool This will start the SpycerAgent tool Appendix SpycerAgent Tool JO kg Advanced Install Uninstall Figure A 1 The SpycerAgent tool With the SpycerAgent tool you can control the SpycerAgent and for in stance start or stop it The standard operating system tools to administer a back il ground process can be used as well to control the SpycerAgent Linux and Mac only The files ITP conf and Service conf see section Interesting Files and Folders on page A 14 are configuration files of the SpycerAgent By restricting access to them you can deny other users the possibili
23. administered by the SpycerAgent With this you can eas ily find the material again by searching for the added metadata with the search tool of Spycer see section Searching for Data on page 5 10 In addition Spycer automatically generates XML files metadata for 8 15 Spycer User Guide DvS each content entry of the database with the supplemental descriptive information as set in the software 8 16 The Menus A J This chapter describes the general configuration settings of Spycer which are to be found in the menu Options when selecting the option Config or when pressing the key F4 Among them you find e g the remote access permissions options for the administration of SpycerNet groups and the network configuration settings Additionally the chapter details other items of the software such as the context menus available for Spycer or the properties window 9 1 Spycer User Guide DVS 9 1 The Configuration Menu The menu Config in the menu bar to the top left of the user interface see section The Menu Bar on page 4 12 provides e g the settings for the remote access permissions and the network configuration To set any of the general configuration settings of Spycer you have to ac cess them first For this perform the following e From the menu bar of Spycer see section Overview of the User Interface on page 4 2 select Options Config or press F4 on your keyb
24. are listed in the order they were en tered from top to bottom i e the latest entries are listed at the bottom of the list A scheduled job can be selected with a single click of the mouse and a double click automatically opens the window to edit an entry if you have the appropriate rights see section Creating and Ed iting Scheduled Jobs on page 7 20 7 3 3 Creating and Editing Scheduled Jobs 7 20 With the buttons below the list you can create new or edit already ex isting scheduled jobs New Jobs The button NEW at the bottom left of the task scheduler area allows you to create a new scheduled job It opens the following window Create new task Destination Duration Cancel Figure 7 12 Window to create a new scheduled job Then use the items detailed below to define the Job Job Type Select from the drop down list the type of job that should be performed The following are available Copy Delete Defragment Scan Refresh Sync Scan proxy watch folder Source Once a source is defined i e the path to the di rectory where the data to be processed is stored it is detailed here You can set the source with the button to the right of the entry field IE It opens a window where you can select drives and or di rectories on systems in the SpycerNet However only those systems will be listed where a Spycer of at least version 1 3 Is running Managing Data Destination This field will be avai
25. can leave out the CodeMeter installation CodeMeter Installation With a licensed version of Spycer it is recommended to install the CodeMeter application first e Open a command line shell and log on to the system as root e Then install the CodeMeter application for example by entering rpm Uhv lt path gt CodeMeter lt version no gt lt OS architecture gt rpm PVs Getting Started This installs the CodeMeter application on your computer The installa tion is finished as soon as a message reports this After this continue the installation with the installation of the Spycer application Spycer Installation To install Spycer perform the following e If applicable open a command line shell and log on to the system as root e Then install the Spycer application by entering for example rpm Uhv lt path gt Spycer lt version no gt lt OS architecture gt rpm This installs all necessary files and libraries of the update option of Spycer on the computer system The update option should be preferred to the installation option ihv It will update an already installed Spycer version or install the Spycer application from new As next step you have to license the software as described in section Licensing on page 2 9 Having finished all steps the installation of the software is complete and you can perform its initial setup to run the program It has to be made when the Spycer application is started
26. chapter you find details about how to install the program how to perform its first setup as well as about how to start and end it This is complemented by some information about the program variant integrated in the DVS software on a DVS video system such as CLIPSTER or the Pronto family Chapter 4 This chapter gives you a complete overview of the software detailing all features and options Furthermore you find explanations about how to change the layout of the software and de scriptions about the menu bar on a Mac OS Chapter 5 Explains the browse and search tools of Spycer Chapter 6 Provides a description where and how to pre view data in the software Chapter 7 Describes the tools and instruments that help you to manage vast amounts of data with Spycer such as the file format converter the built in defragmenter and high speed copying Furthermore you find information about job lists the task scheduler as well as P2 and XDCAM ingest 1 2 Introduction Chapter 8 This chapter provides information about how to work with metadata i e how to view and how to edit them Furthermore it describes how to create metaclips in the Spycer software Chapter 9 Details all configuration settings available in the main menu of Spycer In addition you find in formation about the context menus and the properties window Appendix Gives additional information about the soft ware Amo
27. comprehensive standard features of VENICE such as VTR control and batch capturing are also available Metadata can be added to me dia files easily Interplay projects and workspaces located on the ISIS storage can be used for ingest as well as playout tasks Via Spycer you can also drag n drop files to projects or workspaces directly Then you can select as the record destination either a workspace located on the ISIS storage or an Interplay project Please contact the DVS service department for licensing and setting up the Avid Workflow on your systems 7 27 Spycer User Guide PVs 7 5 Metaclips Spycer offers a metaclip feature that allows you to easily create man age and store metaclips of several file formats Metaclips can be de scribed as a container for video and audio clips They are normal text files that detail among others the location of the included clips They can contain data about several clips forming a playlists with audio and video clips and its correct order 7 5 1 Basics 7 28 Metaclips can be created directly e g in the VENICE client software see VENICE Client Software user guide or via Spycer Metaclips that were created in the VENICE client software can easily be imported in the Spycer software Metaclips that were created in the Spycer soft ware can be saved to the wanted destination to later use them as source data for playout and transforming tasks in VENICE just as any other clip
28. conf Service conf WebSer vice conf fims_services cfg Linux etc opt DVS Spycer Mac Library Application Support DVS Spycer Windows C Users All Users DVS Spycer Condition Will be created when the local content management is enabled Details Configuration files of the SpycerAgent Do not delete The file fims_services cfg configures the record scheduler see section User Interface in the Record Scheduler Mode on page 4 6 The file WebSer vice conf must be edited to enable the web service see section Accessing the Web Service on page A 24 By restricting access to the files IP conf and Service conf to read only you can deny other users the possibility to alter the IP or service daemon configurations Appendix File s Searchitems xml Location Linux home lt user gt DVS Spycer Mac Users lt user gt Library Applica tion Support DVS Spycer Windows C Users lt user gt AppData Roaming DVS Spycer Condition By default available Details Contains the parameters fora search in the search tool of the Spycer application You may adapt it for example to change the sequence of search parameters in the drop down list of the very first drop down list Do not alter this file any further Otherwise the search tool may not operate correctly anymore File s BrowserCore data BrowserGui dat
29. currently sin gled out file you find the button RENAME see chapter Managing Da ta on page 7 1 right beside the Filename s entry With it you can rename the currently singled out material In case the singled out material is available as a single file on the stor age e g an audio file the button RENAME opens a dialog window where you simply have to enter the new name Once the file name changes are confirmed with the button OK the file will be named ac cordingly You can invoke this option when pressing F2 on your key board as well However when the button RENAME is called for an image sequence consisting of still images it opens the renaming tool of Spycer A renaming either for a single file or a file sequence multi se il lecting the clips by clicking the files and simultaneously press 7 ing Ctrl can also be called with the menu option Rename on the context menu of a directory file in the browse and search area see section User Interface in the Metadata Mode on page 4 3 A renaming of single folders or multiple folders can be performed as well Managing Data Rename x Name Pattern H RRR Start Number 0 Replace with __ Case sensitive Old Name Figure 7 1 The renaming tool The renaming tool of Spycer provides the following items Name Pattern Start Number Extension Case With the check box Name Pattern you enable a change of the pattern of the files Usu
30. cursor of the preview area Certain entries of the header data can be added or edited If sup ported by the file format With the drop down list Edit at the top right you can specify where in a video image file sequence an editing of the header data should be performed If header data can be altered a click on the button EDIT will alter the view of the header data and you receive an entry mask 8 7 Spycer User Guide Dvs Current Frame Holly 00123 dpx Edit This Frame and all following File File Name tion Time Image Orientation Low Quantity High Data __ High Quantity Figure 8 4 Changing the header data The header data values that are detailed in this mask can be altered by adapting or entering a value In an entry field and activating it with its preceding check box For further information about this see section Altering the Header Metadata on page 8 14 Currently in the header data view only the data of dpx files il and certain metadata attributes like edge timecode absolute timecode time of day and start timecode of r3d files can be edited in Spycer 8 2 3 VANC Data ANC data is ancillary data specified by the SMPTE and sent in the blanking interval of the video data It includes data with timecode TC embedded audio closed captions and data for error detection espe cially that of error detection and handling EDH Furthermore it pro vides data about the ATC the ancil
31. double clickingan entry the content will be shown in the preview area PVs Software Reference 4 2 Changing the Layout of the User Interface The layout of the Spycer user interface can be changed to your personal requirements You can maximize the view of the user interface or of the preview area as well as change the size of areas All alterations will be saved when the software is closed This section describes how to change the size of areas of Spycer Information about how to maximize certain areas or the user il interface itself can be found in section The Video Overlay on page 6 4 and section The Spycer Spycer Icon Menu on Win dows Linux on page 4 12 Generally the software user interface shows a separation line vertically or horizontally wherever the layout of areas can be changed Figure 4 11 Separation line between areas This line can be taken with the mouse and moved to another position For example to alter the size of the two browsing panes perform the following e Move the separation line between the two browsing panes to the left or to the right F H etruo rk H n l Iyan oc 1 216193 LILI IL 25 The horizontal size of the two browsing panes will adjust accordingly Furthermore if you pull a separation line completely to the left right or up down the respective area will no longer be visible and thus can be turned off hidden This way you can for instance mak
32. extension of files 7 28 F features of variants ccc cece eee 1 7 file delete oo eee 9 29 9 32 EXTENSION nn 7 2 7 3 7 28 header aan 8 6 metadata 8 5 9 35 open with nennen 9 29 9 31 properties 9 30 9 33 9 35 show in browser n se 9 31 YPES naar 5 7 8 5 file format nenn A 6 audio nennen A 11 container 6 11 7 10 9 17 l 3 Spycer User Guide CONVEISION oasis 7 10 9 33 Graph css taitise iui aca cnne niaii A 6 OTN BEER A 11 VIdeO nnnennnnnnenenn nennen en 9 23 A 6 file format converter 7 10 9 33 file manager open with 9 31 file metadata view 8 3 8 4 fragmentation degree 7 5 general file data 7 5 file path search 9 29 file transfers 00occeeeeennn 9 8 files and folders in software A 14 firewall 2000oceceen nenn 1 9 floating license u a 2 9 CodeMeter 1 10 2 12 license server 2 12 folder see also directory COPY TO an 9 31 MOVE tO onen 9 29 9 31 STTUCHUTE onen eaan 5 3 foreign SyYSteM ana nne 5 4 foreign system proxy 6 7 6 12 fragmentation Leck 7 6 fragmentation colors 7 6 frame backward cccceeeeeeeeeeeeeees 6 5 frame forward uo cece ceecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeee es 6 5 frame number 0 0cececeeeeeees 5 12 7 2 frame rate sreca a RE 6 5 frames previeW u a
33. folder dark grey This drive directory cannot be accessed Please refer to your system administrator For further information about watched folders see section Watch Folder Settings on page 3 11 As soon as a drive directory that contains data is selected its contents will be displayed in the contents area of the browsing pane 5 1 2 The Directory Controls With the directory controls at the top of each browsing pane you can control the directory tree It offers the following possibilities ture This button adds a new subdirectory to the currently se lected drive directory It opens a dialog window where you have to enter the name of the new directory After confirming the name with the button OK the directory will be created This button moves you one item up in the folder struc 5 5 Spycer User Guide PVs Path V section31 The field Path details the path to the currently selected directory First the drive letter is given followed by the directory path 5 1 3 The Contents Area The contents area of a browsing pane shows you the contents of the currently selected drive directory in the directory tree All files at the se lected storage location will be displayed either in text information or thumbnail view depending on the viewing settings for the respective browsing pane see section The Status Bar on page 5 9 A contents area providing the same features as expla
34. for the firsttime and can be called up with a normal user account see section Starting the Soft ware on page 3 6 and section Initial Setup of Spycer on page 3 8 Under Linux the Spycer application can usually be found in the il system menu under the entry Audio amp Video Spycer It can be deinstalled by entering rpm e Spycer in a command line The CodeMeter application can usually be found in the system menu under the entry System CodeMeter Control Center It can be deinstalled by entering rpm e CodeMeter4 ina command line 3 1 2 Installation under Mac OS The installation of a stand alone Spycer for the Mac operating system usually comes as a single archive file that contains two sets of installa tions The CodeMeter installation and the Spycer installation If you are In possession of a licensed Spycer it usually can be found on the enclosed CD ROM When using floating licenses on a dongle in stalling the CodeMeter application is mandatory In this case it is rec ommended to install the CodeMeter application first In case you require Spycer Basic only or license the software via the license file see 3 3 Spycer User Guide DVS 3 4 section The License File on page 2 9 you can leave out the Code Meter installation CodeMeter Installation When licensing Spycer via floating licenses on a dongle it is recom mended to install the CodeMeter application first
35. in several different program variants from Spycer Basic providing a limited feature set to Spycer for DVS SAN able to ac cess storages in the StorNext file system SNFS This section details the available variants their differences and their capabilities The stand alone variants Spycer Basic and Spycer are the same il application differing only in their licensed features To run a Spycer Basic as Spycer you need an appropriate license pro vided by a license file or when installing several applications by a dongle See section Licensing on page 2 9 for further details about the dongle and licenses The following lists the available variants Spycer Basic Spycer Basic is available for free Compared to the other program variants it provides a limited feature set see table 1 1 on page 1 7 It is the stand alone application that can be run on a stan dard computer system see section System Re quirements on page 1 8 Spycer Spycer is the standard version of the Spycer ap plication It is the stand alone application that can be run on a standard computer system see sec tion System Requirements on page 1 8 It pro vides the complete feature set with the exception that it cannot perform a file management or scan ning of data on storages in the StorNext file sys tem SNFS integrated Spycer This variant of Spycer is integrated in the DVS software running on a video syste
36. in the direc tory tree Properties With this menu option you can call up the proper ties of the file directory or drive where the con text menu was invoked They will be shown in the properties window Further information about this can be found in section The Properties Win dow on page 9 34 9 30 Dvs The Menus The context menu of the contents area provides the following func tions Open with Available on the local peer only This menu option provides a submenu where you can select be tween several possible applications to open the currently selected file with You can for example open the file in the standard file manager of your operating system Mac and Windows only or in the application that is configured as the default application for this file format menu option De fault Show all metadata Performs the same operation as a double click on a file in the contents area The file is singled out and is displayed in the metadata and preview ar ea Open in new win dow When right clicking a file in the contents area and selecting this menu option a further window will open up showing the directory tree and the re spective contents area belonging to it Show in browser Available for the results area after a search only Shows the selected file in the browse area of Spycer thereby displaying its location Move to folder Save as TXT Availa
37. inpoint on wards Its maximum value can be lt last frame no gt lt inpoint gt l The path to the directory where the converted file s will be stored To set a path you may either type in a path in the entry field or use the button to the right IE to select one via the opening di alog window The name of the converted file s To create file names with frame numbers you have to observe the C notation usually with the syntax lt string gt 0Yd lt ext gt see section The Search Parameter Area on page 5 10 7 11 Spycer User Guide Dvs Start Index File Format Codec Resolution Width Height Pixel Ratio Aspect Frame Rate Scaling Quality OK CANCEL Available for clip formats that consist of still imag es Allows you to select the start index of the clip i e determines the frame number in the file name of the first converted frame Determines the file format of the final material The respective extension will also be indicated in the field Destination Name If the selected file format requires a codec it can be selected with this drop down list Whether this setting will be available depends on the selected file format With this field you can determine the video for mat of the material to be created Either select from its drop down list one of the predefined vid eo formats or set it to custom to define the reso lution yourself Details the width of the materi
38. is either a 3D LUT video clip ora still image its content will be displayed in the video overlay of the pre view area 6 2 6 Previewing Video Clips As soon as video data is displayed in the preview area see section How to Single out Data on page 6 7 you can preview it For this you may use the scrub bar or the preview controls e Move the cursor of the scrub bar to the left or right to move to a certain position within the clip Alternatively you can use the keys Left Arrow Right Ar row when the preview area has the focus e g after select ing it with the mouse scrub bar with cursor Figure 6 5 Preview of a clip in the preview area e Additionally you can use the preview controls e g SR BD to view the contents of the clip see section The Preview Controls on page 6 5 The video overlay will adjust to your moves accordingly and display the contents of the clip The position of the scrub bar cursor also determines the file specific metadata that will be displayed in the header data view see section Header Data on page 8 6 6 8 PVs Previewing Data If a proxy clip is already available for the singled out video clip detailed in the status bar of the preview area you can also preview the video clip in real time A proxy clip can be created with the menu option Create il proxy of the context menu of the clip in the contents area of the browse and search tools see sec
39. is written to a directory that logs the actions performed with the Spycer user interface see section Gathering Diagnostic Information on page A 22 and section Interesting Files and Folders on page A 14 for further information 3 2 1 Starting the Software under Linux To get the software started under the Linux operating system perform the following Select from the system menu of Linux the entry Audio amp Video Spycer Alternatively you may also start the program from a command line shell by entering Spycer This will load the Spycer application by DVS see section The Integrat ed Spycer on page 3 15 3 2 2 Starting the Software under Mac OS 3 6 To get the software started under a Mac operating system perform the following e Select from the Applications folder of Mac OS the entry Spycer app This will load the Spycer application by DVS see section The Integrat ed Spycer on page 3 15 PVs Getting Started 3 2 3 Starting the Software under Windows To get the software started under the Windows operating system per form the following Select from the START button menu of Windows on the submenu DVS the entry for Spycer for example All Programs DVS DVS Spycer Alternatively you may also start the program via the Spycer icon on the desktop of Windows This will load the Spycer application by DVS see section The Integrat ed Spycer on page 3 15 I
40. management en abled you have to do the following in addition e With a local content management enabled on your system you have to stop the background process SpycerAgent as well which can be done either manually for example with its tool see section The SpycerAgent Tool on page A 18 or by shutting down the computer system Once the user interface and the SpycerAgent are closed the license of your Spycer application is given back to the dongle and can then be as signed to another Spycer connecting to the network How to Update the License on the Dongle The license on the dongle can be updated for instance to enable new features or change an evaluation license to a non expiring one For this you have to send a request with internal license information to DVS In return you will receive an update file which has to be used to program the dongle with a new license After this the dongle is updated To update the license s on the dongle do the following in detail e f not already the case connect the dongle to a free USB port on the computer system and click the button OK in the message win dow e Start Spycer see section Starting the Software on page 3 6 e From its menu bar see section The Integrated Spycer on page 3 15 select Tools License Management Request This will open a message window instructing you to connect the dongle to the computer if not already done Regard the system message a
41. menu Spycer will be replaced by the Spycer icon Linux and Windows only but still provides access to the same menu options Alternatively you can press Alt Return on your keyboard Minimize To access other programs that are installed on your system when Spycer runs in the full screen mode click the Minimize menu option on the menu Spycer It reduces the Spycer user inter face to a button on the taskbar of the operating system Quit The menu option Quit exits the Spycer user inter face Further details about this can be found in section Exiting the Software on page 3 14 4 12 PVs Software Reference 4 3 2 The Options Menu The Options menu provides a menu option to set up and configure the Spycer application It contains the menu option as shown below Options Config Figure 4 14 The Options menu Config With the menu option Config you can access the gen eral configuration settings of the Spycer application To open up the configuration settings you can press F4 on your keyboard as well You find further information about them in section The Configuration Menu on page 9 2 4 3 3 The Tools Menu On the Tools menu you find several tools to facilitate the usage of the Spycer application It provides the following menu options Calculator Scan Event Viewer License Management Gather Logs Figure 4 15 The Tools menu 4
42. of metadata x not on SAN x not on SAN Built in defragmenter High speed copying x not on SAN x x not on SAN x File format converter x x Task scheduler Generation of preview proxy clips a Spycer application may provide thus covering all above men i This user guide describes as good as all possible features that tioned variants The feature set of Spycer Basic is limited as de tailed above However because the descriptions given here are complete its functions are explained as well In case one fea ture is available for a particular variant only it will be explicitly mentioned in the text 1 7 Spycer User Guide DvS 1 5 System Requirements 1 8 The stand alone application of Spycer Spycer Basic and Spycer see section Program Variants of Spycer on page 1 6 is able to run ona standard computer system that fulfills the following system require ments Supported Hardware These are the minimum hardware requirements that the computer sys tem has to meet if you want to use the program 2 GHz dual core processor 1GBofRAM 200 MB free space on system disk CD ROM drive if Spycer is delivered on CD OpenGL capable graphics card minimum resolution 1024 x 768 Ethernet network card to communicate between Spycer applica tions SpycerNet FC card to connect to a SAN if required ents you wil
43. page 9 28 Other drives such as USB storages external hard drives net work drives Avid drives as well as FTP folders will also be indi cated by different icons On Windows operating systems they will be shown in addition to the drive letters on these systems For further information about them see e g section File In gest on page 7 23 and section The Group FTP Connectivi im ty on page 9 9 PVs Browsing and Searching The states of the drives and folders are shown in the folder structure of the directory tree via colors Directory Color Explanation light blue This drive directory is locally available but neither explicitly included nor excluded in the watch fold er settings However it may contain a subdirecto ry that is a watched folder File based processes in these drives directories are possible e g copy move or delete procedures cluded in the database of Spycer and they are read when accessed only Thus it may take some time to open them especially when they contain a lot of data i The contents of these locations are not in With the menu option View on the con text menu of the directory tree it is also possible to hide these locations Then only the watched folders will be visible in the directory tree see section The Con text Menus on page 9 28 dark blue This drive directory is monitored by the back ground process i e it is a watched
44. panes This area also provides the marker and the search tools of Spycer This area and its functional ity are explained in section The Browse and Search Area on page 4 8 and in chapter Software Refer ence on page 4 1 4 1 2 User Interface in the Job List Mode With the button JoB LIST directly below the menu bar you can switch to the job list of Spycer The following figure shows the user interface of Spycer when the JOB LIST button is pressed 4 4 PVs Software Reference menu bar job list area Spycer fi browse and search area Figure 4 4 User interface in job list mode menu bar Same as in section User Interface in the Metadata Mode on page 4 3 job list area The job list area provides information about jobs that are performed on your system or that you have initiated on other systems in the SpycerNet Addi tionally these jobs can be controlled from here for example by canceling them browse and Same as in section User Interface in the Metadata search area Mode on page 4 3 4 1 3 User Interface in the Task Scheduler Mode With the button TASK SCHEDULER directly below the menu bar you can switch to the task scheduler of Spycer The following figure shows the user interface of Spycer when the TASK SCHEDULER button is pressed 4 5 Spycer User Guide Dvs menu bar task scheduler area S Spycer for al x ppapaey browse and search a
45. press F1 on your keyboard to open it Manual pdf The documentation Is also available in PDF format which is most suited if you want to print out the document It can be accessed easily via the menu option Manual pdf On Mac systems the menu bar is il not available as it is under other operating systems Instead its op tions can be found in the standard program menu bar of the operat ing system see section The Menu Bar on Mac OS on page 4 18 4 17 Spycer User Guide PVs 4 3 6 The Menu Bar on Mac OS 4 18 Wda Tools About Spycer Preferences Services Hide Spycer Hide Others Show A Quit Spycer The menu bar as it is explained in the preceding sections is not available on Mac systems Instead the individual menu options can be found in tegrated in the standard program menu bar Figure 4 19 The program menu bar of Mac OS This section details where to find the menu options compared to the Linux Windows versions of the software Location on Linux Windows Location on Mac OS Spycer Fullscreen View Full screen Minimize View Minimize Quit Spycer Quit Spycer Options Config Spycer Preferences Tools Calculator Tools Calculator License Request Tools License Manage Management Request ment Update Tools License Management Update License Tools
46. ries if enabled see menu option View in section The Context Menus on page 9 28 drives or systems For further information about them see section The Direc tory Tree on page 5 3 PVs Browsing and Searching 5 1 4 The Status Bar The status bar at the bottom of a browsing pane offers you several con figuration settings for its contents area as well as a status indication of the currently selected system In detail it provides the following Further information about the text information and thumbnail view can be found in section The Contents Area on page 5 6 Use the button TEXT to view the files clips in the con tents area with their text information only With the button IMAGE you can activate the view of the thumbnails This drop down list enables you to a selective viewing of the material displayed in the contents area Select from it the type of data that should be visible in the contents area only You can choose between the options All Files All Supported Files Project Files Video Files Audio Files This field indicates the status of the system currently se lected in the directory tree see section The Directory Tree on page 5 3 When it shows Online it is ready for further processing tasks When it shows Busy writ ten in red the system is occupied by a task and will react to your command as soon as It is ready again The status Busy may be displayed for example when the syste
47. sure about your selection e Confirm the setting once more with the button YES e Next close the Spycer application and restart your system 2 12 Basics Once the system is rebooted the dongle connected locally to your sys tem will run as a license server offering other Spycer applications li censes to run with the licensed feature set enabled To deactivate the license server for the dongle you have to per il form the same procedure as mentioned above with the follow ing exception Instead of selecting the radio button to enable the server you have to activate the radio button Disable li cense server How to Upgrade Spycer Basic to a Licensed Spycer To upgrade the free version of Spycer Spycer Basic to a licensed ver sion of Spycer you will need either a license file see section The Li cense File on page 2 9 or a dongle that provides a valid floating license for the application You can order it from the DVS service de partment or via the Spycer websites www spycer net or www spyc er de Once you have received the dongle perform the following If your computer where Spycer is installed is already running il instead of the following perform the procedure described in section How to Connect the Dongle to a Running Computer on page 2 13 e Connect the dongle to a free USB port on the computer system where Spycer is installed e Next start the system and afterwards the Spycer user int
48. table on page 4 17 must be available To enable the web service perform the following e Inthe path etc opt DVS Spycer open the file WebService conf with a text editor e g nano e n section Service change the line Enabled 0 to Enabled 1 e Change the line IpAddress 127 0 0 1to the IP address which is set for the network port e Save the file Make sure that the port number specified in the setting il Port is not used anywhere else on the system Otherwise you have to change it as well e Restart the software The necessary wsdl file will be sent to you by DVS When received you can load it into your web service application With this the web service will be enabled and the Spycer software will receive commands sent to the system In dex Numerics DLT 22 2222 ea A 11 PIEVIEW ennnennnnnnnenennneen 6 3 6 10 VIEW voce ceceeeeceeceeeeeeeea nennen 8 7 8 14 A About window eenennneen 4 17 administrative settings NEW PASSWOTT ucaennneeennnnneen 3 10 SpycerNet group cceeceee eee 3 10 administrative settings setup 3 10 ee ee 5 12 AND search application open in new window 9 29 9 31 application open with 9 31 Audio auseinander 8 5 device 6 9 file formats co ceaniadomenitseeieciasies A 11 ICOM OF CLIP csshicsaeevestseiibeadaadiadlews 5 8 metadata 8 5 9 35 multiple channels 5 8 LAY unse hod
