Grass Valley Aurora Edit LD v.6.3 Installation - Manual (Page 14)

14 Aurora Edit Installation and Configuration Guide September 20, 2007
Chapter 1 Introducing the Aurora Edit System
Digital News Production Workgroup Layout
Aurora Edit is part of the digital news production workgroup from Grass Valley.
The Aurora Edit SD and HD Components
The Aurora Edit family, both SD (standard definition) and HD (high definition),
consists of several components comprising a digital production system. All Aurora
Edit software applications run on the Aurora Edit platform.
Workstation
The Aurora Edit workstation is a personal computer housing these components:
• Graphics display card
• Hard drvie with NTFS for operating system
• Media drives (72, 146, or 300GB)
• One TCP/IP compatible Ethernet LAN connection
• Windows XP operating system
• 6 or 7 slots, depending on the workstation:
• 6 slots = 1 or 2 PCI-e, 1 PCI, and 3 PCI-X
• 7 slots = 3 PCI-e, 1 PCI and 3 PCI-X
• USB ports
• Optional:
• Fibre Channel or Gigabit Ethernet network cards
• RS-422 controller card
The Aurora Edit workstation can be rackmounted or standalone.
For a list of supported hardware platforms, see the ReadMe file that comes with the
Aurora Edit software.
Ingest
K2 Media Client
Playout
K2 Media Client
Aurora
Ingest
Embedded SDI
incoming feeds
K2 Media Server
Aurora DSM
K2 RAID
Shared Storage
Ethernet Control LAN
Gigabit iSCSI network
Aurora Edit
High Resolution Editing
Aurora
Playout
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