Avid DS Nitris 8.0 User guide

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Installation and Administration Guide

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Contents

Using Avid Support and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using the Product Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Avid DS Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

How to Order Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Contacting Avid Customer Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

E-mail Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Web Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Upload Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Avid Community Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Chapter 1 Setting up your Avid DS Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Installation Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Installing a Standalone Avid DS Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Setting up an Avid DS Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Installing New Avid DS Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Checklist: Preparing a New Avid DS Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Checklist: Installing a Standalone Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Checklist: Installing Multiple Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Upgrading Existing Avid DS workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Checklist: Preparing your Workstation for an Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Checklist: Upgrading a Standalone Avid DS Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Checklist: Upgrading a Workgroup with Multiple Avid DS Workstations . . . . . . 27

Removing Avid DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Checklist: Removing Avid DS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Managing a Workgroup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Adding a Workstation to a Standalone Avid DS Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Connecting Other Workstations in the Workgroup to the Controller . . . . . . . . . 30

Designating a New Controller for the Workgroup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Separating a Workstation from the Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Restarting a Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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Chapter 2 Configuring Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Configuring the Network Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using Two Network Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Installing the Microsoft Loopback Adapter on aStandalone Station . . . . . . . . . 36

Microsoft Windows Workgroups: Account Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Microsoft Windows Domains: Account Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Naming your Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Sharing Folders and Setting Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Sharing Folders in a Windows Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Sharing Folders in a Windows Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Creating User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Chapter 3 Installing Avid DS Software and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Installing Avid DS Software Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Installing the Avid DS Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Loading Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Installing and Removing Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Installing and Removing Type 1 Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Installing and Removing TrueType Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Installing Non-European Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Saving your Avid DS Nitris System Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Chapter 4 Installing the Remote Processing Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Remote Processing Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Minimal Requirements for Avid DS RP Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Network Hardware and Remote Processing Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

CPU Usage on Avid DS RP Workstations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Installing Avid DS RP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Avid Throttle Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Chapter 5 The Avid DMS Broker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

About the Avid DMS Broker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Installing Avid DMS Broker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Removing Avid DMS Broker 2.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Installing Java v1.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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Installing Avid DMS Broker 5.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Attaching the Dongle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Starting the DMS Broker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Using the DMS Administration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Changing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Configuring Users in the DMS Broker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

DMS Administration Tool User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

The Jobs Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

The Providers Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

The Profiles Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

The Services Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

The Users Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Chapter 6 Licensing Avid DS Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Requesting a License File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Installing the Registered License File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Chapter 7 Managing Your Storage Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Planning your Storage Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Sharing Storage Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Configuring your Storage Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Creating Media Folders on your Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Configuring the Media Indexing Service on your Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Accessing Storage on another Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Checklist: Installing Avid DS with Avid Unity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Establishing the Project Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Maintaining Disk Space on your Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Striping your Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Creating a Stripe Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Importing Foreign Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

About your Local Storage Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

The DS_v8.x Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

The DS Archives Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

The DS Projects Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

The DSPresets Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

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The VideoStorage and AudioStorage Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

The DSSystem Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Chapter 8 Using the Recovery DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Installing the Recovery DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Completely Rebuilding the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Avid Support and Services

The following topics provide general information about documentation and support

services:

• Using the Product Documentation

• Contacting Avid Customer Support

• Avid Training Services

Using the Product Documentation

The Avid DS Nitris documentation describes the features and hardware of all models within

the Avid DS family. Therefore, your system might not contain certain features and hardware

that are covered in the documentation.

Unless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the Windows XP operating

system.

This book uses the following conventions for mouse and/or pen usage:

This Term Means This with a Mouse Means This with a Pen

Click Quickly click and release the left mouse

button. Always use the left mouse button

unless otherwise stated.

Tap the tablet once with the tip of the pen,

or touch the pen to the tablet with enough

pressure to click.

Double-click Click the left mouse button twice

rapidly.

Quickly tap the tablet twice in the same

screen pixel or press the F5 key to go from

single to double-click.

Right-click Quickly click and release the right

mouse button.

Press the top portion of the switch on the

side of the pen or press the F6 key to go

from left to right-click.

Drag Click and hold the left mouse button or

the wheel while you move the mouse.

Press the pen to the tablet while moving

the pen.

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Avid DS Online Library

The Online Library contains the Avid DS Nitris documentation in a single PDF file. This

allows you to easily search through the file and print sections that you require.

