Introducing aurora ingest, What is aurora ingest, Chapter 1 – Grass Valley Aurora Ingest v.6.3 User Manual
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Aurora Ingest System Guide
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Introducing Aurora Ingest
Aurora Ingest is an automated media digitization system, made up of several
integrated applications, that allows you to ingest footage from VTRs, feeds from a
router, or files from multiple Digital Media Cameras and Digital Media Recorders, all
directly to a Media Server in your operation.
This manual shows you how to install and configure the Aurora Ingest applications in
your newsroom, and how to use Aurora Ingest to capture and record clips for later use
in a newscast.
This chapter is divided into the following sections:
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“Integration with Aurora Suite and third-party products”
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What is Aurora Ingest?
Aurora Ingest lets you get footage from VTRs and from router feeds and ingest it
directly to your Media Server. With Aurora Ingest applications, you can select clips
from multiple VTR tapes, create a batch (also known as a segment) list, and record it
to the server. You can also ingest feeds from a router source directly to the same
server. Up to eight VTRs are supported at any time. You can select the supported
VTRs from an unlimited number of VTRs or RS-422-connected routers. Batch jobs
can be saved as Edit Decision Lists (EDLs).
The Aurora Ingest system supports the K2 Media Server and M-Series iVDR media
server or servers. You can configure your system to record clips into two servers in
parallel. If one server fails or has inadequate storage, only the recording on that server
will be stopped. When the system continues to the next clip, the storage capacity on
both servers is checked again, allowing parallel recording to resume if storage is made
adequate.
Raw footage comes from a VTR connected directly to the Aurora Ingest workstation,
a CompuSat satellite dish control system, or a router source. While you connect the
media servers to the Aurora Ingest workstation using AMP Sockets, you need RS-422
connection from the VTR to the Aurora Ingest workstation to have control of the VTR
in the Aurora Ingest windows. For router sources, Aurora Ingest supports the Grass
Valley SMS 7000, Grass Valley Acapella, Encore control and Jupiter systems, and
allows source selection and renaming.