New Piece to Playstation

1: New Piece to main project

Projects On MacBook

Copy most recent project from Playstation rsync tu-studio@hufo_playstation:showcontrol_project/reaper_projects/<YYYY-MM-DD>_hufo_show.RPP ak/showcontrol_project/reaper_projects/<YYYY-MM-DD>_hufo_show.RPP

move audio files to Users/humboldt-forum/hufo_show_projects/audiofiles (?)

open production project and hufo_show project as separate project tabs in Reaper

In the production project

TODO: instructions for cleaning up production project ..

  • Arrange session to have exact same layout/channel structure as the hufo_show_project - Some tracks might be hidden and can be shown in the Track Manager (Menu: View->Track Manager) by clicking on the fields in the TCP and MCP columns

  • Every Automation Lane for every plugin (on a channel that contains audio) needs at least one automation point: - Action: “Envelope: Show all envelopes for all tracks” - Insert help marker shortly before the start of the first media item and - move transport to marker - Bind action “Envelope: Insert new point at current position (do not remove nearby points)” to a key combination such as Opt+. - Select any envelope in the track control panel and execute key combination - Repeat last step for every envelope (it is currently not possible to automatically select the next envelope)

  • Use razor editing to select all media items including automation points - Also include MASTER_DCA in the selection, even if its empty

  • Regularly copy the selected razor edit (CMD+C)

In the hufo_show project

  • Move playback position to some minutes after the last piece in the project

  • Ensure MASTER_DCA is selected in the track control panel by clicking on it

  • Paste

  • Set time selection to length of piece, including the extra seconds for opening and closing credits

  • Ensure MASTER_DCA is selected in the track control panel by clicking on it

  • Menu: Insert->New MIDI Item

  • Menu: Insert->Region (from time selection) - NB: The automation points previously inserted need to be AFTER the start of the region, transport needs to move over these points for the plugin to get the value

  • Name the region (does not have to be exact, only for reference)

  • Add end marker - Move time selection to end of region - Menu: Insert->Marker (prompt for name) - Name: !1016 - ID: one bigger than end marker of last piece - IMPORTANT: this has to be the same id as audio_index in the seamless-config!

  • Check proper IP address in SeamLess Plugins

  • place the time cursor at the beginning of the trailer to make sure plugins are initialized with zeros

2: MAIN PROJECT TO PLAYSTATION

1: Copy Files to Playstation

rsync is used instead of ansible because it gives progress feedback and is faster

# rsync new project
rsync -Purtz ak/showcontrol_project/reaper_projects/YYYY-MM-DD_hufo_show.RPP hufo_playstation:showcontrol_project/reaper_projects

#sync new audio
export new_project="<NEW_PROJECT_NAME>"
rsync -Purtz ak/showcontrol_project/audiofiles/$new_project/ hufo_playstation:showcontrol_project/audiofiles/$new_project

2: open new project in reaper

Reaper will always open the last opened project on boot.

❗IMPORTANT❗ : save the project after opening it, if there was a dialog saying that files could not be found.

Sometimes the kvm switch does not work then restart the playstation

3: Add new Piece to ShowControl

Add track file (yml)

  • in seamless configs repo: HUFO/showcontrol/config/tracks/

  • copy other yml, fill with necessary infos, video indices are 0 based, audio indices 1 based

  • make sure the “name” field contains a unique id for this track

  • commit and push afterwards

Update schedules

In the showcontrol repo. Install the python package:

pip install -e .

Then use the following commands to generate the schedule and human readable text file in the seamless configs repo

showcontrol_schedule_generator -c ../seamless-configs/HUFO/showcontrol/config/ -o ../seamless-configs/HUFO/showcontrol/config/schedule.yml -r ../seamless-configs/HUFO/showcontrol/readable_schedules

  • check file the readable schedule and the schedule.yml in the seamless-configs repo and verify if everything looks good

  • commit and push both repos

Apply changes on PlayStation

  1. Update Configs on playstation:

ansible-playbook -i HUFO_inventory.yml install/install_configs.yml -l "playstation"

# if you want to install something else than the main config branch specify the desired branch/tag/commit using the -e option

ansible-playbook -i HUFO_inventory.yml install/install_configs.yml -l "playstation" -e "config_version=<branch_name>"

  1. Restart Showcontrol Service on playstation run 1. systemctl –user restart showcontrol.service

4: Upload VIDEOs

videos are rolled out using ansible playbooks. The video files have to be placed on the machines, and the filename has to be placed in the playlist.txt. maintain/rollout_videos.yml is used, however it has to be modified before use:

  1. add video file name to maintain/templates/playlist.txt.j2, {{ video_id }} will be filled with the index of this video player (1-6)

  2. put the video files into the project_source directory (or change the project_source directory to your video directory, whatever makes you happy)

  3. add a block like this to the tasks in rollout_videos.yml:

    block:

    - name: "Copy <new_project> onto the server"
  copy:
      src: "{{ project_source }}/<new_project>/cool_filename-0{{ video_id }}.mp4"
      dest: "{{ target_content_dir  }}"
      owner: kiosk
      group: avm
      mode: "u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx"

  4. run the playbook

  5. restart the video players