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Sony NSP-1 Tutorials Manual

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Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials
Revision 1.10 2/11/2005
Sony Electronics Inc.
www.sony.com/nsp1
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  • Page 1 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials Revision 1.10 2/11/2005 Sony Electronics Inc. www.sony.com/nsp1...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials Contents 1. Scope 2. NSP-1 related products 3. Update NSP-1 and BZNP-D1 when necessary 4. Equipment and Configuration 5. Setup of NSP-1 6. Setup of BZNP-D1 7. Ingest content 8. Create a playlist 9. Scheduling 10.

  • Page 3: Scope

    Sony BZNP-D1 is system software to ingest content, create a playlist, schedule play out, distribute content and monitor status. BZNP-D1 can manage up to 210 units of NSP-1. BZNP-D1 software can be purchased as BZNP-D1EXD, a package product that consists of BZNP-D1 software, 10 player license and Canopus ProCoder Express software.

  • Page 4: Equipment And Configuration

    PC (Software) BZNP-D1 software w/ 1 player license comes with NSP1, though Canopus ProCoder Express software is not included. Sony does not guarantee, but BZNPD1 may run on Windows 2000 when gdiplus.dll is installed. How to check the version of DirectX 1.
  • Page 5 Web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later is recommended. Windows Media Player Microsoft Windows Media Player version 9 or later is recommended MPEG2 encoding software is required to utilize video file. Sony certified followings. MPEG2 encoding - Canopus ProCoder Express software - Canopus ProCoder V2.0...

  • Page 6: Setup Of Nsp-1

    Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 5. Set up NSP-1 You need to do followings using web browser. • Confirm firmware version • Set IP address of NSP1 if necessary • Set Date and Time • Set Screen resolution Change Network settings of PC - Start / Settings / Network Connections - Right click “Local Area Connection”...
  • Page 7 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials Confirm firmware version of NSP1 - Click “System Settings” - Check the Software Version - If the Software Version is lower than 2.01, please update NSP1 referring to a release note at www.sony.com/nsp1, Set Date and Time 1.
  • Page 8 6. Set up BZNP-D1 6.1 Install BZNP-D1 software BZNP-D1 can be downloaded from www.sony.com/nsp1. BZNPD1 can control only one NSP1 unless a key code is installed. A 10 players’ key code comes with BZNPD1EXD. Install it as followings. 1. Launch BZNP-D1 software 2.
  • Page 9 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 6.3.2 Create and set up a group 1. Click “New Group” in Group Setup window 2. Enter “Tutorials” at “Group name” 3. Select “10:00:00” and “18:00:00” at Playout Time 4. Leave “00”00” at Sleep Time 5.

  • Page 10: Ingest Content

    Sample content that is utilized in these trainings can be downloaded as “Content4Tutorials.zip” from www.sony.com/nsp1. Please unzip the file onto your local hard disk drive. You can ingest content by dragging it from Explorer to upper window of BZNPD1 software. Please note that BZNPD1 software does NOT copy content but creates a link to the original file.
  • Page 11 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials Ingest Text content 1. Select Text tab 2. Right click in the material management window and select New 3. Select “Arial” at Font and “18” at Font Size 4. Click “Read Text File” and Select “NAB.txt” in Text folder and Click Open 5.

  • Page 12: Create A Playlist

    Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 8. Create a playlist When you create a playlist, you decide two things. A) Order of playout of content and layer for the content B) Arrange size and position of each content Here is a playlist we are going to create in this chapter.
  • Page 13 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 8.1 Preparation 1. Confirm “BZNP-D1(PC)” is selected 2. Confirm “Tutorials” is selected at Group 3. If Playlist window is not empty, select Playlist/New from the menu 8.2 Create a playlist 1. Select video tab, drag AWSG500 in Content Management window and drop it to the Playlist Window.
  • Page 14 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 3. Drag BG-HDV and drop it to the second row at Background column. 4. Select Video tab, drag J30 and drop it to the third row at Video column. 5. Select Graphics tab, drag BG-NH-A and drop it to the third row at Background column.
  • Page 15 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 6. Right click BG-NH-A at Background column in the Playlist Window, and select “Change Duration”. 7. Enter “00:00:08” in the Change Duration Window, and click OK. 8. Drag BG-NH-B and drop it to the 4th row in the Playlist Window.
  • Page 16 Enter “Tutorials” at Type and “New Products” at Title by double clicking the cell. 14. Right click the playlist and select “Send to NSP-1 and Preview”. BZNPD1 will send the playlist and associated content to NSP1, and then NSP1 will play it back automatically.

  • Page 17: Scheduling

    This is convenient to utilize NSP1 when scheduling is not required. 17. Select “NSP-1 (Remote Control)”, select NSP-A at NSP-1 pull down menu and click Update. BZNP- D1 will retrieve list of content from the NSP1. Click “Periodic Schedule tab. You will see one item with 12/31/9999 at Start Date and End Date.
  • Page 18 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 8.3 Tips 1. To utilize “External Video” 1. Right click at the video column and select 2. Right click “External Input” and select “Change Duration” and enter the duration 2. Overwrite or Insert When you drag and drop content on existing content in a playlist, it is “Overwrite”.
  • Page 19 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 9. Scheduling 9.1 Create a daily schedule 1. Create two more playlists and put Titles as “Morning” and “Evening” 2. Select Control Tab, drag “Power On” and drop it to the first row at control column in Daily Schedule window.
  • Page 20 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 9. Select Control Tab, drag “Power Off” and drop it to the 5th row at control column in Daily Schedule window. 10. Select “Daily Schedule / Save” from the menu, select “Daily Schedule” tab and enter “Tutorials”...

  • Page 21: Content Production Guidelines

    NSP1 can playback MPEG2 and MPEG4 video. Using MPEG4 it is also possible to do live streaming. Please refer to a white paper about MPEG4 live streaming. In order to utilize MPEG2 video file, Sony certified following software and hardware encoders. Canopus ProCoder Express (software encoder)
  • Page 22 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials Q. Can NSP1 control non-Sony Plasma or LCD display via RS232C A. Yes. Please refer to “Registering Additional Control Commands” in the BZNP-D1 manual. Q. NSP1 stops playing back in few minutes and then resumes everyday at the same time. Why? A.

  • Page 23: Appendix

    Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials Appendix (A) Video file conversion with Canopus ProCoder Express Almost all types of video file format such as AVI or QuickTime can be encoded to MPEG file that is compatible to NSP1 using Canopus ProCoder Express software.
  • Page 24 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 5. Click MPEG then Click Next in a "Select Generic Target" window 6. Select output file name when necessary then Click Next in a "Saving Your File" window 7. Click Advanced Output Settings in a "Job Summary"...
  • Page 25 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 9. Click Convert in a "Job Summary" window - 25 -...
  • Page 26 4. Select View/Destination Editor and select a folder where encoded files are saved. 5. Select Job/Add Source Media... and select a source file 6. Select View/Encoder Setting Editor and change "Bit Rate Control" and/or "Bit Rate" if necessary This file can be downloaded from www.sony.com/NSP1 - 26 -...
  • Page 27 Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials 7. Select Job/Encode Now..., then encoding starts 8. Progress is displayed in Job Queue window 9. MPEG file ".mpg" will be created as specified at step 4. ©2005 Sony Corporation. All rights reserved. Canopus, ProCoder and MPEG PRO-MVR are registered trademarks of Canopus Corporation.

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