Production Switchers

Hello, How can I store medias via FTP in my Carbonite Switcher?

The manual mentions the only way you can do the transfer via FTP is with the Xpression using a Rosslinq interface.

I hope someone can explain me how.

Thanks.

Victor,

You will still need a USB connected to the switcher as the Storage Medium. If you just connect via FTP and drag and drop to the Channels you will only have it for that instance as it will not be cached for later.

When the USB is connected ftp to the unit with the username of user and the password of password. now you will have access to the USB drive and can create folders and directories that you can drag your media into. It will now always be available to the system and you can load it via MediaManager or directly on the panel!!

Les

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Excelent.

Thanks for you'r answer. So fast.

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Les, would that be the same case for the Crossover? I can FTP to the switcher and I drop it in channel 1 folder. It is initially available, but as soon as load any other media or reboot the switcher it is gone.

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Yes that is correct -- your loading directly to the Media Store Channel. This is Ram and since you did not first put it on the USB there is no file to retrieve as it is not part of the Database.

Les

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Sorry, I am relatively new to all of this video switcher production stuff. So there is no way for me to permanently store media/images on the switcher without an attached USB?

So what about all the stuff that is on there already? I can browse by media number and pull up a bunch of seemingly random things.

TIA!

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Christopher:

If you are looking at images that are in the switcher "RAM" - IE the Media Players then if you load new images and the capacity of the media players are full it will drop the image you thought you had and replace it with the newest and the most used images in its hierarchy of remembering such images.

You will still need a USB connected to the switcher as the Storage Medium.

If you do not connect a USB and save the images there and the switcher power goes off or if you load more images into RAM then you will lose what you have since it is only in RAM MEMORY of the switcher and no where else. By saving the images to the USB and having the USB connected to the switcher you can then recall the images via custom controls, and never have to worry about not having the images. (make a backup USB)

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If you are referring to the "Internal" section with some Sample Images? Those are some images we stored in a small amount of flash so that Bars and other sample files were there for Training and Test when the switcher is new.

As Gordon explains -- the USB is the Switcher Storage.

Les

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Ok. Thanks guys. Hope I wasn't too much of a bother. Just trying to figure all this stuff out.

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Not a bother - The only way to learn something new (other than reading the boring manuals) is to ask. Happy to help anytime.

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Nope not a bother at all.

Gordon -- Dave Carter works hard on those manuals. He will not be happy when he sees you call them boring ;)

Les

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Boring was a tongue and cheek comment... I for one would rather read a manual than a novel.

And to Dave Carter --- Keep up the good work !!

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I'm a manual kind of guy. And definitely went there first. The MediaStore and media numbers confused me and I thought I could store and assign numbers to items.

We're doing limited media stuff so the USB is working great so far. I guess theoretically one could attach an external USB HDD as well?

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Hi Christopher,

Yes you could as long as it is powered. The USB port can only provide power for USB Sticks -- that said I have a 64 Gig that works -- that is a lot of content.

You can change the Media ID numbers. When you load a Media Item you can adjust it's properties and this includes the ID. USB is 1.XXX where xxx can be the ID number.

Les

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Good to know Les! I'll give the numbering thing a shot.

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Ok, so i have read through this whole thing but I still can't see any post that gives step by step instructions on how to connect to the switcher via ftp? Can anyone provide any help?

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Use an FTP application.

enter IP address of the Switcher into it

username is user

password is password

you will presented with folder -- the USB folder is the folder that represents the USB drive where you store your media too and load from.

Les

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Hi Les, I´m new in the comunity. At my work Im the new operator on the carbonite. The guy who was operating it left and didn´t leave any info. I´ve found the IP, but he changed the user/passd. How can I recover or change them?

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We don't allow modification of the user name and password.

You can also use the username of xpression and password and that will get you into the USB directly.

Les

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Gentlemen,

I am having a strange problem with this process: I'm using FileZilla for FTP. I am 80% confident this was working before I began trying to do some machine control via RossTalk & AMP, but now that I have the RossTalk connection kinda working, the FTP believes the USB is in a READ-ONLY mode. I can transfer files from the USB, but not TO the USB. The error message I get is "550 filename.jpg: read-only file system." I tried using both user and xpression as my user name with the same result. The USB, by the way, has only 0.5 of a 8.0GB flashdrive, the files are not even a GB, it is NOT read only, and it is formatted as FAT32.

Any ideas on how to work around this? Thanks!

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Definitely Strange, I also use FileZilla without issues, have you tried another USB key. I have seen keys that become corrupted and behave this way sometimes.

You mention you have also logged in as xpression, have you tried to transfer a file into 1,2,3 or 4? That loads directly into the media store memory and bypasses the USB drive.

Let us know.

Nigel

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I tried using another USB flash drive, and that worked. Put the old one back in, and it still didn't work, so I reformatted the flash drive. After that, it works as it should!

My guess is that the flash drive got corrupted when a faculty member, not knowing to use the FTP, just swapped flash drives, and mine (the original) got corrupted in the process. That's the first time I've seen a corruption that would allow the drive to be used in a computer port on one computer but not be used on another. Thanks for the suggestion; I'm very relieved it worked!

With that in mind, is there a suggested safe way to eject a flash drive on the Ross other than a powerdown before removal?

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Glad it worked for you. When removing from Carbonite, simply wait a few seconds after the last write to the drive - i.e. after savings settings, then pull it and it should be fine. The corruptions normally occur when USB's are pulled from PC's without ejecting first. Macs warn you of this but PC's dont.

Nigel

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