49. the left list These buttons move the selected ports from the left list box to the right or vice versa 9 1 6 The Group FTP Connectivity The group FTP Connectivity provides options to establish a connec tion to another server via FTP If you need to e g download files from a server without using the Spycer software on it you can enter its IP address and link to it Ftp connection settin Virtual name Port number Server type Figure 9 8 The group FTP Connectivity Use the button App to open a dialog window with all options and set tings needed All established connections will then be listed in the set tings pane of the group FTP Connectivity and you can delete and modify them by selecting an FTP connection and pressing the button DELETE or MoDiFY After pressing the button ADD to establish a new connection you will see a dialog window with the following options Virtual name Enter a name at will for the FTP server connection into this entry field URL Enter the IP address without port number of the FTP server into this entry field 9 9 Spycer User Guide PVs Port number Enter the port number you want to establish the con nection to into this entry field The number 21 is the standard port number for FTP Server type This drop down list offers the options Standard Grass Valley K2 and Grass Valley profile Selecting a stan
50. the bottom of the results area or you can invoke the same context menu on the found files Therefore for more information about this please refer to section Browsing for Data on page 5 2 With the menu option Show in browser on the context menu i of a clip in the results area you can immediately display the se lected file in a browsing pane of Spycer This way you can de termine its location easily 5 2 3 Using the Search Tool 5 14 The usage of the search tool of Spycer is quite straight forward To start a search and display its results do as follows e Select from the drop down list Content on the location where the search should be made Choose from it for example a particular system in the network e Afterwards select the search criteria that you want to search for from the first drop down list of the available search parameter In our example here we will select the criteria File Format This will slightly change the appearance of the search parameter entry fields and instead of three now only two fields are displayed e Select from the second drop down list of the search parameter the entry for example for the tif file format You may use the button below the specified search parame il ter to add another parameter that the found tif files also must provide to be displayed as a result AND search With the criteria File Format you can only select formats that are supported by S
51. the creator usually the program that created the files the cre ation date and time the timecode so called source or generic timeco de and or the keycode In the header data view of Spycer you get a look at the data as it is writ ten in the file itself With video clips it displays the header data of the file that is currently selected with the scrub bar cursor of the preview area To view the header data of another video image file simply move the scrub bar cursor of the preview area see section Previewing Data with the Preview Area on page 6 3 to the wanted position Scrubbing of files that are bundled as sequences but not rec il ognized as video material can be performed in the preview area as well The header data will be displayed this way Working with Metadata Current Frame Hollywood_00123 dpx Edit This Frame and all following file 93 Big Endian Hol lywo o ao it fa prc fe dp ath aigle bess fe pet Figure 8 3 The header data Files of text based formats like lut 3d1 xml txt il vamc and VENICE files like venicescenario and venice show their complete contents when viewed in the header data view At the top of the header data view you find further information about the material that is singled out At the top left the file name of the ma terial is detailed With video clips that consist of still image files it is the one that is currently selected with the scrub bar
52. the directory tree or an item in the contents area is se lected Open the Scan Event Viewer win F8 dow Open the Calculator window F11 Open the About window F12 Switch to the search tool of Spycer Ctrl F Mac 3 F Open further window with VANC data For closing the window again use the same shortcut Ctrl L Mac 3 L Play of material in preview area Space 5 Stop of material in preview area Space Step one 1 frame forward on a scrub bar must have focus Right Arrow 4 Step one 1 frame backward on a scrub bar must have focus Left Arrow 3 Step ten 10 frames forward on a scrub bar must have focus Shift Left Arrow 2 Step ten 10 frames backward on a scrub bar must have focus Shift Right Arrow 1 Select several items e g files dis jointedly Hold Ctrl key Mac amp while selecting with the mouse Select a range of adjoining items e g files Hold Shift key while selecting with the mouse Appendix Action Key Action Within the home system Move ma terial to another location instead of copying Hold Alt key while drag n drop with the mouse Open window with a browsing pane for selecting content Ctrl B Mac 3 B Copy selected material to the clip board Ctrl C Mac 3 C Cut selected ma
53. the group Watch Folders implicitly details three states of the folders if a local content management is enabled The fol lowing shortly summarizes their effects State of Watched Folder Effect included Scanned by the background process and written to the database Displayed almost instantaneously in the user interface Can be searched with Spycer Displayed and usable in the SpycerNet if applicable and permissions are given not detailed in list Other local drives and directories Not scanned by the background process and not written to the database Displayed in Spycer only when accessed Not displayed in the SpycerNet File based processes are allowed excluded Not scanned by the background process and not written to the database Not displayed in the user interface of Spycer or the SpycerNet 9 27 Spycer User Guide DVS 9 2 The Context Menus The context menu of the browsing pane usually invoked with a right click of the mouse or when pressing F2 with the mouse cursor posi tioned over the directory tree provides different directory and file relat ed functions such as the deletion of a directory and or file Depending on whether the context menu is invoked in a direc tory tree or in a contents area it may provide different menu options You can invoke further context menus when right clicking for example the video overlay see sec
54. the system where the source data is stored Source States the location of the source files on the source peer Dest Peer The destination peer Details the destination of the data in the SpycerNet i e the name of the system where the data is to be transferred to Destination Details the target directory on the destination peer Status Indicates the state of the respective job such as paused running canceled finished failed etc Progress Informs you about the progress of the job Pro cesses that take longer are displayed with the help of a progress bar see above Time Displays the point of time when the job was car ried out The jobs in the job list are listed in the order they were Initiated from top to bottom i e the latest jobs are listed at the bottom of the Job list When several jobs are started on a system they will be processed one at a time in the sequence stated in the job list Jobs that wait for a task to finish have the state pending The software offers several possibili ties to filter jobs in the job list Above the Job list right below the menu bar you can switch the view to the whole network or to a specific peer and to controllable jobs only To the top right in the area History you can select the number of listed jobs in the job list when clicking the drop down list PVs Managing Data With the buttons below the Job list you can control the list as well
55. to enable the editing view as in the following figure 8 11 Spycer User Guide 8 12 File Header Data VANC Data Production Data e Number Figure 8 8 Editing the descriptive data e Enter the data into the respective entry fields e Click the button SAVE to the bottom left of the metadata area to save the descriptive data to the clip file and to close the editing view The check boxes to the left of the entry fields will be activated automatically when entering data into the fields If the check box is not activated the data in the respective en try field will not be saved to the clip file Editing descriptive data can also be performed via the context menu of a clip file This can be used especially for simultaneously editing the de scriptive data of several clips Perform the following e Select the respective clip file from the directory tree and click It in the contents area You can select several files when clicking a clip and simultane ously pressing the Ctrl key When using the shortcut Ctrl A you can select all clips in a folder The first clip you select will be the preference clip for Spycer i e only the descriptive data of this file type in a folder will be ed ited The preference clip will then be indicated by an orange line Files in subfolders will not be regarded either e Right click the selected clip s and select the option Edit descrip tive metadata Wo
56. treats all file formats as sequence files The group Scan Filter allows you to determine file formats that should not be displayed by Spycer as image sequence files even if their file names are identical and contain a numbering It sets a filter for the The Menus scanning process of the SpycerAgent The scanning process of the SpycerAgent treats all file formats as potential image sequence files Thus when files are stored in one directory with identical names e g prefixes and a numbering frame number they will be displayed as a video sequence i e generate a single entry in the database and be dis played in Spycer with a single entry as well To avoid this you can de termine the file formats that Spycer should display file by file even if their file names are identical and contain a numbering The most com mon file formats that should be displayed file by file are already pre defined Scan Filter Watch Folders ven if their Figure 9 16 The settings items of the group Scan filter The following settings items are provided by the group Scan Filter list The list determines the file formats by their ex tensions column Format that Spycer should not try to recognize as video clips The entries can be revised by simply double clicking an en try and altering it ADD This button adds an empty entry in the list above Then type in the extension of the file for mat that Spycer should obse
57. use the existing network infrastructure and easily choose which peer to add to any group After logging in you see the SpycerNet groups as indi cated in the figure Login Logged in as administrator Log out Change password Manage SpycerNet Groups Figure 9 4 SpycerNet groups after logging in as administrator Manage SpycerNet Groups In this area you see all SpycerNet groups that are available in the network You can select deselect them by clicking the check box in the column Peer If you select one or more particular peer s in the listing you can as sign it them to a SpycerNet group Change SpycerNet Group of the selected peer s In this area you find a drop down list provid ing none new group and the group your password is valid for With these you can add a new SpycerNet group new group set a peer as none which is then labeled as public and visible to everyone in the SpycerNet or select the group your password is valid for e g Testgroup in the figure above Perform this by selecting the respective peer s from the listing in the Manage SpycerNet Groups area selecting an option from the drop down list and then pressing the button SET 9 5 Spycer User Guide Dvs 9 1 3 The Group AMT Exchange The group AMT exchange provides the options for the configuration of Spycer in the Avid Workflow Option Here you can add a new drive to Spycer that will serve as th
58. you can edit the tasks displayed in the task scheduler By selecting an entry in the list of the task scheduler and pressing the button DELETE the respective task will be deleted However you can only delete scheduled jobs that were created by your Spycer applica tion With the button EDIT you can change an existing job For this select the scheduled job in the list and press the button edit alternatively double click the job in the list which will open the window to change a job 7 21 Spycer User Guide Dvs Edit task Defragment Duration Figure 7 13 Window to edit a scheduled job Then you can edit the respective job The window provides the same items as the window to create a new scheduled job see section New Jobs on page 7 20 The type of job cannot be changed when editing a job For this you have to delete the scheduled job and create a new one An editing can be performed when one of the following conditions is the case The source is stored on your system Your system is the destination Your Spycer application created the job entry in the task sched uler 7 22 PVs Managing Data 7 4 File Ingest The group Ingest Folders in the menu Config allows you to easily handle several clips edit their metadata simultaneously as well as store and make them available for several tasks in the VENICE client soft ware The original content is secured due to a virtualizat
59. 1 25 16 bit DV DIF 625i 25 4 1 1 OP 1a also MXF OP 1a DV 24 bit MXF OP Atom P2 MXF for Isis amp DVCPRO 50 525i 29 97 50 16 bit DV DIF 625i 25 OP 1a also MXF OP 1a DV 24 bit MXF OP Atom P2 MXF for Isis amp DVCPRO HD 720p 50 59 94 100 16 bit DV DIF 1080i 25 29 97 OP 1a also MXF OP 1a DV 24 bit MXF OP Atom P2 MXF for Isis amp DNxHD 720p 23 98 25 29 97 Various 16 bit 24 bit MXF OP 1a Avid 50 59 94 ranging MXF OP Atom 1080i 23 98 24 25 from 36 to Avid 29 97 440 MXF for Isis amp 1080p 23 98 24 25 29 97 50 60 XDCAM IMX 525i 29 97 30 40 or 50 16 bit 24 bit MXF OP 1a 625i 25 XDCAM HD 1080i p 25 29 97 4 2 0 18 25 35 16 bit MXF OP 1a 720p 50 59 94 50 24 bit ER m Avid 1080p 23 98 25 29 97 nes 1080i 25 29 97 XDCAM DV 525i 29 97 4 1 1 25 16 bit MXF OP 1a 625i 25 4 2 0 1 If not mentioned otherwise all in 8 bit 4 2 2 2 The number of channels as well as their arrangement may be restricted 3 Each audio channel will be recorded in a separate file Recording 16 audio channels will generate 16 individual MXF files for audio mono Appendix Table A 4 Supported audio file formats Default BE Format Name z Description Extension aif aif Audio interchange format Platform independent aiff aiff file format for sound Capable of storing multiple mono or stereo channels BWF rf64 Broadcast wav
60. 13 Spycer User Guide 4 14 Menu Option Explanation Calculator With the calculator of Spycer you can cal culate from an adjustable setting of video formats its maximum recording time by a given amount of storage space or the re quired storage by a given duration of the video data It is described in more detail in section Calculator on page 7 13 To open this menu option you can press F11 on your keyboard as well Scan Event Viewer This menu option gives you the possibility to observe all commands carried out by the SpycerAgent You can select the net work view or a particular peer and the commands are sorted by priority To open this menu option you can press F8 on your keyboard as well License Management Gather Logs License Management The License Management menu option allows you to configure the licenses It opens a submenu with the options File request File update and License Server for floating licenses see section Floating License on page 2 11 which are detailed below this table Gathers log files from the server which de tail the actions performed by and with the VENICE server You may get asked by the DVS service department to send in these files as well as others in case of problems with e g CLIPSTER or VENICE They will be saved at a location of your choice in an archive file Request Update License Server
61. 4 x 8 bit RGBA SMPTE Standard File Format for digital mov ing picture exchange 8 bit YUV422 and YUVA4224 8 bit YUV file format with or without key SMPTE Standard File Format for digital mov ing picture exchange 3 x 10 bit RGB and 4 x 10 bit RGBA 10 bit RGB file format with or without key SMPTE Standard File Format for digital mov ing picture exchange 10 bit YUV422 and 10 bit YUV file format with or without key YUVA4224 SMPTE Standard File Format for digital mov ing picture exchange 3x 12 bit RGB 12 bit RGB file format SMPTE Standard File Format for digital moving picture exchange 3x 16 bit RGB and 4 x 16 bit RGBA 16 bit RGB file format with or without key SMPTE Standard File Format for digital mov ing picture exchange A 6 PVs Appendix Table A 1 Supported video file formats cont Default Format File storage a Exten Description Name format sion JPEG jpg 3 x 8 bit RGB 8 bit RGB file format of the Joint Photograph jpeg ic Experts Group Images are usually stored with lossy compression JPEG2000 jp2 3 x 12 bit RGB 12 bit RGB file format Flexible data and still j2c image compression standard operating ei j2k ther compressed or uncompressed pe 3x 16 bit RGB 16 bit RGB file format Flexible data and still image compression standard operating ei ther compressed or uncompressed 3 x 12 bit XYZ 12 bit X
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64. 8 2 4 Production Data With the PRODUCTION button you switch the metadata view to the pro duction metadata see section The Metadata Controls on page 8 3 8 9 Spycer User Guide PVs on Company Shot Description n Title ction Date 2007 09 17 Shot Comment Film Scan Facility Operator nner ID Transfer Date 2007 09 17 Figure 8 6 The production data In this metadata view you can add or edit additional information about the production stages of the content All fields can be changed see section Changing the Production Metadata on page 8 15 8 2 5 Descriptive Data 8 10 Descriptive data can be added to clips when recording and then made visible and editable in Spycer again This workflow has especially been designed for file ingest from P2 and XDCAM drives The descriptive data of these files can be edited or even multi edited and then stored to a storage location at your choice in the SpycerNet When working with content from a P2 or XDCAM drive as described in section P2 Ingest Workflow on page 7 23 and in section File Ingest on page 7 23 you can use the descriptive data for a fast management of data The edited descriptive data will be temporarily saved to the virtual P2 or XDCAM folder and then when creating metaclips see section Metaclips on page 7 28 written to the XML file and the metadata of the metaclip Then if the files are moved to a watched folder within the network
65. A Rohde amp Schwarz Company Workstation Software Spycer Version 2 9 User Guide h following Metadata File Name Spycer User Guide Introduction Basics Getting Started Software Reference Browsing and Searching Previewing Data Managing Data Working with Metadata The Menus Appendix Index User Guide Version 2 9 for Spycer Version 2 9 Copyright 2013 by Rohde amp Schwarz DVS GmbH Hanover All rights reserved The manuals as well as the soft and or hardware described here and all their constituent parts are protected by copyright Without the express permission of Rohde amp Schwarz DVS GmbH any form of use which goes beyond the narrow bounds prescribed by copyright legislation is prohibited and liable to prosecution This particularly applies to duplication copying translation processing evaluation publishing and storing and or processing in an electronic system Specifications and data may change without notice We offer no guarantee that this documentation is correct and or complete In no event shall Rohde amp Schwarz DVS GmbH be liable for any damages whatsoever including without limitation any special indirect or consequential damages and dam ages resulting from loss of use data or profits or business interruption arising out of the use of or inability to use the hardware software and or manual materials Those parts of this documentation that describe optional softw
66. EL closes the window for the general configuration settings without confirming your set tings The Spycer application will use the latest con firmed settings f Some of the settings have already been set during the initial il setup procedure For any further information about this please refer to section Initial Setup of Spycer on page 3 8 9 1 1 The Group Active Directory Spycer is able to heed user and group permissions controlled by a Win dows Active Directory environment When starting the software you will be prompted to enter user name and password for the domain Spycer will ensure that file permissions and owner settings are kept during all data movements across the SpycerNet The following figure shows the settings _Defaults A Directory X enable Figure 9 2 The group Active Directory enable Select this check box to enable the Windows Active Directory environment as well as the entry fields and the button of the group User Enter the user name for the domain in this entry field Password Enter the password for the domain in this entry field VERIFY Press this button to verify your entries and to enable the Active Directory feature When the Active Directory option is enabled you will be prompted to enter a valid username and password each time you start the Spycer 9 3 Spycer User Guide PVs application Disable this option by deactivati
67. Local Security Policy Local Policies User Rights Assignment Log on as a service Disable local con tent management This radio button disables the local content management It will stop and deinstall the background process SpycerAgent Then Spycer can be used as a network browser only showing you the contents of other Spycers in the SpycerNet The Menus For further details about the SpycerAgent please refer to sec il tion SpycerAgent on page 2 5 For further details about net working see section Notes about Networking with Spycer on page 2 7 9 1 8 The Group Ingest Folders With this group you enable special workflows like P2 Ingest and Pro fessional Disk Ingest How to work with these features is described in section File Ingest on page 7 23 After having connected the respec tive external drive e g a P2 card reader enable the workflow in the group Ingest Folders Defaults P2 Ingest nal Disk Ingest Figure 9 11 The group Ingest Folders With this check box activated externally connected P2 storage devices will be loaded and their content made available as VAMC data on your local Spycer This will be visible as an P2 Ingest icon in the direc tory tree of the browse and search area Professional Disk Ingest With this check box activated externally connected XDCAM storage devices will be loaded and their content made available as
68. Normally one video and one or more audio clips are de scribed in a metaclip However it is also possible to reference to several video audio clips in a metaclip for example for a playout in the 3D mode in VENICE and they would be played out successively as listed in the metaclip Furthermore metaclips can be created within a P2 fold er structure without having to use the P2 Ingest Workflow option see section P2 Ingest Workflow on page 7 23 File extension vamc Video audio metaclip file All vamc files carry the file format METACLIP and can be searched as such When browsing to the respective folder you find all metaclips listed with further descriptive data as in the following figure METACLIP Figure 7 18 Metaclips as vamc files in folder You cannot move single metaclips to other folders if no abso lute path has been set in the metadata When moving content with a set relative path or when deleting the original file e g the mxf file the vamc file will lose its reference data When creating metaclips the names of the source clips must be equal otherwise the software might not know which clips are to be combined PVs Managing Data 7 5 2 Creating Metaclips Creating metaclips is easy in Spycer as you Just have to perform a right click mouse operation to start the process Depending on the location and folder structure you either have to right click a folder or a clip sev eral clips in a fo
69. Spycer user interface for DVS SAN user interface S Ey Coco SpycerAgent B Database Database NZ L SpycerNet N DVS SAN E Gli Spycer Database user interface integrated I Spycer local content user interface management disabled Client CLIPSTER Figure 2 1 Overview of the software structure The ovals in the drawing above represent the user interfaces of the Spycer applications while the lines indicate the communication ways on the individual clients as well as between them in the SpycerNet It is of no consequence to the SpycerNet whether the software applications are all of the same variant of Spycer or not see section Program Vari ants of Spycer on page 1 6 The following sections will explain the drawing above in more detail Basics The User Interface With the user interface of Spycer you can view edit and administer the data shown in its areas and or tools for example browsing and search ing for data or editing their metadata It can be used to display the con tents that is locally available and furthermore when operating in a SpycerNet it may also show the material that is stored on other sys tems In case It is running without the background process enabled as the bottom right Spycer in figure 2 1 on page 2 4 indicates the user inter face can still be used as a network browser in the SpycerNet to display data available on other systems z7 Because the user inter
70. TADATA directly below the menu bar metadata controls metadata fields Job List neral File Data Header Data End Duration Defragmented Je TC Frame Rate Image Width 2048 Height Depth o Alpha Depth Pixel Ratio Bit Depth Sampling Rate Color Mode RGB Sampling Gamma SMPTE27 Range Frame Rate 24 X Coding Figure 8 1 The metadata area The metadata area will show you the properties and metadata of the file currently singled out in the browse and search area You can switch through as well as add and edit the metadata with the buttons con trols provided to the left This chapter describes in detail the metadata area as well as how to work with metadata 8 1 1 Displaying Metadata 8 2 The procedure to display metadata is the same as if you want to pre view the material in the preview area to the right of the metadata area It has to be singled out in a contents area of the browse or search tools For further information about the preview area please refer to section Previewing Data with the Preview Area on page 6 3 e To single out data and view its metadata perform the procedure described in section How to Single out Data on page 6 7 Working with Metadata As soon as the metadata of the selected material are displayed you can switch through as well as add or edit them with the metadata controls see section The Metadata Controls on page 8 3 When an entry is changed and saved it w
71. The Preview Controls In addition to moving the scrub bar cursor manually you can control it via the preview controls below the scrub bar e g the play button In de tail the controls beneath the scrub bar perform the following functions A preview can also be controlled with various keyboard short il cuts Further information about the available shortcuts can be found in section Keyboard Shortcuts on page A 12 Ku H With these buttons you can step one frame for or backward in the contents of the clip The scrub bar cursor will move accordingly 6 5 Spycer User Guide DvS With this button you can play the clip that is cur rently singled out audio or video The real time play of a video clip and or the playing of a clip in the SpycerNet requires a proxy After activation the button changes its appearance to its active state EEE and you have to press it again to stop the play This button will not be available when a il playing cannot be performed e g with audio material stored on a foreign sys tem Locally stored video clips can be played even without proxies available They will be played according to the settings of the overlay menu option Force realtime see section The Video Overlay on page 6 4 With this button activated a play of the clip s timeline will be performed endlessly in a loop Once the scrub bar cursor reaches the end of the clip the play will start f
72. V422 and Raw 10 bit YUV422 and YUVA4224 format YUVA4224 This file has no header The image format is recognized by the file size This is done with a table of predefined file sizes Component order UYVY Bits are packed tightly from left to right for three component samples then two bits of padding zero to fill up to four bytes The lines are padded to a multiple of four bytes The file is padded to a multiple of 512 bytes yuvl16 16 bit YUV422 Raw 16 bit YUV422 format This file has no header The image format is recognized by the file size This is done with a table of pre defined file sizes Each component is stored as a 16 bit value in big endian byte order left aligned Component order UYVY 1 DVS saves files of this format by default in big endian byte order However for a playout both formats little and big endian byte order are supported N Regarding the file type V2 is the DPX file format according to SMPTE 268M 2003 the remaining V1 are SMPTE 268M 1994 b e stands for big endian l e for little endian EL 8 bit YUV422 and YUVA4224 8 bit per component 16 bit average per pixel 16 bit YUV422 and YUVA4224 16 bit per component 32 bit average per pixel Table A 2 Supported container file formats A 8 Default Format File storage ates Exten Description Name format s on AVI avi 3 x 8 bit RGB either Video file format that supports various file
73. VAMC data on your local Spycer This will be visible as an XDCAM Ingest icon in the directory tree of the browse and search area 9 15 Spycer User Guide 9 1 9 The Group Jobs The group Jobs contains some settings concerned with jobs per formed by the SpycerAgent most notably the proxy file settings ministrator AMT Datarate ount point prefi 320 MPEG1 ing quality ult frame rate E Automatic proxy file generation Automatic x P Drag and Dro x Ak pying or moving content Data Mow jv _ Repair corrupt transfer data Cancel Figure 9 12 The group Jobs In detail the group Jobs provides the following settings items Proxy file settings Path for proxy Determines the location on the storage where the files proxy files will be stored At this location the direc tory structure of the watch folders where the clip is originally stored is reproduced which makes an identification of the proxy clips easy Temporarily downloaded proxy clips are not stored here but in one of the system folders see section Interesting Files and Folders on page A 14 9 16 The Menus Preview prox ies Activates the proxy generation When the check box is activated proxies can be generated on your system Then the configuration items for the proxies will be available and can be set If the check box is disabled a proxy creation cannot be performed o
74. When invoked in the contents area it shows Show folders This menu option allows you to view directories in the contents area Once acti vated it shows a cross in front and directories available at the selected location will be displayed in the contents area as well Properties With this menu option you can call up the proper ties of the file directory or drive where the con text menu was invoked They will be shown in the properties window Further information about this can be found in section The Properties Win dow on page 9 34 9 33 Spycer User Guide DVS 9 3 The Properties Window With the menu option Properties in the context menu of a file direc tory or drive visible in the browse and search area see chapter Soft ware Reference on page 4 1 you can call up the properties of the respective item They will be shown in the properties window Properties Figure 9 19 Examples of Properties windows This window shows cumulated sizes the number of files in the folders as well as the current owner of the folder The Information about own ers of files will be stored in the database and can also be used for search queries in the SpycerNet Any old database information can be easily updated by rescanning the required folders However depending on the data type of the item where the properties are called the properties window will look differently beneath these in
75. YZ file format Flexible data and still image compression standard operating ei ther compressed or uncompressed OpenEXR exr 3x 16 bit RGB 16 bit RGB high dynamic range file format 4 x 16 bit RGBA with or without key operating either com pressed or uncompressed For reading vari ous other color channels are supported as well SGI sgi 3x8bit RGB 8 bit RGB file format SGI IRIX image format Eon 3 x 16 bit RGB 16 bit RGB file format SGI IRIX image for mat TGA tga 3 x 8 bit RGB and Targa image format 4 x 8 bit RGBA un compressed TIFF tif 3 x 8 bit RGB and TIFF or Tagged Image File Format in 8 bit tiff 4 x 8 bit RGBA RGB with or without key Highly flexible and platform independent image format Not all variants of this format are supported by DVS 3 x 16 bit RGB and TIFF or Tagged Image File Format in 16 bit 4 x 16 bit RGBA RGB with or without key Highly flexible and platform independent image format Not all variants of this format are supported by DVS A 7 Spycer User Guide Table A 1 Supported video file formats cont Default Format File storage DEF Exten Description Name format s on yuv qnt 8 bit YUV422 and Raw 8 bit YUV422 and YUVA4224 format gtl YUVA4224 This file has no header The image format is yuv recognized by the file size This is done with yuv8 a table of predefined file sizes Component order UYVY yuv10 10 bit YU
76. a Location Linux home lt user gt DVS Spycer Mac Users lt user gt Library Applica tion Support DVS Spycer Windows C Users lt user gt AppData Roaming DVS Spycer Condition Will be created after the first closing of the user interface Details These files store the layout of the user interface They can be deleted without harm However then the program will start with a default layout They will be created again when the program is exited Spycer User Guide PVs A 5 Maintenance The Spycer application especially when working in a network is a complex set of individual programs Because of this DVS provides some maintenance tools which will help you in the event of service and maintenance work All the software programs described here are avail able for this purpose only In your daily work with Spycer they should be of no use Before applying anything of the following please refer to sec tion Troubleshooting on page A 2 to see whether it is really necessary A 5 1 The SpycerAgent Tool When a local content management is enabled the SpycerAgent will be the most important part of the Spycer application It is a process Mac Windows service Linux daemon running in the background of your system and administering the local data and its database Further information about the SpycerAgent can be found in section SpycerAgent on page 2 5 To
