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Author Topic: Dolby Server manual? Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 11-15-2009 07:26 AM                     Is there a PDF manual available for the Dolby servers? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-15-2009 10:00 AM                     There is no manual for he user interface. Just for installation. Demetris  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 11-15-2009 11:32 AM                     How do you learn to program shows? I heard that the Dolby GUI is the most ergonomical and user friendly, but does that justify to leave out a user manual? Is the installation manual available for download? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-15-2009 11:49 AM                     Installation manual shows nothing about creating shows. In any case it is very easy to create shows in the Dolby Server. There is an immediate help icon imbeded in the Dolby GUI which explains everything. Demetris  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 11-15-2009 08:47 PM                     It is literally drag and drop. Just give yourself 5 minutes with the GUI and I'm sure you will figure it out. The only thing confusing is their "open/load" button on the control page. It is far from what I would've ever guessed would be an icon for that (look for 3 round circles).  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 01-06-2010 05:20 PM                     Can anyone please make the DSS200 installation manual available, or does Dolby prohibit it? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-06-2010 05:51 PM                     The installation manual shows NOTHING as to the operation of the server. It does NOT contain any passwords as such. Just raid rebuilt instructions that might be usefull and that should be for the technician and not the end user. Demetris  |  IP: Logged Elise Brandt Expert Film Handler Posts: 160 From: Kuusankoski, FIN/ Kouvola, Finland Registered: Dec 2009 posted 01-07-2010 11:29 AM                     Carsten -trust me. If I could sit down and figure the darn thing out in fifteen minutes, so can you. Drag & drop, a little common sense and Don't Panic. Play a little, if you're unsure, try. It's basically impossible to screw anything up by trying through there.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 01-07-2010 07:52 PM                     It's not about playing - I don't own a Dolby server. I simply want to read a manual. Any manual. ;-) - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-08-2010 02:18 AM                     Again. The manual is simply USELESS!!! Even to the installer!  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 01-08-2010 03:01 AM                     So how does an installer e.g. connect a DSS200 to automation devices? No documents on how to configure the server? How is this done in practical terms? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-08-2010 05:06 AM                     They attend the training. Since all projector and all servers share the same inputs and outputs, all are more or less the same. The thought is that the DSS200 controls the projector and the sound equipment via Ethernet (which is configurable via an advanced menu with a password that technicians should have), and also the NA10 unit which controls lights e.t.c via ethernet as well. In an advanced menu you just assign which of the projector brands you use (in any case they are not much) and what IP settings they have so they integrate. Also in the manual it just shows suggested IP addresses so you don't have to make any more advanced settings and just set the IP of the connected equipment to what the Dolby defaults' are. It's actually a basic setup procedure. Is what you make in the light engine settings which matter most! In case of using it as a client in a TMS system the procedure is different but again in these advanced menus that technicians access though a password. That is basicaly it. Demetris  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 03-12-2011 03:12 PM                 It has been 428 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-12-2011 03:12 PM                        Well - plug and play may be popular with kid stuff and among PC Nerds. I would still find it appropriate to deliver some kind of manual with toys in this class. This weekend i'm running only my second digital movie - the newly released reissue of an old danish classic "Qivitoc". The film is beautifully restored, but out of sync, not a constant delay, but all scenes more or less. This one arrived on a small type of harddisk, that I haven't seen before, to be loaded via the USB. Transfer time 1:1 -Same harddisc used in only one theatre before here. No troubles there ! Opening digital film "King's Speech" on what I call a reel harddisk transferred in half an hour. "Speech" runs perfect in both picture and sound, and gives me wish to find the money for digitalising my screen 2, which I first ment to let run the time out on 35mm and then goodbye. This is nice ! Also from today, i'm showing my first digital trailer, delivered on a USB stick. First copy of this was about half an hour about loading, -and then "failure".. Second copy loaded rather quickly, but is even more out of sync than "Qivitoc". What can I be doing wrong here ? Am I supposed to put in an certain amount of "pause-bricks", when building the show, or what ?? Just a small book would have been nice here. Any hints welcome, please. Greetings from Denmark Per Kinoton DCP30SX went in, one DP70 out (still one left) Dolby DSS200 and CP650 went in, CP65, DA20, SA10 and MPU1 out Central heating system put on stand-by  |  IP: Logged Ben Wales Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Southampton. England Registered: Jul 99 posted 03-12-2011 03:51 PM                     Hi Per, Welcome to the "Wonderfull World of Digital Cinema (?)", I hope you won't scrap your DP70's, if you do send them to me . As for Ingesting Trailers, I assume you did this while the Dolby Server was not playing Content?, they are not as Flexible as a Doremi (ie Ingesting while playing content). A Trailer should take just a few seconds to Ingest or at worst a minute or two, as for Scriting we normally only use "Black" at the last Trailer for Feature Change and Format change, although some people place "Black" between every Trailer on the Script.  |  IP: Logged

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