If the online library was installed on your system, you can access it from the Help menu in

Avid DS Nitris. You can also access it directly from the Avid DS Software and Drivers

DVD, or download the most up-to-date PDF from the Avid DS Customer Support web site at

http://www.softimage.com/avidds.

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The PDF versions of Avid DS documentation require Adobe Reader 4.0 or later. If you need

to install Adobe Reader, you can download a free installer from Adobe's web page at

www.adobe.com.

To access the Online Library:

t In Avid DS Nitris, select Help > Online Library,

or

t Insert the Avid DS Software and Drivers DVD into your drive, and select Online

Library from the main menu.

How to Order Documentation

To order additional copies of the printed documentation from within the United States, call

Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843). If you are placing an order from outside the

United States, contact your local Avid representative.

You can also download printable PDF versions of the documentation from the Avid DS

Customer Support web site at http://www.softimage.com/avidds.

Contacting Avid Customer Support

Avid DS Customer Support offers assistance by phone, email, and the web. You are invited

to send your support requests to any of these channels. For urgent issues taht require

immediate assistance, use your local phone support channel.

Alt+key,

Ctrl+key,

Shift+key, etc.

Press and hold the first key while you press the second key. For example, “Press

Alt+F1” means to press and hold the Alt key while you press the F1 key.

This Term Means This with a Mouse Means This with a Pen

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If you are having trouble using your system:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It

is especially important to check each step of your workflow.

2. Check the Avid DS Support Center at http://www.softimage.com/avidds for the latest

information that might have become available.

E-mail Support

The e-mail address for Avid DS Customer Support is: [email protected]. You can use it

for sending bug reports, usability questions, and avidds.cab audit reports for system analysis.

All e-mails are logged in the support database and assigned a case number. Send one support

request per e-mail.

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It is mandatory that you include your SID number in the body of your e-mail message for

verification of your maintenance contract and case logging. Otherwise, response will be

delayed.

Web Support

The Avid DS Support Center at http://www.softimage.com/avidds provides quick access to a

wide range of resources from the Avid DS team—online documentation, tutorials, known

limitiations and other late-breaking information.

All software and driver updates can be downloaded from the Avid Download Center

http://www.avid.com/support/downloadcenter/index.asp.

Upload Utility

For troubleshooting purposes, you can upload your files for Avid Customer Support

personnel to examine. You can upload a project's archive, media files, or other necessary

data. Simply zip the files that you need to upload and use a short name (for easy retrieval),

such as archive.zip or Case274877.zip.

To upload your files:

1. Go to the Avid web site at http://www.softimage.com/avidds.

2. Select Support and Upload Tool from the left menu.

Avid Community Forum

Although the Avid DS community forum is frequently monitored by Avid employees, it is

not part of the official support channels.

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The forum has proven to be quite useful for users, and there is a constant stream of new

subscribers.

To subscribe, join the Avid community forums on the Avid web site at http://www.avid.com.

Select Support > Forums.

Avid Training Services

Avid makes lifelong learning, career advancement, and personal development easy and

convenient. Avid understands that the knowledge you need to differentiate yourself is always

changing, and Avid continually updates course content and offers new training delivery

methods that accommodate your pressured and competitive work environment.

To learn about Avid's new online learning environment, Avid Learning Excellerator

(ALEX)

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, visit http://learn.avid.com.

For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and

books, please visit www.avid.com/training or call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID

(800-949-2843).

Chapter 1

Setting up your Avid DS Environment

The information in this section describes the various ways in which you can set up your

post-production environment with Avid DS.

Whether you are installing a new system or upgrading from an existing system, you must

ensure that your workstation(s) is prepared with the proper operating system, drivers, and

network and storage connections.

The Avid DS Customer Service web site http://www.softimage.com/avidds, has all the most

recent software updates, hardware component and firmware drivers.

Installation Scenarios

Due to the various types of hardware platforms and Avid DS workgroup configurations,

there are different installation checklists for upgrading your Avid DS workstation software.

These checklists have specific steps that must be followed in the correct order. Each step will

point you to an appropriate section with more detailed instructions. Return to the checklist

each time that you complete a step.

This section shows different ways to set up your Avid DS workgroup, and where each of the

various Avid DS software components or services should be installed.

Installing a Standalone Avid DS Workstation

When you have a single Avid DS workstation that is running alone, you only need to install

the Avid DS software. A single workstation is it’s own controller running the project and

media indexing services.

