TS Analyzer listens to RTP stream and allows to view inbound network, RTP and TS packet details. You can check out a .TS file and scan through it - just drag/drop the .TS file onto the EXE. It makes possible to view into the service description tables, and decode a teletext stream.You can print live Teletext decoding, and you can use the tool to generate input logs for 'big data' analysis.

With its integrated telemetry options, you can stream quality metrics into the Cinegy cloud (or your own).

Cinegy TS Analyzer needs .NET 4.5 to be installed.

More datails at https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk

- register network shares that refer to the new storage in Cinegy Archive;

- create a new Media Group that will be used to reference the new storage;

- assosiate created network shares with each file type within the created Media Group;

- select the corresponding Media Group in watch folder settings.

If you add network shares that reference the new storage to the existing Media group - the new files will be ingested to both the old and new storage, by the principal of round robin.

For more details please refer to the Cinegy Open documentation,
https://open.cinegy.com/products/archive/15/archive-manager/user-manual/media-storage/types-locations/. 

The recommended way of new master clip versions generation is using Conform Capturer function. The Conform Capturer ingests existing Sequences into Cinegy Archive and creates a new Roll. 

If you need to avoid the transcoding, you can apply the following workaround:
1. Export the first master clip from Roll to MXF Op1A with the direct transcoding profile.
2. Export the second master clip from Roll to MXF Op1A with the direct transcoding profile. In the result, you will have two video files with different audio tracks.
4. Create CineLink - https://open.cinegy.com/products/convert/24.2/cinelink-file-support/cinelink-file-configuration/#specifying-separate-files-as-a-source and specify which tracks and from which file to take.
5. Import the specified cinelink using the direct transcoding profile.

Cinegy recommends using the following bitrates for Daniel2 format:

- UHD p50 4:2:0 8 bit: 600 Mbit/sec
- UHD p50 4:2:0 10 bit: 800 Mbit/sec
- UHD p50 4:2:2 8 bit: 800 Mbit/sec
- UHD p50 4:2:2 10 bit: 1 Gbit/sec

Please, note that HDR is only possible in 10-bit formats.

These cards have “4/8 independent 3G-SDI connections”. That does not mean that they have 4/8 independent 3G-SDI full-duplex channels, but just 4/8 connectors which can be configured according to their direction.

The default configuration for Duo2 - 2 full duplex channels (2 Inputs and 2 Outputs). The default configuration for Quad2 - 4 full duplex channels (4 Inputs and 4 Outputs).

Besides, you may configure 4/8 simultaneous Outputs or 4/8 simultaneous 3G Inputs using the Blackmagic Desktop Video setup application.

After the restart of the machine, the part of the Blackmagic driver, which is making the selected non-default configuration of connectors, starts rather late.

If Cinegy applications and services, which use these cards started earlier, they may try to initialize the not configured yet card and fail because some card channels are not ready yet.

As a workaround, you may define the Delayed Startup type for Cinegy services or start Cinegy services or the application manually.

  ** The Quad 2 card has the same architecture as Duo2, but 8 connectors (4 full duplex channels in the default configuration)

The basic concept is compression - the ratio of the compressed frame size to the uncompressed one. Based on this value, the bitrate is calculated.

The table of compression presets and corresponding bitrates (videoformats):

Our as-run logs are output in comma-separated values format to allow their use in spreadsheets and other software. If the date field is correctly identified as such, importing the log into spreadsheets gives the correct date value as a number.

By adding a column to that spreadsheet next to the date column, setting the format for that column to an appropriate date/time format, and adding 0.229 (e.g. for India) to the numeric value, the correct UTC date/time will appear. 

This would not be the only solution. The file in comma-separated values format can be written to any location. A competent script programmer can create a script that monitors that location: when a log file arrives the date column can then be manipulated as required. 

NVDECODE API enables software developers to configure this dedicated hardware video decoder. This dedicated accelerator supports hardware-accelerated decoding of the following video codecs on the Windows platform: MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264 (AVCHD), H.265 (HEVC), VP8, VP9 (see table below for codec support for each GPU generation).