77. able With the table at the bottom of the renaming tool you can verify the result of the renaming by com paring the old file names with the new ones OK The OK button closes the renaming tool and ap plies the specified changes to the whole sequence of the video clip All file names will be changed CANCEL Cancels the renaming and closes the tool without changing the file names 7 1 2 Defragmenter 7 4 Spycer provides a built in defragmenter especially designed to optimize the physical alignment of image sequences video clips on storages so that they are more suited for real time operations The alignment of clips on a storage is of special importance when per forming real time operations with clips in HD or larger The perfor mance of the hard disk s is limited and may soon be reached especially when the storage contains large amounts of data Then a real time operation playout or record may get interrupted due to the facts that files are stored in segments or even fragments on the hard disks and disk drives tend to get slower the fuller they are With the built in defragmenter you can defragment any file that is fragmented and furthermore align image files of video clips contiguously in larger blocks on the storage which will minimize access times during read procedures The built in defragmenter uses proprietary routines to defrag N mentthe data on the storage The results will not be the same when using a third party def
78. able to connect il successfully to the SpycerNet Otherwise Spycer will be con fined to its localhost only IP address 127 0 0 1 has to be used For further information about this please see section Impor tant Notes on page 1 9 When the local content management is disabled i e the SpycerAgent is not installed on your system Your Spycer application will not appear in the SpycerNet regardless of any other setting Your Spycer user interface will not show any files locally stored nor can mounted network drives be accessed When the local content management is enabled If set to localhost your Spycer will not appear in the SpycerNet regardless of the permissions given With no permissions given and when an IP address is stated other than the localhost address your Spycer application will be regis tered in the SpycerNet but provide no data With permissions given and when an IP address is stated other than the localhost address your Spycer application will be registered in the SpycerNet Other Spycer applications can perform at least browse and search operations in your database Set the respective content management and permissions regarding the information given in section The Group General on page 9 11 and section The Group Permissions on page 9 21 2 7 Spycer User Guide PVs 2 8 SpycerNet Groups In Spycer it is possible to define and manage groups wit
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81. al content management is enabled The process is started during the loading of the operating system fully oper ational even with no user logged in and terminated only when the system is shut down see section SpycerAgent on page 2 5 for more details e Select the option Quit on the Spycer menu Mac Spycer Quit Spycer or press the key combination Alt F4 Mac O alternatively Linux Windows only In full screen mode the menu Spycer i will be replaced by the Spycer icon However it provides the same menu options as the menu Spycer see section The The user interface of Spycer will be closed and then you can for in stance shut down the computer system Spycer Spycer Icon Menu on Windows Linux on page 4 12 When exiting Spycer the log file opened during the starting of il the application is finished and saved see section Starting the Software on page 3 6 PVs Getting Started 3 5 The Integrated Spycer On several DVS video systems such as CLIPSTER or the Pronto family Spycer is integrated in the DVS software which makes it unnecessary to install Spycer as a stand alone application With the integrated Spycer you can seamlessly work together with the other software mod ules of the DVS software 3 5 1 Starting the Integrated Spycer To start Spycer integrated in the DVS software you have to start the DVS software Then it can be loaded the same way as most other mod ules o
82. al is singled out as described in section How to Single out Data on page 6 7 its metadata is displayed in the metadata area All files displayed in Spycer provide metadata in the different metadata views This way you can gather information from the file metadata view button FILE for instance about the video or audio format of material or check the timecodes provided by a video clip with the drop down list Source Furthermore you may compare these information with the ac tual header data stored in the file s with the help of the header data view button HEADER DATA In the production metadata view button PRODUCTION you can view its production metadata In the production and header data view metadata can also be added and edited This section describes shortly how to add and or edit meta data For further information about the file s descriptive data and il VANC data see section Descriptive Data on page 8 10 and section VANC Data on page 8 8 8 3 1 Altering the Header Metadata 8 14 Certain file formats of video clips also support the storing of metadata information in their files headers Among these metadata you find for example the name of the creator the creation date and time the source timecode and or the keycode To change the header data of an image sequence perform the follow ing iJ Currently in the header data view only the data of dpx files and certain metadata attri
83. al to be created in pixels If Resolution is set to custom it can be adjusted freely Details the height of the material to be created in pixels If Resolution is set to custom it can be adjusted freely Determines the pixel aspect ratio that should be applied during the conversion Whether this set ting will be available depends on the selected file format Available for informatory reasons It details the aspect ratio of the set video format i e the ratio of Width to Height Sets the frame rate of the converted material Whether this setting will be available depends on the selected file format For the conversion you can select between three scaling qualities It also effects the speed of the conversion For example the setting high will yield the best quality but will also take longest to process The OK button closes the file format converter and converts the material according to the set tings Cancels the conversion and closes the file format converter without having saved any settings After having configured the file conversion you can start it by pressing the button OK This will write the converted material to the destination directory and an entry in the job list is created see section The Job PVs Managing Data List on page 7 15 The entry in the job list also shows a progress bar of the conversion process As long as it is under way the system will have the status busy see section The
84. ally this is used to alter the frame numbering Change the name pattern in the entry field below the check box The hash symbols indicate the pattern of the frame numbering If the number of hash symbols exceed the number of digits of the frame numbering they will be filled with zeros This entry field can also be used to change the file names prefixes same effect as Replace With The Start Number entry field changes the frame number of the first frame file start frame All other files will be numbered in ascending order If activated it will change the file extension of the image sequence with the term entered in the entry field to the right When enabled it will change the upper and or low er cases of the file names letters Select the appli cable alteration from the drop down list to the right 7 3 Spycer User Guide PVs Replace An enabled check box of these items allows you to With replace any string in your file names with the spec Sa ified one It works also over several occurrences In Case Sensitive the Replace field type in the string that should be replaced In case the string to be replaced occurs several times i e it is available more than once you can enter it case sensitive Then by activating the Case Sensitive check box you may rule out any other lower or upper case occurrence In the field With you have to type In the replacement string to be inserted in the file names t
85. arch area see section Browsing for Data on page 5 2 browse or search for the still image or video clip that should be converted e Then select from its context menu the menu option Convert see section The Context Menus on page 9 28 This will open the window of the file format converter of Spycer Managing Data Convert Source Inpoint Destiantion Path Destination Name Start Index File Format Resolution Width Pixel Ratio Frame Rate 24 normal Sealing Quality square pixels Vilsection31 Hollywood Holhwwood_ 05d dp gt lt Duration 600 default 1556 FILM2K Figure 7 5 The file format converter of Spycer The source settings i e details about the material that should be con verted are displayed in the upper part of the window The lower part determines its destination i e such things as name file format or res olution You can use the arrow buttons on the lists or click into them to enter your setting The following items are provided Source Inpoint Duration Destination Path Destination Name Indicates the directory and path to the source material It is already set to the video image data where the file format converter was called Allows you to select a different inpoint for the conversion The conversion will start with the im age of this frame number Determines the length of the converted clip i e how many frames to convert from the
86. are or hardware features usually con tain a corresponding note Anyway a lack of this note does not mean any commitment from Rohde amp Schwarz DVS GmbH CLIPSTER DVS and Spycer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Rohde amp Schwarz DVS GmbH Apple Mac Mac OS and QuickTime are trademarks of Apple Inc registered in the U S and other countries ARRIRAW is a trademark of Arnold amp Richter Cine Technik GmbH amp Co Betriebs KG Avid DNxHD Interplay and ISIS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid Tech nology Inc or its subsidiaries in the United States and or other countries Kodak and Cineon are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company Grass Valley is a registered trademark of GVBB Holdings S a r l Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Microsoft Windows Windows Media Win dows Server Windows Vista and Windows XP are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Mi crosoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc in the United States and other countries RED and R3D are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red com Inc in the USA and other countries IRIX and SGI are registered trademarks of Silicon Graphics International Corp or its subsidiaries in the United States and or other countries XDCAM is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation Quan tum and StorNext are registered trademarks of Quantum Corp
87. argin necessary to ensure the real time capability on a DVS video system files When called for files or video clips the properties clips window will provide various metadata Information in a table such as file size file name and its for mat Additionally depending on the type of file it may as well detail such things as number of audio channels audio samples color mode aspect ra tio field mode resolution and so on When accessing properties of items on other systems in the il network question marks may appear instead of proper ties Then give Spycer time to update the information During this the properties window may remain open and once the data has been gathered they will be displayed The properties window can be closed at any time with the button CLOSE at the bottom of the window 9 35 Spycer User Guide 9 36 Appendix This chapter provides further information about the Spycer application First some information are given about how to resolve irregularities that may occur when using Spycer and the supported file formats are listed Furthermore you find information about some interesting files and folders installed or created by Spycer all available keyboard shortcuts and maintenance Spycer User Guide PVs A 1 Troubleshooting This section details some errors and their solution which may occur when using Spycer First some general errors and sol
88. as running and pending jobs To select a job simply click on its entry in the job list see also section Keyboard Shortcuts on page A 12 PAUSE SELECTED Pauses the selected job s RESUME SELECTED Either continues a paused job or starts a pend ing one CANCEL SELECTED Cancels and aborts the selected job s REFRESH LIST Clears the table running and pending jobs will be detailed again Furthermore the job list offers a context menu when right clicking an item in the list You can choose between the following options Cancel Pause Resume Show Error w Re p ort Figure 7 9 Context menu in job list Cancel This option cancels a job that has been queued in or that is already running Pause This option pauses a job that has been queued in or that is already running Resume Either continues a paused job or starts a pending one Show Error This option allows you to display an error descrip Message tion in a further window if a job fails Simply right click the respective failed job and select this option Show Report When selecting this option a log file in txt for mat opens up showing the report to this specific job This file contains information about the time and date path protocol datarate etc These files are stored in the folder log section Interesting Files and Folders on page A 14 when navigating to C ProgramData DVS Spycer Cancelling resuming or pausing a job ca
89. aus ing Pause for local real time pro cesses DVS systems only The automatic pausing for DVS real time processes is configurable If it is not necessary to pause e g copy jobs during timeline scrubbing or playout op erations you can switch off this automatic pausing feature Drag and Drop Ask before copying or moving con tent To avoid copying due to unintended drag n drop operations you can enable this check box When a copy process is initiated a warning message will be displayed in a separate window This can be dis abled by clicking the check box again Data Movement Verify transfer data With this check box activated Spycer automatically performs a verification of the transferred data by comparing the transferred material with the source material using MD5 check sums If the calculated check sums of one or more files are not equal a warning message will be displayed Furthermore the report see section The Job List on page 7 15 context menu Show Report will contain detailed information about the whole process including the verification The Menus Verify commu nication port For interoperability with firewall settings a desig nated port for verification communication between the Spycer clients can be set Enter the port ID into this entry field when the Verify transfer data check box is activated Repair corrupt transfer data If th
90. ayed in the browse and search area that are locally available or stored on a SAN they can be dragged and dropped to the contents area of the bin Spyar Figure 3 8 drag n drop of clip to bin 3 16 PVs Getting Started This will add the selected clip to the contents area of the bin Below the user interface of the Spycer software module the task bar of the DVS software will be available as usual With it you can switch to the other modules of the software such as the Edit or the I O Tool After a switching to the Edit or I O Tool of the DVS software the clip s added to the bin will still be available and can be used as usual Further information about the bin and the task bar can be found in the documentation of the Edit Tool of the respective DVS video system 3 5 3 Configuring the Integrated Spycer The general configuration settings available for the stand alone applica tion of Spycer see section The Configuration Menu on page 9 2 can be set for the integrated Spycer as well For this you have to start the configuration tool of the DVS software Configuration amp Login Manage SpycerNet Groups Log in as administrator Peer SpycerNet group Figure 3 9 The Configuration Tool with Spycer settings Under the default settings for the DVS software tab Default you find several entries regarding Spycer in the group list They provide the 3 17 Spycer User Guide Dvs same settings as desc
91. berlin I clips oe 7 Dowuntowur i JOM Hollywoo ii k r gt Online Image All Files Figure 5 2 Overview of a browsing pane 5 2 PVs Browsing and Searching 5 1 1 The Directory Tree The directory tree enables you to see the contents of your system net work in a folder structure en network system drop down list A rican e folder structure i tovur e Hollywoo ure Pa Staples_ui gt Figure 5 3 Overview of the directory tree With the network system drop down list at the top of the directory tree you can select whether you want to view the contents of a particular system or the whole network m R File Nam A aldarion aludra ancalagon anoat digil HUG kosh linus Figure 5 4 Network system drop down list Once a selection is made in the drop down list you can browse the net work or system in the folder structure Either by double clicking an en try with the mouse or by clicking on the plus or minus sign in front of an icon you can expand or collapse the contents sorted under this item The different icons provided by the directory tree indicate the following ae The whole network The whole network i e all systems in the SpycerNet as well as the home system is dis played and can be used for the respective task 5 3 Spycer User Guide DVS 5 4 iJ A foreign system This icon indicates a foreign system in th
92. ble for the contents area only Saves the text information of the files currently selected in the contents area to an ASCII file Select all Available for the contents area only Selects all files available in the contents area Moves the selected directory file s to another lo cation When activated it will open a dialog win dow where you can select a new storage location in the network A direct moving of directories files in the i SpycerNet is not possible Within the network directories files can be copied only Copy to folder Copies the selected directory file s to another lo cation When activated it will open a dialog win dow where you can select a new storage location in the network Copy Copies the selected directory file s to the clip board of the operating system Paste Pastes the contents of the clipboard see Copy at the currently selected location 9 31 Spycer User Guide PVs 9 32 Delete After the confirmation of a warning message this menu option deletes the selected directory file from the storage This menu option deletes the selected IN directory file physically from the stor age It is directly deleted and there is no undo functionality or recycle bin avail able to restore the data New folder Creates a new subdirectory at the currently se lected location This menu option opens a dialog window where you have to
93. butes like edge timecode absolute timecode time of day and start timecode of r3d files can be edited in Spycer Files of text based formats like lut 3d1 xml txt vamcand VENICE files like venicescenario and venice show their complete contents when viewed in the header data view e Single out the video clip whose metadata you want to change as described in section How to Single out Data on page 6 7 e n case you want to alter the metadata of a specific image or image range move the scrub bar cursor of the preview area to the wanted position see section Previewing Video Clips on page 6 8 e After this switch to the header data view by activating the button HEADER DATA This displays the header data of the file currently selected with the scrub bar cursor in the header data view Now you can change its me tadata Working with Metadata e Via the drop down list Edit at the top right of the header data view select where in the file sequence an editing of the header data should be performed e After this activate the button EDIT from the metadata controls This will alter the appearance of the header data view and an entry mask is displayed tivated an editing of the header data is not supported by the i In case no entry mask is displayed when the button EDIT is ac selected file format amp e Type in or alter the respective metadata information in the available fields
94. ce in file system mode directory tree contents area directory tree contents area EI DVS Im MXF Onli H Image All Files Online Figure 4 8 Browse and search area in file system mode directory tree Shows the contents of the system network in a folder structure contents area Shows you the contents of the currently selected drive directory in the directory tree 4 8 PVs Software Reference directory tree Shows the contents of the system network in a folder structure contents area Shows you the contents of the currently selected drive directory in the directory tree Marker Mode In the marker mode you can browse view or set sync markers for au dio and video content Markers are certain markings to sync the audio and video track of the material that was shot on a day After this and further configurations in Spycer it is then possible to create dailies e g in the DVS CLIPSTER software Further information about markers and their usage can be found in the supplement user guides of the respective devices The following figure shows the user interface in marker mode shoot dates marker list Figure 4 9 Browse and search area in marker mode shoot dates Lists all available contents by its shoot date Above this list you find the network drop down list that can be used to select a particular system or the whole network from it marker list Pro
95. ched folders to visible in the directory tree of Spycer The Menus With clicking the plus to the left of the FTP folder icon you can expand the directory tree and see all subfolders Depending on the server s configuration you have access to different contents Spycer does not read content in the FTP folders automatically il When browsing to the folder the FTP connection is estab lished from new each time Therefore the FTP folder icons will not indicate if there s content in the folder or not and the search feature in Spycer does not show all results File based clips are shown by each frame as single file Copying clips from the FTP server into Spycer can be performed by multi selecting the files and copying them or copying the superior folder The job list will then indicate an ftpcopy job see section User Interface in the Job List Mode on page 4 4 Usually FTP servers have a defined time out moment that depends on the remote server s settings When not working with the FTP connec tion the server disconnects but the Spycer user interface might not up date automatically Perform the following to refresh the user interface e Right click the directory tree in the browse and search area in Spycer and select the option Refresh or press F5 before continu ing working with the FTP feature after a longer break PA Please note that there is a properties window for the FTP peers il in the directory tree as well see sect
96. color cube freely By clicking with the scroll wheel or the right mouse button you can switch the output colors to the input colors and vice versa The colors that are currently displayed is indicated at the top of the video overlay By turning the scroll wheel of the mouse you can morph the colors in the cube from output to input and vice versa The degree of the morphing is indicated at the top of the video overlay With this you can evaluate a 3D LUT easily in Spycer and see the results of a color conversion 6 2 9 General Information about Proxies Proxy clips are downscaled versions of high resolution video material especially created by Spycer to enable previews of video clips in real time on systems even when they are not equipped with real time hard ware Usually they are generated in a container file format that allows for a compression of images as well as an embedding of audio data if available The proxy generation such as Its storage location file format or reso lution can be configured freely with the general configuration settings im of Spycer see section The Group Jobs on page 9 16 There you can 6 11 Spycer User Guide PVs 6 12 also determine that they should be created automatically as soon as clips are added to the storage In case the automatic generation is de activated proxies can be easily created via the context menu of clips in the contents areas of the browse and s
97. compressed or storage formats either compressed or un uncompressed compressed Proprietary streaming video audio technology developed by Microsoft Only QuickTime and CineForm codecs are sup ported H 264 mts 3 x 8 bit RGB or Compression format for video and audio ca 8 bit YUV com pable of providing good video quality e g pressed and or au when in HD at lower bit rates One of the dio standard codecs for Blu ray Discs PVs Appendix Table A 2 Supported container file formats cont Default Format File storage aa Exten Description Name format s on GXF gxf JPEG M JPEG File exchange format for the transfer of clips MPEG or DV based between storage systems video compression standards with au dio timecode and user data that may include metadata MPEG 1 mpg 3 x 8 bit RGB or File format for the compression of video and MPEG 2 m2v 8 bit YUV audio compressed au dio MPEG 4 mp4 3 x 8 bit RGB or File format for the compression of video and 8 bit YUV com audio as well as other media types Based on pressed and or au the QuickTime file format dio Phantom cine Raw uncompres Raw video only file format developed by Vi Cine Raw sed son Research for an on camera recording QuickTime mov various e g RGB or Video file format that supports various file YUV either com storage formats either compressed or un pressed or uncom
98. computer system The installation is finished as soon as a message reports this As next step you have to license the software as described in section Licensing on page 2 9 Having finished all steps the installation of the software is complete and you can perform its initial setup to run the program It has to be made when the Spycer application is started for the first time see sec tion Starting the Software on page 3 6 and section Initial Setup of Spycer on page 3 8 system please see section Troubleshooting under Windows ii To run Spycer successfully under the Windows Vista operating Vista on page A b N 3 5 Spycer User Guide Dvs 3 2 Starting the Software This section provides you with a description how to get Spycer started Because the software can be run under several operating systems it is divided into the different starting procedures for each supported oper ating system On several DVS video systems e g CLIPSTER or the Pronto il family Spycer is by default integrated in the DVS software and thus not needed as a stand alone application To start the soft ware there you have to start the respective DVS software see section Starting the Integrated Spycer on page 3 15 The very first starting of the software will launch its initial setup necessary to run the software see section Initial Setup of Spycer on page 3 8 When Spycer is started a log file
99. ction The Context Menus on page 9 28 This will start a defragmentation of the selected data and an entry in the job list is created see section The Job List on page 7 15 The job en try also shows a progress bar for the defragmentation process As long as the defragmentation is under way the system will have the status busy see section The Status Bar on page 5 9 Furthermore when in the browse and search area you can defragment more than one file clip with a single step You can select several individual ones when displayed in a contents area for example by holding down the Ctrl key Mac while selecting them with the mouse With the search tool you can search for a defragmentation il degree Once displayed in the contents area of the search results the entries can be selected and then defragmented You can select a directory or volume that contains these clips in the directory tree of the browse area which will defragment all files stored at this location files in subdirectories as well Then initiate the defragmentation with the menu option Defragment from the context menu see section The Context Menus on page 9 28 With a Spycer that supports SNFS see section Program Vari il ants of Spycer on page 1 6 you can also optimize the free space of a storage For this initiate a defragmentation of the complete drive volume Works only on an SNFS storage
100. d be used for your system when appearing in the SpycerNet You can assign any name you want special characters as well To take the entry into effect you have to press the button SET HOSTNAME To apply the network configurations il you have to press the button APPLY NETWORK SETTINGS before pressing the button Compatibility mode in Spycer For downwards compatibility to Spycer ver sions prior 1 4 you can activate this check box In this case some network ports have to be free and available to connect successfully to the SpycerNet Otherwise Spycer will be confined to its localhost only IP address 127 0 0 1 has to be used The respective network ports are in dicated on the screen Multicast unicast range Use the entry fields in this area to configure the network ports If you want to establish a multi cast connection enter the group and the port If you want to establish an unicast connection enter the ports ID s between which a link is to be set up To verify your settings click the but ton APPLY NETWORK SETTINGS Background service status message Details the current state of the background pro cess SpycerAgent 9 13 Spycer User Guide PVs 9 14 Enable local con tent management SpycerAgent With this radio button activated the local con tent management will be enabled It installs and starts the background process SpycerAgent allowing you to view
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102. d reader are represented as its original folder structure in the directory tree When clicking one of these fold ers you will see the files as stored on the XDCAM card in the contents area of Spycer When clicking the folder XDCAM Ingest below the XDCAM card read er folder structure Spycer reads out the content that is on the card This 7 25 Spycer User Guide DvS could take a while depending on the size of the stored data When fin ished it lists all files of the XDCAM card as vamc metaclips which were created automatically by Spycer with the help of the file s XML da ta Spycer identifies different files within the XDCAM Ingest Workflow and creates metaclips from them so you do not have to worry about which e g audio and video clips belong to each other You can then copy and save the clips to another folder on your local peer edit meta data i e descriptive data see section Descriptive Data on page 8 10 rename several files simultaneously or delete redundant files see chap ter Browsing and Searching on page 5 1 and chapter Working with Metadata on page 8 1 If the files are moved to a watched folder with in the network you can use the search feature to find the clips i Ingest Workflow in the XDCAM Ingest folder in Spycer and leave the original material on the XDCAM card reader s When deactivating the check box XDCAM Ingest in the group Ingest Folders of the menu Config again the virtua
103. dard server will connect you to a stan dard FIP server Selecting a Grass Valley server from the drop down list offers you the possibility to con nect to it and to be able to use its specific features Username Enter a username that is valid for the remote FTP serv er Password Enter a password that is valid for the remote FTP serv er When all settings are made and the FTP connection is established you can perform download and or upload operations depending on the server s configuration Since no Spycer software is installed on the opposing side no il verify will be performed and no copy reports see section The Job List on page 7 15 context menu Show Report will be made after download upload operations Very often you can select a folder in the directory of the FTP server that functions as transfer folder for data exchange In the Spycer software the FTP directory will be visible as an FTP folder icon in the browse and search area see section User Interface in the Metadata Mode on page 4 3 when you set it as visible folder CONTENTS deve AUDIO CLIP ICON PROXY VIDEO Figure 9 9 The FTP folder icon in the directory tree e To perform this right click the directory tree to the bottom left of the user interface and select the option View To set unwatched folders to visible folders the check mark in the option Hide unwatched folders must be unchecked This will set all un wat
104. deny other users the possibility to alter the IP or service daemon configurations To install or deinstall the background process use the SpycerAgent tool see section The SpycerAgent Tool on page A 18 PVs Appendix The following lists the available commands lt command gt for the SpycerAgent script start When the SpycerAgent is installed as a back ground process it can be started with this com mand Afterwards it will be running on your system administering the data and database stop Once the background process is started it can be stopped with this command Afterwards it is no longer running and the connection to the SpycerNet will be lost However after a reboot It will be started automatically again restart This command stops the process and afterwards starts it again status With this command the current state of the SpycerAgent is returned i e whether it is started or stopped A 5 2 The CodeMeter Control Center CodeMeter is another name for the dongle providing the license for your Spycer application see section Licensing on page 2 9 It comes with a control center and web server application for a more detailed configuration of the dongle Because the control center and the web server application A configure the dongle as well as its network capabilities do not change any of their default configurations unless you are ab solutely sure about the outcome or are instructed to by y
105. download of a proxy over the SpycerNet Details This folder stores temporarily the proxies used for a pre view when a clip from a foreign system is singled out see section General Information about Proxies on page 6 11 Folder s savedqueries Location Linux home lt user gt DVS Spycer saved queries Mac Users lt user gt Library Applica tion Support DVS Spycer savedque ries Windows C Users lt user gt AppData Roam ing DVS Spycer savedqueries Condition Will be created after the first search has been saved Details In this folder you find the saved queries when having per formed a search with the search tool see section Searching for Data on page 5 10 Spycer User Guide PVs File s Spycer cdband Spycer cdb journal backup file not on Windows Location Linux home lt user gt DVS Mac Users lt user gt Library Applica tion Support DVS Windows C Users All Users DVS Condition Will be created when the local content management is enabled Details The database administered by the SpycerAgent and its backup file Can be deleted However then any virtually added metadata will be lost and the SpycerAgent will have to scan the watched folders again which may take some time and render the system busy To initiate a new scan you may have to stop and start the SpycerAgent File s Location Agent conf IP
