For example if a source file has been loaded and two target files e. It will not actually produce an output file, but will check the out- put files for potential problems. It is also possible to use the Basic Compliance Check target by itself with multiple sources loaded, this will check all the source files quickly without having to do any transcoding and may be useful when checking an archive of files just received from a content partner, or previously produced by some other process for example.
The transcode job can be aborted when a problem is detected, or instead it is possible to have the error written to an output file during transcoding without halting the transcode, for manual inspec- tion of the output later.
Letterbox To check if letterboxes or pillar boxes have inadvertently been added to the output, this filter checks the pixels in the four corners to see if they are below broadcast black or close to it for longer than a specific duration. While it does this it verifies that pixels in the middle of the frame are not black, to verify that there is indeed an image present. No Content To check if the entire frame has dropped out, all four corners of the image and the center of the image are checked for black pixels that exceed a specified duration.
Audio Level To check if the audio is not present or has dropped out, specify the level in decibels below which all the audio channels are not allowed to drop to for more than the specified time. Once a specific folder has been found, it can be configured as a Remote Retrieval folder for Watch Folders. VC-1 Exporter Carbon 3. Included with Carbon 3. Some changes have been made to the old Web UI to improve usability and responsiveness, including better queue displays and deeper and more detailed exposure of watch folder features such as remote retrieval, FTP delivery, and email notifications.
Carbon Coder is a standalone application which runs on a single system that can be used for production or for development purposes. Carbon Coder cannot be controlled by Carbon Server. Carbon Server is a management application which allows you to control a farm of trans- coders known as Carbon Agents. The Carbon Server installation also includes a copy of Car- bon Coder which is installed on the desktop of the Carbon Server system.
Note: there are separate instructions for New and Upgrade installations. Carbon Agent is a transcoder which is controlled by a Carbon Server. Carbon Agent does not transcode independently of Carbon Server. Carbon Server Web Interface is an optional installation which allows you to remotely manage Carbon Server.
It can be installed on the same machine or independently of Carbon Server. Installing Carbon Coder 3. Make sure that the latest version of QuickTime is installed on your system. The installer automatically launches if Windows' Autorun feature is enabled. When the Welcome screen appears, click Next. The License Agreement appears. Click Yes to accept the terms of the license. When the Customer Information dialog box opens, enter your name and your company name and click Next.
Choose a destination location for Carbon Coder. The Carbon Coder Installer automatically suggests a default location. If you wish to change this location, click Browse and select a new destination folder. Click Next. After installing Carbon Coder, the Windows Media software will be installed.
If you already have the latest versions of the software on your machine, the installer will skip to the next step. Once installation is complete, you must restart your computer to complete the installation. Choose Yes, I want to restart my computer now and click Finish to restart your com- puter.
Installing Carbon Server 3. If an earlier version of Carbon Server has previously been installed on this machine, please skip this section and go to the section "Carbon Server - Upgrade Installation" instead. Install the Carbon Server farm manager software from the Carbon Serversetup. It also creates the following shortcuts on the desktop: s Carbon Coder - the version of Carbon Coder that runs on the Carbon Server machine. You can use this Carbon Coder user interface to create jobs, manage pre- sets, etc.
Please see the Carbon Coder documentation for more details. It also allows you to manage the server and agent parameters and modify advanced server options. You also use this to create, manage, and edit watch folders. It is very impor- tant to reboot at this time. Do not install any other applications before the machine is restarted.
In order for the Carbon Server Nexus service to access Watch Folders, read source files, and write target files, it needs to be given the correct permissions. This means that you need to set the permissions on each machine, once for the Carbon Server machine, and once per Carbon Agent machine. If you have pur- chased any Carbon Agent licenses, it is recommended that you finish installing the Carbon Server machine and all the Carbon Agent machines before creating domain or workgroup accounts and setting service credentials.
Create the account that has permission to access the network resources. Options: s If running in a Windows Workgroup environment, create identical users on all the machines using the user management in Windows. Remember to use the exact same name and password on all the machines in the farm.
By default the Nexus service has the credentials of the "Local System" account. You will need to change that to the account you created earlier.
Select the Log On tab. Click OK. Stop and restart the Nexus service. Close the Services console. Make sure you follow the exact order of the installation steps, otherwise valuable data may be lost. Exit any Rhozet application. If the Job Queue Manager is running in the systray right-click on the icon and click Exit. Follow the on-screen instructions. Uninstalling any of these components now will delete many of the settings and properties of the pre- vious Carbon Server system configuration and you will have to recreate them manually.
Install Carbon Server 3. If you are migrating from Carbon Server 2. Make sure you follow the instructions in the Carbon Agent Installation section on the next page for information on how to upgrade your Carbon Agent machines.