Chapter 1 Setting up your Avid DS Environment

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Setting up an Avid DS Workgroup

When you have two or more Avid DS workstations (even if one of them is an Avid DS RP

workstation), then it is possible to connect them together in an Avid DS workgroup. In a

workgroup, you can share projects and media between workstations or offload the media

management and processing services to a dedicated workstation.

To optimize the operation of your workgroup, we recommend that you connect an ordinary

machine (i.e. a non-Avid DS workstation) to your workgroup and designate it as the

controller. The controller then manages all indexing and remote processing services, so that

you can use your Avid DS workstations solely for editing tasks.

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This workstation would have the same system requirements as an Avid DS RP—see

“Minimal Requirements for Avid DS RP Workstation” on page 62.

In a more elaborate environment, you may have more than one RP workstation to provide

services to several Avid DS workstations. (You can’t run Avid DS RP and Avid DS

simultaneously on a workstation.)

CONTROLLER

CLIENT

Avid DS Workstation

- Avid Throttle Manager

- Avid DS RP

- Avid DMS Broker

Could run any one of the following:

Installation Scenarios

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To properly configure an Avid DS workgroup, you should have a basic understanding of

Windows user account management. All Avid DS workstations should be connected to the

same Windows network so that they can access each other’s project files and media when

necessary.

You should also refer to “Planning your Storage Locations” on page 93, for the different

ways that your media storage can be configured. If you are using Avid Unity MediaNetwork

as your storage, you may use it in any one of these workgroup scenarios.

CONTROLLER

CLIENT 3

Avid DS Workstation

LOCAL AREA NETWORK

ADDITIONAL RP WORKSTATION

Each RP workstation added to the

workgroup should be configured

the same as this one.

Running Avid DS RP

- Avid Throttle Manager

- Avid DMS Broker

- Avid DS RP

Running:

CLIENT 1

Avid DS Workstation

Each Avid DS workstation added to

the workgroup should be configured

the same as this one.

Running Avid DS

CLIENT 2

Avid DS Assist Workstation

Chapter 1 Setting up your Avid DS Environment

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Installing New Avid DS Workstations

Use the following checklists when installing new Avid DS workstations.

1. Checklist: Preparing a New Avid DS Workstation

2. Checklist: Installing a Standalone Workstation

or

Checklist: Installing Multiple Workstations

Checklist: Preparing a New Avid DS Workstation

Before you start to install the Avid DS software, you must prepare your workstation(s) with

the proper operating system, drivers, and network and storage connections.

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This checklist only applies to workstations on which you are installing Avid DS. It is not

required if you are only installing Avid DS RP on the workstation—see “Install Avid DS RP

on the appropriate Workstations” on page 22.

Follow these steps in the order that they are listed.

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Step Refer to

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Read the online release notes and pre-installation

instructions on the Avid DS Customer Service web

site.

Go to http://www.softimage.com/avidds and

select Download > Software.

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Request an Avid DS license for each workstation on

which you are going to install Avid DS.

“Requesting a License File” on page 91.

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Make sure the workstation is properly connected to

any necessary peripheral and storage devices.

“Avid DS Overview and Site Preparation” in the

Avid DS System Setup Guide.

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Start the workstation.

Installing New Avid DS Workstations

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On new Avid DS systems, the Windows XP operating

system is already installed, but you may need to enter

your Windows XP product ID for license

confirmation.

You will be asked to create a user account (other than

Administrator).

After setting up a user account, switch to the

administrator account to install Avid DS.

1. Press Ctrl+Atl+Del twice to get the Windows

login dialog.

2. Type administrator for the User ID and leave the

Password field blank.

“Creating User Accounts” on page 41.

3. After you log in as administrator, add a password

for the administrator, so that the Avid DS indexing

services function properly.

Microsoft Windows online help. Click Start >

Help and Support.

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The workstation MUST have an unique IP address.

Make sure that you have a valid network connection

for your Avid DS workstation whether it is connected

to a network or running alone.

“Configuring the Network Connection” on

page 33.

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If you are running a standalone workstation,

and don’t have a valid network connection, you

need to simulate one by creating a loopback

connection.

“Installing the Microsoft Loopback Adapter on

aStandalone Station” on page 36.

