Installation: Perform the installation procedures outlined in the MediaPhile_Devs disk ReadMe_Install file to install the MediaPhile device and library files. Next perform the operations specified below to install the MediaPhile program. Hard Disk System- 1) MediaProcessor has been modified to require an additional startup sequence assignment statement when run from a hard disk. The startup sequence assignment statements on page 9 of the MediaProcessor manual and in the ReadMe_Install files on the MediaPhile_Devs disk should be modified to include the additional statements: Assign MediaProcessor: Work:MediaPhile/MediaProcessor Assign MediaFiles: Work:MediaPhile/MediaFiles 2) Run the "Install_MediaProcessorHD" to create a MediaProcessor and MediaFiles sub directory in your hard disk "work:MediaPhile" directory and copy the contents of the MediaProcessor amd MediaFiles program disks into it. Floppy Disk System - There are no requirements for installation beyond those specified in the "Install_ReadMe" file on the "MediaPhile_Devs" disk. SMPTE Time Code: MediaProcessor can read and generate SMPTE time code from the MicroIllusions TCRG102 time code generator/reader as described in the MediaProcessor software manual. It can also read time code through MediaPhile controllers from devices that have SMPTE ports specified in their configuration files. For the MP2.0SUG controller the SMPTE ports are specified in the configuration file as SMPTEPort = SER1 or SMPTEPort = SER2. Refer to the MP2.0S hardware manual for a description of the SMPTE port connections provided with the upgraded unit. The SMPTE ports on the MP2.0PUG controller are specified in device configuration files as SMPTEPort = PAR1 or SMPTEPort = PAR2. Keep in mind that the specification of a MediaPhile Controller SMPTE port for a device is done in its own configuration file, not in a configuration file for the MediaPhile controller. The MicroIllusions time code generator unit is treated by MediaProcessor as a "device" and has its own configuration file. The menu items in MediaProcessor that specify SMPTE controller configuration and operation are not required and do not work with MediaPhile controllers. MediaPhile controllers with the SMPTE time code reading option provide MediaProcessor with time code capabilities by mearly listing the SMPTE port in the device configuration file. MediaProcessor reads time code continuously from the MicroIllusions reader/generator when the video deck device is in play mode. Time code is only read by special request from MediaPhile controllers. Requests for MediaPhile Controller time code update and correction of a video deck device tape position is made by clicking on the "RESET" icon at the bottom of the screen when the device is in PLAY mode. Requests are also made automatically by MediaProcessor during searches of the tape to correct for tape slippage. EDIT & RECORD: This new menu item in the EDIT menu provides a fast way to enter IN and OUT points in the edit decision list and record an edited tape at the same time. When this mode is selected, edit decision list entry proceeds as described in the MediaProcessor manual except that the recorder is taken in and out of RECORD mode as entries are made by pressing the RETURN key. When an IN point is entered by pressing the RETURN key when the edit window box is positioned over an IN data field, the record deck is taken out of PAUSE_RECORD mode and recording proceeds until an OUT point is entered in the edit decision list by pressing the RETURN key. The record deck is put back in PAUSE-RECORD mode until the next IN point is entered with the RETURN key. REV8 NEW COMMANDS: MediaProcessor 2.0 REV8 features three new commands. The extended SWITCH command is a new version of the existing SWITCH command. The SWITCH command requires an additional argument that indicates which of the 9 remote switches is to be set. The extended SWITCH command format is: !:Switch(state,switch_num) The "device" variable specifies which of the installed device configuration files is to be used to determine the MediaPhile Remote Switch Port. The variable "state" determines the switch position, either ON or OFF, that the remote switch is to be set to. The "switch_num" variable is an integer ranging from 1 to 9 specifying which of the device's nine remote switches is to be set. If the "switch_num" argument is not specified, then RemoteSwitch1 is set. If the device configuration file does not specify a MediaPhile controller port for RemoteSwitch1, then the mouse port remote switch output of the MP2.0M controller is assumed. The second new command, SMPTESYNCH, is totally new. This command sets the program tape position using SMPTE time code read from the device's audio track. In order to use this function you must have either a MP2.0P or MP2.0S controller with the upgrade option. The specified must be a "VTR" video deck device. The deck must be in play mode, with the audio output connected to a MediaPhile controller SMPTE time code input, and the audio time code signal must be of sufficient volume to read. The format for the SMPTESYNCH is: !:SMPTESynch The variable "VTR device" specifies which of the installed VTR devices the SMPTE audio time code is to be read from. The third new command, GOTO(n), provides a means to transfer execution to a specified line. The order number of the line to be executed following the GOTO statement, n, is entered as an argument. The command format is !Amiga:GOTO(n) where n is the order number of the next line to be executed. The GOTO command can be used to create continuously repeating scripts. For example, if you enter the script lines . . . !Amiga:WaitTOD(06:00:00) !Amiga:GOTO(1) following a playback script. The script will be executed starting at 6:00 AM every morning. *************************** NewTek Video Toaster Control: Refer to example MediaScripts in the VTR and Amiga device directories. The "Toaster_Commands.ms" mediascript in the Amiga device script directory shows how to execute each Toaster command that can be run from an Arexx script. The "ToasterDemo.ms" script located in the VTR script directory and its companion order file "ToasterDemo.ord" is a working example. This script executes an A/B-roll recording. Switching is performed by the Toaster. This example also controls the Toaster to execute a fade between a live video source and a computer graphics image stored in the Toaster image buffer. In order to control the Toaster from MediaProcessor scripts the following requirements must be met: 1. You must have least 5 MegaBytes of RAM memory. We used 9MB for the example scripts. 2. Assign the Toaster software directory to the logical device Toast: referenced by MediaProcessor. Enter the Assignment statement assign Toast: Work:Toaster in your start-up sequence, if the Toaster software resides in the Toaster directory on your hard disk work: volume. 3. Assign the logical device MP_Arexx: referenced by the MediaProcessor to the Arexx directory in your MediaFiles directory. Enter the following assignment statement in your start-up sequence to do this assign MP_Arexx: MediaFiles:Arexx after the MediaFiles: volume has been assigned to its directory. 4. Install the 'rx' program shipped with the Arexx program currently distributed by Wishful Thinking Company in your c: dircetory. Install the Arexx libraries in the libs directory and follow all other installation instructions included with the Arexx software. 5. Run the Toaster switcher porgram first before running the MediaProcessor program. After it has loaded and run enter the following sequence of four key strokes one at a time Ctrl Ctrl Alt Alt This will put the switcher program in the background. Now you can run MediaProcessor and execute scripts that control the NewTek video Toaster.