More details at https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk

To send audio from the Sequence to external software and back to the Sequence after correcting it, you can export only the audio track to WAV from the sequence, edit, re-ingest, and add it to the sequence as an additional audio track.

Then delete the original sound.

For the third-party solutions please refer to: https://www.telosalliance.com/file-based-audio-processing/audio-automation-for-enterprise/minnetonka-audiotools-server or https://www.magix.com/ca/music-editing/sound-forge/

In case the corresponding log file does not provide additional information about the issue reason a new ticket should be raised via Helpdesk with a report generated by the latest Cinegy Reporting Tool https://open.cinegy.com/products/support-tools/24.4/reporting-tool/ attached.

Scenario 1. Only RTP/UDP/SRT input is configured

To set up the RTP/UDP/SRT input signal a separate tab is used in Playout configurator.

To use the IP signal as the live feed, the "Enable RTP/UDP input" option should be selected. The source URL specified in the configuration will be used as default for the Live item.

In the playlist create a Live item and open its properties by selecting the "Item properties…" command from the context menu and switching to the "Parameters" tab.

If the Live item is launched with such parameters and without a configured Input device in the Playback tab, the default RTP/UDP/SRT input (rtp://@239.168.10.140:1234) will be used as the source.

A specific RTP/UDP/SRT live source can be defined for the Live item in item parameters. For this select the checkbox "RTP/UDP Live Source" and define the URL:

In this case the predefined rtp://@239.168.10.136:1235 will be used instead of the default rtp://@239.168.10.140:1234.

Scenario 2. Several input signals are configured.

Add Inputs on the "Playback" tab and RTP/UDP/SRT input on the “RTP input” tab:

In the playlist create a Live item and open its properties by selecting the "Item properties…" command from the context menu and switching to the "Parameters" tab.

As far as Input devices are configured on the "Playback" tab, the Live source for such item will be the device the number of which is specified in the Input number field (in this case - AJA Input).

To use NDI Input, specify "1" in the Input number.

Comment: Cinegy Studio doesn’t support the Input number property for Live items. The first configured input device is always used. 

 If the checkbox "RTP/UDP Live Source" is selected and the corresponding URL is defined, the RTP Input will be used as an input source for the Live item.

Refer to the Microdoft support site for more details about cleaning the MS SQL server/databases from logs, temp files etc.

It also has additional stability protection against the short-term network disconnection, so there is no need for a local copy when network conditions are expected to be stable.

The main requirement is that your network and storage should provide the sufficient performance and bandwidth for writing the required media in real time.

RDP client processes the received commands and displays images using its graphics subsystem. Generally, the Cinegy Title engine can work normally through RDP, but we do not recommend using it when working with Cinegy Title Editor. The Microsoft Remote Display Adapter does not support some DirectX (DirectDraw) features. We recommend using other remote access tools instead: AnyDesk, Chrome Remote Desktop, TeamViewer, etc.

In addition, Cinegy released its Cinegize remote monitoring product, capable of real-time display of all resolutions up to 8K.

Due to some protocol limitations related to GPU acceleration, RDP implies some restrictions. RDP uses a virtual video adapter that may work incorrectly (even crash) - the video card/system must be able to create BGRA surfaces, and in most cases, there is an error in RDP.

More information about BGRA Scan-Out Support you may find in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/display/bgra-scan-out-support

Cinegy suggests a good solution that will make Cinegy Multiviewer output its grid over SDI as easily as it does over IP or NDI. To have an SDI output option, the only thing you need is Cinegy Multiviewer and Cinegy Encode – a Cinegy Playout that acts as a multi-channel software stream encoder/decoder.

NOTE: This scenario uses a Shared RAM input/output, so the Cinegy Multiviewer and Cinegy Playout instances must be installed on the same PC.

To configure and run this scenario, follow the steps:

1. On the “Input settings” tab of the Cinegy Multiviewer Configurator, define the input source according to your needs.

2. Go to the “Output settings” tab and add a Shared RAM output, where define its name and select the appropriate video format.

