Grass Valley Aurora Edit LD v.6.5 Installation - Manual (Page 82)

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Aurora Edit Installation Guide November 25, 2008
Chapter 2 Using Final Cut Pro With Aurora Edit
Installing the Grass Valley Plug-in
The first step is to install the Grass Valley plug-in to Final Cut Pro.
To install the Grass Valley plug-in:
1. Insert the Grass Valley FCP-Menu CD-ROM into the Mac.
2. Copy the file
GrassValley.bundle
to the appropriate path below:
• MacOS 10.4.x
~/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data/Plugins
• MacOS 10.5.x
~/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins
The plug-in is ready to use.
Mounting the Shared Drive
After the Grass Valley plug-in is installed, the next task is to map the media drive (V:).
The process differs slightly between MacOS 10.4 and 10.5.
Mounting V:\ from MacOS 10.4.x (Tiger)
In order for EDLs to export correctly, you need to map the Final Cut Pro network drive
and mount the V:\ drive.
Mapping the Network Drive
You need to map the drive on the Mac for the exported EDL files.
1. In Aurora Edit, choose
Tools | Options | Timeline
.
2. In the Final Cut Pro Network Mapping field, enter
file://localhost/Volumes/
K2_server_name
.
3. Click
OK
.
Mounting the V:\ Drive
You need to mount the V:\ drive from the Mac to use files on the shared database.
To mount the drive:
1. Launch
NetInfo Manager
from the Applications/Utilities folder.
2. Click the lock in the lower left corner and authenticate.
3. Click the
/mounts
directory.
4. Click
New+
. An item named new_directory appears.