Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.8.1 - Manual (Page 78)

2. Select Tools | Reinitialize Media Monitor or press F5 for the shortcut button.
Repopulating rundown items from SDB Server
The option to repopulate rundown items is useful if you were to accidentally delete placeholders in
Housekeeper for an active rundown. You can repopulate those placeholders by selecting this option
within SDB Server.
However, this option only repopulate empty placeholders and you still need to associate clips to
those placeholders before the rundown is ready for playback.
In the case of a complete loss or corruption of the SDB database, repopulate could be used to rebuild
the database by importing placeholders from all MOS active rundowns.
To repopulate rundown items:
1. Click SDB Server on the taskbar of your desktop to display the window.
2. Select Tools | Repopulate Rundown Items.
You could see the change from “Unknown Placeholder” to the previous name of the placeholder
in the rundown list.
3. Open the Housekeeper application and associate the clip to the repopulated placeholder.
Restoring backup database of SDB Server
You also have the option to restore your backup database in case the current database is corrupted
or your system crashed.
For extra precaution, it is also advisable to have a backup database server on another machine on
your network.
To restore the backup database:
1. Click SDB Server on the taskbar of your desktop to display the window.
2. Select Tools | Restore Backup Database.
Creating a Thumbnail folder
Regardless of which media server you’re using, you need to create a directory in which to store
video thumbnails.
To create the Thumbnail folder:
1. Navigate to C:\Aurora Playout .
2. Create a folder and name it Thumbnails .
3. Right-click on the folder, select Sharing , and click Share this folder .
4. Click OK .
Configuring the XMOS Server
The XMOS Server provides communication between the Newsroom Computer System and Aurora
Playout.
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Configuring Aurora Playout