Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.6.3 - Manual (Page 107)

September 2007 Aurora Playout User Guide 107
Recording a Black Clip for Archive Play
To configure Archive Play, you must select the archive channel from the Archive Play
configuration tab (see
“Configuring Archive Play” on page 56 ). You can also change
the Archive Black duration on that tab; Aurora Playout rolls five seconds of black
between each archived clip by default. You need to create a black clip —see
“Recording a Black Clip for Archive Play” below for instructions.
To play a clip to archive:
1. Click the Archive Play button to enable Archive Play.
A message indicating successful connection to the VTR appears.
2. Cue a clip to the archive channel.
Select the first clip and click the Cue All button on the toolbar.
NOTE: If you are archiving clips to a VTR, the first clip cued is the BLACK file.
3. Click the Play button in the channel window.
Aurora Playout starts the VTR deck recording and a message indicating play has
started appears.
4. After all clips have played, the VTR deck stops recording and Archive Play mode
automatically turns off.
You can use the Run Time counter to determine if you have enough room on the VTR
tape to record all of the clips in a rundown for archiving.
In Archive Play mode, Run Time displays as current hit time/total run time, including
black clip duration.
Aurora Playout logs “as run” data in a comma-delimited log file (C:\Aurora
Playout\Log\ArchivePlay.log). Each line includes the Date, Time (start time to the
nearest second), VTR Tape Time Code, Rundown Name, Clip Name, Clip ID, and
Duration. You can use log data to determine where a specific story starts.
Each time you enable Archive Play, you can choose whether to clear the existing log
file or append the new data.
Recording a Black Clip for Archive Play
To archive clips, you need to create a file called “ BLACK ” that contains black video.
You can record the file in two ways—using Aurora Edit or your media server.
Using Aurora Edit
1. Create a new sequence named BLACK .
2. Right-click in the Timeline and select Insert Filler , enter a 10 second duration, and
click OK .
3. Save and close the file.
4. Send the file to the playout bin on your playout server.