Aurora ingest applications, Aurora ingest workstations – Grass Valley Aurora Ingest v.6.3 User Manual
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Aurora Ingest System Guide
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Chapter 1 Introducing Aurora Ingest
Aurora Ingest applications
Aurora Ingest consists of the following applications:
• Aurora Ingest - Server, which lets you configure the other Aurora Ingest
applications for batch or feed events, as well as monitor the status of the media
servers, database servers, routers, CompuSat satellite dish control system, and
channels. You can also access the logs. For more information, see
• VTR Controller, which lets you monitor and manage the VTRs you use with VTR
Ingest. For more information, see
Chapter 4, Using VTR Controller on page 97
• VTR Ingest, which lets you ingest footage from VTRs and import or export Edit
Decision Lists (EDLs). Supporting up to eight channels, VTR Ingest can record
footage and configurable handle durations. It lets you set mark points using either
the VTR, the PC keyboard, or the mouse. You can ingest a single item or build a
batch list of items to capture from multiple tapes. You can also create a batch list
offline and then import the list into VTR Ingest as a common EDL. Once you create
a batch list, you can optimize the list by timecode, which allows the material to be
ingested in the shortest time possible, or manually arrange the batch list items in
order to prioritize immediately needed clips. For more information, see
• Aurora Ingest - Scheduler, which lets you schedule ingest feed events from a media
server, CompuSat satellite dish control system, router source and VTRs. You can
also schedule events to record, up to one year in advance, on each server port,
including recurring events. Schedule Viewer provides an easily readable way to see
all ports and more specifically the task assigned to each port. For more information,
see
Chapter 3, Using Aurora Ingest - Scheduler on page 65
• Removable Media Interface (RMI), which lets you ingest files from multiple
Infinity Digital Media Cameras and Digital Media Recorders, as well as Sony
XDCam and Panasonic P2 removable media devices. For more information, see
Chapter 6, Using Aurora Ingest - RMI on page 111
.
For information on installing and configuring the Aurora Ingest applications, see
Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring Aurora Ingest on page 15
.
If you use Aurora Playout as a playback system in your operation, you can ingest clips
directly to a Aurora Playout rundown by linking clips to a Aurora Playout placeholder
at the point of record. For more information, see
Chapter 7, Linking Clips to Aurora
Playout Placeholders on page 113
.
Aurora Ingest workstations
Aurora Ingest has a client/server architecture that allows for multiple simultaneous
users. It supports simultaneous event creation, event modification, event deletion,
event monitoring, and resource viewing from multiple workstations.
Each workstation can control up to eight VTRs for batch list creation and batch ingest.
You can work with either directly attached VTRs and dedicated server ports or
through a router.