TIP: The “Global namespace” option should be enabled for sharing between several users on the machine, or between applications and services. With this option enabled, the application should be launched using the "Run as administrator" command.

TIP: For testing purposes,  you can enable a Windows Output on the “Output settings” tab and run Cinegy Multiviewer to display your current output.

3. On the "Playback" tab of the Cinegy Playout Configurator, define the Player mode corresponding to the Video format you specified in Cinegy Multiviewer (on step 2).

4.  From the list of available Input devices select Shared RAM input device and indicate the name defined in Cinegy Multiviewer (as in step 2).

TIP: The “Global namespace” option should be enabled for sharing between several users on the machine, or between applications and services. With this option enabled, the application should be launched using the "Run as administrator" command.

5. From the list of supported Output devices select the one corresponding to your SDI card (in our example - AJA Output):

Since Cinegy Air v21 the playout engine generates the feedback stream using SRT protocol and also supports the ability for anyone to request the "preview stream".

In the "Playback" tab of the Cinegy Playout configurator select the video codec to be used for this preview stream. For example, select the H.264 codec to get a few megabits of reduced-scale feedback stream.

The SRT feedback stream can be viewed in any SRT-supporting application.

In your application define the SRT URL address as follows: srt://<StreamIP>:<Port>, where

StreamIP – defines the IP address of the machine transmitting the SRT stream;

Port – should be set to 5421+N for playout preview or 5471+N for cued preview; where N is the zero-based Playout engine instance number.

For example, if you have Cinegy Air engine #0 on a machine with IP 192.168.0.1, in Cinegy Multiviewer you can define MPEG-TS input URL as srt://192.168.0.1:5421 to get the playout preview stream and srt://192.168.0.1:5471 for cued preview; the result will be as follows: 

It is being set up on the Playback tab of the Playout configuration:

The Queue Size is specified in frames.

As a pre-read buffer, it holds frames to be output that are rendered in advance, not adding any additional delay to output.

The Queue Size may play a significant role in compensating for reading performance issues. 

150 frames for 25 fps means that reading issues less than 6 sec in total will be compensated from the buffer. In case issues take longer than 6 sec (150 frames) they might become visible as frames will be read directly from the disk. It can be verified by PERF read messages in the log. Each PERF message contains information about the frame read time in ms. This message does not appear when the time to get the next frame is below the specified threshold.

The PERF read message appears in the log when the time to read the next frame from disk exceeds the frame duration (40 ms in case of 25 fps). In case such messages appear seldom, the performance read issues are compensated by the mentioned pre-read buffer. If PERF read messages appear in the log often, this signals that the pre-read buffer may be depleted at some point (reading speed is below the real-time) and this may affect the playout.

The above idea can be illustrated by the log example:

2024-06-01T18:22:41.951Z (9096) PERF: Read 48 ms (R,P,D): V(P,48,0) ANC(D,0,0) A0(P,0,0), id {E4018210-E9F3-46A0-AFDE-B094E1C76EDA}
2024-06-01T18:22:41.951Z (9092) PERF: Read 73 ms (R,P,D): V(P,73,0) ANC(P,0,0) A0(P,0,0), id {02772728-DA0A-4767-B132-774E2030FC1B}

V(P,48,0) – means that reading from proxy took 48 ms. In the case of reading directly, the message would be V(D,48,0).

This pre-read buffer also reserves memory from RAM to hold uncompressed frames data. For example, for 150 frames - 150*width*height*2 bytes.

150*1920*1080*2=593 MB.

The Queue Size also reserves some GPU memory when the Cinegy Title templates are used. It is the same 150 frames, but the memory usage will depend on the number of graphic layers and their complexity for each frame.

For high-resolution content (4K, 8K) it is recommended to reduce the default queue size to the values more appropriate for GPU RAM (e.g. 25).

Cinegy Prompter can be controlled by external devices: remote controllers that emulate keyboard shortcuts and game controllers.

