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AurorA Edit 7 ArchivE & rEstorE WorkfloW 

www.grassvalley.com

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AurorA Edit 7 ArchivE & rEstorE WorkfloW 

www.grassvalley.com

prior to aurora

 edit 7.0, it was not possible to edit with assets that were listed as offline. this could be a real handicap in a system 

that presents proxy capabilities. as of version 7.0, Grass Valley

 has created a new workflow that allows the user to manage, edit, 

and synchronize their low-resolution assets for use in a high-resolution world.

What constitutes an offline asset:

an offline asset is defined as any media item that has a refer-
ence to a low-resolution asset, but its corresponding high-reso-
lution asset exists only in a storage pool that cannot be directly 
accessed via the client. 

one example of this would be when the high-resolution asset 
has been deleted from the local storage and placed in an offline 
archiving system. another example would be when the high-
resolution asset lives on another pool of storage like a mirrored 
San.

how to determine whether an asset is offline:

in the “Search Results” view of the Basecamp search tool, any 
asset that is currently offline will display an orange dot, which 
can be found in the location column of the window.

how to play back an offline asset within Aurora 
Edit:

once an offline asset is found, you can simply double-click or 
drag-and-drop the clip in order to load it into the “Source tool” 
for immediate playback. 

note: this is now using the low-resolution asset for playback 
thus the quality may be less than what you are currently used 
to seeing in aurora edit.

aurora edit ≥7.0

Basecamp ≥ 7.0

Introduction

Working with Offline Assets

Software Prerequisites

Summary of Contents for AURORA 7 - ARCHIVE AND RESTORE WORKFLOW

Page 1: ...ow Michael DeJadon November 2010 Using Aurora Edit 7 you now have the ability to manage edit and synchronize on an as needed basis low resolution proxies to their high resolution files when those files are located offline in an archive www grassvalley com ...

Page 2: ...t One example of this would be when the high resolution asset has been deleted from the local storage and placed in an offline archiving system Another example would be when the high resolution asset lives on another pool of storage like a mirrored SAN How to determine whether an asset is offline In the Search Results view of the BaseCamp search tool any asset that is currently offline will displa...

Page 3: ...uld as if the asset was online You can set marks in the source tool copy the clip to the timeline add transitions effects alter audio fade control points etc Any offline asset that is added to the timeline will display an orange line across the top This makes it easy to instantly rec ognize which assets still need to be restored before trying to perform a send or conform Editing with Offline Asset...

Page 4: ...rowse button to change the currently selected bin Simply clicking the Restore button will submit a restore job for each of the offline assets You will be presented with a dialog box that will confirm how many restore jobs have been submitted to the system NOTE This does NOT mean that the asset has been restored It just means that the request has been added to the Transfer Manager How to Restore Of...

Page 5: ...erform the restore request that is explained in the above section Restoring with a Restore user role How to Synchronize to Restored Assets So far we have located offline assets used them in a sequence and requested restore jobs If you look at the offline assets in the timeline you will see that they still display the orange line That is because we still need to synchronize the restored high resolu...

Page 6: ...is will associate each of the offline assets that are in your timeline with the correctly matching high resolution restored asset A dialog box will be displayed to show the status of this process After this has been completed all of the assets should be considered online This means that none of the clips in the timeline should be displaying an orange line Now it is safe to perform a send or confor...

Page 7: ... over time Any asset in the timeline that has a corresponding high resolution asset offline will be unlinked and the timeline asset will change to display an orange line These assets are now considered offline assets again Since the restored high resolution asset has no references to it you will be able to locate it in the restore bin and delete it Now the sequence can exist without the overhead o...

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