User manual GRASS VALLEY AURORA 7 ARCHIVE AND RESTORE WORKFLOW APPLICATION NOTE

[. . . ] 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 highresolution asset lives on another pool of storage like a mirrored San. 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. www. grassvalley. com 1 www. grassvalley. com 1 AurorA Edit 7 ArchivE & rEstorE WorkfloW Editing with Offline Assets now that you know how to locate and play back assets that are offline, you can edit with these offline assets much in the same way as you would as if the asset was online. [. . . ] 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. " www. grassvalley. com 3 AurorA Edit 7 ArchivE & rEstorE WorkfloW How to Restore Offline Assets (cont. ) restoring Without a restore user role: if you are not licensed with the "Restore" role, your process will follow a different path. When clicking the "Restore" button in the toolbar, a dialog will display asking you to select a collection. the idea here is that you will have at least one system in your facility that will be licensed with the "Restore" role. By placing your restore request in a collection, your request will become visible and be managed by the licensed system. it is now the responsibility of the user at the licensed system to perform 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-resolution assets with the low-resolution placeholders that are in the timeline. First we need to confirm that the restore requests have been performed and were successfully transferred. to do this we want to open the "transfer Manager" view. this view can be accessed via the "transfer Manager" button in the main application toolbar. 4 www. grassvalley. com AurorA Edit 7 ArchivE & rEstorE WorkfloW How to Restore Offline Assets (cont. ) When this view is displayed, you will see the status of all the restore requests that have been submitted. after validating that your restore requests have been successfully completed, we still need to perform the synchronization step. in the main application toolbar, we want to click the "Synchronize Restored assets" button. this 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. [. . . ] the ability to manage, edit, and synchronize on an as needed basis helps to improve the management of our high-resolution storage pools. this can result in a significant cost savings over time. sAlEs Local and regional sales contacts can be found by visiting www. grassvalley. com/sales suPPort Local and regional support contacts can be found by visiting www. grassvalley. com/support © Copyright 2010 Technicolor USA, Inc. Grass Valley and Aurora are trademarks of Technicolor USA, Inc. [. . . ]