Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.6.3 - Manual (Page 61)

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Reinitializing Media Monitor
Reinitializing Media Monitor
To refresh rundowns, reinitialize media server connections and update database
records, you can select the option to Reinitialize Media Monitor. This is an option for
you to manually execute the refresh function, even though SDB Server would be
automatically updated each time there is a new change to your rundown.
To reinitialize media monitor:
1. Click SDB Server on the taskbar of your desktop to display the window.
2. Select Tools | Reinitialize Media Monitor or press F5 for the shortcut button.
Repopulating Rundown Items
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.
To repopulate rundown items:
1. Click SDB Server on the taskbar of your desktop to display the window.
2. Select Tools | Repopulate Rundown Items.
3. You could see the change from “Unknown Placeholder” to the previous name of
the placeholder in the rundown list.
4. Open the Housekeeper application and associate the clip to the repopulated
placeholder.
Restoring Backup Database
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.
Rundown Status Monitor all rundowns Select Monitor all rundowns to update statuses for stories
in all active rundowns in your newsroom computer system,
regardless of whether they are currently open in Aurora
Playout; this is the default.
Monitor open rundowns
only Select Monitor open rundowns only to update statuses for
only the rundowns that are open in Aurora Playout; when
set, only updates the status column in your newsroom
computer system for open rundowns.
Thumbnails 16:9
4:3 Select the video aspect ratio for thumbnails displayed in
Aurora Playout components.
Setting Options Description