Submitting Jobs Via an EDL Monitor
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SUBMITTING JOBS VIA AN EDL MONITOR
The EDL monitor is a process in FlipFactory which monitors a folder for Edit Decision List (EDL) files and
generates one job per clip entry in the file. After you’ve created a factory with an EDL monitor, you can
stream media directly from a Pipeline into the factory for processing.
The contents of the EDL file must conform to the Pipeline EDL syntax (Pipeline EDL Syntax on page 147).
When a new EDL file is processed, the monitor reads, extracts, and creates jobs based on each clip entry
in the EDL. The selected Pipeline device is used as the media source for the job.
You can use Pipeline Direct to create your EDL and save the file in a monitored folder. The folder may be
local or a share (network folder). When the new EDL file is recognized by the FlipFactory EDL Monitor, it
submits jobs to FlipFactory for processing.
For each clip entry in the EDL, a new job is submitted. To process the job, FlipFactory must be able to
connect to the Pipeline’s video, audio, and data sources (which means that Pipeline Direct or other client
applications must not be connected), and controls the VTR deck associated with the target Pipeline to
stream SDI media into the Pipeline, then encode and stream the media into FlipFactory, based on the
mark in and mark out points in the clip entry. For example, an EDL with five clips creates five separate
FlipFactory jobs. Jobs submitted in this manner are processed serially, in real time, until all entries in the
EDL are complete.
Pipeline automatically avoids contention and controls access to its services (thus, serializing a series of
clip processing jobs) by queuing requests for encoding. Thus, you can implement Pipeline factories in load
balance groups and FactoryArrays, and allow your EDL monitor to send jobs to other FlipEngines for
processing.
Note
The Pipeline identity used to create the EDL is part of the metadata. This entry will
override the selection of the Pipeline in the EDL monitor if it is different, but the codec
selection is not overridden.
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