Pipeline SC - Creating a Factory to Submit Jobs via EDL Monitors

Creating a Factory to Submit Jobs via EDL Monitors
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CREATING A FACTORY TO SUBMIT JOBS VIA EDL MONITORS
You use Pipeline Direct (Chapter 5, Using Pipeline Direct on page 35) to produce EDLs that you can ingest
into factories that have been configured with an EDL Monitor in FlipFactory. You can not manually submit
jobs from Pipeline EDL files using FlipFactory’s Job Submit window. Before you can submit an EDL to
FlipFactory for processing, you need to create a factory with an EDL monitor to submit jobs.
Follow these steps to create a factory with an EDL monitor (if you don’t know how to create factories, see
Chapter 6, Building Factories, in the FlipFactory User’s Guide):
1. Create a factory and name it Pipeline (or other suitable name).
2. Add and configure the Pipeline EDL monitor.
Important settings include selecting the Pipeline and encoder, and creating a directory on the
FlipFactory server or a share on a network server, and selecting it as the folder to monitor where you’ll
save EDL files for processing.
3. Configure other settings as required for your workflow.
For details on configuring the EDL monitor, display the online help page by clicking the help button in
the toolbar at the top of the monitor Editor panel.
4. Optionally, add a Duplicate Original product, which will produce the TIFO file.
5. Add one other product – a proxy QuickTime file, for example.
You must always add one other product to a factory that has a Duplicate original so that it can be
produced, and it won’t add extra time to the job, because the second product is transcoded
simultaneously with the TIFO file process.
However, if you add a third product, the job time will approximately double, because FlipFactory will
rewind the VTR and perform a complete second pass on the stream. So, to make other products, you
should consider a stage-two factory and use the TIFO file as input for the other products. If you have a
factory with 2 products and neither is a duplicate original, you’ll force FlipFactory to perform two passes
on the stream, doubling processing time.
6. Configure the destinations, process/analyze tools, filters, and notifications in the factory.
Note
The Pipeline CD contains sample FlipFactory factories that you can use to capture DV,
IMX30, and MPEG2 media using the PipelineEDLFactories.xml file. See FlipFactory
User’s Guide, Chapter 5, Using FlipFactory, for details on importing factories.