You cannot have both products installed on the same machine simul- taneously, because they each use a background Nexus service and will conflict with each other. At the time of writ- ing this document, the current approved installation is QuickTime 7.
From time to time newer versions of QuickTime are released, and once they are verified to work correctly with Carbon Server, Rhozet will include those newer versions on the distribution CD. You should not inde- pendently update components that have not been verified with Rhozet. Please contact us if you are unsure. In general, please do not install any older or newer versions of QuickTime. Specifically, installing newer versions than QuickTime 7. Follow the on-screen instructions, and be sure to reboot after the un-installation completes.
Install the Carbon Agent software from the Carbon Agentsetup. It also creates the Carbon Agent Admin shortcut, which enables you to view and manage the transcoding jobs that are running on the local agent. In order for the Carbon Agent Nexus service to access Watch Folders, read source files, and write target files, it needs to be given the correct permissions.
Remember that this must be the same user name and password as you used on all the other machines in the farm, both the Carbon Server machine and other Carbon Agent machines. For all the network resources that Nexus needs to access, make sure that the account you just created has permission to read files from and write files to those resources.
This includes the administrative shares e. It also includes folders that contain source files, folders where target files will be written, folders that contain presets see below for locations of these , program files, etc.
Double-click on Nexus Server Carbon Agent service. Click This account and set the credentials for the service, user name and password twice. You can also use Browse. Carbon Server Web Interface 3. You should accept the defaults for all of the settings.
Copy the file default. All other locations e. The first shows the Carbon Coder interface which is used for creating presets, running test, and doing manual transcoding. The second section highlights the Carbon Admin interface which allows you to monitor batch processing of jobs, create simple automation workflows using watch folders and manage a Carbon Server Farm. First, there are three tabs — Source, Target, and Convert - which are located on the left side of the screen. These tabs control the basic functions that allow you to add source files, set the target conversion format, modify input and output details, and begin the conversion processes.
You will notice that the content in the center of the home screen changes depending on the tab you have selected, but generally this area displays the files you are working with. After selecting a par- ticular file, you will see its properties on the right side of the screen.
This is the Source Parameters dialog box and it shows you the details of your original file and allows you to change certain aspects of that file. There is also a Help menu item that has detailed, searchable information. The basic process for performing a transcode 1.
Select the Source tab to add the file s you wish to convert. Select the Target tab to choose which format s you want to encode to. Select the Convert tab to encode your file s and complete the process. Adding Source Files To begin, you will need to add a source file. A source file is the file you want to convert into another format type.
You can add one source file for a single file conversion or you can add multiple source files for easy batch conversions. Select the Source tab. Click Add to choose the file you want to convert. This will bring up the Open File dialog where you can select the file you want to convert.
Select a single file and click Open. You will now see the selected file in the Source List. The Source Parameters window on the right displays the properties for the source. The Source Param- eters window is designed to show you the details of your original file and allow you to change certain aspects of that file.
For example, you might want to change the interpreted pixel aspect ratio of the If you click on any item, you will see a more detailed description in the lower right window pane.
To the left of your source list, you will also see a button for advanced functions as well as a Stitch checkbox. These functions will be described in detail later in the manual. You can add multiple source files for easy batch conversions or combine stitch multiple files together for one single output file. Stitching allows you to link multiple sources together to create a single seamless result, preventing you from having to combine the sources in an editor.
Check the Stitch button to link the multiple sources together to create a single seamless source file. Use the arrow keys rearrange the order of each source. Assigning a Target Format Next, you will need to assign a target format for your files to be converted to. You can select a single or multiple target formats. The Load Target Preset dialog box has two columns.
On the left side are categories of transcoding presets, and on the right are the actual presets. First select a category on the left and then select one Carbon Coder ships with over a hundred presets to help you get started. You can modify these presets and create your own. You can also create new categories for storing your own presets.
In the Load Target Preset window, click on a desired category on the left side. The right side displays all the available presets for that category. When you have selected a preset, you will see complete details of the format settings in the description pane located in the bottom of the Load Target Preset dialog box. Click OK to add this preset to your Target window.
Repeat steps to add multiple targets. After you have added a target format to the Target List, you will see the specific encoding param- eters on the right hand side of the screen. You can modify every parameter, including output file nam- ing, encoding parameters, audio processing, etc.
After you have modified encoding parameters, you can save them to disk to be reused in the future by clicking on Save Profile. Below the save profile button, there is also an Advanced button. This button allows you to access advanced codec encod- ing parameters as well as add video and audio filtering to your encoding.
Target Parameters The Target Parameters window displays the properties of the currently selected target in the Tar- get tab.