 Remote Controllers

Devices that emulate keyboard shortcuts (for example, Contour Design Shuttle Pro, Contour Design Shuttle Express, TVPROMPT CRM-USB Shuttle):

Cinegy Prompter has the default set of shortcuts for the control. In addition, shortcuts can be customized in the Cinegy Prompter configurator. Please refer to https://open.cinegy.com/products/air/24.1/prompter/user-manual/installation-and-configuration/control/ for details.

Cinegy Prompter shortcuts should be assigned to the shuttle button in the Shuttle device configuration:

In the example, Button 1 corresponds to the "Play/Pause" command in Cinegy Prompter.

Shortcuts can be initially set in the Shuttle config and then modified in the Cinegy Prompter config by pressing the corresponding buttons on a shuttle.

 Game Controllers

Usually, prompter foot control is used, but it can also be a joystick, gamepad, etc.

The controller buttons can be assigned to Cinegy Prompter commands on the "Control" tab in the Cinegy Prompter config. To do this, click the desired action field in the "Input device" column and press a different input device button.

Speed control can be adjusted on the "Speed" tab.

To define the movement axis for the input device, choose the required option from the drop-down list.

Once the USB game controller is connected and detected by the system, the speed indicator line turns white. To define the text scrolling speed, move the device controller stick in opposite directions along the chosen axis. These movements are displayed correspondingly on the speed indicator line: 

The device controller stick is moved to the left	The device controller stick is moved to the right

To swap the speed acceleration and slowdown, select the "Invert" checkbox.

 You can however set up several profiles if you need a different set of Templates for each group of servers. More information on setting up CG Profiles can be found at the following link: https://open.cinegy.com/products/air/24.1/cg/user-manual/templates-and-profiles/working-with-profiles/ 

 To run existing templates via CG, please take a look at the settings and loading info here:

https://open.cinegy.com/products/air/24.1/cg/user-manual/introduction/settings/

https://open.cinegy.com/products/air/24.1/cg/user-manual/templates-and-profiles/working-with-templates/

For scheduled broadcasting on a single Engine, using Secondary Events in Cinegy Air Control is preferable:

1. Configure CG root folder on the Engine https://open.cinegy.com/products/air/24.1/playout/user-manual/configuration/cg/#cinegy-cg-root-folder
2. Use the SHOW command to add the CG templates, previously created via the Cinegy Title application https://open.cinegy.com/products/air/24.1/air/user-manual/handling-items/secondary-events/#show-2  
3. Use the HIDE command to take the graphics off screen: https://open.cinegy.com/products/air/24.1/air/user-manual/handling-items/secondary-events/#hide-2 

We don't recommend using Secondary Events and CG together to control the same layer - only in an emergency - when an operator has to interact/interfere manually with scheduled secondary events. By design, it will break down all the scheduled secondary events on that layer for this item (it would need to be controlled manually, until the next item starts).

Please note, that if Playout and Control applications are on different machines, the Playout (Engine) machine needs to have access to templates, subtitle files, etc.

The Daniel2 codec is realtime high-resolution acquisition and production codec (4K+) meant to be used for recording from camera sources, editing and post-production as well as playout. Daniel2 is aiming for the same space in the production workflow as AVID’s DNxHR, Apple’s ProRes, JPEG2000 or Sony’s XAVC. Daniel2 also supports alpha channel. Typical contaner is MXF OP1A.

Additional information can be found in the SMPTE 12M specification.

This function is primarily intended to display the image in the live preview in Cinegy Multiviewer Remote Control and can be configured in the Cinegy Multiviewer сonfigurator in the "Output settings" tab, but only for H.264 encoder.

In the Web browser of your choice enter the URL address to the server running Cinegy Multiviewer in the following format: http://<yourmachinename>:8000. Alternatively, you can click on the corresponding link in the "General settings" tab of Cinegy Multiviewer configurator (if it is started under administrator) which will open the web page with Cinegy Multiviewer Remote Control panel:

If you monitor multiple input streams in the Cinegy Multiviewer Remote Control panel, you can switch between them with a simple mouse click on the desired stream in the "Layouts" panel. 

