System overview, Functional description, Product features – Grass Valley Aurora Transfer v.6.0b User Manual
Page 9: Chapter 1, Functional description product features
September 11, 2006
Aurora Transfer Instruction Manual
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System Overview
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Functional description” on page 9
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Functional description
The Transfer product provides the ability to navigate, find, organize, move, and
manage high-resolution media assets, regardless of their physical location or type. A
wide range of devices is supported, including storage devices, archive devices, servers
and news editing stations.
The Transfer product is made up of two components:
• The Transfer Server — This is a dedicated server that provides the core processing
mechanism for Transfer functionality. It come from the factory with software
pre-installed. For a description of the Aurora Transfer Server, refer to
• The Transfer application — This software component provides the user interface
for controlling the movement of media from source to destination. The software
can be installed on a network-connected Windows PC. For a description of the
Transfer application, refer to
Chapter 4, Using the Transfer application
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Transfer functions are built on the Grass Valley MediaFrame platform. This allows
the Transfer product to share MediaFrame components with other Grass Valley
products, such as Aurora Browse. The underlying protocol for file transfers is FTP.
Product Features
The Transfer product includes the following features:
• Explore and select assets on source and destination devices by browsing or with a
simple search.
• Dynamic discovery of new assets.
• Manual Transfer — Select desired asset(s), drag and drop single file or in
highlighted blocks from source to desired destination.
• Batch Transfer — Drag and drop selected assets (designated folder, designated
EDL, playlist) to create a transfer list.
• Abort or cancel a transfer in progress.
• Displays transfer status from each device, including progress, estimated to
complete, and errors.
• Displays asset properties, including size, creation date, timecode, duration, original
file format, current file format, data rate, and location of copies of the same asset.
• Supports asset management on K2 Media Clients, K2 Storage System, NewShare,