Once a year (or every three months or so) it is more efficient to add a year or a few months worth of weather feeds and air dates (when you schedule the air dates it will automatically insert program records). If done at the same time, it takes a little longer every year or three … Read more
From time-to-time the Harmonic manager machine becomes sluggish and unresponsive as well as has unpredictable things, like missed records, or unchanged router settings happen with ingests. At that time it is a good idea to restart the machine. Below describes the actions that should be taken to do that. From the task bar, select Restart. … Read more
This program works in conjunction with Polaris Play: Ingest and changes the SDI router sources as records take place. Occasionally the settings to this program are lost, or sometimes you may wish to set it up running under a different user. For reference, the setup for Polaris Live: Route is below: To reconfigure the router, … Read more
Occasionally you may either loose configuration information, or will want to set up PP:I using a different user. Below is configuration information that is necessary to have Polaris Play: Ingest working. From the main menu select Tools | Configuration. General Settings: Media Director IP (Control) Control IP Address: 192.168.1.156 Samba IP Address: 192.168.1.156 Files System Folders … Read more
In television technology, Active Format Description (AFD) is a standard set of codes that can be sent in the MPEG video stream or in the baseband SDI video signal that carries information about their aspect ratio and active picture characteristics. It has been used by television broadcasters to enable both 4:3 and 16:9 television sets … Read more
After media has been recorded by Polaris: Play Ingest the media needs to be trimmed and the record in ProTrack needs to be updated. This document will explain the four steps involved in doing this. 1. Reviewing the record list in Polaris: Play Ingest List., 2. Setting up a media port 3. trimming the media. And, … Read more
Here is a link to the 360NorthWorkflow diagram. It describes in general who is responsible for what work pieces in the TV workflow process.
Source Patch Name (Temp) Name Type Signal Actual IP Device Location Source (Prior) Name (Prior) Name in Old Sys (ALL Sources SD) Signal Actual 0 A1 Black SD Black SD Util Black Reference 1 Black Black Black Reference 1 A2 Bars SD Bars SD Util Color Bars 2 Bars Bars Color Bars 2 A3 ECR … Read more
Destination Patch Name (Temp) Name Type Signal Actual IP Device Location Destination (Prior) Name (Prio) Name in Old Sys (ALL Destinations SD) Signal Actual 0 F1 ECR QC1 SD ECR QC1 SD Monitor ECR QC Station 1 ECR QC1 SD ECRQC1 ECR QC Station 1 F2 PCR QC2 PCR QC2 Monitor PCR Shader QC Station … Read more
This post describes a portion of the television network system. The router numbers are 0-based. The IP addresses were correct as of 5/31/16. IMPORTANT NOTE: Rx C / Rx D have been reversed. Rx C is 192.168.1.88 and Rx D is 192.168.1.89