106. e background process UNINSTALL To un or deinstall the background process you may use this button Afterwards it will no longer be started during the loading of the operating sys tem The button UNINSTALL will be available once the process is stopped In the middle of the window the current state of the SpycerAgent is de tailed However when the SpycerAgent tool is running and the state of the background process changes in the meantime it will not be noticed by the tool automatically In this case you have to update the status message as well as the state of the window by pressing the key F5 re fresh Any changes in the state of the SpycerAgent will be detailed by the status message and the state of the tool s controls may change The SpycerAgent Script Linux Mac only Under Linux and Mac OS the SpycerAgent process can also be admin istered via a script It can be called from any command line by entering Linux ete init d spyceragent lt command gt Mac Library StartupItems Spycer SpycerAgent lt command gt With the SpycerAgent script you can control the SpycerAgent and for instance start or stop It The standard operating system tools to administer a back i ground process can be used as well to control the SpycerAgent The files ITP conf and Service conf see section Interest ing Files and Folders on page A 14 are configuration files of the SpycerAgent By restricting access to them you can
107. e SpycerNet When selected only this particular sys tem i e its watched folders will be visible and used for the respective task Same as a foreign system but with an older Spycer ver sion running in the compatibility mode see section The Group General on page 9 11 Some features that you can perform on your system cannot be triggered on the foreign system See section Notes about Networking with Spycer on page 2 7 for further information The home system This icon stands for the host system When selected all its local storages will be visible and used for the respective task for a search only the watched folders When an icon is displayed together with a clock E its sys tem is busy see section The Status Bar on page 5 9 Furthermore there are several drive and directory icons available li A drive of an SNFS volume SAN A normal system drive e g an NTFS volume A directory subdirectory of a drive that does not contain data directly However it may contain subfolders that carry data A directory subdirectory of a drive containing data that will be displayed in the contents area of the browsing pane as soon as the folder is selected When right clicking a file in the contents area and selecting the menu option Open in new window a further window will open up showing the directory tree and the respective con tents area belonging to it see section The Context Menus on
108. e XDCAM ingest in Spycer perform the following e Connect the XDCAM card reader with the XDCAM cards in It to your system see the original manufacturer s documentation e Activate the check box Professional Disk Ingest in the group Ingest Folders of the menu Config see section The Group Ingest Folders on page 9 15 e Then select your local peer from the network drop down list in the browse and search area e Refresh the view of the directory tree by switching the peers in the network drop down list and then back to your local system If not done yet disable the Hide unwatched folders option in the context menu option View to show all folders in the direc tory tree of Spycer Spycer identifies the XDCAM card reader as removable media and cre ates a virtual XDCAM folder in the directory tree of the browse and search area as indicated in the following figure File Format METACLIP METACLIP h ACLIP Ing METACLIP Figure 15 XDCAM ingest folder icon and content Furthermore it identifies the XDCAM card reader as regular external storage device in the directory tree of Spycer drive K in the figure above and indicates its internal folder structure with all audio video proxy etc files tem Spycer will list all devices as regular external storage de i If several XDCAM card readers are connected to the DVS sys vice in its directory tree represented by letters The contents on the XDCAM car
109. e database of Avid Interplay This will be vis ible in form of a purple folder icon in the network system drop down list of the browse and search area The group offers the following Defaults Media files path ISIS Interpl group Metadata path Local Modify Figure 9 5 The group AMT Exchange drop down list net From this drop down list you can select a par work and peers ticular system or the whole network in Spycer Local AAF Use the directory button to the right of the project folder field to browse to your local AAF project folder AMT drives listing In this area all added virtual AMT drives are list ed Furthermore you find details about their state the media files paths on the Avid ISIS the Interplay work groups they belong to and their local metadata path buttons ADD DE Use these buttons to add a new AMT drive to LETE and MODIFY the listing delete a selected drive or modify a selected drive The setup of the Avid Workflow Option will be performed by the DVS service department Please contact it for the installa tion and licensing 9 6 PVs The Menus 9 1 4 The Group Datarate Settings Spycer offers the possibility to limit the datarate for copy processes de termined by the mount point of the exporting Spycer The software uses an implementation that guarantees smooth bandwidth distribu tion without any datarate peaks that could affec
110. e format Platform independent file format for sound Extension of the wav format capable of storing multiple mono or stereo chan nels and enabling file sizes of more than 4 GB RIFF wave wav Resource Interchange File Format RIFF for digi tal audio waveform data under Windows Capa ble of storing multiple mono or stereo channels Table A 5 Other supported file formats Default ee Format Name 4 Description Extension 3D LUT 3dl Three dimensional look up table ASCII file con e3d taining a matrix of color values to map them to a lut selected set of other values e g for color conver sion or gamma correction Project file of DVS video systems e g w cp venice DVS proprietary XML file format detailing all fea tures of a timeline created with the DVS software on a video system by DVS Spycer User Guide DVS A 3 Keyboard Shortcuts For amore easy control of Spycer there are various keyboard shortcuts available which are listed in the table below Action Key Action Open the online documentation F1 Open the option Rename of the F2 context menu when an several item s of the contents area or a several folder s in the directory tree is are selected Open the Configuration window F4 Refresh the view of the directory F5 tree must have focus Perform a scan operation when vol F7 ume or folder in
111. e information visible that you may otherwise have to scroll to The layout of the user interface can be set back to a default lay il out by using the menu option Reset Layout on the menu View see section The View Menu on page 4 15 Spycer User Guide Dvs 4 3 The Menu Bar At the top of a stand alone Spycer application you find a menu bar It provides access to functions and tasks of an administrative nature to the Spycer application Here you find for example its configuration settings as well as several tools This section explains the menu bar as it is available on a Windows Linux and on a Mac OS system separately For a reference where to find the individual menu options on Mac sys tems see section The Menu Bar on Mac OS on page 4 18 4 3 1 The Spycer Spycer Icon Menu on Windows Linux The menu Spycer contains the following menu options Fullscreen Alt Return Fullscreen Alt Return Minimize Minimize Quit Quit Figure 4 13 The Spycer and the Spycer icon menu In full screen mode see Full screen in the table on page 4 12 the menu Spycer will be replaced by the Spycer icon Linux and Windows only However then it still provides the same menu options as the menu Spycer shown in the figure above and detailed in the following Menu Option Explanation Full screen Select the menu option Full screen to activate the full screen mode of Spycer In full screen mode the
112. e verification encounters errors after checking the transferred data Spycer will automatically repair the corrupted files after the verification has finished You will find the results in the report see section The Job List on page 7 15 context menu Show Report 9 1 10 The Group Network Drives Windows Only The group Network Drives is available under Windows operating sys tems only and enables you to access mounted mapped network drives in the user interface of Spycer They are then displayed as any other locally available drive directory that is not defined as a watched folder see section The Directory Tree on page 5 3 and can be ac cessed as such see section SpycerAgent on page 2 5 Mount netwo Figure 9 13 The group Network Drives 9 19 Spycer User Guide PVs The group Network Drives provides the following items list The list details the network drives that are cur rently mounted in your operating system The column Drive details the drive letter while the column Source Path indicates the path to the drive directory in the network Mount network This check box mounts the network drives de drives tailed in the list above and once confirmed they will be displayed in Spycer For this you have to enter the correct password that allows you access to the network drives in the entry field Password below The network drives will also be mounted
113. ea once a file is displayed see section The Contents Area on page 5 6 The text information provided by the file will detail this infor mation either to the right of a thumbnail or when in its text information view under the entry Defrag File Name File Format Resolution Aspect Ratio Frame Rate B Duration defragmentation status Defrag File Name File Format RF6 Audio Channels 6 Audio Sample Rate 48000 Audio Bit Depth 16 TC Start Duration Figure 7 2 Contents area showing the defragmentation status Additionally it can be seen in the metadata area see chapter Manag ing Data on page 7 1 when an entry in Spycer is singled out and the file metadata is visible You find the defragmentation degree under the entry Defragmented among the general file data 7 5 Spycer User Guide DVS eneral File Data Path T on31 Holhwwoods Rename End Duration Defragmented Defrag TC Frame Rate Sound Width 2048 Height Channels Depth 0 Al Depth defragmentation 5 ne status Aspect Ratio Pixel Ratio Bit Depth Sampling Rate File Count 206 Frame Count Dominance Color Mode IG Sampling Gamma 7 Range Frame Rate 2 Coding Figure 7 3 File metadata showing the defragmentation status In Spycer the defragmentation status of a file or clip is indicated with the help of colors and percentage values Color Percent Explanation blue 100 The file clip is optimally a
114. earch tools menu option Create proxy see section The Context Menus on page 9 28 To create proxies on your system the proxy generation has to il be enabled and configured first see section The Group 2 Jobs on page 9 16 Just as with the database of the local storage each Spycer application cares for and administers the proxies of the video material that is locally available only During the creation of a proxy an entry with a progress bar will appear in the job list see section The Job List on page 7 15 and the proxy clip is saved at the configured location There the direc tory structure of the watch folder where the clip is stored is reproduced to provide for an easy identification of the proxy clips For a real time preview of clips locally stored the proxies will be avail able immediately The proxy s status is detailed in the status bar of the preview area see section The Status Bar on page 6 7 when a clip is singled out Locally stored video clips can be played in non real time even il without proxies available They will be played according to the 7 settings of the overlay see section The Video Overlay on page 6 4 In the SpycerNet proxies are shared among the Spycer applications When a proxy clip is available on a foreign system and the clip is singled out for a preview its proxy will be downloaded from the other system and temporarily stored on your system It will be removed from
115. ed proxy files are gen erated automatically on your system as soon as new clips are detected by the SpycerAgent If itis disabled proxies can only be created manual ly with the menu option Create proxy see section The Context Menus on page 9 28 This setting will be available when Preview proxies is enabled 9 17 Spycer User Guide DVS 9 18 Defragmentation amp de scattering Automatic de fragmentation when copy With this check box you configure the Spycer appli cation to perform a defragmentation automatically on the processed material when a copy process is started on your system This will be valid even if the job is triggered by another Spycer in the SpycerNet Automatic de fragmentation when move With this check box you configure the Spycer appli cation to perform a defragmentation automatically on the processed material when a move process is started on your system This will be valid even if the job is triggered by another Spycer in the SpycerNet Use file preallocation during copy process With this check box activated Spycer automatically preallocates storage space on the target drive for copy processes This prevents data fragmentation even if multiple copy processes are running in par allel The data file s name will be displayed with the suffix preallocated in the job list which will disap pear again after finishing the copy process Automatic p
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118. eloped by the Rohde amp Schwarz DVS GmbH in short DVS With the software you can easily maintain transparency and control over video and audio data and their corresponding metadata Accompanied by a conclusive rights management browsing search ing and viewing of video and audio material can be done without any difficulty Several management tools supplement the usage of Spycer comprising for example a renaming function an integrated high speed copying process a sophisticated defragmentation of image se quences as well as the new P2 and XDCAM workflows All the above said can be achieved on the respective computer system locally with one Spycer alone but the real benefit comes when several Spycer applications operate combined in a network Then they form the SpycerNet a scalable distributed content management network for data search and retrieval For example the instant a Spycer application detects new clips on its local storage the watched folders they and their metadata are made available to all other Spycer applications pres ent in the network immediately Furthermore to perform management tasks such as a defragmentation or a copying your Spycer may be con trolled by other Spycer applications or you may control others available in the SpycerNet Of course all these behaviors can be fully configured via a rights management Spycer can be run on a standard computer system and does not require any special DVS hardware On s
119. enter the name of the new directory After confirming the name with the button OK the directory will be created Rename Changes the name of an already existing directo ry file It opens a dialog window where you have to enter the new name After confirming the changes with the button OK the directory file will be named accordingly When called for a video clip whose i frames consist of still images it will open the renaming tool for clips see section Renaming on page 7 2 Scan metadata Use this menu option to rescan the currently se lected drive directory and refresh its entries in the database Any virtually added metadata such as the production metadata will be retained You can use F7 to select this option as well Refresh This menu option refreshes and updates the view of the currently selected drive directory Re Import me tadata This option refers especially to P2 or XDCAM files carrying their own metadata files additionally to the Spycer metadata file When changing the me tadata in the format s metadata file use this op tion to import or reimport the metadata from the format s metadata file to the metadata file in Spycer Defragment Initiates a defragmentation of the currently se lected file directory or drive Further information about this can be found in section Defragment er on page 7 4 Create meta clip s When you select this me
120. er Moves the selected directory file s to another lo cation When activated it will open a dialog win dow where you can select a new storage location in the network 1 A direct moving of directories files in the i SpycerNet is not possible Within the x network directories files can be copied only Copy Copies the selected directory file s to the clip board of the operating system You can use Ctrl C to select this option as well Paste Pastes the contents of the clipboard see Copy at the currently selected location You can use Ctrl V to select this option as well Delete After the confirmation of a warning message this menu option deletes the selected directory file from the storage You can use Del to select this option as well This menu option deletes the selected AN directory file physically from the stor age It is directly deleted and there is no undo functionality or recycle bin avail able to restore the data New folder Creates a new subdirectory at the currently se lected location This menu option opens a dialog window where you have to enter the name of the new directory After confirming the name with the button OK the directory will be created 9 29 Spycer User Guide PVs Rename Changes the name of an already existing directo ry file It opens a dialog window where you have to enter the new name After confirming the
121. er Previewing Da ta on page 6 1 scrub bar J e _ preview controls le status bar Figure 6 3 The preview area With the preview area you can view the color dispersion of 3D LUT files ina color cube or the image data of still images and video clips By cre ating and using proxy clips video material can also be played Further more audio clips can be played in the preview area as well For a preview of audio and 3D LUT files you can use locally il stored data only A direct preview of this material from other systems in the SpycerNet is not possible 6 3 Spycer User Guide PVs At the top of the preview area you find a video overlay showing you the contents of the singled out material Additionally for video and audio clips a scrub bar is provided below the video overlay as well as the pre view controls both allowing you to move within the clip s content At the very bottom a status bar is available that details further information about video and their proxy clips 6 2 1 The Video Overlay The video overlay at the top of the preview area allows you to preview data Once a still image 3D LUT or video clip is singled out in the browse and search area e g with a double click of the mouse its con tents is displayed there With the context menu of the video overlay you can for example con figure the appearance of the video overlay or the behavior of plays fur ther It provides the follow
122. er having started the software see section Starting the Software on page 3 6 you can e g select content in the preview area see chapter Previewing Data on page 6 1 or use the search feature in Spycer see chapter Browsing and Searching on page 5 1 menu bar mode buttons amp Spycer for DVS SAN GENERIC Figure 4 1 Spycer user interface The display of the main window can be switched to the modes meta data job list task scheduler and record scheduler when pressing the respective mode buttons right under the menu bar menu bar mode buttons Spycer for IVS SAN Figure 4 2 Menu bar and mode buttons By default the program opens in the metadata mode In the following subsections you find further information about the different views of the Spycer user interface 4 2 PVs Software Reference 4 1 1 User Interface in the Metadata Mode With the button METADATA directly below the menu bar you can switch to the metadata area of Spycer The following figure shows the user in terface of Spycer when the METADATA button is pressed menu bar metadata area preview area Spycer for DV GENERIC W EI magen al Files browse and search area Figure 4 3 User interface in metadata mode The user interface provides the following items menu bar The menu bar provides access to functions and tasks of an administrative nature to Spycer Here you find for example its c
123. erface see section Starting the Software on page 3 6 When Spycer is started it will run with the licensed feature set How to Connect the Dongle to a Running Computer To connect the dongle to a running computer system and run Spycer with the licensed feature set enabled you have to perform the follow ing e lf running close the Spycer user interface see section Exiting the Software on page 3 14 e Connect the dongle to a free USB port on the computer system e Afterwards restart the Spycer user interface see section Starting the Software on page 3 6 The above steps are enough if a local content management is disabled on your system SpycerAgent not running However if your Spycer ap plication runs with the local content management enabled during the start up of Spycer a message will appear informing you about the new detected license Then you have to do the following in addition e Follow the instructions given on the screen necessary to restart the SpycerAgent 2 13 Spycer User Guide PVs 2 14 Once the SpycerAgent has started the background process as well as the user interface of Spycer will run with the licensed feature set en abled How to Grab a License Licenses are not given only to the user interface of Spycer but the SpycerAgent as well as soon as it is started local content management enabled see section SpycerAgent on page 2 5 To get one of the li cense
124. es and channel numbers or host names and channel numbers When switching to the record scheduler in Spycer the system will prompt you to configure the FIMS settings You can disre gard this system message if not using this feature The com plete description of the record scheduler with all its options and features can be found in the VENICE Client Software user guide 4 7 Spycer User Guide DvS 4 1 5 The Browse and Search Area In the lower part of the Spycer user interface you find the browse and search area With it you can browse local or network storages in up to two browsing panes This area also provides Spycer s marker and search tools which are detailed below For switching between the different modes of the browse and search area use the buttons FILE SYSTEM MARKER and SEARCH at the top left of the browse and search area En Figure 4 7 Mode buttons in the browse and search area When switching the modes the user interface of the browse and search area alters and you find the respective buttons and options File System Mode In the file system mode you find two browsing panes each containing a directory tree and a contents area for browsing the Spycer network or your local peer e g for dragging files into the preview area You can select a particular system or the whole network from the drop down list at the top left of the directory tree The following figure shows the user interfa
125. es of Spycer on the computer system As next step you have to license the software as described in section Licensing on page 2 9 Having finished all steps the installation of the software is complete and you can perform its initial setup to run the program It has to be made when the Spycer application is started for the first time and can be called up with a normal user account see section Starting the Soft ware on page 3 6 and section Initial Setup of Spycer on page 3 8 PVs Getting Started 3 1 3 Installation under Windows The installation routine of a stand alone Spycer for the Windows oper ating system is a single executable file Usually it can be found on the enclosed CD ROM To begin the installation perform the following e Open a file manager e g Windows Explorer on the computer sys tem and browse the CD ROM e Execute the installation file of Spycer for example with a double click of the mouse This starts the installation routine which will guide you through the in stallation e Follow the instructions given on the screen When using floating licenses see section The Dongle on il page 2 11 all involved systems must have the CodeMeter ap x plication installed For this the CodeMeter check box has to be activated when appearing on the screen during the installation routine During the installation procedure all necessary files and libraries will be installed on the
126. everal DVS video systems such as CLIPSTER or the Pronto family it is already integrated in the respective DVS software and accessible the same way as the other software mod ules There are several different variants of Spycer available from Spycer Ba sic providing a limited feature set to Spycer for DVS SAN able to access storages in the StorNext file system SNFS For further information about the different variants please refer to section Program Variants of Spycer on page 1 6 1 1 Spycer User Guide Dvs 1 1 Overview This user guide informs you about the installation and general handling of Spycer as well as about its complete controllable interface The chap ters in this user guide contain the following information Chapter 1 Begins with a short introduction to Spycer fol lowed by a note regarding the audience this manual is written for and an explanation of the conventions used in this manual Furthermore it details the available software variants and their respective capabilities the system re quirements necessary to run Spycer when it is not already installed as well as the latest high lights of the software Chapter 2 This chapter provides basic information about Spycer First the key features of Spycer are de scribed followed by some background infor mation regarding the software structure of Spycer and licensing Chapter 3 Describes the first steps to get started with Spycer In this
127. f not done yet disable the Hide unwatched folders option in il the context menu option View to show all folders in the direc tory tree of Spycer Spycer identifies the P2 card reader as removable media and creates a virtual P2 folder in the directory tree of the browse and search area as indicated in the following figure 7 23 Spycer User Guide PVs 7 24 E ch ma CONTENTS AUDIO CLIP ICON PROXY VIDEO CONTENTS AUBIO CLIP ICON PROXY Figure 7 14 P2 ingest folder icon and content Furthermore it identifies the P2 card reader as regular external storage device in the directory tree of Spycer drive H in the figure above and indicates its internal folder structure with all audio video proxy etc files All cards in the P2 card reader are represented in this folder struc ture When clicking one of these folders you will see the files as stored on the P2 card in the contents area of Spycer When clicking the folder P2 Ingest below the P2 card reader folder structure Spycer reads out the content that is on all cards of the P2 card reader what could take a while When finished it lists all files of the P2 card as vamc metaclips which were created automatically by Spycer with the help of the file s XML data Spycer identifies different files within the P2 Ingest Workflow For example stereo clips meaning clips providing content for either the left or the right eye and spanned clips Spanned cli
128. f the DVS software e Start the DVS software of the DVS video device For details about how to do this please refer to the documentation of the video sys tem software e Next press the button SPYCER in the task bar of the DVS software see figure 3 7 on page 3 16 PA When the software module of Spycer is started for the first il time the initial setup ofthe application may be launched Then you have to detail the necessary configurations as described in section Initial Setup of Spycer on page 3 8 If not it is recom mended to check whether the configurations match your needs see section The Configuration Menu on page 9 2 In case the check box Mount network drives was activated the last time the program was exited you will be asked by a message window to type in your password to legitimize your access to mounted network drives see section The Group Network Drives Windows Only on page 9 19 This will load Spycer as a software module of the DVS software 3 15 Spycer User Guide task bar e m Figure 3 7 The integrated Spycer 3 5 2 Using the Integrated Spycer The integrated Spycer can be used the same way as described in this user guide In addition it provides the following functionality With the integrated Spycer you will notice right below the menu bar of the DVS software the bin as it is available in the Edit or I O Tool Once audio and video clips are displ
129. face runs independently from the il SpycerAgent it will separately check whether a valid license is i provided When found it will run with the respective feature set enabled see section Licensing on page 2 9 SpycerAgent To scan and display any data locally stored on your system the Spycer application installs a background process Wac Windows service Linux daemon called SpycerAgent It will be launched at the first start of the software and in the future automatically during the loading of the operating system The SpycerAgent administers a database that contains all important in formation about the contents of the watched folders the scanned and indexed local storages This database Is used in the user interface of Spycer to display video and audio material and is revised so that It is always up to date with the actual content stored Cc The very first writing of the database may take some time de pending on the amount of data stored in the watched folders Further information about the watched folders can be found in section Watch Folder Settings on page 3 11 The SpycerAgent is an important part of the SpycerNet On the one hand it makes the data in the database available to the user interface installed locally and on the other to all other Spycer applications in the network if browse and search permissions are given see section Re mote Access Permissions on page 3 12 Without it only the data
130. folders next This step will be skipped in case the local content management has been disabled SpycerAgent disabled see section General Settings on page 3 8 3 11 Spycer User Guide Dvs Setup Cyrecorded include pending Include Folder Exclude Folder Remove Figure 3 4 Watch folders settings The settings of the group Watch Folders in the setup menu do not dif fer from the settings in the group Watch Folders of the menu option Config The options and settings that are to be found are described in section The Group Watch Folders on page 9 24 In this setup win dow you generally have to Determine that a folder either a drive or directory should be watched by the background process by adding it to the list box with the button INCLUDE FOLDER 3 3 5 Remote Access Permissions If a local content management has been enabled you have to set the remote access permissions next This step will be skipped in case the local content management has been disabled see section General Settings on page 3 8 Setup roups Rem Default x Bro Edit Metadata Read Figure 3 5 Permissions settings 3 12 Getting Started The settings of the group Permissions in the setup menu do not differ from the settings in the group Permissions of the menu option Con fig The options and settings that are to be found are described in sec tion The Group Permissions on pa
131. formation and provide other details Data Type s Shown Properties systems When called on systems the properties will detail further information about this system such as its hardware operating system the Spycer version running and the permissions that you have on the respective system 9 34 PVs The Menus Data Type s Shown Properties volumes When called for volumes or directories you find directories further details about the storage where the Item is located as well as about its capacity Detailed are for example the free used and total disk space in binary multiples of their sizes binary prefixes Ad ditionally time values are provided to show you for instance the amount of free space available for a record of video Because these depend on a video raster you can configure raster settings in this view of the properties window as well The time values of the disk spaces will be changed ac cordingly Options for Time Calculation Resolution 1920 x 1080 v Color Mode RGB 4 4 4 Quantization 10 bit v Frame Rate 30 Hz Figure 9 20 Time calculation settings for disk spaces Furthermore a bar is available that tells you graphically as well as via a percentage value the amount of disk space currently used on the drive where the item is stored Storage capacities are indicated as they il are truly available meaning they are de tailed without the deduction of a safety m
132. front of the additional parameter For names of video clips you have to observe the C notation il usually with the syntax lt string gt 0Yd lt ext gt lt string gt Preceding string of file name Marker that the following is a format string 0 If the output of the format string does not pro vide the stated length fill it with zeros 0 Y Number of digits for example 5 d Marker that the format string is a decimal num ber lt ext gt File extension With the search Hollywood 05d dpx entered Spycer will yield as a result the clip Hollywood in the DPX file format that provides a five digit frame number Controls With the controls at the bottom of the search parameter area you can for example initiate a search clear the already defined search parame ters or build up a library of often used search queries In detail it pro vides the following items Reset The button RESET clears the already defined search pa rameters and resets the search parameter area The LOAD button allows you to load previously saved search parameters from a file It opens a dialog window where you have to select the respective file containing the search query sq After its confirmation the saved search parameters will be loaded into the search parameter area of Spycer PVs Browsing and Searching With the button SAVE you can save the currently set search parameters to a file Thus you can build up a li brary of search queries to u
