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Configuring send locations – Grass Valley Aurora Edit LD v.6.5 Installation User Manual

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Aurora Edit Installation Guide

November 25, 2008

Chapter 4 Configuring Your System

Configuring Send Locations

After completing a sequence you can send it to a playout machine or to a network video

server. The Send tab allows you to configure Aurora Edit with your send locations

—another Aurora Edit workstation, a Media Server, or a Bin. You can also create a local

send location if you want to store completed sequences on your PC.
The table below describes the Send tab; the procedure for configuring a location follows.

To set up a send location:
1. Click

Add

.

The Add Named Destination to Send List window appears.

2. Enter a

Send Name

to identify the location (displayed on the Send tab).

3. Select the

Send Type

from the drop-down list:

Item

Description

[locations]

The left pane displays the currently configured send locations.

Send Type

Displays the Send Type of the selected location.

Destination
Summary

Displays a summary of the destination settings.

Use Video ID

Check

Use Video ID

if you will be linking to stories on a Newsroom Computer System

(NRCS) that use Video IDs. When you send an Aurora Edit sequence to this location,
the system uses the Video ID as the file name.

Aurora Playout
Destination

Indicates whether this send location is an Aurora Playout server (this is configured
within the send location).

GXF Sequence
Transfer

Check this option if you want to send sequences via GXF. If unselected, Aurora Edit
can send sequences to a Profile Server or K2 in a shared storage system without using
a fiber channel IP connection.

Test for Invalid
Video Server
Characters

Check this option to have Aurora Edit check for invalid characters when creating files,
including creating a new clip, creating a new sequence, renaming a Bin object, sending
a sequence with a video ID, importing a removable media clip, and editing the name
of the sequence when sending to another destination.

Invalid characters are: * \ | / < > : “ ? [ ] % & ‘

Add

Configures a new send location.

Remove

Deletes the selected send location.

Edit

Opens the send location configuration for editing.

Send Type

Description

Vibrint

Select

Vibrint

if the send location is another Aurora Edit or an Aurora Playout system.

Profile*

Select

Profile

if the send location is a K2 Server or M-Series iVDR.

Publish*

Select if you want to transfer sequences.

GXF ftp*

Select

GXF ftp

to send completed sequences as GXF streams that can be used for a

generic FTP site.

GXF file

Select

GXF file

to send completed sequences as GXF files.

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