Grass Valley Aurora Ingest v.6.1 - Manual (Page 12)

2 Aurora Ingest System Guide May 2007
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-controlled satellite dish, and
channels. You can also access the logs. For more information, see
“Aurora Ingest
- Server” on page 12 .
• 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 49 .
• 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. For more
information, see
Chapter 5, Using VTR Ingest on page 53 .
• Aurora Ingest - Scheduler, which lets you schedule ingest feed events from a media
server, CompuSat satellite dish control system, or router source. 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 33 .
• 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 63 .
For information on installing and configuring the Aurora Ingest applications, see
Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring Aurora Ingest on page 5 .
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 65 .
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.