133. ge 9 21 In this setup window you generally have to Determine what other Spycer applications in the network SpycerNet are allowed to do on your system with the remote access permissions 3 3 6 Finishing the Setup When the last configuration is made the following screen will be dis played 4 Setup completed Figure 3 6 Setup completed Then you can finish the setup procedure by pressing the button OK which will start the Spycer application see section The Integrated Spycer on page 3 15 If Spycer is started for the first time with no database available il the initial scanning of the watched folders may take some time depending on the amount of data stored in these locations As long as the scanning process is active your system will have the status busy see section The Status Bar on page 5 9 3 13 Spycer User Guide DVS 3 4 Exiting the Software 3 14 To end the current Spycer session perform the following The Spycer application integrated in the DVS software on a vid il eo system by DVS such as CLIPSTER or the Pronto family will beended when the complete DVS software is exited Further information about how to do this can be found in the docu mentation of the video system software while for more infor mation about the integrated Spycer consult section The Integrated Spycer on page 3 15 Exiting Spycer will not terminate the background process when a loc
134. gent ee 2 11 este 4 17 name of home system 3 9 9 13 mae a eae PE nn 53 124 license management nasisisi 4 14 see also SpycerNet licensing disable ERSCHIEN 9 12 Handle een nee 2 11 drive ee essen 9 19 hardware license 2 9 network connection 3 8 9 8 9 13 Neo Tg RARWOHK VE nnn 2 6 local reading 2 u 01 2 6 DOTS nennen 1 9 localhost address o n 9 12 workload eemeeen 2 7 log file aussen 3 6 3 14 4 14 A 22 new directory 5 5 9 29 9 32 log in ae HEUER na i 2 6 MOLES fos ciccactecwadatietiasanededanseedetseskantans 1 9 N N eg 5 4 Spycer User Guide O ro 0 1 ee 5 9 open in new window 9 29 9 31 open with nennen 9 31 operating system nnneennnnneen 1 8 other file formats n A 11 overview browsing pane areas 5 2 COMMOUMATION are 9 2 integrated Spycer nenne 3 15 of Chapters cannneennneeennneenn 1 2 user interface 4 3 4 4 4 5 4 6 P D SEN NIEREN T A 9 P2 ingest configuration 9 15 P2 Ingest Workflow 7 23 password aceeeenneeeeseenneenenennn 9 20 PASTE nun lien 9 29 9 31 PAT sta ana anne een 5 6 pause JOD eanneennnnnennennennnnnnennn 7 17 pending job a 7 16 Permissions ceeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeees 3 12 browse and search 9 22 edit metadata 22 0 9 22 DONY nie ee 6 12 POAC et 9 22 scheduler cenennn 7 18 Write ara are 9 22 pix
135. get and or destination system s you will be either informed about this when creating the job in the task scheduler or an access to the system will be denied at the time when the job is started which will call up a notification then The following subsections explain the task scheduler of Spycer in more detail 7 3 1 Managing Scheduled Jobs At the top of the task scheduler you find some items that allow you to manage scheduled jobs With them you can determine easily either for the whole SpycerNet or a specific system the jobs that are scheduled to be performed enabling you for instance to identify and with appro priate permissions edit redundant or contradicting jobs 7 18 PVs Managing Data elect Network show editable only Figure 7 11 Items to manage scheduled jobs The drop down list Select allows you to select destination peers By se lecting a specific system in the SpycerNet from its list you can find out which jobs are scheduled on this system They will be detailed in the list of the task scheduler When the entry Network is selected all jobs that are currently scheduled in the SpycerNet will be listed With the check box show editable only you can hide from the list the entries that you do not have the appropriate rights to edit Afterwards only the entries that can be changed are displayed Once you have found a job that you want to change use the list and the items below it to edit the task scheduler
136. gs 6 11 9 16 from foreign system 6 12 over SpycerNet scce 6 12 permissions aneeeesnneeenneeeeennn 6 12 play original data 6 4 reload near 6 5 STATUS ernten 6 storage location nnnnnnneeeee 9 16 R read permission eennnn 9 22 read while write cn nenn 1 10 record scheduler ccccceeeeeeeee eee 4 2 recording time 7 13 9 35 refresh cocceaneneeeeeeneeeennnn 9 30 9 32 refresh job list 7 17 remote access permissions SETUD prsnice oea ier a a 3 12 task scheduler n se 7 18 remote control 9 22 rename oo ee ee cece eeeeeeesee en 9 30 9 32 renaming tool 7 2 9 30 9 32 VESCAN occ eeeeeceeceeeseeeeeeeee nennen 9 30 9 32 reset layout caeeeennnnnennnnnnennnnneeennn 4 16 results area ooo 4 10 5 10 5 13 resume JOD acueananneeeeenneeeeeeeeennnn 7 17 rights management 2 7 PVs S safety Mary aa 9 35 SAN au asien ende 2 7 SAVE AS teXt nnnnennennnennennenenennenn 9 31 Search lee eeeeeceeec eee eeceeeeeesaeeeaees 5 15 scalable oo cece eeeeceseseceseeeceeeecenenes 2 6 scaling quality 7 12 9 17 scan event viewer vu 4 14 scan filter settings setup 3 11 scanning 1 6 2 5 2 7 3 13 7 15 scheduler ccnnseeesseesseeeeenenen 4 2 create job c annenenneeneeennn 7 20 duration of job ecce
137. gs setup 3 8 Ingest Folders u 9 15 integrated Spycer s 3 17 JODS een 9 16 Network Drives n 9 19 OVEIVIEW annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nennen 9 2 Permissions cuuaceneneesneeenn 9 21 Professional Disk Ingest 7 23 PIOXY wo ccceceececseeeceeeeeeeeeens 6 11 9 16 remote access permissions setup 3 12 Scan Filter aace 9 22 scan filter settings setup 3 11 sequence files 3 10 9 22 Watch Folders 2 200220 9 24 watch folders setup 3 11 configuration settings menu 4 13 confirmation of settings 9 2 container file format 22 A 8 container format 6 11 7 10 9 17 preview audio acneeeeeeeeeennen 6 5 content management annnee 2 6 disable cc een 9 14 enable nnnnnnn 3 9 9 14 contents area a 4 8 5 6 5 13 configuring view 9 30 9 33 selective viewing neenen 5 9 show folders_ 9 33 context menu after drag n drop u 7 9 browse and search area 9 28 of video overlay ccecce 6 4 Control center eceeeeeeeeeeeeee cesses A 21 controls d reCtOTY aan 5 5 preview area oo cccceecceeecceeeeeeeeees 6 5 Search nnaisisinooessuoeeoeeseererrrrerres 5 12 PVs Index conventions command descriptions 1 5 of Screenshots cceeee
138. he group Jobs in sec tion The Group Jobs on page 9 16 Deleting Files Directories Files or directories can be deleted just as easily as they can be copied 7 9 Spycer User Guide PVs e Select a file or directory in one of the browsing panes e After this press the key Del on your keyboard A warning message will appear where you have to confirm that you re ally want to delete the file directory The file directory will be directly deleted from the storage N There is no undo functionality or recycle bin available to re store the data e n the warning message press the button YES to confirm the dele tion This will delete the selected file or directory If a directory is deleted the subdirectories and all material sorted under this directory will be delet ed as well To delete files or directories you may also use the menu option il Delete on the context menu of the respective item see section Hr The Context Menus on page 9 28 7 1 4 File Format Converter 7 10 Spycer provides an integrated file format converter able to convert still images as well as complete video clips to another file format Whether you want to convert for example a video clip in a container format to an image file sequence or vice versa this tool deals with such tasks ef fortlessly It can be accessed from the context menu of image or video data displayed in the browse or search area e Inthe browse and se
139. he target directory in the directory tree PVs Managing Data tican_Be e American_Be 48000 24 Duration gt All Files Online gt All Files Figure 7 4 The browse tool This will copy the material to the target location Between different systems in the network data can be copied il only to prevent an unintentional removing of material from the native system Within the home system the material can also be moved To change from a copying to a moving press the Alt key during the drag and drop procedure If the drag and drop procedure is performed with the right mouse button instead of the left one you will receive a context menu at the target location allowing you to select whether the data should be copied or moved A copying or moving can also be performed via the menu op tions available on the context menu of files and directories Copy Paste or Move to folder see section The Context Menus on page 9 28 or when using the shortcuts Ctrl C and Ctrl V A copy process does not stop on read errors If errors occur on single files the copy process will proceed with the following files Content that could not be copied will be listed in a copy report see section The Job List on page 7 15 context menu Show Report The system will ask you if you are sure you want to copy the selected content to prevent unintentional movements of con tent You can deactivate this option in t
140. her all required files automatically To run it you have to do the fol lowing Linux Mac e Call up a command line shell and enter slc Windows Perform one of the following e Access the installation folder of Spycer usually C Programs DVS Spycer or C Programs x86 DVS Spycer and dou ble click the file sIc exe e Open a command line and enter slc bat This will execute the script gathering all diagnostic information that may help DVS to determine your problem in an archive file such as zip Under Windows the file will be saved on your desktop while under Linux and Mac it can be found in the folder where the script was called Afterwards perform the following e Locate the archive file and send it to the e mail address provided by the DVS personnel Once your mail is received the DVS support team will evaluate the in formation and if possible provide you with a solution for your problem A 22 PVs Appendix A 6 Command Line Operations Some features of the Spycer application can also be controlled from a command line They can be called by entering Spycer command lt parameter gt The following lists the available operations and commands that can be performed from a command line If Spycer is not already running when initiating a command il from a command line it will be started automatically and the S operation will be carried out Paths to directories should end w
141. hes If a proxy clip of a video clip is available on your system other Spycer applica tions can download it for a preview Edit Metadata If this check box is enabled other Spycer applica tions can edit the metadata of your material on your system including the header data of dpx image sequences Read Essence This setting allows the reading of data on your sys tem for example for copying processes To allow for a remote defragmentation or proxy clip genera tion this check box has to be activated as well 9 21 Spycer User Guide PVs Write Essence This setting allows the writing of data on your sys tem for example for copying processes To allow for a remote defragmentation or proxy clip genera tion this check box has to be activated as well Buttons SELECT ALL This button enables all check boxes in the pane Re mote Access Permissions in one step DESELECT ALL This button disables all check boxes in the pane Re mote Access Permissions in one step The browse and search permissions enable others to take a look at your data and metadata i e they have access to the database administered by the SpycerAgent However with only this permission given they cannot change the contents of your database nor have they a real ac cess to your system They see the contents of the database only and if available on your system can download proxy clips With the Edi
142. hin the SpycerNet Every peer can have an administrator account which must be configured once during or after the installation The network admin istrator defines the password and assigns a peer to a certain SpycerNet group This increases the security of a peer to peer network significant ly because the secured Spycer peers are only visible when they belong to the same group Only if the peer s are set to public they are visible to everyone in the SpycerNet For further information about the settings and configurations of SpycerNet groups see section The Group Ad ministrator on page 9 4 2 3 Licensing If you want to run the software with more than the basic features you have to license it The licenses will then be valid for the options you have ordered The Spycer application is licensed in three ways 1 Via hardware On DVS video devices ex factory equipped with Spycer such as the DVS SAN CLIPSTER or the Pronto family the Spycer application is already properly installed and licensed Then the program can be started immediately 2 For the stand alone application of Spycer via a special license provided in a license file 3 For the stand alone application of Spycer that has to be installed on several clients via a dongle with several floating licenses on it In case the license Is not available or invalid the stand alone application runs as Spycer Basic see section Program Variants of Spycer on page 1 6
143. ication displays all data locally avallable when selected in its browser However because the contents of these locations are not scanned and indexed in the database they are read when accessed only and neither will a search with Spycer include these locations nor will they be vis ible in the SpycerNet Network drives and important system drives directories cannot be selected as watch folders The SpycerAgent registers all events that take place in the watch folders To minimize the overall traffic for the SpycerAgent it is recommended to include directories drives that contain video audio material only PVs The Menus BETEN finished Include Folder Exclude Folder Figure 9 17 The group Watch Folders To set up the watch folders the following settings items are provided list box The list details the specified folders column Path whether they are included or excluded in the watched folders Type and the current state of the included folders Status INCLUDE FOLDER This button opens a dialog window where you have to select a directory Choose with it the drive directory that should be included in the watched folders Normally this will be the local drive or directory where the video data is stored Of course you can add more than just one folder to this list in case your data is distrib uted over several drives directories For exam ple CLIPSTER or VENICE by DVS usually
144. iled In the header data view of Spycer you can get a look at the data as it is written in the file itself With video data it will display the header data of the frame image file that is currently selected with the scrub bar cursor of the preview area see section Header Data on page 8 6 Certain entries in the header data can be edited if supported by the file format e g the timecode information source time code Once saved they will be directly written to the file s Currently only the header data of dpx and r3d files can be edited with Spycer Spycer User Guide DvS Production Data Descriptive Data Save Cancel With the PRODUCTION DATA button you switch the metadata view to its production information Here you can add or edit additional information about the production stages of the content With the DESCRIPTIVE DATA button you switch the metadata view to its descriptive information Here you can add or edit information about e g the cre ation or type of the content The descriptive data can be changed to il your purposes Please contact the DVS ser vice department for customized descriptive data This button allows you to add or change the meta data as they are available in the production metada ta view button PRODUCTION or the header data view button HEADER DATA Once clicked the me tadata can be changed With the SAVE button you can save your alterations to the metada
145. ill be stored in the file header s and or in the data record of the respective file sequence in the database adminis tered by the SpycerAgent 8 1 2 The Metadata Controls After the metadata is displayed in the metadata area see section Dis playing Metadata on page 8 2 you can switch through the different metadata views as well as add or edit the metadata with the controls provided to the left The following controls are available VANC Data Header Data The button FILE the first view activated when Spycer is started and the metadata area is displayed shows the file related metadata information in the metadata fields to the right of the controls For more details about this metadata view see section File Metadata on page 8 4 This view of the metadata allows you to re i view most information only Because they are properties of the singled out data they cannot be changed When clicking this button you can switch to the VANC data view VANC data is ancillary data speci fied by the SMPTE and sent in the blanking interval of the video data When selecting the respective file carrying VANC data you can view It in the metadata fields For further information see section VANC Data on page 8 8 This button switches the view of the metadata to a display of the header data provided by the singled out material Most file formats feature a file header where further information about its content are de ta
146. in the metadata to be able to move them to other folders or perform a deep copy Performing a deep copy means that you can copy only the metaclip into another folder and Spycer will move the referenced audio and video files automatically By performing a simple drag n drop operation of the metaclip as described in section Copy ing Moving Directories Files on page 7 8 Spycer will ask you in a di alog window if you want to perform a deep copy When clicking YES only the metaclip will be copied to the folder but referencing correctly to the e g mxf files SS 5 A Deep copy operations are only possible to your local peer or to a SAN volume 7 29 Spycer User Guide 7 30 Working with Metadata Metadata is data about data In the field of digital video it stands for further information that describe the content footage throughout the various production stages This may include everything from the plan ning and pre production stage over the actual production and post pro duction to the final delivery of the content With Spycer you can add and edit metadata effortlessly This chapter contains all information you need about the management the work and the viewing of metadata in the Spycer software 8 1 Spycer User Guide PVs 8 1 The Metadata Tab If not already visible in the user interface you can ac tivate the view of the metadata and preview areas of Spycer with the button ME
147. ined here il as well as in section The Status Bar on page 5 9 and section The Context Menus on page 9 28 is also available in the search tool after performing a search see section The Results Area on page 5 13 With the menu option View on the context menu of the con tents area you can also display directories that are available at the selected location see section The Context Menus on page 9 28 In the text information view you will receive a detailed list of the folder s content In this view you can easily sort the files clips in ascending or descending order by clicking on the column heading that the data should be sorted by File Name File Path File Format HUSODDY TIFF RF64 undtrack_Master WAY He fe fe i Te FE Bel E fe 4 Figure 5 5 Contents area in text view When in the thumbnail view still images and video clips are shown in the contents area of a browsing pane with a thumbnail preview In this 5 6 PVs Browsing and Searching view you will get additional information about the displayed material via text that appears to the right of the thumbnail The column headings of the contents area can be customized i e the names can be changed or columns can be added and deleted Please contact the DVS service department If you want the contents area to be customized File Name File Format Resolution Aspect Ratio Frame Rate Du
148. ing menu options View Displays timecode keycode and frames informa tion Superimposed on the video overlay Select from the opening submenu the respective informa tion that should be displayed in the overlay The en abled view shows a cross in front While the frames information simply shows the current posi tion of the scrub bar cursor the timecode and key code Information are taken from the headers of the files This means that if a file without timecode and or keycode information in its file header is dis played no timecode keycode will be displayed in the overlay Fit to screen Scales the video overlay to the maximum available width or height of the preview area If enabled it shows a cross in front Maximize Either maximizes the preview area i e hides all Minimize other areas of the Spycer user interface see sec tion Exiting the Software on page 3 14 or re stores the previous layout of the user interface This can also be performed with a double il click of the mouse somewhere in the pre 2 view area or the menu option Maximize Preview Area on the View menu see section The View Menu on page 4 15 When the video overlay is maximized the clip s information are displayed in a tooltip when leaving the mouse Cursor on it Play original With a proxy available this menu option forces the play of the original video material instead If en abled it shows a cross in front 6 4 PVs Pre
149. ings will be disre garded see section SpycerAgent on page 2 5 Search Parameters Below the drop down list for the search location the search parameters have to be detailed With the drop down list to the left determine the search criteria that should be used for the search You can choose from a variety of different criteria ranging from file name or extension over video audio properties to metadata information such as the production date or company Depending on the selected criteria the number of the available fields for a search parameter may vary If three are available use the one in the middle to set an operator for the search e g for a file name contains is begins with andends with With the last field to the right you have to specify the criteria It may pro 5 77 Spycer User Guide Dvs 5 12 vide an entry field where you have to type in your search term or a drop down list providing you with a list to choose the search item from The button R below the search parameters adds another search pa rameter that the search will also observe With it an AND search is pro vided e g when searching for a file name that begins with start AND the file extension wav you will receive all file names with the prefix start and the Wave file extension such as start _01 02 wav You can add as many AND searches as you like and they can be deleted just by clicking the button BB right in
150. ion By default available Details The files in this directory log the actions of the built in de fragmenter files Defrag _debug results lt time stamp gt 1og see also section Defragmenter on page 7 4 and of the SpycerAgent Agent lt time stamp gt log see also section SpycerAgent on page 2 5 Furthermore you find the files Local Copy Report lt timestamp gt log detailing the copy jobs File Receive Report lt timestamp gt log and files containing statistical information and the job history Only the last ten files of each log will be kept Folder s log Location Linux home lt user gt DVS Spycer log Mac Users lt user gt Library Applica tion Support DVS Spycer log Windows C Users lt user gt AppData Roam ing DVS Spycer log Condition By default available Details When the Spycer user interface is started a log file is written into this directory detailing all actions performed by and with the user interface When exiting Spycer the log file is finished and saved Only the last ten files will be kept Appendix Folder s proxies Location Linux home lt user gt DVS Spycer proxies Mac Library Application Support DVS Spycer proxies Windows C Users lt user gt AppData Roam ing DVS Spycer proxies Condition Will be created after the first
151. ion The Properties Win dow on page 9 34 9 1 7 The Group General With the group General you configure the networking and local con tent management of Spycer With the network settings you determine the connection of your Spycer application to the SpycerNet as well as its appearance in the network The local content management will be administered by the background process SpycerAgent When it is en abled the SpycerAgent will write information about the contents of the watch folders see section The Group Watch Folders on page 9 24 into a database making it available to your Spycer application as well as to others in the SpycerNet if applicable and permissions are given Afterwards the watch folders will be monitored and the database will be revised once file processes are detected To configure a Spycer ap plication to take part in the SpycerNet set an IP address other than the local host address has to be stated in the network settings of Spycer When a local content management is disabled Spycer will not il display any local drives or storages Then the user interface can be used as a network browser showing the contents of other Spycers in the SpycerNet only Spycer User Guide PVs Defaults v Refresh restricted to the subnet Unicast range From port Apply Network Settings Background serv gent running Q Enabl content management SpycerAgent ontent management
152. ion of folders that still offer you every possibility in Spycer This is named the P2 In gest Workflow or the XDCAM Ingest Workflow depending on the type of the external drive The File Ingest can also be used for the Avid Workflow option in VENICE see section The Avid Workflow Option on page 7 26 and the VENICE Client Software user guide In this case the feature is named the Avid Workflow 7 4 1 P2 Ingest Workflow The P2 Ingest Workflow in Spycer facilitates the playout of e g 3D con tent in the VENICE client software see VENICE Client Software user guide Stereo content is read from the connected P2 cards by its XML data and vamc metaclip files are created automatically in Spycer You can then use these clips in VENICE to drag them into 3D groups and play them out without having to worry e g for the correct assort ment of the left and right eye of the stereo content To enable P2 Ingest in Spycer perform the following e Connect the P2 card reader with the P2 cards in it to your system see the original manufacturer s documentation e Activate the check box P2 Ingest in the group Ingest Folders of the menu Config see section The Group Ingest Folders on page 9 15 e Then select your local peer from the network drop down list in the browse and search area e Refresh the view of the directory tree by switching the peers in the network drop down list and then back to your local system I
153. ions given on the screen necessary to restart the SpycerAgent Once the SpycerAgent has started the background process as well as the user interface of Spycer will run with the licensed feature set and the procedure to grab a license is finished How to Get further Floating Licenses The wanted number of floating licenses will be delivered on the dongle by DVS If all licenses are used and you need further Spycer applica tions you can order one or more licenses Usually you can order further floating licenses from the DVS service department or via the Spycer websites www spycer net or Basics www spycer de However if a dongle is already available you can con vert a dedicated license to a floating license with the procedure de scribed in section How to Update the License on the Dongle on page 2 15 How to Make a License Available again to the Dongle Licenses are not given only to the user interface of Spycer but to the SpycerAgent as well as soon as it is started local content management enabled see section SpycerAgent on page 2 5 To make a license available again to a dongle in the network perform the following e If running close the user interface of Spycer see section Exiting the Software on page 3 14 The above step will be enough to give back the license to the dongle if a local content management is disabled on the system However if your Spycer application runs with the local content
154. irectly on Avid s ISIS or use the production asset management Interplay The record scheduler The complete description of the record scheduler with all its options and features can be found in the VENICE Client Software user guide The metaclip feature allowing you to easily create manage and store metaclips of several file formats A new licensing model with simple file uploads for licensing FTP server connectivity as well as Grass Valley Profile and Grass Valley K2 support Administrator s rights management With Spycer network adminis trators can define and manage computer groups for a secured SpycerNet by using the existing infrastructure Support of REDCODE RAW r3d format on all platforms see section Supported File Formats on page A 6 A read while write feature allowing you to browse and preview files while they are being recorded Basics This chapter provides basic information about Spycer First descrip tions of the key features of Spycer are given This is followed by some background information about the software structure providing details about the user interface the SpycerNet and the SpycerAgent in partic ular The chapter will be concluded with details and explanations of how to license Spycer 2 1 Spycer User Guide PVs 2 1 Key Features of Spycer 2 2 Spycer is a software program for content management especially de signed for handling large amounts of video and audio da
155. isplayed in the directory tree of a browsing pane The network system drop down list is set to display the drives direc tories of the local system only Set the network system drop down list to Network see section The Directory Tree on page 5 3 There are no other Spycers running in the network Either start or install Spycer on another sys tem connected to your network and config ure it for the SpycerNet accordingly see chapter Getting Started on page 3 1 The local Spycer is con nected to the wrong net work or configured to localhost 127 0 0 1 With Spycer running alter the network con figuration settings Select the proper IP ad dress of the network port connected to the network where other Spycer applications are present see section The Group Gener al on page 9 11 Some network ports are closed May be the cause when no local drives are displayed as well Some network ports have to be free and available to connect successfully to the SpycerNet Otherwise Spycer will be con fined to its localhost only IP address 127 0 0 1 has to be used For further infor mation about this please see section Im portant Notes on page 1 9 Spycer User Guide PVs Error Cause Solution A network system is visi ble but provides no data you cannot access the data The appropriate permis sions are not given The system takes par
156. issions of the Spycer application on the other sys tem appropriately You tried to copy move data to a specially se cured location e g on an SNFS storage Access to storage locations may be restrict ed To enable accesses of the SpycerAgent to these locations you have to enter the ad ministrative access permissions via the AD VANCED button available in the watch folder configuration settings see section The Group Watch Folders on page 9 24 iJ A 4 To troubleshoot license issues the About Spycer window provides further details about the license currently assigned to your application see About in the table on page 4 17 PVs Appendix A 1 2 Troubleshooting under Windows Vista When running Spycer under the Windows Vista operating system some particularities have to be observed 1 After installing Spycer you have to manually free the network ports to connect successfully to the SpycerNet in the installed firewall see section Important Notes on page 1 9 2 If you experience problems with Spycer e g some configuration settings are not available to configure the application try to run it as the administrator f appropriate close the Spycer user interface a Call up the context menu of the Spycer icon on the desk top of Windows right mouse button a Select the menu option Run as administrator This will run the Spycer application w
157. items of the user interface Menu Option In the specified group or menu select the stated item Directory File Directory structure or file Entry Parameters selections or entries made in the program or commands entered at a prompt Key An individual key or a key combination on a key board Introduction Keyboard Shortcuts To perform options or procedures with the keyboard often requires a simultaneous pressing of two keys Example Ctrl F1 If this is given hold down the Ctrl key and press simultaneously the F1 key Screenshots The screenshots shown in this documentation have been taken for the most part from the Windows based version of Spycer in its standard stand alone application variant providing a full feature set SAN access included Depending on the software variant available to you and the installed operating system your Spycer application may look different and or may not provide all the features described here However due to the fact that the descriptions given here and their screenshots are complete they will contain the interface items that concern your vari ant and or operating system as well Command Descriptions Command descriptions may additionally use the following notation Haus Has to be numerical lt gt Variable this term has to be replaced by an ap propriate value 1 5 Spycer User Guide PVs 1 4 Program Variants of Spycer 1 6 Spycer is available
158. ith a backslash Windows or slash Linux Mac Depending on the operating system the syntax paths will be case sensitive Entering the syntax with an invalid command e g help will call up help information in the Spycer user interface Command Parameter Operation none Simply entering Spycer at a command line without any command or parameter will start Spycer lt path gt Browses to and selects the drive directory clip or file indicated by lt path gt copy lt source gt Copies the directory tree or file clip indicated lt destination gt by lt sources gt to a destination location direc tory The destination location must already exist move lt source gt Performs the same as copy but moves the lt destination gt data instead of copying delete lt path gt Deletes the directory clip or file indicated by lt path gt defrag lt path gt Defragments the drive directory clip or file indicated by lt path gt scan lt path gt Re scans the drive directory clip or file indi cated by lt path gt A 23 Spycer User Guide DVS A 7 Accessing the Web Service A 24 The web service SOAP interface allows you to develop an application of your own that can be used to control the Spycer software for exam ple from a remote computer connected via network To enable the Spycer web service the necessary license SOAP il in the About Spycer window see About in the
159. ith administrator rights A 5 Spycer User Guide Dvs A 2 Supported File Formats Spycer supports over 100 graphic and image file formats Most are made available by a special library For a list of all these file formats see http perso orange fr pierre g xnview enformats html The tables in the following list an excerpt of the file formats that are sup ported by Spycer directly They are listed according to their file types First the video file formats are detailed then the audio file formats and last but not least a list of all other file formats supported by Spycer is given iJ To be displayed in Spycer some file formats such as the mov file format may require the installation of third party programs e g the QuickTime player see section System Re quirements on page 1 8 Table A 1 Supported video file formats Default Format File storage eee Exten Description Name on format ARRIRAW ari 12 bit raw uncom Raw 12 bit file formats developed by the pressed ARRI Group for on camera recordings BMP bmp 3 x 8 bit RGB Windows bitmap format Only uncompres sed bitmaps are supported no RLE com pression Cineon cin 3x 10 bit RGB 10 bit RGB format Subset of the ANSI SMPTE DPX file format Flexible file format by Kodak allowing for variable image head ers DPX 2 dpx 3 x 8 bit RGB and 8 bit RGB file format with or without key
