GRASS VALLEY AURORA INGEST 7 User manual

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Aurora Ingest 7

I N GES T M A N AGEM EN T F O R SH A R ED

P RO D UC T I O N S YS T E M S R U N N I N G

WINDOWS 7/XP

Aurora Ingest is a high-availability

scheduling system that ﬁt the needs

of the largest tapeless production

environments.

KEY FEATURES

The Grass Valley™Aurora™Ingest

system offers highly coordinated ingest

management for the K2 media server/

media client platform, including the K2

Summit™production client. Designed for

workﬂow efﬁciency and ﬂexibility, the

solution is highly conﬁgurable, ranging

from simple single workstations for

small operations to fully networked,

high-availability scheduling systems that

ﬁt the needs of the largest tapeless

production environments running 24

hours a day, 7 days a week.

Highly Integrated Server Ingest

The Aurora Ingest system’s integrated

capabilities deliver the workﬂow

efﬁciencies that television studio

production environments demand.

With its intuitive user interface, the

Aurora Ingest system lets ingest

operators or non-technical staff

control large numbers of K2 channels

using manual or automatic channel

assignment. Scheduling records can be

done via the Aurora Ingest Scheduler, or

through new integration with VizuAll’s

ScheduAll application, which allows

operators to manage feeds through a

single user interface.

The Aurora Ingest system also offers a

unique removable-media interface (RMI)

option that lets users pull media directly

from the Grass Valley Inﬁnity™Series

as well as Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM,

and Sony XDCAM EX. Media can be

previewed and trimmed prior to import.

In addition, multiple removable media

assets can be imported as a single

clip within the system. This reduces

database and bin clutter. With the K2

BaseCamp Express option, metadata can

be automatically harvested from external

ﬁles through RMI using metadata

mapping tools.

New to 7.0

With version 7.0, RMI can now be

conﬁgured to import directly to a K2-only

environment, which is perfect for use in

EDIUS®or Final Cut Pro direct SAN-

attached editing.

Control multiple channels of ingest•

for K2 or M-Series™

Manual or automatic port assignment•

Mirrored record on backup channels•

Supports Encore• ™, Series 7000,

Jupiter™and Acappella™router

control systems

Controls video, audio, RS-422 router•

levels

Networked (LAN) ingest scheduling•

client

Support for VizuAll’s ScheduAll•

application for two-way scheduling of

incoming feeds

Single and recurring event schedules•

up to one year in advance

Schedule ingest from ENPS•

newsroom computer system

Integrated with CompuSat satellite•

dish management system

Ingest directly to Aurora Playout•

placeholders for direct play to air

Unique removable media interface•

for central ingest of:

Inﬁnity media ﬁles—

P2 and XDCAM media ﬁles,—

including XDCAM EX

Preview and trim removable media•

assets before ingest

Multi-tape batch capture capability•

Ingest as tape — ingest multiple•

clips as one asset while preserving

individual elements

Simultaneously controls eight VTRs•

from a single workstation

Runs on standard PCs•

High-availability, fault-tolerant•

conﬁgurations available

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For videotape ingest, you can use

the Aurora Ingest system as a central

workstation to control up to eight VTRs

at one time, or use any number of single

VTR workstations to record media

into the system. Operators can create

multiple tape batch capture lists that can

be saved, exported, or used immediately

for recording. You can even record entire

tapes, discontinuous timecode and all,

as one single asset in the system. For

discontinuous timecode areas, keywords

will be automatically entered into the

system so operators can quickly jump

to speciﬁc sections of the tape record

(requires K2 BaseCamp Express option).

Adding K2 BaseCamp Express, Aurora’s

content management system, enables

entering of descriptive metadata for

scheduled events, even before material

exists—saving time and enabling

production teams to discover relevant

media that will soon be ingested and

useful for their story.

If breaking news demands it, the Aurora

Ingest solution allows you to bypass

the editing process altogether: you can

link incoming content to Aurora Playout

placeholders and be on the air within

seconds after recording begins.

NRCS Integration

The Aurora Ingest system is the ﬁrst

solution to enable server recordings to

be scheduled from within a newsroom

computer system. ENPS newsroom

users can send ingest schedules to the

Aurora Ingest platform in exactly the

same way that producers send playout

rundowns to playback systems.

