Grass Valley Aurora Ingest v.7.0.0 - Manual (Page 13)

components are also utilized in Aurora Ingest components such as Scheduler, VTR
Ingest and RMI.
About 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.
You can trigger multiple channel records from disparate sources simultaneously and
schedule record events without reference to physical server port. Aurora Ingest
automatically allocates any available port as determined at the optimum time before
the record event is scheduled to begin. RS-422 router level control allows any
router-connected VTR to be controlled by any Aurora Ingest channel.
About Aurora Ingest applications
Aurora Ingest consists of the following applications:
• Aurora Ingest Server lets you configure the other Aurora Ingest applications for
batch or feed events, as well as monitor the status of the media servers, database
server, MediaFrame server, routers, CompuSat satellite dish control system, and
channels. You can also access logs and manage user accounts for Aurora Ingest
clients.
• VTR Controller lets you monitor and manage the VTRs you use with VTR Ingest.
• VTR Ingest lets you ingest footage from VTRs and import or export Edit Decision
Lists (EDLs). Supporting up to eight channels, VTR Ingest can record footage with
configurable handle durations. It lets you set VTR mark points using either 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.
• Scheduler lets you schedule ingest feed events from a media server, CompuSat
satellite dish control system, VizuAll Inc.'s ScheduALL application, router source
or VTR. You can also schedule events to record, up to three years in advance, on
each server channel, including recurring events. Schedule Viewer provides an
easily readable way to see all channels and more specifically the task assigned to
each channel.
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Introducing Aurora Ingest