160. ives is possible even without their contents added to the database To administer the background process DVS offers you a tool especially designed for this purpose Please refer to section The SpycerAgent Tool on page A 18 for more details about this Nevertheless the stan dard operating system tools to administer background processes can be used as well SpycerNet The SpycerNet is one of the main features of Spycer It is the part of the software that constitutes the scalable and distributed content manage ment With a single Spycer application you can access data locally stored or available via mounted network drives only But if there are more than one Spycer installed on different computer systems connected via a network they will form the SpycerNet Then they communicate with each other and share their databases providing information about the data stored locally on each system The more Spycer applications are installed the more data you can gather from different systems This is meant by the terms scalable and distributed scalable because there is no limit to the number of Spycer applications working together and distributed because they work independently on separate work stations as well as provide separate databases This way no central server is required and you still can easily maintain transparency and control over all video and audio data in your work flow The individual Spycer installatio
161. l P2 folder will disappear but the P2 card reader will still be indicated as regular external storage device drive K in the figure above in the directory tree of the browse and search area in Spycer Although Spycer lists the XDCAM card reader s as original drives in the directory tree it is recommended to perform any operation renaming editing metadata etc within the XDCAM 7 4 3 The Avid Workflow Option VTR Live Video VENICE 7 26 VENICE HD SDI USB 3 0 10 Gbit s Ethernet The Avid Workflow is optionally available With it you can work directly on Avid s ISIS or use the production asset management Interplay The setup of the workflow is shown in the following figure Wrapping Avid ISIS 33 ISIS Client at aa Interplay Client Internal Storage gt P2 XDCAM Avid E Avid Interplay PAM Media Composer bt VENICE Appliance vid Interplay PAM SpycerBox Flex Figure 7 16 The Avid Workflow The DVS solution offers a server appliance connected to the VENICE base system and enables direct signal ingest via HD SDI Up to four channels can be ingested in parallel together with simultaneous proxy file generation The Avid drives are represented by virtual folders pur PVs Managing Data ple drive and directory icons in the directory tree in the Spycer soft ware as in the following Figure 7 17 Directory tree of the Avid Workflow All
162. l also need one free USB port for the dongle to en able the licensed feature set See section Licensing on page 2 9 for further details about the dongle and licenses i To run a Spycer Basic as Spycer if installing it on several cli Supported Operating Systems The program can be executed on the following operating systems Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 DVS tested Spycer with the above mentioned Linux distri butions Others may work as well but not necessarily MacOS X Windows 2003 2008 Server Windows XP Windows 7 recom mended or Windows Vista Be sure that you have installed the newest service packs il and or patches for your system otherwise you May encoun ter soft and or hardware problems The following requirements may be necessary to run Spycer depending on the operating system Mac OS only QuickTime Version 7 6 6 or higher to display mov files QuickTime plug in 1 4 for DNxHD content in mov files if required XSAN software Version 2 1 1 for SAN with current SNFS ver sions Mac OS X 10 5 or higher PVs Introduction Windows only QuickTime Version 7 6 8 or higher to display mov files QuickTime plug in 1 4 for DNxHD content in mov files if required License to run the program with a licensed feature set txt file or floating license on a dongle see section Licensing on page 2 9 1 6 Im
163. lable when a job is selected that requires a destination e g copy It details the target directory in the SpycerNet where to store the processed data You can set it with the button to the right of the entry field E It will open a window where you can select drives and or directories on systems in the SpycerNet How ever only those systems will be listed where a Spycer of at least version 1 3 is running Start These items determine the interval date and time when to start the job The first drop down list is available for a future ad aptation of Spycer and can be disregarded cur rently With the second drop down list you can set the interval when to perform the job e g Single Event Daily Weekly etc You can also define an interval of your own according to your needs Custom Interval Use the available date yyyy mm dd and time hh mm ss fields to set the day when the task should be performed in case of intervals when it should be carried out for the first time and the time when to start the job Duration Determines how long to perform the job You can set It to auto process until the task is finished or a defined time process for hh mm ss then stop SAVE Saves and closes the window to configure a scheduled job and creates a new entry detailing the job in the list of the task scheduler CANCEL Cancels the creation of a new job and closes the window Editing Jobs Via the buttons DELETE and EDIT
164. lary timecode The number of blanked pixels varies widely between different digital TV standards Ancillary data that is stored in the vertical blanking region between SAV start of active video and EAV end of active video is known as vertical ancillary data or VANC VANC is commonly used for low bandwidth data and carries e g the closed caption data or VPID video payload identifier The horizontal ancillary data space is abbreviated as HANC When selecting the respective file in the preview area See section Pre viewing Video Clips on page 6 8 carrying VANC data you can view it in the metadata fields as in the following figure 8 8 Working with Metadata Time in 00 00 43 01 Time Out 00 00 45 16 ata available ata available ata available ata available ata available ata available 10 data available no data available ata available KNE no data available HELLO H surround downmix lew mound mo Figure 8 5 The VANC data When switching the metadata view to VANC data button VANC DATA you see the caption data Dolby E audio data and additional informa tion In the table to the top right you find the closed captions When previewing a clip in the preview area the embedded closed captions will be displayed in the table VANC data can be displayed when stored on your local system i only The VANC data in metaclips vanc can be viewed in the Spycer software as well
165. lder When browsing e g a P2 folder structure Spycer will search compatible audio and video clips automatically by their naming Perform the following to create metaclips in a P2 folder struc ture without using the P2 Ingest Workflow option e Right click e g the folder VIDEO in the folder CONTENTS of the P2 volume e Select the option Create metaclip s from the context menu to start the create metaclip job Spycer will search all folders in the superior folder CONTENTS and cre ate metaclips from all matching audio and video clips with the help of the file s XML data Then it will create a folder superior to the folder CONTENTS containing all metaclips If you want to create a metaclip from an audio and a video file in a fold er perform the following e Select both clips by clicking them and simultaneously pressing the key Ctrl e Right click the selected clips and select the option Create meta clip s from the context menu to start the create metaclip job Spycer will now create a metaclip from the audio and video file and save it to the same folder You can create metaclips from single video files the same way Please note that you can only create metaclips from XDCAM DNxHD and P2 content You can now edit the metadata as described in section Working with Metadata on page 8 14 or rename several metaclips simultaneously as detailed in section Renaming on page 7 2 Assign an absolute path to the metaclips
166. licking it in the directory window This will load the license file into Spycer You will be informed about a successful license update by a system message saying that the file was added and you should now restart the software e Confirm the system message by clicking the button OK and restart the Spycer application When starting the software again Spycer should now run with all li censed features When the licenses are not available for example be cause updating the license file did not work properly Spycer the user interface as well as the background process will run as Spycer Basic only For further information about license issues refer to section Troubleshooting on page A 2 S 2 3 3 The Dongle The floating licenses for Spycer to run the Spycer application with a li censed feature set are provided via a dongle USB flash drive This USB has to be connected to a free USB port on the computer system where Spycer is to be installed see section Installing the Software on page 3 2 Depending on your order the wanted number of floating li censes is available on that dongle and can be used on that number of clients When running a local content management it is generally recommend ed to plug in the dongle prior to starting the computer which will en sure that the SpycerAgent operates with the licensed feature set enabled Additionally it should be left connected to the system even when the user in
167. ligned on the storage and none of its data is fragmented 1 99 The clip exists in segments but none of its files are fragmented red 0 The file or at least one image of a clip is stored in fragments on the storage If this is the case with a video clip it may cause problems during play out operations depending on its resolution and file sizes Segmentation A clip is segmented when its image files are not il aligned contiguously in larger blocks on the hard disk array but scattered over the storage Fragmentation Either a file is fragmented or a video clip con tains fragmented files In contrast to segmentation here it is the data of a single file that is scattered over the storage Initiating a Defragmentation A defragmentation can be started in the metadata area with the file me tadata view selected or via the browse and search area Even files of un known formats are defragmented by the defragmenter of Spycer To initiate a defragmentation perform either one of the following 7 6 PVs Managing Data To initiate a defragmentation from the metadata area With the metadata of the file or clip displayed in the file metadata view of the metadata area select the button DEFRAG To initiate a defragmentation from the browse and search area Browse or search for the respective file clip When it is displayed in a contents area select from its context menu the menu option Defragment see se
168. local drives and search through the material stored in the watch folders For this a database is written that is used by the Spycer user interface to dis play data Additionally it is visible and usable for other Spycer applications in the SpycerNet if applicable and permissions are given With out a local content management enabled Spycer will not display any local drives or stor ages nor observe any locally stored content Then the user interface can be used as a net work browser only i e it will display data pro vided by other Spycer applications via the SpycerNet only ADVANCED The background process SpycerAgent may not be able to access drives that need a particular user account usually administrative account Background processes generally run with the security context of the local system account which is a predefined account used by back ground processes To enable accesses of the SpycerAgent to specially secured locations en ter the appropriate user name and password if applicable in the window that opens when the ADVANCED button is pressed On a SAN this is normally not necessary when a global super user Is configured on the metadata server Use these settings only if you experi AN ence access permission issues that m can be traced back to the SpycerAgent Windows only For this make sure that the respective user has the right to ful ly access the background process see Administrative Tools
169. low other Spycer applications in the network SpycerNet access to its data or a remote control of it Browse and search permissions or read and write permissions enable different possibilities for the respective system Virtualization Spycer virtualizes external drives as folders in its browse and search area This enables you to move and copy content in the Spycer network and to edit its metadata easily Virtualized folders in Spycer can be FTP and Grass Valley K2 servers 2 Avid Interplay databases only combined with ISIS storage a P2 card readers when licensed a XDCAM card readers when licensed 2 3 Spycer User Guide DvS 2 2 Software Structure 2 4 The following provides basic information about the software structure of the Spycer application to help you understand how the software op erates In its parts the Spycer application consists of three elements that together provide the software s capabilities the user interface the SpycerAgent and the SpycerNet While the first two are software components actually installed on the computer the latter is the means of communication between different Spycer installations in a network enabling the scalable and distributed content management The following diagram shows the software structure and communication processes between the individual ele ments of Spycer applications in a SpycerNet in detail Client Client File Server Spycer
170. m is performing a real time operation or in case the data base of its Spycer application is updated In the brows ing panes the icons of systems that are busy will be displayed together with a clock see section The Direc tory Tree on page 5 3 5 9 Spycer User Guide DvS 5 2 Searching for Data With Spycer you can as easily search for data as you can browse for it You will be able to find any searched for material by combining various search parameters such as file names or metadata information With a click on the button SEARCH at the top left side of the browse and search area you can activate the search tool of Spycer if not already available in the user interface Alternatively you can use the keyboard combination Ctrl F Mac F to switch to the search tool of Spycer search parameter area results area Figure 5 7 The search tool It provides the following areas search parameter In the search parameter area you can deter area mine the location where the search should be conducted as well as define the search parame ters Here you can also save a search query to a file sq as well as load previously saved ones results area The results area of the search tool will display the results once a search has been conducted It offers almost the same features as the con tents area of a browsing pane This section explains the search tool of Spycer in detail First the search paramete
171. m by DVS such as CLIPSTER or the Pronto family As the stan dard variant of Spycer Spycer it provides the complete feature set and furthermore works seamlessly together with the available DVS prod ucts see section The Integrated Spycer on page 3 15 Spycer for DVS SAN This Spycer application variant can be found on SAN systems Compared to the standard variant of Spycer Spycer it is also capable of managing and scanning data on storages in the StorNext file system SNES SpycerBox for DVS SAN This Spycer application variant is a special version for the SpycerBox system by DVS It provides pre view proxies of a connected SAN system for downloads to other Spycers in the SpycerNet It uses the same license as Spycer for DVS SAN and offers most widely the same features DVS Introduction The following table details the features of the different Spycer applica tion variants Table 1 1 Features of the program variants Spycer Basic Spycer integrated Spycer Spycer for DVS SAN Requirements free license file DVS hardware license file and DVS SAN Local and SpycerNet browsing searching x Watch folders on SAN volumes SNFS watch folders Remote control this Spycer via SpycerNet Remote control other Spycer applications via SpycerNet Renaming of image sequences x not on SAN x not on SAN Editing
172. m your choice with the button OPEN This will program the dongle with the new license which may take some time Once the programming of the dongle is complete a mes sage will report this e Close the Spycer user interface and restart it to take the changes into effect When Spycer is started once again it will run with the new license iJ In case the new license is still not available you have to reboot your computer with the dongle connected When using the floating licenses on a dongle you have to con figure the dongle as a license server to enable a sharing of the license see section Configuring a Dongle to Run as a License Server on page 2 12 Getting Started J This chapter describes how to get started with Spycer First the instal lation of the software is described followed by details how to start the application When Spycer is started for the first time it will guide you through some initial configuration settings which will be described next in this chapter The chapter will be concluded with some more details about the program such as an explanation about how to exit the soft ware as well as a short description of the program variant of Spycer in tegrated in the DVS software on a video system by DVS such as CLIPSTER or the Pronto family 3 1 Spycer User Guide DVS 3 1 Installing the Software The stand alone application variant of Spycer able to run on a standard compu
173. n your system Path contains mount point prefix This setting will be available when Preview proxies is enabled When the setting Path contains mount point pre fix is enabled the destination path on an e g DVS SAN system will include all elements comprising those parts dependent from operating systems This can be a problem when several different systems have access to a shared storage with proxy files Disable this check box to exclude all prefixes in the destination path for proxies that are operating sys tem dependent and facilitate access to shared stor ages for different systems Resolution Details the resolution of the proxies in width and height in pixels This setting will be available when Preview proxies is enabled File format Select from this drop down list the file format of the container file that will be used to create the proxies This setting will be available when Preview proxies is enabled Scaling quality For the proxy generation you can select between three scaling qualities It also effects the speed of the creation For example the setting high will yield the best quality but will also take longest to process This setting will be available when Preview proxies is enabled Default frame rate Sets the default frame rate of the proxy files This setting will be available when Preview proxies is enabled Automatic proxy file gen eration When this check box is enabl
174. n case the option Mount network drives was selected the last il time the program was exited you will be asked by a message window to type in your password to legitimize your access to mounted network drives see section The Group Network Drives Windows Only on page 9 19 3 7 Spycer User Guide Dvs 3 3 Initial Setup of Spycer When Spycer is started for the first time see section Starting the Soft ware on page 3 6 it will automatically initiate a setup procedure and guide you through some configuration settings These have to be spec ified in order to run Spycer In detail the setup procedure consists of the following configuration steps General settings Administrative settings Scan filter settings Watch folder settings Remote access permissions Finishing the setup mu O ahi Once the respective settings for the displayed configuration step are concluded you can proceed to the following configuration step with the NEXT button until the setup is finished and the software is started The button BACK takes you to the previous configuration step while the button CANCEL aborts the setup procedure without starting the pro gram The required settings possibilities will be explained in this sec tion The settings of the initial setup procedure are identical to some il of the general configuration settings of Spycer Therefore they can be changed afterwards as well For a detailed descri
175. n only be performed from the source destination or local peer 7 17 Spycer User Guide PVs 7 3 The Task Scheduler The task scheduler enables you to initiate tasks at cer tain times or intervals automatically for example for management and maintenance operations in your SpycerNet You can switch to the task scheduler of Spycer with the button TASK SCHEDULER directly below the menu bar amp Spycer for DVS SAN Spycer Options Ti Metadata J ecord Scheduler Show editable tasks only Dest Peer volOstmp Figure 7 10 The task scheduler of Spycer The task scheduler allows you to perform for example copy defrag ment or delete tasks regularly e g defragmenting larger storages at nighttimes or weekends or at defined times just once Scheduled jobs are administered by the SpycerAgents in the SpycerNet i e by the background processes where the respective task is targeted at the destination system Thus to run scheduled jobs the user interface of Spycer can be closed because it will be the back ground processes that carry out the tasks Once a scheduled job is started it will be performed according to the settings made in the task scheduler It will be detailed in the job list of each Spycer application involved in the task i e the creation target and destination systems with the respective job type and an added auto infront In case you do not have the appropriate rights on the tar
176. nd proceed by answering it The license information of the dongle will be saved to a file with the name SpycerLicense WibuCmRac exact lo cation will be detailed in a message window Simultaneously your standard e mail program will be opened The saved information will also be added to an e mail automatically 2 15 Spycer User Guide PVs 2 16 e Send the encrypted dongle information to DVS by doing one of the following f you are connected to the internet send the dongle informa tion already added to the opened e mail to dongleupdate dvs de or copy the file SpycerLicense WibuCmRaC to a common stor age medium e g CD ROM which you can then send to the DVS service department per mail Once received the e mail file will be evaluated by DVS and a license update file with the extension WibuCmRaU will be created DVS will send this to you as soon as possible After receiving the license update file do as follows e Store the file on the computer where the dongle is connected e f appropriate start Spycer and select from its menu bar Tools License Management Update This will open a message window instructing you to connect your don gle to the computer and afterwards select the update file e f not already the case connect the dongle to the computer system and click the button OK in the message window e n the opening window browse for the update file WibuCmRaU on your storage and confir
177. nect the Dongle to a Running Computer on page 2 13 After a software update Spycer runs as Spycer Basic The license does not fit to the major software re lease Please update the license performing the steps as described in section Licensing on page 2 9 A 2 DVS Appendix Error Cause Solution No systems folders are displayed in the directory trees of the browsing panes i e neither are lo cal drives folders dis played nor network systems folders Spycer is configured to localhost and the local content management is disabled With Spycer running alter the network con figuration settings from localhost 127 0 0 1 to the IP address of the network connection that is connected to the net work and or enable the local content man agement see section The Group General on page 9 11 The SpycerAgent is not running Either close and afterwards re start the user interface of Spycer or use the SpycerAgent tool to get the background process started see section The SpycerAgent Tool on page A 18 Some network ports are closed Some network ports have to be free and available to connect successfully to the SpycerNet Otherwise Spycer will be con fined to its localhost only IP address 127 0 0 1 has to be used For further infor mation about this please see section Im portant Notes on page 1 9 No network systems are d
178. ng others you find a list of the sup ported file formats maintenance and troubleshooting issues or shortcuts and com mand line operations Index This chapter facilitates the search for specific terms 1 3 Spycer User Guide Dvs 1 2 Target Group To use this user guide and Spycer correctly you should have experience in handling PCs and working with the respective operating system where Spycer is installed For the full use of the software it would be best to have some knowledge in the field of digital video and its accom panying metadata 1 3 Conventions Used in this User Guide 1 4 The following typographical conventions will be used in this documen tation e Texts preceded by this symbol describe activities that you must per form in the order indicated Texts preceded by this symbol are parts of a list Texts preceded by this symbol are general notes intended to fa cilitate work and help avoid errors You must pay particular attention to text that follows this sym bol to avoid errors un Texts enclosed by quotation marks are references to other man uals guides chapters or sections Window Text in bold with single quotation marks indi cates a window name BUTTON Text in small caps and bold indicates push but tons Group Menu Text in italic and bold indicates either a group name menu name or options in a menu list Item Text in bold only stands for other labeled
179. ng the check box to start Spycer without logging in an Active Directory environment Spycer may require certain settings to be activated within the Windows Active Directory controller Please contact the DVS service department for installation support 9 1 2 The Group Administrator With Spycer network administrators can define and manage computer groups for a secured SpycerNet by using the existing infrastructure Ev ery peer can have an administrator account which must be configured once during or after the installation By using a password protected ad ministrator account peers can be remotely assigned to a secure SpycerNet group This increases the security of a peer to peer network significantly because the secured Spycer peers are only visible when they belong to the same group Defaults Login Manage SpycerNet Groups A irectory Administrator Log in as administrator Peer SpycerNet group Password Figure 9 3 The group Administrator Enter your administrator password in the re spective entry field and press the button OK to log in as administrator and see all SpycerNet groups After logging in the ap pearance of the window alters and you find two buttons Use the button LOG OUT to log out after your work is finished change your administrator password with the button CHANGE PASSWORD Login 9 4 The Menus The security group system is very flexible As administrator you can
180. ns communicate with each other and share their databases as soon as they are present in the network and browse and search permissions are given To configure a Spycer application to take part in the SpycerNet see section General Set tings on page 3 8 Basics Notes about Networking with Spycer The SpycerNet is best set up in a way that the overall workload is dis tributed over the client stations If working with a central storage e g a SAN only one Spycer should provide the database for this storage This is one of the major features of Spycer Not every system has to scan the central storage but only one which will share its database in the SpycerNet This will reduce the overall traffic greatly because only one Spycer monitors the central storage Furthermore each Spycer contains a basic rights management to allow other Spycers in the SpycerNet access to your data or a remote control of the SpycerAgent installed The permissions what other Spycers are allowed to do on your system as well as all other settings mentioned in this section have to be stated during the Initial setup of the software see section Initial Setup of Spycer on page 3 8 Of course they can be altered at any time later without difficulty see section The Config uration Menu on page 9 2 Listed in the following are some basics regarding the role of your Spycer application in a SpycerNet Some network ports have to be free and avail
181. nt neennn 9 29 Index folders in contents area 9 33 in browser caaneneneneeeneeneeenenn 9 31 metadata o n 6 8 9 31 singling out data au 8 2 SNES ooien 1 1 1 6 5 4 SNFS defragmentation 7 5 7 7 software reference 4 1 layout OOO 4 11 menu bar aaennennneneeneeeennn 4 12 overview of the user interface 4 2 software structure 2 4 sound device anenenenneeeeeenenennnn 6 9 source timecode 8 5 8 6 8 14 source timecode preview 6 4 speaker re 6 9 SPYCEP occ cece ee ceeeeee esse eeeeee 1 1 1 6 2 2 communication processes 2 4 compatibility to older versions 1 10 COMMOUPATION irn 9 1 control from command line A 23 in this user guide 1 5 1 7 initial setUP u a 3 8 installation ocene 3 2 integrated 1 6 2 9 3 15 ey chain aneennnneenennnnnnnnenn 2 11 ey features ocean 2 2 ICENSE a2 ku sr 2 9 Maintenance aenneeneeeeeenn A 18 new in this version sses 1 10 software structure n 2 4 SpycerBox enanneeeneneeeeneenennn 1 6 system requirements 1 8 pgrade SNERUDERAEHERUNEREURNPHREUBEFETREN 2 13 user interface ccuanneeneneeeenennnen 2 5 VANADIS eianail nepen 1 6 version number ceeeeeee eee 4 17 web service A 24 websites ceannenseneeeeeeeenenn 2 13 Spycer Basic ceannnneeeeeneeenneeennn 1 6 Spycer for DVS SAN onsen 1
182. nu option Spycer cre ates a metaclip or several metaclips from the se lected file s in the contents area For further information see section Metaclips on page 7 28 The Menus Create proxy Available for the contents area and video clips on ly Creates a proxy of the currently selected video clip Then the proxy clip is created on the system where the clip resides Afterwards you can use it to view the video clip in real time To create a proxy you must have read i and write permissions on the respective gt 2 system and the native Spycer applica tion must be appropriately configured for the creation of proxies Further information about proxies and the previewing of proxies can be found in section Previewing Data with the Preview Area on page 6 3 Convert Available for the contents area and video image files only Opens the file format conversion tool of Spycer to convert the selected video clip or still image to another file format Further information about this can be found in section File Format Converter on page 7 10 Edit descriptive metadata Opens another window with drop down lists and entry fields to edit the descriptive metadata of the selected content For further information see sec tion Descriptive Data on page 8 10 View The menu option View enables you to configure which items to see in the directory tree and or the contents area
183. o this perform the following e f not already selected select the clip that you want to preview with a click of the mouse This will make the scrub bar of the thumbnail available e Move the cursor of the scrub bar to the left or right to view the con tents of the clip For this you may also use the keys Left Arrow Right Ar row when the scrub bar has the focus e g after selecting it with the mouse thumbnail scrub bar with cursor Figure 6 2 Preview of a clip in a contents area 6 2 PVs Previewing Data The thumbnail above the scrub bar will show you the contents of the clip in still images This can also be used to select a preliminary position for the metadata and preview area When singling out the clip see e g section Previewing Data with the Preview Area on page 6 3 the po sition of the scrub bar cursor will be retained and available there as well 6 2 Previewing Data with the Preview Area At the right hand side of the user interface you find the preview area In Spycer this area is used to preview the currently singled out material In case the preview area Is not visible it is either hidden see section Exiting the Software on page 3 14 or the view Is switched from the metadata and preview area to the view of the job list or the task scheduler To switch back to the meta data and preview areas use the button METADATA at the top left side of the user interface see also chapt
184. o Supported by Spycer Project files of a video system software by DVS e g the CLIPSTER software will be shown with this icon in the browsing pane text information as well as thumbnail view Still images i e single image files of a file format that Spycer supports are also displayed in Spycer In the thumb nail view still images are shown with a thumbnail preview However because they are not video clips they do not pro vide a scrub bar when selected In the text information view still images are indicated by this icon In case it is visible in the thumbnail view it indi cates either a still image whose data is currently not available or an invalid im age Then wait a few seconds and give Spycer time to gather the data If nec essary refresh the view of the directo ry contents area If after that the icon is still visible see to it that the right data is provided on the respective storage Spycer shows all files available on the storage even files of unknown formats Files that are not recognized by Spycer are displayed with this icon text infor mation as well as thumbnail view However because each will be worth one entry in the database of the SpycerAgent your storage should con tain as few of these files as possible Otherwise search procedures may get lengthy due to unnecessary overhead Other items may be displayed in the contents area with appropriate thumbnails icons as well such as directo
