Grass Valley Aurora Edit LD v.6.5 Installation - Manual (Page 4)

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Aurora Edit Installation Guide November 25, 2008
Chapter 6 Installing the Conform Server
System Requirements ............................................................................................. 50
Hardware Requirements .................................................................................... 50
Software Requirements ...................................................................................... 50
Installation Procedure ............................................................................................. 50
Conform Server Configuration ................................................................................ 53
Testing the Installation ............................................................................................ 55
Testing IIS installation ........................................................................................ 55
Testing Conform Service Installation.................................................................. 55
Web.Config......................................................................................................... 56
Chapter 7 Aurora Edit Security
Designing a security schema .................................................................................. 58
Sample security schema .................................................................................... 58
NewsShare system users and groups................................................................ 59
Configuring the Domain Controller .......................................................................... 59
Guidelines .......................................................................................................... 59
Creating Groups ................................................................................................. 60
Creating Users ................................................................................................... 61
Adding Users to the New Groups ....................................................................... 61
Configuring SNFS for SAN Security........................................................................ 62
Setting Security Permissions .................................................................................. 63
Setting Initial Shared Volume Permissions ....................................................... 63
Setting High Level Shared Volume Permissions ............................................... 63
Setting Aurora Edit Root Level Permissions ..................................................... 64
Setting Aurora Edit Bin Permissions ................................................................. 65
Testing .................................................................................................................... 66
Chapter 8 Using Final Cut Pro With Aurora Edit
Installing the Grass Valley Plug-in .......................................................................... 68
Mounting the Shared Drive ..................................................................................... 68
Mounting V:\ from MacOS 10.4.x (Tiger)............................................................ 68
Mounting V:\ from MacOS 10.5.x (Leopard)....................................................... 71
Optimizing System Bandwidth ................................................................................ 75
Configuring the Cisco Switch ............................................................................. 75
Configuring the Mac ........................................................................................... 76
Creating a Media Import SmartBin on Aurora Edit .................................................. 79
Workflows................................................................................................................ 79
Editing on Aurora Edit ........................................................................................ 79
Editing on Final Cut Pro ..................................................................................... 83
Converting Existing Aurora Edit Files to .mov Format............................................. 85
Appendix A Workstation Slot Map
HP xw8400 Workstation Board Assignment ........................................................... 87
Single-CPU......................................................................................................... 87
Dual-CPU ........................................................................................................... 87
HP xw8600 Workstation Board Assignment .......................................................... 88
HP xw9300 Workstation Board Assignment ........................................................... 88
Single-CPU......................................................................................................... 88
Dual-CPU ........................................................................................................... 88
Appendix B Database Maintenance
Overview ................................................................................................................. 90
newsBackUpDb....................................................................................................... 90
newsRestoreDb....................................................................................................... 91
newsDropDb ........................................................................................................... 92
newsInstallDb .......................................................................................................... 93