Standards-Based PC Conﬁguration

The Aurora Ingest solution runs on a

standard PC. This reliance on standards-

based technologies allows broadcasters

to leverage the cost efﬁciencies of

rapidly evolving technologies. This

approach makes upgrades easier too,

typically involving a simple software

upgrade or board swap.

Aurora Ingest Centralized Ingest

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K2 BASECAmp ExpRESS – INTEGRATING AURORA SYSTEm AppLICATIONS

When the K2 BaseCamp Express

content management module is added to

the Aurora system, Ingest, Edit, and

Playout will all have access to the

same media search and metadata

management tools previously only

available within Aurora Browse.

K2 BaseCamp Express lets you

add general and custom metadata

and has expanded sortable results,

collections, dynamic keyword marking,

and integrated on-the-ﬂy logging

functionality.

The expanded results window, with

dynamically positioned columns, enables

you to choose what metadata is shown

in sortable results. Each user can

customize their view using the column

picker to show technical, general, or

custom metadata when viewing search

results.

Enhanced Search –• use ﬁlters for

ﬂexible and efﬁcient searches

Explore View –• explore devices or

on-line folders directly without using

search tools. If you know where the

media is, just go there. You can see

both shared storage and inventory

from standalone ingest and playout

servers

Transfer Tool –• now integrated into

the K2 BaseCamp Express Explore

View tools, allows you to drag and

drop ﬁles and monitor transfer

progress between devices

Collections –• a virtual folder

workspace allows you to create

public or private folders so that you

and others can contribute references

to the media. Some of the uses for

Collections include selecting clips for

projects, selecting clips to be archived

or restored, and requests for the

media manager, all without actually

moving or duplicating media.

Keywords –• mark keyframe locators

and keywords with in/out points and a

description to identify selected media

for use directly in editing

Scene Detection –• the K2 BaseCamp

Express scene detection engine scans

for visual changes in the picture to

make review of media faster

Pinnable Windows –• the K2

BaseCamp Express panels are now

pinnable and relocatable so you can

customize and resize K2 BaseCamp

Express tools within the application

Custom Metadata –• create and

search metadata ﬁelds including

variable- and unlimited-sized text

ﬁelds, date, pick list, and numbers

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Our customer support and services offerings ensure optimal system performance and maximize uptime. These services include call centers staffed around the clock, commissioning,

professional training courses, and technical maintenance programs and service agreements.

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CUSTOmER SUppORT & SERvICES

ORdERING INFORmATIONSpECIFICATIONS

Please contact your authorized Grass Valley representative.

www.grassvalley.com/sales

Ingest Management for K2, Proﬁle,

M-Series

Encore, Series 7000, Jupiter, and•

Acappella router control

Controls audio, video, timecode, and•

RS-422 router levels

CompuSat satellite dish management•

interface

MOS newsroom computer system•

scheduling interface (requires Aurora

Playout)

ENPS assignment grid schedule•

integration

ScheduAll integration for two-way•

feed scheduling

Hardware Requirements

Minimum Speciﬁcations

Processor: Intel Core 2 Dual Core

2.3 GHz

Memory: 1 GB

Graphics: Integrated or discrete

graphics w/128 MB of memory and

support for Direct3D 9 and Shader

Model 3.0

System drive: 80 GB 7200 RPM SATA

Optical drive: CD/DVD

Network: Gigabit Ethernet (2)

OS: Windows XP Pro 32 SP3

Recommended Speciﬁcations

Processor: Intel Core 2 Dual Core

2.3 GHz

Memory: 2 GB

Graphics: Discrete graphics w/128 MB

of dedicated memory and support for

Direct3D 9 and Shader Model 3.0

System drive: 80 GB 7200 RPM SATA

Optical drive: CD/DVD

Network: Gigabit Ethernet (2)

OS: Windows 7 (32/64-bit) or Windows

XP Professional SP3 (32-bit)

Notes: It is the customer’s responsibility

to insure that the system has sufficient

number and type of expansion slots to

meet the intended use.

AURORA-IN-WS and AURORA-IN-VTR

require one free PCI slot for video

capture board and one free PCI slot for

Comtrol 422 board.

Playout requires one free PCI slot for

each Comtrol 422 and Seachange GPIO

board.

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