185. o be entered in timecode format without frames hh mm ss The calculation will be made as soon as an entry is changed The re maining value will adjust itself automatically Once you are finished 7 13 Spycer User Guide DvS with the calculation s the window of the calculator can be closed with the button CLOSE tion you can also determine the way a calculation is per formed To calculate from a given storage to a duration the Duration radio button has to be selected and vice versa f With the radio buttons to the right of the fields Size and Dura A similar calculation regarding disk spaces of a selected stor age can be done in the properties window of a drive or direc tory see section The Properties Window on page 9 34 7 14 PVs Managing Data 7 2 The Job List The job list of Spycer provides information about jobs that are performed on your system or that you have initiated on other systems in the SpycerNet Additionally these jobs can be controlled from here for example by canceling them You can switch to the job list of Spycer with the button JoB LIST directly below the menu bar When the Job list is not activated and visible arriving jobs are indicated by a three times flashing JOB LIST button When a new job is initiated the user interface is switched to the job list mode automatically Spycer for DVS SAN e The job list shows tasks that are concerned with you
186. oard This will open the general configuration settings of Spycer Compatibility mod prior to 1 4 com estricted to the subnet Multicast Unicast range From port 30001 To port 40001 Apply Network Settings settings pane e Enable local content management Figure 9 1 Starting screen of the configuration settings The window provides the following items in general group list To the left side of the configuration window you find a group list that provides access to the different set tings They will be valid for the Spycer software in gen eral Once an entry is selected the settings pane to the right will alter its appearance and the configuration items of the respective group are displayed You can then change the settings of this group settings pane The settings pane shows the settings that are available under the selected group group list to the left To change the settings alter the configurations in the set tings pane and confirm your alterations with the OK button RESET A click on this button resets all values back to the last confirmed settings 9 2 PVs The Menus OK This button confirms your alterations to the settings in the configurations window and closes it Then the new settings will be in effect They will be saved when the Spycer user interface is closed see section Exit ing the Software on page 3 14 CANCEL The button CANC
187. ominance Color Mode G Sampling Gamma 7 Range Frame Rate 2 X Coding Figure 8 2 The file metadata When a file is singled out see section Displaying Metadata on page 8 2 the file metadata view shows its file related information All files displayed in Spycer will deliver metadata in this view for example in the area General File Data standard information about storage loca tion and file name are detailed Additionally video audio and project files supported by Spycer see section Supported File Formats on page A 6 provide the following This view of the metadata allows you to review most informa il tion only Because they are properties of the singled out file they cannot be changed Some areas ofthe file metadata view will alter theirappearance and show different metadata in dependence on the selected file type video still images Video and still image files present further details about their format in the area Image as well as timecode or keycode information in the area Time code when timecode and or keycode are stored in the file s headers source timecode audio Audio files detail further information about their audio properties in the area Sound project files Project files of a video system software by DVS e g the CLIPSTER or the VENICE software will deliver information about their output settings vid eo format settings as well as give a list of all media that a
188. onfiguration settings as well as several tools A short reference to the menu bar can be found in section The Menu Bar on page 4 12 On Mac systems the menu bar is not avail able as it is under other operating sys tems Instead its options can be found in the standard program menu bar of the op erating system see section The Menu Bar on Mac OS on page 4 18 4 3 Spycer User Guide Dvs metadata area Directly below the menu bar you find the metadata area which will show you the properties and meta data of the file currently singled out in the browse and search area You can switch through as well as add and edit the metadata easily with the buttons provided to the left of the user interface For more details about the metadata area and its various functions see chapter Working with Metadata on page 8 1 preview area To the right of the metadata area you find the pre view area In Spycer this area is used to view or lis ten to the currently singled out data At the top you find a video overlay where you see the content of the material e g of video clips Below the video overlay a scrub bar of the material s timeline is avail able as well as the preview controls The preview area is described in chapter Browsing and Search ing on page 5 1 browse and search area With the browse and search area you can browse local or network storages in up to two browsing
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190. orage locations at your home system directories and files can also be moved e f not already visible in the user interface activate the browse tool with the button FILE SYSTEM at the top left side of the browse and search area The user interface then displays the two browsing panes of Spycer as indicated in figure 5 1 on page 5 2 in the section Browsing for Data e n the directory tree of the left pane browse to your target directory i e the directory where the data should be copied to e Inthe right browsing pane browse to the directory containing the material that should be copied i e the source directory e After that select in the right browsing pane the material either a drive directory from the directory tree or files from the contents area that should be copied or moved manager For example you can select a range of adjoining files with the mouse when the Shift key is pressed while disjointedly you can select them when the Ctrl key Mac 8 is pressed Further information about this can be found in section Keyboard Shortcuts on page A 12 Gi Files in the contents area can be selected as easily as ina file You can also select whole volumes for the copy process and copy them in a single step e Now drag n drop the selected material to the left browsing pane by using the left mouse button It can be dropped either in its con tents area as shown in the following figure or on t
191. oration registered in the U S and other countries Phantom is a registered trademark of Vision Research Inc Any product names mentioned in this documentation may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners and as such are subject to the usual statutory provisions DVS Headquarters Rohde amp Schwarz DVS GmbH Krepenstr 8 30165 Hannover GERMANY Phone 49 511 67807 0 Fax 49 511 630070 E mail info dvs rohde schwarz com Internet http www dvs de Support Phone 49 511 67807 125 Fax 49 511 371985 E mail service dvs rohde schwarz com I Contents I 1 Introduction rnnr 1 1 IA VG siennes ieena EA E 1 2 1 2 larget Gro p antenne ea 1 4 1 3 Conventions Used in this User Guide nenne 1 4 1 4 Program Variants of Spyerr na aa 1 6 1 5 System Requirements crannies saerarearcatnctnciantiedertenssddosadhaintercale 1 8 1 6 Important Noles nnenile sin 1 9 1 7 Latest Highlights in Spyeera u asseaiese au 1 10 2 BASIC Sn a e neta tae 2 1 2 1 Key Features of Spycer csemcriutnciteeasunie tnccennthetnctpehusndiendeauebedanes 2 2 2 2 Software SUC Ea 5 oat edpia ea 2 4 2 0 Leo Nessie 2 9 2 3 1 Hardware License eesnseneeeseenennsnnnnnenenneennennen nenn 2 9 2 3 2 The License File eceensseeeesenennnnnnnnnnnnnnennnnnen nenn 2 9 233 Tessa 2 11 3 Getting Started eeecceeeeeooo 3 1 3 1 Installing the Software zussneeee 3 2 3 1 1
192. our distributor or the DVS service department Pr The web server application by CodeMeter can be accessed il from the user interface of the CodeMeter Control Center but ton WEBADMIN You can get further information aboutthe control center as well as the web server application via the help information which can be accessed once the user interface of the control center is displayed The CodeMeter Control Center can be accessed by performing the fol lowing Linux Select from the system menu of Linux the entry Utilities CodeMeter Control Center A 21 Spycer User Guide DvS Mac e Select from the Applications folder of Mac OS the entry CodeMeter app Windows e Select from the START button menu of Windows in the submenu CodeMeter the entry Code Meter Control Center for example All Programs CodeMeter CodeMeter Control Center This will start the user interface of the control center A 5 3 Gathering Diagnostic Information To aid a debugging the Spycer application stores log files which detail the actions performed by and with the program You may get asked by the DVS service department to send in these files as well as others in case you experience operation problems with Spycer For further information about the log files see section Interest ing Files and Folders on page A 14 To gather the diagnostic information DVS prepared a script that will gat
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195. portant Notes Please observe the following when using the Spycer application The following network ports have to be free and available to Li connect successfully to the SpycerNet N Port 9960 UDP Port 9961 TCP Port 9970 UDP Port 9971 TCP Port 9980 TCP Port 9981 TCP Port 9982 SDP Port 9983 TCP See to it that these ports are free in your network e g as ex ceptions in the firewall settings otherwise Spycer will be con fined to its localhost only IP address 127 0 0 1 has to be used During the installation of a Spycer for Windows these ports are automatically freed On other operating systems you may have to configure them manually In case of problems or questions please contact your local network administrator The SpycerAgent registers all data even unknown files as well il as all events that take place in the watched folders To minimize the size of its database and the overall traffic for the SpycerAgent it is recommended to include directories drives that contain files of formats supported by Spycer only see sec tion Supported File Formats on page A 6 Otherwise search scanning and defragment processes may get lengthy due to unnecessary overhead An editing of header metadata such as image related data A e g bit depth or number of pixels lines may lead to impaired material that cannot be used correctly in another application or Spycer anymore This could happen
196. pro vided by other SpycerAgents in the network can be seen and accessed Thus it is the database that will be visible to other Spycer user interfac es in the SpycerNet Furthermore the SpycerAgent controls the Spycer application tasks on your system such as copy or defragmentation processes Usually these are Initiated by the user interfaces in the SpycerNet Locally you can perform read and write as well as browse search and edit processes as wanted The user interface triggers the event and the SpycerAgent car ries them out 2 5 Spycer User Guide PVs 2 6 The SpycerAgent runs totally independent of Spycer s user interface This makes it possible to maintain the SpycerNet almost at all times Even with no user logged in to the system and no Spycer user interface running other Spycer user interfaces will be able to search and browse in your data or perform copy or write procedures if permitted on your system Because the SpycerAgent runs independently from the user in il terface it will separately check whether a valid license is pro vided When found it will run with the respective feature set enabled see section Licensing on page 2 9 With the local content management i e the SpycerAgent enabled Spycer not only displays the data scanned and indexed in its database The viewing or reading of the contents of other drives or directories on your system local reading as well as of mounted network dr
197. ps are scattered on different P2 drives but belong to each other Spycer will identify these spanned clips across the drives by their XML data and create metaclips automatically You can then copy and save the clips to another folder on your local peer edit metadata i e descriptive data see section Descriptive Data on page 8 10 re name several files simultaneously or delete redundant files see chapter Browsing and Searching on page 5 1 and chapter Working with Metadata on page 8 1 If the files are moved to a watched folder with in the network you can use the search feature to find the clips Although Spycer lists the drives of the P2 card reader as origi il nal drives in the directory tree it is recommended to perform any operation renaming editing metadata etc within the P2 Ingest Workflow in the P2 Ingest folder and leave the origi nal material on the P2 cards When deactivating the check box P2 Ingest in the group Ingest Fold ers of the menu Config again the virtual P2 folder will disappear but the P2 card reader will still be indicated as regular external storage de vice drive H in the figure above in the directory tree of the browse and search area in Spycer PVs Managing Data 7 4 2 The XDCAM Ingest Workflow To start working with the XDCAM option in Spycer you need an XDCAM card reader with the respective content and the driver for the device must be installed on your DVS system To enabl
198. ption of the configuration settings please refer to section The Con figuration Menu on page 9 2 For further information about the SpycerNet and the back ground process SpycerAgent see section Software Structure on page 2 4 3 3 1 General Settings The first configuration settings to make are some general settings With them you determine the network connection of Spycer and whether a local content management SpycerAgent should be enabled or dis abled 3 8 Getting Started Select an IP that Spycer should use forthe 411 11 11 11 GERS Set a hostname that Spycer should use for the SpycerNet HNOOO0 1 E Compatibility mo ons prior to 1 4 communication restricted to the subnet Multicast Por 00001 Unicast range From port 00001 To port 00002 Apply Network Settings Background s S agent uninstalled the following optio tent management content management Cancel Figure 3 1 General settings The settings of the group General in the setup menu do not differ from the settings in the group General of the menu option Config The op tions and settings that are to be found are described in section The Group General on page 9 11 In this setup window you generally have to Set the IP address that Spycer should use to communicate with other Spycer applications in a network thereby forming the SpycerNet For downwards compatibility to Spycer versions prior 1 4 you il can acti
199. pycer directly see section Supported File Formats on page A 6 However you can search for any file format even ones unknown to Spycer by entering its ex tension in the criteria File Name e g enter txt e Next start the search with the button FIND IT The search will be conducted at the specified location s As long as the search is processed the system s where the search is performed will PVs Browsing and Searching be busy i e their icons will be shown together with a clock When fin ished the result will be shown in the results area to the right Pr To limit the displayed findings in the results area further you i may also use the selective view drop down list See section The Status Bar on page 5 9 S By selecting entries in the results area and using the menu op tion Save as TXT on their context menu you can save the search result to a text file for example for later evaluation With the menu option Show in browser on the context menu of a clip in the results area you can immediately display the se lected file in a browsing pane of Spycer This way you can de termine its location easily 5 15 Spycer User Guide 5 16 Previewing Data This chapter provides descriptions about how to preview data in the software The preview area in Spycer is used to view or play the currently singled out material 3D LUT and image files as well as audio audio waves
200. pycerNet is not possible e Press the play button MEM of the preview controls to play the audio file This will play the contents of the audio file and the audio waves will be visualized in the preview area If your computer system is equipped with a sound device and speakers you will now hear the audio data 6 9 Spycer User Guide PVs Audio wave visualization When double clicking the video overlay you can enlarge it By using the scroll wheel on your mouse you can zoom in and out Audio from container file formats such as mov or mpeg il can be played as well For this the option Force realtime has to be enabled see section The Video Overlay on page 6 4 6 2 8 Previewing 3D LUTs When a three dimensional look up table 8D LUT formats 3d1 e3dand lut is singled out see section How to Single out Data on page 6 7 it will be displayed in the preview area with its color cube Fora preview of 3D LUTs you can use locally stored data only il A direct preview of this material from another system in the SpycerNet is not possible 6 10 PVs Previewing Data Figure 6 7 The color cube of a 3D LUT in the preview area To view it and its color conversion results in more detail Spycer offers you several possibilities e Perform one of the following in the video overlay By pressing the left mouse button and moving the mouse you can rotate the
201. r area will be described followed by a description of the re sults area The section will be concluded with a step by step descrip tion how to use the search tool of Spycer 5 2 1 The Search Parameter Area In the search parameter area you can determine the location where the search should be conducted as well as define the search parameters 5 10 PVs Browsing and Searching Here you can also save defined search parameters to a file as well as load previously saved ones search location search parameters controls File system Marker Content on Network Files with following metadata File Name File Format Interchange File Forma 00 Pr on Descriptive Reset Load Find it Figure 5 8 The search parameter area All items of the search parameter area will be explained in the follow ing Search Location With the drop down lists Content on and in you can determine the lo cation where the search should be conducted Select from it whether you want to search the contents of a particular system or the whole net work It offers the same possibilities as the system network drop down list in a browsing pane see section The Directory Tree on page 5 3 for more details Only the database of the local storage and or the databases of the Spycer applications in the SpycerNet will be used for a search Drives and directories not indexed in the database s i e not included in the watched folders sett
202. r system either they were triggered from or are carried out on your system Additional ly it details only those tasks that may render a system busy see sec tion The Status Bar on page 5 9 Whenever such a task is triggered an entry can be found here For example if you start a defragmentation on another system in the SpycerNet see section Defragmenter on page 7 4 or re scan your watched folders see section The Context Menus on page 9 28 or someone else in the SpycerNet starts a task on your system it will be noted here Furthermore as long as the task is not finished each entry informs you about Its progress in the last col umn of the list for example with the help of a progress bar Then it may detail the time remaining its progress in percent and the data rate 7 15 Spycer User Guide PVs 7 16 Status Progress running 58 95 20 MB s Figure 7 8 Job in progress In detail the table of the job list provides the following information Column Explanation Created by Details the system that triggered the task Job Type The type of job that has been triggered is stated in this column e g copy dvscopy move delete scan etc If the job type appears with auto in front it was initiated by the task scheduler of Spycer see section The Task Scheduler on page 7 18 Src Peer The source peer Details the source of the data in the SpycerNet i e the name of
203. ragmentation tool because it will not heed image file sequences Therefore do not use any oth er defragmentation tool than the ones from DVS for a defrag mentation of a video storage Managing Data It is recommended to defragment storages at regular intervals il even with lesser amounts of data stored on them Then newly copied or captured material can be better positioned on the storage and later defragmentation runs have less to deal with To run the defragmenter on an SNFS storage you must log on to the computer system with administrative rights for the stor age With Spycer you can defragment either single files clips or several ones in one step To defragment more than one file clip you can either select several ones in a contents area of the browse and search tools or de fragment the directory or drive that contains them With a Spycer that supports SNFS see section Program Vari ants of Spycer on page 1 6 you can also optimize the free space of a storage For this initiate a defragmentation of the complete drive volume Works only on SNFS storages The following details how to assess the defragmentation degree and how to initiate a defragmentation Assessing the Defragmentation Status The defragmentation status of a file clip can be seen in the browse and search area as well as in the file metadata view of the metadata area In the browse and search area you find this information in a contents ar
204. ration Defrag File Name File Format Audio Channels Audio Sample Rate 48000 io Bit Depth 16 Duration Figure 5 6 Contents area in thumbnail view The following table shows the material and data types that can be viewed in the contents area of a browsing area and explains the way they are displayed In the thumbnail view video clips are shown in the contents area of a brows ing pane with a thumbnail preview When a clip is selected a scrub bar be low the thumbnail will be available that can be used to preview the clip in still images see section Previewing Data via Thumbnails on page 6 2 video clips In the text information view video clips are indicated by this icon In case it is visible in the thumbnail view it indi cates either a video clip whose data is currently not available or an invalid clip Then wait a few seconds and give Spycer time to gather the data If nec essary refresh the view of the directo ry contents area If after that the icon is still visible see to it that the right video material is provided on the respective video storage 5 7 Spycer User Guide PVs 5 8 audio clips project files still images unknown directories drives systems Audio clips are shown with this icon in the browsing pane in the text informa tion as well as thumbnail view Audio files that contain more than one mono or stereo channel multiple channels are als
205. re 7 21 edit job EEE EINEN 7 21 in joB list a ae 7 18 interval wo eee nennen 7 21 permissions to edit job 7 22 remote access permissions 7 18 SpycerAgent ccccccccecccee eee ee 7 18 scheduler display 4 7 Screenshots oo eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeseeees 1 5 script SpycerAgent use A 20 Ser b bar sus case 2 2 6101 0 10 BEE 6 5 preview area 6 4 6 5 8 3 8 6 thumbnail 5 7 6 2 search Controls _ eenennnenn 5 12 search location neenennnen 5 11 search file path 9 29 show all content 9 29 search parameter area 5 10 search parameters nnnnnn 5 11 search parameters are 4 10 search tool uaneeneeaneeeeeeneeeennnn 5 10 contents area oo eee cece 5 13 save search as text 5 15 show in browser 0ceeee eee 5 15 USIJE arenaen Na eRT 5 14 SegMeEntat on nn 7 6 select all c nenn 9 31 selective viewing ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 5 9 sequence files ccce 3 10 9 22 serial number of dongle 4 17 SEFVET Be 2 6 SEIVICE nennen 2 5 A 18 settings Confirmation een 9 2 settings pane cceaesnnneneennneeenennnnnen 9 2 SELUD nonenannnennnnennnnnnnnnnnenenn nennen 3 8 shoot dates cunaeneenneeneeneneneennn 4 9 Shortcuts cccaaneannennnnnseeeneennnnn A 12 shortcuts on Mac OS A 12 show all conte
206. re included in the project 8 5 Spycer User Guide PVs With the button RENAME you can change the file name s of the il singled out material Please refer to section Renaming on page 7 2 for further details A defragmentation of the singled out material can be initiated with the button DEFRAG See section Defragmenter on page 7 4 for more information With the drop down list Source of the area Timecode you can select different types of timecode to be displayed in the file me tadata view GENERIC the first and last source timecode read from the files headers KEYCODE the first and last keycode in formation read from the files headers and INDEX the start and stop index first and last frame number read from the file names 8 2 2 Header Data 8 6 You can switch to a view of the header data of the singled out material with the button HEADER DATA see section The Metadata Controls on page 8 3 Most file formats provide a file header where further information about its content are detailed for example in an image file often its height width and color depth is detailed Some file formats e g dpx files are capable of storing even more information These information are usually written in a specified format into the file headers and can be read and interpreted by different software applications that support these kind of information Among them you find for example the name of
207. rea Figure 4 5 User interface in task scheduler mode menu bar Same as in section User Interface in the Metadata Mode on page 4 3 task scheduler The task scheduler area provides information about area scheduled tasks on your system or on other sys tems in the SpycerNet Additionally the tasks on your local peer can be controlled from here for ex ample by canceling them browse and Same as in section User Interface in the Metadata search area Mode on page 4 3 4 1 4 User Interface in the Record Scheduler Mode With the button RECORD SCHEDULER directly below the menu bar you can switch to the record scheduler of Spycer The following figure shows the user interface of Spycer when the RECORD SCHEDULER but ton is pressed 4 6 PVs Software Reference menu bar scheduler display job list ___ machine list browse and search area Figure 4 6 User interface in record scheduler mode menu bar Same as in section User Interface in the Metada ta Mode on page 4 3 scheduler display Showing the timeline and the record bars queued in running and completed in an overview job list Job list in the record scheduler showing all fin ished interrupted paused etc jobs browse and Same as in section User Interface in the Metada search area ta Mode on page 4 3 machine list Lists all VENICE devices configured for FIMS in form of their identifiers like IP address
208. ribed in section The Configuration Menu on page 9 2 and some additional settings depending on the system Further information about the configuration tool of the DVS software can be found in the documentation of your DVS video B 2 system 3 5 4 Exiting the Integrated Spycer The Spycer application integrated in the video system s software will be ended when the whole DVS software is exited Further information about how to do this can be found in the documentation of the video system software M7 Exiting the DVS software and thus the integrated Spycer will il not terminate the background process when a local content management is enabled The process is started during the loading of the operating system fully operational even with no user logged in and terminated only when the system is shut down see section SpycerAgent on page 2 5 for more de tails 3 18 Software Reference This chapter provides you with a detailed reference and overview of the user interface with all its tabs and menus The items of the different tabs will be outlined when necessary separately for every mode and state Furthermore you find a description about how to change the lay out of the user interface and explanations about the menu bar to the top left of the program 4 1 Spycer User Guide DVS 4 1 Overview of the User Interface This section gives you a first overview of the Spycer user interface Af t
209. rking with Metadata This will open a further window containing all enabled entry fields for the clip file The entry fields will be the same as when using the EDIT button to the bottom left of the metadata area e Fill in the respective fields with the descriptive data as wanted and click the button OK The descriptive data of all selected clips will now be changed and saved to the clip files This will be indicated as meta edit job in the job list The metadata which were assigned to a file in the VENICE cli ent software are visible in Spycer in the descriptive metadata Customized Descriptive Data Customized descriptive data fields can be added to the software and la belings of already existing entry fields can be changed as well If you want to define more than the given entry fields for the descriptive data please contact the DVS service department The new entry fields will then be available and editable in the Spycer user interface All metadata will be saved to the database in Spycer If new en il try fields are added to the descriptive data you will have to scan the respective clip files anew Customized descriptive data fields that are not typical for a specific file format can also be defined for the metadata file of a metaclip in Spycer The descriptive data will then only be saved to the metadata file of the respective clip 8 13 Spycer User Guide Dvs 8 3 Working with Metadata Once materi
210. rom the beginning again To switch off the loop mode simply click this button again These buttons jump to the beginning or end of the clip displayed in the preview area The first button jumps to the beginning of the scrub bar while the second button jumps to Its end This button sets a marker at the position of the cursor on the scrub bar Alternatively you can set a fixed value in the position entry field to the right of the video overlay Further information about markers and il their usage can be found in the supple ment user guides of the respective DVS devices This button deletes the marker when the cursor is set at its position in the dailies workflow PVs Previewing Data 00 00 14 07 These controls are items providing functions for F Lock FR the dailies workflow in e g CLIPSTER see the supplement user guides of the respective DVS devices The entry field allows you to enter a frame accu rate value the cursor will jump to on the scrub bar when pressing Enter From the drop down list you can select the frames to be recalculated when e g audio and video material have differ ent frame counts When pressing the button Lock FR you can lock the drop down list at Its set frame number 6 2 4 The Status Bar At the bottom of the preview area a status bar can be found showing you information about the clip and its proxy It details for example whether a proxy clip is available for a preview the c
211. rve file by file REMOVE This button deletes entries from the list Select an entry in the list and delete it by clicking the button REMOVE 9 23 Spycer User Guide Dvs 9 1 13 The Group Watch Folders 9 24 With the settings items of the group Watch Folders you determine the locations on your local storage that should be searched for video and audio material by the SpycerAgent see section The Group General on page 9 11 and afterwards be monitored for file movements All data found in these volumes directories will be written into a database ad ministered by the SpycerAgent The contents of the database is then displayed in Spycer and available for search procedures Additionally it is the database that will be visible to other Spycer in the SpycerNet if browse and search permissions are given see section Remote Access Permissions on page 1 3 This happens if the drop down lists in the column Indexing are set to on If Indexing is set to off the folders are shared in the SpycerNet without scanning indexing them in ad vance When using this feature the metadata will not be stored in the database in order to prevent time consuming indexing processes A viewing or reading of contents on other drives or directories il on your system local reading including that of mounted net work drives is still possible with Spycer With a local content management enabled the appl
212. s provided by a dongle in the SpycerNet do as follows e f the computer system where your Spycer application is installed is turned off simply start it e Afterwards start the Spycer user interface see section Starting the Software on page 3 6 During the loading of the operating system it will ask locally as well as in the network if there is a dongle available and whether it provides a license If a license is available it will be handed to the SpycerAgent if enabled as well as the user interface of your Spycer application Nevertheless to grab a license with an operating system already run ning and a Spycer application registering as Spycer Basic you have to do the following e f running close the Spycer user interface see section Exiting the Software on page 3 14 e Next restart the Spycer user interface see section Starting the Software on page 3 6 During the start up the Spycer user interface will ask locally as well as in the network if there is a dongle available and whether it provides a license If a license is available it will be given to your user interface The above steps will be enough to grab a license if a local content man agement is disabled on the system However if your Spycer application runs with the local content management enabled a message will ap pear informing you about the new detected license Then you have to do the following in addition e Follow the instruct
213. scribed in section Starting the Software on page 3 6 e Open the menu Tools and navigate to License Management File request as indicated in the following Tools Calculator Scan Event Viewer License Management File request Gather Logs File update Figure 2 2 License file request menu This will prompt Spycer to generate a license file request and to open a new e mail in your standard e mail program The lower part of the file request e mail may not be edited or deleted It carries the information valid for your specific system You have to send this e mail to the DVS e mail address as already entered in your address field Spycer will also save a txt file to your desktop with the information valid for your system to document the license request for you After having received your e mail license file request DVS will generate a li cense for your specific system and send it ina txt file via e mail to you Perform the following to load the license into your Spycer applica tion e Save the license txt file to your desktop e Start the Spycer application as described in section Starting the Software on page 3 6 e Open the menu Tools and navigate to License Management File update This will open a directory window named Please select the license file Usually the path to the desktop on your system is selected auto matically e Select the license txt file by double c