On each layout, the default player is the first one, and accordingly, the first audio track from it will be played automatically when switching to that layout. That is, if we have three layouts when switching between them, the first track from the first player will be played automatically. To switch to others, you need to select the player and then only the audio track.

1. First, select the active layout (the same is done with the F1... F12 keys).
2. Next, select the active player in the layout (keys are assigned individually for each player in Cinegy Multiviewer configurator -> Input Settings -> Parameters -> Selection Key).
3. Then you get the opportunity to control the audio tracks by pressing the corresponding green keys.

To learn more about Cinegy Multiviewer Remote Control, refer to this article.

Please, refer to https://open.cinegy.com/products/air/24.1/playout/user-manual/playback-device-settings/output#preprocess-settings for additional details.

PAL framerates are always calculated as Non-drop frames, but NTSC framerates could be DF or NDF.

While non-drop timecode is displayed with colons separating the digit pairs—"HH:MM:SS:FF"—drop-frame is usually represented with a semicolon (;) or period (.) as the divider between all the digit pairs—"HH;MM;SS;FF", "HH.MM.SS.FF"—or just between the seconds and frames—"HH:MM:SS;FF" or "HH:MM:SS.FF". The period is usually used on VTRs and other devices that don't have the ability to display a semicolon. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE_timecode)

To observe signals and detect different issues you might use Cinegy Multiviewer.
Cinegy Multiviewer is detecting events like frozen frames and is making notifications to different destinations e.g. Cinegy Telemetry (based on Grafana) server:
https://open.cinegy.com/products/multiviewer/24.2/multiviewer/user-manual/installation-and-configuration/alarms-settings/#video-still-alert-settings
https://open.cinegy.com/products/multiviewer/24.2/multiviewer/user-manual/installation-and-configuration/notification-settings/#telemetry-notifications

Also, the detection of dropped frames might be supported using API to drop frames detection as described here:
https://open.cinegy.com/posts/2021-02-17-major-changes-in-cinegyair21-2/#real-time-engine-telemetry-metrics

If media files are MXF files, you can analyze them using Cinegy Player PRO.
Also, if you are using Proxy on Cinegy Air, the Proxy indicator will be red when the file becomes proxied (usually it happens much earlier than the item went on Air)

There are many various media validation tools, some of them are online as:
https://www.aconvert.com/analyze.html

Free of charge:
https://github.com/svt/media-analyzer:
FFProbe as a part of FFMpeg -
https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html

and the commercial as:
https://www.jongbel.com/manual-analysis/media-analyzer/
https://www.interrasystems.com/analyzers.php

And, finally, there are systems like Baton that do QC on files:
https://www.vidispine.com/platform/vidinet/media-services/baton-qc-by-interra

Firstly you need to configure the Shared RAM preview in the Capture engine service settings (https://open.cinegy.com/products/capture/21.4/cinegy-capture-manager/user-manual/configuration/#shared-ram-preview-configuration). We recommend to rename the Shared Ram output to some shorter and informative name.

Secondly, you need to add the Shared RAM Input in the Playout configuration tool (https://open.cinegy.com/products/air/21.2/playout/user-manual/playback-device-settings/input/#shared-ram-input). Here just specify your Capture Shared RAM output name.

Please note that both Capture Manager and Cinegy Playout should be run as Administrator. And also the Global Space check box should be selected for both.

1. The metadata field for a clip in a Roll is filled in, for example, with the word "interview".
2. A ClipBin is created from the Roll using the "Publish a Roll" command, causing the metadata to be inherited from the original clip.
3. When searching for the word "interview", only the clip from the original Roll is found.

Explanation of Behavior

When searching by metadata, the search does not find clips from ClipBin; only parent clips from Rolls are displayed in the results. This behavior is not a defect. Here’s why:

• There is an entry in the metadata table for the master clip only.
• In the user interface, it appears that the metadata is inherited and displayed for clips in ClipBin, but in reality, the database table for ClipBin clips remains empty.
• Historically, only master clips had metadata, so the search functionality was designed accordingly.

