Scanning tape with broken timecodes – Grass Valley Aurora Ingest v.6.5.2 User Manual
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within Tools|Options of Aurora Ingest - Server and it depends on the user administration setup
of your ingest operation.
1. Make sure the Channel Window is selected.
2. Click the
Record
button
.
While the clip is recording, the record button flashes to indicate an active record.
Aurora Ingest records clips from the VTR tape to the server for later use in a
news story.
Clip status changes from Ready -> Cueing -> Recording -> Done. If the clip
didn’t record for some reason, status shows as Failed.
Scanning tape with broken timecodes
Regardless of which timecode mode is used with your VTR; you can scan tapes with
broken timecodes, capture clips and assign keywords according to timecode breaks.
A batch list will automatically be created and saved as the .vlg EDL type.
To enable the feature, you need to select the Enable Auto Scan checkbox in the VTR
tab within Tools|Options of VTR Ingest. Once selected, two additional buttons will
appear on the clip record interface of VTR Ingest.
Function
Button
Find and ingest segments in tape according to timecode
breaks.
Find, ingest segments in tape and assign keywords according
to timecode breaks.
1. Insert a tape into the VTR and click the
Timecode Break Scan
button .
2. VTR Ingest rewinds the tape and automatically proceed to scan for timecode
changes.
3. Once the mark in and mark out points are inserted around timecode changes, the
clip is automatically added to the segment list.
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