214. se them in the future again A click on this button opens a dialog window where you have to specify the storage path and file name of the search query file to be saved After the confirmation of your settings the file will be saved to the specified loca tion sg see section Interesting Files and Folders on page A 14 With the button FIND IT you start a search It will be per formed at the selected location and will yield the results according to the set search parameters in the results area to the right As long as the search is processed the system s where the search is performed will be busy i e their icons will appear with a clock superimposed see section The Directory Tree on page 5 3 With the focus on the search parameter area a search can also be initiated by pressing the En ter key 5 2 2 The Results Area The results area of the search tool displays the results soon after a search was Initiated File Name Cabrio_ 05d tif E Duration Defrag s File Name Frame Rate Duration Defrag H All Files Figure 5 9 The results area Once a search is finished the number of hits will be displayed at the top left of the results area Right below it the found files can be seen Most of the results area resembles the contents area of a browsing pane and provides Its possibilities as well For example you can adjust 5 13 Spycer User Guide PVs the viewing with the controls at
215. settings in the group Administrator of the menu option Con fig The options and settings that are to be found are described in sec tion The Group Administrator on page 9 4 In this setup window you generally have to If wanted log in and or set a new password If wanted assign peers from the SpycerNet list to a particular group or add a new group 3 3 3 Scan Filter Settings 3 10 With a local content management enabled you also have to determine the file types that Spycer should not display as sequence file types This step will be skipped in case the local content management has been disabled see section General Settings on page 3 8 and section The Group General on page 9 11 PVs Getting Started ven if their Figure 3 3 Scan filter settings The settings of the group Scan Filter in the setup menu do not differ from the settings in the group Scan Filter of the menu option Config The options and settings that are to be found are described in section The Group Scan Filter on page 9 22 In this setup window you gen erally have to Add additional file formats to the list with the help of the button ADD or revise the list by either altering entries double click with the mouse or selecting an entry and deleting it from the list with the button REMOVE 3 3 4 Watch Folder Settings If a local content management has been enabled you have to set the watch
216. t in the SpycerNet as well as performs a local content manage ment but browse and search permissions are not given Allow at least a browsing and searching on the system see section The Group Permissions on page 9 21 You can view what permissions are given for the respective peer in the properties window see section The Properties Window on page 9 34 The data is write protect ed Remove the write protection from the file on the respective peer A contents area of the browse and search tools does not show the want ed material The required data is not stored in the selected di rectory Move copy or capture the required data to this directory The selective view drop down list is set to a se lective viewing Set the selective view drop down list to the ind of data that you want to display or to All Files see section The Status Bar on page 5 9 Some files e g mov require the installation of third party programs nstall the third party program see section System Requirements on page 1 8 such as the QuickTime player You receive an error message when copying moving data You tried a copying be tween different systems in the network For copy procedures the Spycer application running on the foreign system must be set to the appropriate access rights read per missions Otherwise a copy process will not be possible Set the access perm
217. t metadata permission activated you enable others in the SpycerNet to change metadata entries of the files in your watched fold ers file headers as well as database entries This permission includes the browse and search permission but still a real access to your system is denied All other permissions enable them to control your SpycerAgent for file related tasks such as a copying or defragmentation This is meant by remote controlling other Spycers For moving or copying operations you must have at least read permission on the source system and write permission on the target system Nevertheless real damage can only be done with the write permission because with it you can for exam ple rename file sequences or delete data Other Spycer applications have access to the material in your il watched folders only see section SpycerAgent on page 2 5 To allow other Spycer applications to defragment data on your system both read and write permissions have to be given For further information about these settings see section Notes about Networking with Spycer on page 2 7 9 1 12 The Group Scan Filter 9 22 Video material is often stored not in a single file but in numerous indi vidual image files gathered in one directory where one file on the stor age equals one frame of video These image sequences will be displayed by Spycer as a single entry i e as one video clip By default the Spycer application
218. t real time playout or in gest The throttle mechanisms are automatically adjusted regardless whether you are using a local copy SAN or a network copy NAS based transfer method If datarate limitation is activated Spycer will se rialize all jobs in the job queue Limitation Activated Figure 9 6 The group Datarate Settings Path This column lists all local drives that can be found by Spycer Limitation When activating the respective check box in the col umn Activated the value in the Limitation column will be alterable Use the up and down arrows to change the value in steps of 5 Mb s or select it with the mouse pointer and enter a new value All copy or move jobs on this volume will be limited to the set da tarate Activated In this column you find check boxes to activate the dif ferent paths for the datarate limitation When you click into a check box the respective value in the column Limitation will be highlighted and the up and down arrows will be available The Spycer versions 2 2 and higher use approx 20 head il room of the set datarate In very rare cases more than one Spycer clients have a shared network access If these Spycer clients have different datarate settings the lower value of the two is used for datarate limita tions 9 7 Spycer User Guide PVs 9 1 5 The Group File Transfer Ports The group File Transfer Ports allows you to configure further ne
219. ta The changes will be stored in the file header s when in the header data view and supported by the file format and or in the data re cord of the respective file in the database adminis tered by the SpycerAgent The CANCEL button discards all alterations to the currently active metadata view 8 2 Metadata Views Spycer provides five metadata views to the metadata of the singled out file file metadata header data and production metadata You can switch through the different metadata views with the upper controls provided to the left buttons FILE VANC DATA HEADER DATA PRODUC TION DATA and DESCRIPTIVE DATA Once the button EDIT is clicked and if the respective fields are not dimmed you can change their metadata The changes will be stored either in the file header directly and or in the data record of the respective file with the button SAVE This section explains shortly the different metadata views provided by the Spycer user interface 8 2 1 File Metadata If not already displayed in Spycer activate the view of the file metadata with the button FILE of the controls see section The Metadata Con trols on page 8 3 8 4 Working with Metadata General File Data Timecode GENERIC Rename Duration Defragmented Defrag TC Frame Rate Image Sound Width Height Channels Depth Alpha Depth ing Aspect Ratio Pixel Ratio Bit Depth Sampling Rate File Count 206 Frame Count Field Mode progressiv Y D
220. ta as well as their corresponding metadata either locally stored or distributed on several systems connected to a network The following lists and ex plains shortly the key features of Spycer PA There are several variants of Spycer available and not all may i provide the complete feature set Further information about them can be found in section Program Variants of Spycer on page 1 6 Browse and Search With Spycer you can browse local or network storages the lat ter either via the SpycerNet or with the help of mounted net work drives as for the Avid Workflow option With its search tool you can find the wanted material swiftly by combining var ious parameters such as file names or metadata information All material and data displayed in the browse and search area can be shown either in text information or thumbnail view Viewing of Material Video clips and images can be viewed either with their thumb nails in the browse and search area or when double clicked in the enlarged preview area Both the thumbnails as well as the preview area provide a scrub bar timeline where you can move to different positions within a video clip s sequence Once video material is available in the preview area you may also use the built in media player for a real time viewing requires a proxy or gather further information about it in the metadata area Managing Metadata After data is selected and sho
221. ter system see section Program Variants of Spycer on page 1 6 has to be installed first It is available for several operating systems This section describes for each available operating system separately how to install Spycer PA On some DVS video devices Spycer is already installed e g on i the DVS SAN CLIPSTER or the Pronto family Then you may skip this section and continue with section Starting the Soft ware on page 3 6 Linux only When installing Spycer on this system the Code Meter installation is mandatory The CodeMeter software can be downloaded from the Code Meter internet pages if necessary The newest version of the Spycer application can be found on the Spycer internet site www spycer net or www spycer de After the installation of the software you have to update the license s on your system performing the steps as described in section The Li cense File on page 2 9 or in section The Dongle on page 2 11 de pending on the number of Spycer clients 3 1 1 Installation under Linux The installation of a stand alone Spycer for Linux operating systems normally requires two files The CodeMeter installation file and the Spycer installation file If you are In possession of a licensed Spycer they usually can be found on the enclosed CD ROM With a licensed Spycer it is recommended to install the CodeMeter application first In case you require Spycer Ba sic only you
222. terface of Spycer is not running because otherwise you may disrupt SpycerNet processes running on your system e g a defragmentation It can be disconnected safely only when the comput er system is turned off Further information about the SpycerAgent and the SpycerNet can be found in section Software Structure on page 2 4 The user interface of Spycer and the SpycerAgent run indepen il dently from each other Both will check separately whether a valid license is provided to enable the respective feature set see section Software Structure on page 2 4 You find enclosed in the delivery of the licensed version of Spycer a special key chain Please fasten it to the dongle to rec ognize it later without difficulty as belonging to Spycer Mac only Please note that in some cases your system may not shut down or boot normally with the dongle plugged in To solve this problem unplug the dongle during shutdown or re boot Floating License The dongle provides a certain number of floating licenses for the shar ing only and the Spycer applications user interface as well as SpycerAgent can grab the licenses from the dongle when they are connecting to the SpycerNet only one license per system will be as signed As long as there are licenses available each Spycer Basic reg istering in the SpycerNet will then run with the licensed feature set Once the maximum number of licenses is assigned every other Spycer
223. terial to the clip board Ctrl X Mac X Paste from clipboard to the selected position location Ctrl V Mac VI Opens advanced Properties win dow Delete directories files from the storage Ctrl Shift D Switch the tab Advanced to the tab General at the top left of the window Del Close an open window of the Spycer application Linux Windows only Alt F4 Exit Spycer Alt FA Mac Q Toggle to full screen mode and Alt Return back Toggle to full screen mode on or off Alt Enter Open the configuration settings Mac only X Minimize Mac only X M Open the online help F1 Mac H Shift Spycer User Guide PVs A 4 Interesting Files and Folders The Spycer application is programed with the best know how DVS has to offer in the field of digital video It provides some files and folders that may be of interest to the user and or the system administrator Leave the rest of the files in the directories mentioned in the A following as they are Do not try to run them if they are exe cutables or even delete them This may cause harm to your computer system and or the Spycer application installed Folder s log Location Linux etc opt DVS Spycer log Mac Library Application Support DVS Spycer log Windows C Users All Users DVS Spycer log Condit
224. the next time Spycer is started However then a message window will appear right after the starting of the user interface where you have to legitimize your access again i e you have to enter the correct password once more Network Drive Mounting If you want to m type in your pass HUGODDY Admin Mount Don t mount Figure 9 14 Accessing network drives during start up User Details your current user name that will be used to mount the network drives Password In this entry field you have to enter the correct password that in combination with the user name allows you to access the network drives 9 20 DVS The Menus 9 1 11 The Group Permissions With the group Permissions you set the remote access permissions i e you configure a remote control of your Spycer application It may be useful if other Spycer applications in the SpycerNet should have ac cess to your system and with these settings you determine what other peers are allowed to do on your system etal D Select all Deselect all Figure 9 15 The group Permissions The following settings items are provided User amp Groups In this pane select the user or group that you want to specify the remote access permissions for Currently only the default user group is available Remote Access Permissions Browse amp Search Other Spycer applications can browse your data and perform searc
225. tion The Context Menus on page 9 28 Further information about proxy clips can be found in section General Information about Proxies on page 6 11 e Press the play button EEE of the preview controls Then the contents of the clip is shown in real time in the video overlay of the preview area PA Locally stored video clips can be played in non real time even i without proxies available They will be played according to the settings of the overlay menu option Force realtime see sec tion The Video Overlay on page 6 4 a With a container format such as movor mpeg selected for a viewing that contains audio as well you can also listen to its audio For this the option Force realtime has to be enabled see section The Video Overlay on page 6 4 Spycer is able to read several MXF formats while they are still being recorded The read while write feature allows brows ing and previewing while writing the file is still in process if the codec is read while write capable 6 2 7 Previewing Audio Audio clips can be as easily previewed as video clips As soon as an au dio file is singled out see section How to Single out Data on page 6 7 you can listen to it and see its audio waves in the audio wave form monitor Pr For a preview of audio you can use locally stored data or data il that is stored on a SAN only A direct preview of this material from another system in the S
226. tion The Video Overlay on page 6 4 the job list see section The Job List on page 7 15 or the record scheduler see section User Inter face in the Record Scheduler Mode on page 4 6 Open in n indow Open with Show all conte ees niani Show all metadata Move to folder Open in new window Copy Ctrl C Paste Ctri V Delete de c Ctrit A Nev older Rename Ctrl C Scan metadata Defragment Create metaclip s New folder Rename Properties Scan metadata mport metadata fragment e metacli iptive metadata View Properties Figure 9 18 Context menu of directory tree left side and contents area right side 9 28 The Menus The context menu of the directory tree provides the following func tions Open in new window When right clicking a peer or folder in the direc tory tree and selecting this menu option a further window will open up showing the directory tree and the respective contents area belonging to it Show all content Initiates a search for all data available at the se lected location and displays it in the results area subdirectories are searched as well see section The Results Area on page 5 13 i ae this option performs a search for the respective directory search string in the criteria File Path Asa result you receive all entries in the data base that contain the searched for string in their file paths Move to fold
227. twork ports that should be used exclusively for file transfers e g copying pro cedures By adding them to the list box on the right you can improve the data transfer rate of your Spycer when copying or moving files to or from other Spycer applications in the SpycerNet These network connections will be used for file transfers only and op erate in combination with the already existing network connection to the SpycerNet CM OOOO o nt to use exclusively for high speed file data transfer rate from yo are used in parallel with Selected Ports Figure 9 7 The group File Transfer Ports The group File Transfer Ports provides the following settings Items Only active network connections will be displayed When a il network connection is inactive e g no cable connected its IP address will not be available Available Ports In this list box you find available additional net work connections Select the ones that should be used for file transfers and move them to the list box to the right with the appropriate button All available additional ports that are il currently active will be listed regard less whether they can connect to an other Spycer application or not 9 8 The Menus Selected Ports This list box details the additional network con nections that will be used for file transfers To remove a port from the list select one and press the appropriate button to move it to
228. ty to alter the IP or service daemon configurations It provides the following items SpycerAgent ADVANCED START STOP This entry field states the path on your system to the background process as well as its file name To select another SpycerAgent you can either enter another path file name or use the button to the right MM to select one via the opening dialog win dow This button provides the same functionality as the ADVANCED button of the general configuration settings For a description please refer to section The Group General on page 9 11 After installing the background process button IN STALL it has to be started This can be made with the START button Afterwards it will be running on your system administering the data and database Once the background process is started button START it can be stopped with this button After wards it is no longer running and the connection to the SpycerNet will be lost However after a re boot it will be started automatically again A stop ping of the process will make the UNINSTALL button available Spycer User Guide DvS A 20 INSTALL A background process must be installed before it can operate This can be done with this button When the SpycerAgent is installed it will be start ed automatically during the loading of the operat ing system To start it now the button START has to be pressed available after an installation of th
229. urrent position of the scrub bar cursor in frames and the clip s total amount of frames Furthermore when viewing clips over the SpycerNet the status bar also indicates the download progress of the proxy from the foreign sys tem as well as the data rate of the download downloading pr m 59 59 5 MBit s Figure 6 4 Progress bar of a proxy download via the SpycerNet 6 2 5 How to Single out Data To single out data and view its content in the preview area you have to do the following e n the browse and search area see chapter Software Reference on page 4 1 make the wanted material available in a contents area by browsing or searching for it e In case a specific image of a video clip should be displayed in the preview area select it with the help of the thumbnail s scrub bar see section Previewing Data via Thumbnails on page 6 2 e Next you have several possibilities at hand Use either one of the following Select the respective file with the mouse and drag n drop it somewhere In the metadata or preview area Double click the respective file with the mouse 6 7 Spycer User Guide PVs Use the menu option Show all metadata on its context menu see section The Context Menus on page 9 28 This will single out the selected data and further information about it will be displayed in the metadata area see chapter Previewing Data on page 6 1 If the singled out data
230. use the local drive V to store video and audio data So the drive V should be added to the list box above via the INCLUDE FOLDER button 9 25 Spycer User Guide PVs 9 26 Network drives and important system fi drives directories cannot be selected as watch folders The SpycerAgent registers all data even unknown files as well as all events that take place in the watch folders To minimize the size of its da tabase and the overall traffic for the SpycerAgent it is recommended to include directories drives that contain files of formats supported by Spycer only see section section Supported File Formats on page A 6 EXCLUDE FOLDER Excludes a drive directory from being displayed in Spycer Usually the exclusion of a specific di rectory is made to save it from being scanned into the database as a subdirectory of an in cluded folder However with this you can ex clude any drive directory whereupon they will not be displayed in Spycer A click on this but ton opens a dialog window where you can se lect the drive directory that should be excluded Nevertheless other drives directo ries can be excluded as well whereupon they will not be displayed in Spycer at all REMOVE The included and excluded folders can be re vised with this button Select an entry in the list and delete it by clicking the button REMOVE The Menus The list provided by
231. user interface willbe setto a default layout and all areas will be visible again Maximize Preview Area This menu option performs the same op eration as the Maximize menu option of the video overlay s context menu in the preview area see section The Video Overlay on page 6 4 i e it maximizes the view on the preview area To restore the layout you can use the menu option Reset Layout see above or the menu option Minimize on the context menu of the preview area see section The Video Overlay on page 6 4 4 3 5 The Help Menu You can get additional information about the Spycer application via the menu option of the menu Help It contains the following menu options About Manual html Manual pdf Figure 4 18 The Help menu Software Reference Menu Option Explanation About With this menu option you can receive fur ther information about the Spycer soft ware In the opening window you find for example the precise version number of the software or additional license informa tion e g the serial number of the dongle or the expiration date and time The latter may be useful to troubleshoot license is sues To open this menu option you can press F12 on your keyboard as well Manual html The documentation of the Spycer applica tion can be accessed via this menu option It opens the documentation in HTML for mat Alternatively you can
232. utions will be de tailed followed by a special troubleshooting that may be necessary when installing Spycer under the Windows Vista operating system A 1 1 General Troubleshooting The table below lists some errors that may occur during the operation of Spycer and details how to resolve them Error Cause Solution The Spycer software does not accept the li cense file i e Spycer runs as Spycer Basic al though a license has been uploaded Maybe changes have been made to the e mail while making a license file request Contact the DVS service department and make a second license file request from the respective client see section The License File on page 2 9 Spycer runs as Spycer Basic although a license is available The CodeMeter applica tion is not installed The CodeMeter application has to be in stalled on both ends the system that dis tributes the licenses and the systems that should receive them see section Installing the Software on page 3 2 Especially for Linux and Mac OS the Code Meter installation is mandatory Spycer runs as Spycer Basic although a dongle with floating licenses on it is connected Your license was avail able for evaluation rea sons only and has expired Get a new non expiring license from DVS see section Licensing on page 2 9 The dongle has been plugged in after the user interface was started See section How to Con
233. vate the respective check box In this case some net work ports have to be free and available to connect successful ly to the SpycerNet Otherwise Spycer will be confined to its localhost only IP address 127 0 0 1 has to be used For further information about this please see section Important Notes on page 1 9 Assign a name at will to your home system host Enable the local content management SpycerAgent if wanted You have to select one of the radio buttons for the local con tent management option As long as no selection is made the button NEXT will be unavailable If the IP address is set to localhost and the local content management Is disabled Spycer will display no data at all If the SpycerAgent is not running disable the local content il management and then enable it again by using the radio but tons 3 9 Spycer User Guide PVs 3 3 2 Administrative Settings In the following step you can define and manage computer groups for a secured SpycerNet by using the existing infrastructure Every peer can have a password protected administrator account and peers can be remotely assigned to a secure SpycerNet group Secured Spycer peers are only visible when they belong to the same group Login No administrato Set administrator pass p of the selected peers Figure 3 2 Administrative settings The settings of the group Administrator in the setup menu do not differ from the
234. vides you with a quick overview of all the markers of a certain selected shoot date When double clicking a file in the marker list you can view it and Its set markers in the preview area see section User Interface in the Metada ta Mode on page 4 3 Furthermore you can set or configure the de scriptive data and save the files to a certain destination Search Mode In the search mode you can search for data as easily aS you can browse for it You will be able to find any searched for material by com bining various search parameters such as file names or metadata infor mation You can select a particular system or the whole network from the drop down list at the top left of the search parameters and then en ter the search parameters in the respective fields The following figure shows the user Interface in search mode 4 9 Spycer User Guide search parameters area 4 10 results area File Forma v METACLIP v METACLIP u N Figure 4 10 Browse and search area in search mode search parameters area Provides you with buttons drop down lists and entry fields to configure the search parameters You can select deselect and add remove search parameters to search the contents of the Spycer network or of a particular system When clicking the button FIND IT you activate the search results area Lists allsearch results you have configured with the search parameters When
235. viewing Data Reload proxy Reloads the proxy of the clip displayed in the pre view area Force realtime This option holds the frame rate of the video clip to be played out meaning the clip will be played in real time but for example when no proxy is avail able frames in between may be dropped to achieve this If enabled it shows a cross in front When disabled the clip will be played out frame by frame as fast as possible With a container format such as mov or mpeg selected for a viewing that contains audio as well you will hear the audio stream when the Force realtime option is enabled Mode on page 4 9 further menu options of the context menu will be enabled Then you can select the options Add marker Delete marker and Delete all markers as well i When previewing data with set markers see section Marker N 6 2 2 The Scrub Bar If the singled out file is a video or audio clip you find a scrub bar be neath the video overlay representing a timeline of the clip s contents With its cursor you can move within and view the content of the clip Simply select the cursor with the mouse and move it along the scrub bar to the wanted position or click somewhere on the scrub bar to move the scrub bar cursor there instantly While working with video clips and the scrub bar or the preview controls below the video overlay always adjusts to your moves and displays the image of the selected position 6 2 3
236. w u 5 8 thumbnail of image 5 8 6 2 stopping of play na 6 6 storage CAPaCity ree 9 35 details oo eececceec eee e eee 9 35 SAC Cantus che cractscuntactometis 7 13 9 35 supported files audio file formats A 11 COAECS nn A 10 container file formats_ A 8 file formats o nenn A 6 system TOV ENO NEPRUECHENRVERRERERGURBIFEFEREEFCEHEEN 5 4 HOME ae 5 4 COM Yan 5 3 properties 2 9 34 State oe eeeeeeee eee e ees 5 4 5 9 thumbnail nenn 5 8 system requirements n s 1 8 T target grOuUp San 1 4 task bar intemeiere 3 17 task scheduler 2 2000 7 18 l 8 delete jobs oo eee 7 21 Managing jODS 0ceeceeeees 7 18 task scheduler area o e 4 6 text search 2 nen 5 15 text information view 5 6 5 9 audio clip 5 8 fragmentation degree 7 5 project file en 5 8 Still INGE use ee 5 8 unknown file osese 5 8 video Clip rrr 5 7 text SAVE ooo e eee ce cece ceeseeeseeseeeeeeeaees 9 31 thumbnail audio elip ensure 5 8 directory onen 5 8 AVE aore a ee 5 8 project file 5 8 still image 5 8 6 2 SYSTEMS wackan nun answer 5 8 unknown file 2 5 8 video clip 5 7 6 2 thumbnail view 5 6 5 9 6 2 1 5 THO ae ee 9 35 timecode preview nn 6 4 tool calculator 4 14 7 13 CODY sareei ea 7 7 defragmenter
237. when editing the me tadata of e g dpx files When editing metadata be sure about what you are doing 1 9 Spycer User Guide DvS iJ To run Spycer successfully under the Windows Vista operating system please see section Troubleshooting under Windows LiJ Vista on page A b To use floating licenses the CodeMeter application has to be installed on all participating systems i e on the system that distributes the licenses and the system that should receive one Hence the multicast mode is used by Spycer by default your network environment must be multicast capable 1 7 Latest Highlights in Spycer Newer versions of Spycer usually provide features that older applica tions may be missing The following lists the most important features and functions that were new in the latest Spycer versions Please note that file related tasks or further information due to il new features may not be available on systems with older Spycer versions even if triggered from a newer application ver sion in the SpycerNet see section Software Structure on page 2 4 Windows Active Directory access management for Windows Linux and MAC OS The new P2 and XDCAM workflows Spycer virtualizes external drives as folders in its browse and search area This enables you to move and copy content in the Spycer network and to edit its meta data easily The Avid Workflow option in Spycer With it you can work d
238. wn in the preview area its meta data such as the header data or descriptive data is displayed as well Then they can be added or changed easily or searched for with Spycer s search tool Furthermore you can create metaclips vamc from several file formats which can be used as a container for video and audio clips Management Tools Spycer is equipped with several management tools such as high speed copying and a sophisticated defragmenter Spycer also offers a renaming tool for image sequences or a file for mat converter allowing you to convert video and image data from one file format to another Among other useful manage ment tools you find also a job list detailing current and past jobs performed on or by your system a task scheduler allowing Basics you to run management and maintenance tasks automatically at intervals or certain times as well as the P2 or XDCAM options that allow you to perform ingest operations with the help of virtual folders in Spycer SpycerNet One Spycer can perform all the above said on the computer system where it is installed locally By communicating with other systems sharing their databases and enabling a remote control of the applications for e g management tasks several systems can form the so called SpycerNet a scalable distrib uted content management network for data search and retrieval Rights Management Each Spycer contains a rights management to al
239. your system again as soon as another file is singled out or the Spycer user interface is closed To create proxies on another system in the SpycerNet you il must have read and write permissions on this system and the native Spycer application must be properly configured for the creation of proxies To preview an already available proxy in the SpycerNet only the browse and search permission are required Managing Data This chapter describes tools and instruments available in Spycer that will help you to manage vast amounts of data First several smaller management tools are described such as the renaming of image se quences the built in defragmenter or the storage space calculator Then follow descriptions of the job list and the task scheduler After that you will find information about the latest management features in Spycer such as the P2 and XDCAM ingest as well as creating metaclips Spycer User Guide Dvs 7 1 The Management Tools Several management tools supplement the usage of Spycer compris ing for example a renaming function for image sequences an inte grated high speed copying process and a sophisticated defragmentation of image sequences They will be described in this section 7 1 1 Renaming 7 2 Spycer provides a renaming tool for image sequences where you can easily change for instance the name prefixes frame numbers or file extensions When viewing the file related metadata of the

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