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Create user accounts for each person that will use the

workstation.

• If you are part of a Windows Workgroup... “Microsoft Windows Workgroups: Account

Management” on page 37.

• If you are part of a Windows Domain... “Microsoft Windows Domains: Account

Management” on page 38.

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Name your workstation to uniquely identify it within

your Avid DS workgroup.

“Naming your Workstation” on page 39.

;

Step Refer to

Chapter 1 Setting up your Avid DS Environment

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You must turn off ‘simple file sharing’, or other

Avid DS software components will not be allowed to

access the shared folders for data and media.

From Windows Explorer, select Tools > Folder

Options... > View. Under Advanced settings, deselect

the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) option.

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Use some type of network timing software to maintain

synchronization between the workstations within a

workgroup.

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Install the necessary drivers for your workstation.

When installing the drivers, reboot your workstation

each time you are asked to do so.

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If you purchased a new Avid DS Nitris system,

the drivers and firmware needed to run

Avid DS Nitris are already installed on your

system.

Use the Avid DS Nitris Software & Drivers

DVD, or download the the latest drivers from the

Avid DS Customer Service web site:

http://www.softimage.com/avidds (see

Download area).

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If the workstation has a local storage device, make

sure the stripe volume has been created.

“Striping your Drives” on page 110.

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You are now ready to install Avid DS on your

workstation(s).

Use the appropriate checklist for installing:

• a single standalone Avid DS workstation “Checklist: Installing a Standalone Workstation”

on page 19.

• more than one Avid DS and/or Avid DS RP

workstation(s) connected together

“Checklist: Installing Multiple Workstations” on

page 20.

;

Step Refer to

Installing New Avid DS Workstations

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Checklist: Installing a Standalone Workstation

If you have a single Avid DS workstation that is running alone, you will only need to install

Avid DS.

;

Step Refer to

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Make sure that you have fully prepared your

workstation(s) for the install.

“Checklist: Preparing a New Avid DS Workstation” on

page 16.

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Login to the workstation.

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Install Avid DS. “Installing Avid DS Software Components” on

page 45.

Use the Avid DS Nitris Software & Drivers DVD, or

download the software from the Avid Download Center

http://www.avid.com/support/downloadcenter/index.as

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Install the latest Avid DS upgrades and/or fixes (if

any).

Follow the online instructions to install software

updates, and then reboot your workstation.

Download the latest upgrades and/or fixes.

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Create the license file for this workstation. “Installing the Registered License File” on page 92.

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Any new storage areas automatically have full

read/write access by any user on the network. To

restrict access to your media, you can change the

share permissions through Windows.

“Sharing Folders and Setting Permissions” on page 39.

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Configure the media storage areas on each Avid

DS workstation.

By default, the Avid DS installation configures

one audio and one video storage on each

workstation. Check your storage device

configuration to set the Disk Controller Type and

Disk Storage Type correctly.

“Configuring your Storage Locations” on page 99.

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Set the path to your projects folder. “Establishing the Project Folder” on page 108.

Chapter 1 Setting up your Avid DS Environment

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Checklist: Installing Multiple Workstations

If you are upgrading an existing Avid DS workgroup, then follow the instructions in this

section. The order in which you install the Avid DS software and services is critical,

especially when configuring RP workstations.

Install the Controller

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Test Avid DS by starting it and creating a new

project.

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If you receive a Project Indexer message

when you create a new sequence, contact

Avid DS Customer Service immediately to

resolve the problem.

“Creating a New Project” in the Avid DS Nitris Getting

Started Guide.

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Step Refer to

;

Step Refer to

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Determine the workgroup configuration that

you are going to use.

“Installation Scenarios” on page 13.

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In a workgroup, you must first install the

controller.

“Installing the Avid DS Controller” on page 50.

Use the Avid DS Nitris Software & Drivers DVD, or

download the software from the Avid Download Center

http://www.avid.com/support/downloadcenter/index.asp

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If you installed the DMS Broker on this workstation:

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1. Atttach the DMS dongle to the

workstation.

“Attaching the Dongle” on page 71.

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2. Start the DMS Broker. “Starting the DMS Broker” on page 73.

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After the controller has been installed, you can

install and connect other workstations in the

workgroup.

Follow the checklist below on how to “Install Avid DS

on the appropriate Workstations”.

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