Gilderfluke&Co Br-miniBrick8 - Manual (Page 33)

Programming a Br-miniBrick8 with a RealTime License
This part of the manual is for those of you who arenʼt installing the MACs-USB Smpte Card
in their computer, but will be licensing the ʻHardwareless RealTimeʼ mode. If you do have a
MACs-USB Smpte Card installed in your computer or arenʼt licensing ʻHardwareless Real-
Timeʼ, you can skip reading this section of the manual.
This section of this manual assumes that you have already gone through the previous sec-
tion of this manual, where you learned how to create a show, and make the figures and output
channels you will be programming, and edit them using the OffLine Editing Window.
This is excerpted from the (much larger) PC•MACs manual. Even more commands and
more details on the following commands can be found in other sections of the PC•MACs man-
ual. It can be downloaded from the Gilderfluke & Co. website.
Register your PC•MACs Software........
If the PC•MACs software has already been registered on the computer you are us-
ing, or you already have a MACs USB RealTime Dongle installed, you can skip this
step.
The MACs USB RealTime Dongle is the permanent license for the RealTime fea-
tures of PC•MACs. Gilderfluke & Co. can issue a temporary RealTime License number
as a temporary license, while the MACs USB RealTime Dongle is shipped to you. This
will enable the RealTime features of PC•MACs for fourteen days.
To obtain the temporary license for the Realtime features of PC•MACs, you will need
to register it with Gilderfluke & Co.. You can do this by opening the dialog under the
Preferences pulldown/Hardware/MiniBrick Security Key.... This shows a sixteen digit
ʻSystem Serial Numberʼ based upon your systemʼs hard disk drive, Windows, and the
date and time.
Contact Gilderfluke & Company with this number by phone, fax or Email, and we
will return a eight to ten digit long ʻSecurity Keyʼ. When you enter this ʻkeyʼ and press
the ʻValidateʼ button, all of PC•MACs RealTime features will be unlocked for fourteen
days. During this time, a MACs USB RealTime Dongle will be sent to you. Once the
MACs USB RealTime Dongle has arrived, it can be plugged into any PC that has our
software installed to permanently enable RealTime programming.
Install MACs USB RealTime Dongle........
If the PC•MACs software has already been registered on the computer you are us-
ing, or you already have a MACs USB RealTime Dongle installed, you can skip this
step.
Exit PC•MACs before beginning this procedure. It will not recognize the MACs USB
RealTime Dongle unless it was in place before it has started running.
The first time a MACs USB RealTime Dongle is plugged into a computer, Widows
will proudly announce that it has found new hardware, and hasnʼt a clue where to find
the appropriate drivers.
You will need to navigate Windows over to the C:/Programs/Gilderfluke/USB_Install
to find the appropriate driver. Being Windows, you will probably have to do this twice.
Now if you look under the Preferences pulldown/Hardware/MiniBrick Security Key....
Dialog, it will show that the MACs USB RealTime Dongle has been installed.
Note that this installation process will need to be repeated for any other computers
you want to install the PC•MACs software and Hardwareless Realtime programming.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485
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