Grass Valley Xstudio Vertigo Suite v.4.10 - Manual (Page 81)

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Creating and opening Xstudio projects and assets
Importing assets from another Vertigo system
If you would like to use Vertigo assets that were created on a separate Vertigo Suite
installation (e.g. stored on a different Xmedia Server), the assets must first be exported from
the original system (see
page 11-5 ), which creates a Vertigo Export file (.exp).
You can then use Xstudio (or Xplorer) to import the .exp file into your Vertigo system. Unlike
ingesting files, which loads and converts files from third-party formats into Vertigo assets
(see
page 4-14 ), imported assets are already in the appropriate Vertigo formats and
therefore require no conversion. The assets are also automatically assigned to their rightful
place on the Xmedia Server according to their asset type and previous categorization.
There are two things to worth noting regarding importing asset files:
•
Links to data will not be maintained. The same data sources need to be set up on
your server and the links re-established (see
page 9-1 ).
• Existing assets may be overwritten. This only occurs under a very specific set of
circumstances. For example, if you import a file in a category that has the same name
as a file in an identically named category, the imported file will overwrite the other one.
Also, if you import a file from the root category and an identically named file is in the
root category of the installation you are importing to, the imported file will overwrite the
other one. You can prevent files from being overwritten by assigning them to different
categories, since an imported file will only overwrite another file if both have the same
name and belong to the root category or to an identically named category.
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If the assets that you are importing contains data schemas, then your data schema connect settings
will likely need to be maintained. Do this before using any templates, scenes, or pages.
To import assets:
1.
In Xstudio, select F ILE >I MPORT A SSETS .
This displays the select V ERTIGO X MEDIA A SSET E XPORT F ILE dialog box (figure 4-5 ).
Figure 4-5. Select VertigoXmedia Asset Export File dialog box
2. Navigate to the export folder that contains the asset(s) that you want to import
(i.e. VxM_Export_21082008_125200).
3. Double-click the folder to display its contents.