How to Make Metadata Searchable

If you need the metadata to be searchable for clips in ClipBin, you can change the metadata value for the ClipBin clip. When the metadata is "corrected/changed", a new record is created in the database for the ClipBin clip.

After the metadata is updated, the search functionality will work correctly, and clips from ClipBin will appear in the search results.

ERROR - YouTube media upload: Failed inserting video: The service YouTube has thrown an exception. HttpStatusCode is Forbidden.
Google.Apis.Requests.RequestError. The request cannot be completed because you have exceeded your quota. [403] 

This error indicates that you have reached YouTube's daily upload limits for videos. These limits are imposed to ensure the safety and quality of content on the platform and can vary based on several factors including your account's history, regional settings, and any strikes against your account.

To ensure safety at YouTube, we limit how many videos a channel can upload in a 24-hour period across desktop, mobile, and YouTube API.

Limits may vary by country/region or channel history. Copyright strikes may impact channel history eligibility. Community Guidelines strikes will affect how much you can upload.

For more detailed information, visit YouTube's common uploading errors guideline.

If you receive the "Daily upload limit reached" error, wait 24 hours before attempting to upload more videos on YouTube.

What you could try is to go to the YouTube Studio directly and try to upload a video directly using the same account. This can help confirm if the quota has been exceeded.

Also. ensure your account has no strikes and is in good standing.

By understanding and managing your upload limits, you can better plan your content uploads and avoid interruptions.

MPG (TS) files don't have an index, they have timestamps instead, which need to be located within the file. This results in jumping back and forth and reading larger chunks of data (with overhead to locate the timestamp), so it will always be significantly slower than MXF.

As the low proxying speed in the customer configuration may be associated with reading from the network storage, for further improvement of the proxying speed Cinegy recommends looking into its configuration and performance (e.g., to check whether file cashing has been enabled which may contribute to reading performance, etc.).

The parameter responsible for the color is IdleColor="#0000FF" (blue in this example). The color is specified using a hex color code.

We will change the color to black by updating the code to #000000.

Once the change is saved the engine needs to be restarted for it to take effect.

We began implementing the SRT protocol in 2019, starting with Cinegy Air as the pilot product. Since then, we have successfully integrated SRT into most Cinegy products.

First of all, you need to know that Cinegy software works with both VMWare (VMware ESXi Server (formerly VMware ESX)) and HyperV. The only thing is that you need to use an NVIDIA A10 GPU card or newer analog and, definitely, the NVIDIA Virtual GPU driver; otherwise, you won't get the necessary acceleration. The card cannot be "shuffled" between VMs, see below for GPU and Virtual GPU support:

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Center/a10/pdf/A10-Product-Brief.pdf 

Plus, the page from NVIDIA below has some recommendations for ESXi versions and Nvidia driver packages:

https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/13.0/product-support-matrix/index.html#abstract__vmware-vsphere-required-edition 

The link below goes on to a presentation created in 2017 about this type of deployment:

https://open.cinegy.com/posts/2017-03-20-techcon2017-virtualization/ 

Or read the following article to learn about Cinegy Cloud Broadcasting:

https://open.cinegy.com/posts/2024-03-25-cloud-broadcasting/

 Alternatively, you can try running test feeds on Amazon EC2 G5 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g5/, they use this type of card.

It  can be fixed by forcing Windows to make the network drives available to standard and administrator accounts:

1. Run regedit.

2. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System

3. Create a new DWORD entry with the name EnableLinkedConnections and Value 1.

4. Restart the computer.

Now you can see and use network drives with these installers or applications. 

Light ones can be changed or disabled in Cinegy Archive Manager, while dark ones cannot.

There, you can load an .SRT file.

In the "Subtitles" parameters, there is an option "On-Air", which is responsible for synchronizing subtitles with the timecode of the title in the playlist. Turn it off to always play subtitles from the beginning.

You can create a subtitle in Title Editor and then import it to DocumentBin, or you can create it directly in DocumentBin.

Please check the compatibility of Cinegy Desktop and Cinegy Title versions before installation.

