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Published by: Autodesk, Inc. 111 Mclnnis Parkway San Rafael, CA 94903, USA Title: Autodesk WiretapCentral 2012 and Wiretap Gateway 2012 Installation Guide Document Version: 1 Date: 06 September, 2012 Contents Chapter 1 Introduction . 1 Overview . 1 About this Guide . 2 Intended Audience . 2 Chapter 2 Concepts . 5 Wiretap . 5 WiretapCentral . 5 Wiretap Gateway . 6 Autodesk Wire . 7 Autodesk Backburner . 7 Media I/O Adapter . 7 Chapter 3 Installing WiretapCentral and Wiretap Gateway . 9 Choosing a Deployment Model . 9 System Requirements . 10 Preparing Your Installation . 11 Mounting the Product USB Key . 11 Extracting an Installer from a TAR Package . 13 Stand-alone Installation . 13 Distributed Deployment . 14 Installing Backburner Manager on a Dedicated System . 21 iii Configuring Visual Effects, Finishing and Grading Applications to Access Backburner Manager . 22 Installing and Configuring Backburner Server and the Media I/O Adapter on a Dedicated System . 24 Configuring Backburner Server to Access Backburner Manager . 26 Setting up Backburner Server Nodes to Access Project Metadata . 27 Configuring the Automount Service on Mac OS X Nodes . 27 Configuring the amd and NFS Services on Linux Nodes . 28 Grouping Backburner Server Nodes . 29 Installing Wiretap Gateway on a Dedicated System . 30 Installing Wiretap Gateway Software for Linux Products . 31 Licensing Dedicated Wiretap Gateway Software for Linux Products . 32 Installing and and Licensing the Wiretap Gateway Software Included with Smoke for Mac OS X . 34 Updating the License Server for the Smoke for Mac OS X Edition of Wiretap Gateway . 36 Configuring Wiretap Gateway . 37 Defining an Additional IP Address . 38 Excluding Directories and File Types . 38 Configuring Proxy Quality for RED Footage . 39 Setting up Wiretap Gateway Slave Processes . 39 Configuring Read-ahead Threads . 40 Installing WiretapCentral on a Dedicated System . 40 Configuring WiretapCentral . 41 Setting Up User Access Control for WiretapCentral . 41 Web Browser Configuration . 45 Verifying Installed Components . 45 Verifying Wiretap Gateway . 45 Verifying your Render Farm . 46 Chapter 4 Appendix: Wiretap Gateway Supported Ingest File Formats . 49 Overview . 49 Supported Image Sequence Formats . 50 Supported Audio File Formats . 51 Supported Image Container Formats . 51 Import: Supported QuickTime File Codecs . 51 Supported P2 MXF File Codecs . 55 Supported XDCAM File Codecs . 56 Supported DNxHD MXF File Codecs . 56 Support for RED Files . 59 Support for ARRI Files . 59 iv | Contents Supported Apple ProRes Files . 59 Contents | v vi Introduction 1 Overview Autodesk®WiretapCentral™ is a fully integrated Web application that provides interactive access to all media assets in your facility network. It presents editorial, visual effects, and grading assets stored on any network-accessible Stone® filesystem or standard filesystem framestore. The intuitive Web interface eliminates the need to be at an Autodesk creative workstation to import, play, encode media, or to submit and monitor background jobs. This allows the artist to offload media management and transcoding, and stay focused on creative tasks. WiretapCentral straddles several different technologies, including Autodesk Visual Effects, Finishing and Colour Grading workstations, low-bandwidth Web video, and several different networking and collaboration protocols and tools. 1 WiretapCentral enables you to directly import REDCODE RAW and multi-channel OpenEXR files by leveraging the Autodesk® Wiretap® Gateway. When importing media, WiretapCentral can use Autodesk® Backburner™ distributed background processing to maximize efficiency. About this Guide This guide provides information on using WiretapCentral and the related components. Intended Audience This guide assumes you have knowledge of the Linux® operating system, preferably a distribution from Red Hat® Linux. It also assumes familiarity with Linux networking terms, tools, and procedures. If you plan to reconfigure your workstation or your storage, knowledge of computer hardware, storage and networking in a professional video/film production environment is recommended. 2 | Chapter 1 Introduction Do not attempt to carry out the procedures in this guide if you are not familiar with the concepts they present. Contact Autodesk Media and Entertainment Customer Support if you require further assistance. If you are upgrading an existing workstation without reinstalling the operating system, this document assumes you have root access to your system. If you do not have root access, contact your system administrator. The default root account password on an Autodesk workstation is password. About this Guide | 3 4 Concepts 2 Wiretap WiretapCentral communicates with media and metadata databases through their Wiretap® server, typically an