All of the resources necessary for managing and modifying your target parameters are avail- able in this window. Simply enter values in the fields, or use the drop-down menus to modify the default target parameters.
If you want to save the changes for a custom target, click Save Profile. Saved presets are visible in the Custom tab in the Add Target dialog box. Converting Your Files The last stage of the process is to convert transcode your files into their new formats. If you have chosen to convert one file into several output files, Carbon Coder will do each transcode simul- taneously. You can view the output of the transcode during the transcoding process, and you can also play any transcoded file from the Output List on the right hand side of the screen.
Select the Convert tab. The Convert tab will be greyed out until you have chosen a source file and a target format. Click Convert to begin the encoding process. Press Pause to temporarily halt the encoding process. Press Stop to cancel the encoding process.
Select Preview to turn on or off the video preview. Note: The encoding process is faster when the preview is turned off. As each file is finished, it can be played from within the program even if other transcoding conversions are still in process. Select the file you would like to view and click the Play File button located on the bottom right of the screen.
Note: Carbon Coder automatically makes the necessary settings to be sure the source format transcodes properly to the target format. Click Advanced from the Source or Target screens to see the advanced controls and select the Video Filter tab. Click Add to add one or more video filters to your target. Remember that you can add filters to both sources and targets, so you should only add a filter at the target to improve it, for example, a brightness filter to correct a dark target.
Selected filters are applied from the list top-down, so the top-most filter in the list is applied first, and the bottom-most filter in the list is applied last. To adjust the order of the filters in the list, select the filter in the list then click Up or Down to move it up or down in the list. Once you have added a filter, you can click the filter in the list to view and adjust its prop- erties just below the video preview. Note: From this view, you can also save Preset Video Filters.
You will learn how to create Watch Folders, and how to customize Presets to match your specific requirements. For a more complete description of each feature, please consult the corresponding section later in this manual. Setting Up a Watch Folder 1. When the Watch Folder dialog box appears, click on Add Watch to start creating a new watch folder.
In the Name field, enter the name that you want to give to the watch folder. To select the folder to drag or copy source files to, click on Browse Folders. When the folder selection dialog box opens, navigate to the folder you want and click OK. Click on Add underneath Target File in the watch folder properties list on the left side of the screen. The Target screen appears. You first select a category, then a preset from that category to use to create your target file. The target file is created from the source file by transcoding from the source format to the format codec specified in the preset.
Click Browse next to the Preset field; this will open the preset selection dialog. In the tree-list of preset categories on the left side of the preset selection dialog box, select the MP4 H category. This will display the MP4 H. In this category, select the H. To select the folder that the H. When the folder selection dialog box opens, navigate to the folder you need and click OK.
Once you have selected your output folder, you are now finished with this target. You can read more about all the possible parameters and configurations in the rest of this manual.
Click on Update to add the H. Notice in the watch folders properties list on the left side of the screen that a new target has been added to the watch folder. For this example, although we could add more targets to this watch folder, we will only add the H.
You can now click on Save Watch to save all the changes you made and save the watch folder. Now open the input and output folders you specified in the examples above the input folder where you drop the source files is C:TempWatchSource, and the output folder for the H.
Drop a video file into the watch folder the input folder. Instead of dropping the file itself, you can also create a shortcut to the file by right-clicking and dragging the file, and releasing the right mouse button when the file is over the watch folder. Select Create Shortcuts Here to create a shortcut to the input file inside the watch folder.
You should now be able to find the new file with the. Feel free to explore a little more on your own and create another few watch folders, maybe using dif- ferent presets. The handling of presets is discussed in detail in one of the following sections; we suggest you have a look at it once you feel comfortable creating watch folders and transcoding files by yourself.
There will be times, however, where you will be making changes to the supplied presets for a If you need to reapply the same settings in the future, you can save your own preset that restores all the codec parameters you configured. A preset saves the settings for a single codec.
Use it to reapply a particular set of parameters for future projects. Each time you have a new source file that needs to be transcoded for streaming, you can apply this saved preset instead of having to re-enter all the setting such as frame size, frame rate, file wrapper.
This preset describes how to create a QuickTime file with the. The video created using this preset will be pixels wide and pixels, with 30 frames of video displayed every second.
When the Preset Editor dialog box opens, on the left side you can see the list of preset cat- egories. Select the H. Scroll down to the Width parameter, and change it to Change the Height parameter to , and click Save. When the preset Save As dialog box appears, enter a name for the preset and a custom description. The description is a useful place to make note of any specifics about the preset, such as the intended use of the output target files.
You can also select the category under which the preset will be saved from the tree on the left. You might have to wait a while for the preset to be validated.
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