First, you need to select the required layout. This is done using the F1... F12 keys.

On each layout, the default player is the first one, and accordingly, the first audio track from it will be played automatically when switching to that layout. That is, if we have three layouts when switching between them, the first track from the first player will be played automatically.

To switch to other players, you must activate a specific player by pressing correspondent keys assigned individually for each player in Input Settings->Parameters->Selection Key. And again, the first track from the newly chosen player will be played automatically.

 After that, you get the opportunity to select a specific audio track with the help of key combinations Ctrl+1… Ctrl+4

The Cinegy Support team needs a backup to reproduce the problem on our side and, if necessary, to consult a development team to diagnose what has gone wrong.

Follow these steps to perform a backup:

1. Install SQL Management Studio on the SQL Server machine. You can download it from the following link.

2. Perform the backup operation as described in the following guide.

3. Upload the resulting .bak file to the Cinegy FTP.

However, you can use the Cinegy File Service which has the functionality of logging events when low free space is reached (e.g., 20%).

This message is recorded in the System event logs, but you might create a scheduled PowerShell script to look for a "low free space" event in this log and send a notification. Something like this: Get-EventLog -LogName Application -Message *low free space*.

This method is explained here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/get-eventlog?view=powershell-5.1

 It is possible to easily restart the Dashboard window to renew previews. You have to do it carefully, NOT via the tray icon, because you may restart playouts as well.

Instead, you need to close the "PlayoutDashboard.exe" process in the Task Manager.

Then start PlayoutDashboard.exe from the "C:\Program Files\Cinegy\Cinegy Playout" folder.

The best practice is using server GPUs, that might be bridged to a virtual OS (Tesla, NVIDIA AXX, NVIDIA Lxx series) using e.g. RemoteFX tool in Hyper-V.

When choosing hardware for the host machine, please keep in mind that inside VM you should use 5-15% more CPU performance for the same operation that can be used on a standalone machine with all CPU cores used.

The only limitation is that you cannot use an SDI card in the virtual environment; you might use a Host or Standalone machine with an additional Cinegy Encoder to convert the SDI signal to RTP/UDP/SRT.

If you encounter a "terminate" issue while using Cinegy Convert, increasing the "task hung detection" time might help. This adjustment makes the Cinegy Convert Agent Manager wait longer before forcefully terminating the process. If access to the file is unlocked during this time, the Agent will continue working as expected.

To change the order of devices in the Cinegy Playout configurator, you will need to remove them and add them again in the desired order. This process requires reconfiguring each device, which can be time-consuming.

However, you can avoid this by directly editing the engine configuration files. This method allows you to reorder devices without the need to delete and re-add them.

Example Scenario

For example, you have configured 2 inputs and 3 outputs for Instance 0 as follows:

In this example, we need to swap the inputs so that the Deltacast Input becomes the main input. Additionally, we will switch places between the Screen Output and the RTP/UDP/SRT Output.

Steps to Reorder Devices

1. Locate Configuration files. Configuration files are stored by default in C:\ProgramData\Cinegy\CinegyAir\Config

Note that ProgramData is a hidden folder, so you may need to enable viewing hidden files and folders.

2. Backup Configurations. Before making any changes, copy your current configuration files from the Config folder to another location to avoid data loss.
   
   
3. Edit the Configuration File. Open the Instance-0.Config.xml configuration file in a text editor of your choice. In our example, the part with Input and Output configuration looks as follows:

4.  Rename the devices:

Set Input0 for Deltacast Input and Input1 for WebCam Input.

For output devices, set Output0 for RTP/UDP/SRT Output, Output1 for AJA Input, and Output2 for Screen Output:

5. Apply changes. After making these changes, save the configuration file and restart the Cinegy Playout engine. You should see the following configuration:

Troubleshooting

If something goes wrong, restore your configuration using previously saved backup config files (see Step 2) in the Config folder and restart the engine.

You need to create the tasks in Cinegy Convert Monitor or Cinegy Convert Client and it works just fine. 

You also can use the Cinegy Convert Watch Service to automate this process.