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Saving show files

In the calm of the summer doldrums, can someone explain the hierarchy of the File Save structure, when using an RVI and Ion 1.9?

Ion is Main, RVI is in the house.  When the operator saves, the show file goes onto the Ion HD.  I recently found a bunch of show files on the RVI HD, when the designer initiated (?) a save command.

I recognize in the set-up utility there is a directory choice for the save command, I'm just not clear on what it should be.

When the RVI is told to save by the designer, in house, it saves to the RVI, yes?

Does the RVI Save command also initiate an Ion save command?

(if not, does this not create 2 distinct show files, the existence of which could really muck up a "restore previous show instruction"?  "Do you want my last save or your last saved show?")

What does the RVI need to be set to, to save to the Ion?

We have 2 venues, both with Ions with distinct addresses.  Obviously, we'd like to save to whichever Ion is the master, regardless of its address.  Does the above work, without changing address settings in the RVI command, when we change venues??

Thanks for any help offered.

Andrew

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    Someone correct me if I'm wrong, 

    I'm pretty sure the Show File is saved to the Show Archive on all stations when any user initiates the save command.  We have an EOS with an RPU, Console and 3 client stations, and we have copies of every saved show file at every location, including the RPU (master) that we never touch now that we have remote power on and off.

    -Bryan



    [edited by: bryankacz at 9:10 AM (GMT -6) on Fri, Aug 20 2010]
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    My experience as an assistant with EOS / ION / EVI setup as been that every time the Master saves, any backup / client also preforms a save. If I as the assistant on the RVI want to save to my local RVI hard, I double click Save and it saves a local copy to the Show Archive Folder without effecting the master. I can also save as to a USB stick and change name/directory etc... again without effecting any other client or the programmer. Every couple of days before we would start the day, I would go into the Shell settings and do some file cleanup and sort into folders or delete erroneous files. 

    I have noticed though that the file name is still based off of the local machine data. So if you are not synchronizing time from the master, you will get files with a different time stamp from the master. This can cause a headache from the file management side of things, but hopefully if you have a good system as to who is responsible for always having the show file football, it won't be too much of a mess. Also keep in mind that when you boot an RVI, it will load the last show file it had on it the night before until it finds the master, and will then take the download from the master.

    I would often at the end of the day do a Save As to my RVI and a USB stick adding an EOD tag to the show file name. When I would boot up in the morning, I would see my EOD as the show title name at the top of the screen until the client saw the master and then the show file would restore to the main. 

    As a side not to ETC... why is time zone not set by the master? I realize this is not a standard property of the NTP time server, but I have seen this cause many headaches as the time on the master is correct, but its actually set for the wrong time zone. When you go to set up the RVI, you don't realize that the master is running the wrong zone, so you set yours to the proper time zone and then have incorrect times. 

     

    That help at all?

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