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Aurora Browse 7

DESKTOP-BASED BROWSING SYSTEM FOR WINDOWS 7/XP

Aurora Browse is a workflow management tool that provides desktop access to low-resolution media for searching, browsing, logging, archiving, restoring, and simple content management.

The Grass Valley™ Aurora™ production solution integrates with the entire tapeless production process, from acquisition, ingest, and media browsing, to quick-turn editing, craft editing, and automated playout.

A key component of this solution is the Aurora Browse system, a

workflow management tool for media production environments. It provides desktop access to low-resolution media for searching, browsing, logging, archiving, restoring, and simple content management.

The Aurora Browse system is based on Grass Valley’s K2 BaseCamp Express content management architecture. The K2 BaseCamp Express server platform provides the functionality for all Aurora applications to access Aurora Browse features directly, and provides an IT industry-standard extensible stylesheet language template (XSLT) interface for the integration of third-party applications.

Supporting the K2 media server/media client system and the K2 Summit™ HD production client—as well as the Aurora Ingest, Aurora Edit, and Aurora Playout applications—the Aurora Browse system delivers fast, easy access to feeds, centralized and archived media—all from the desktop.

The Aurora Browse platform also provides a number of important production workflow benefits. Using it, you can access, review, and modify shared media. Multiple users can browse, log, and make selections from

a single piece of media simultaneously, even while the media is being recorded into the system.

For archived material, the Aurora Browse platform can quickly search and retrieve proxy content linked to archived, highresolution media. It also greatly reduces wasted time and valuable storage resources by eliminating unnecessary restores; you can initiate a restore from an archive of related high-resolution media and get visual confirmation right at your desktop.

KEY FEATURES

For centrally managing your content, the Aurora Browse system lets you locate assets easily to manage the logging of rich metadata, archive interactions, and asset transfers and deletions within the system.

By leveraging modular, scalable components, the Aurora Browse system provides expandability without increasing latency or compromising performance.

Speeding Story Creation

The Aurora Browse system helps speed story creation. Instead of waiting for an edit room to become available, you can work right from the desktop. Operators can preview media and mark keywords or keyframes frame accurately. These metadata pointers are then immediately selectable within each of the Aurora applications throughout the workflow.

•Frame-accurate, 800 kb/s to 1.5 Mb/s, MPEG-1 browsing of high-resolution media

•Format support:

——DV 25, DV 50, DV 100, and MPEG-2 ——SD: NTSC/PAL

——HD: 1080i/720p 50/60 Hz ——AVC-Intra

•Ingest, archive, and restore enabled asset management tools

•Software encoding creates exact copies from shared storage or SmartBin FTP transfers from standalone K2 or K2 Summit servers

•Assign keywords to important clips that can be seen throughout the workflow

•Add clips and sequences into virtual collections for asset management simplification

•View scene detection storyboards for rapid shot selection

•Supports Aurora Ingest, Edit, and Playout interface

•User authentication and rights management to control access for asset protection

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Aurora System Workflow

100Base-T or Gigabit Ethernet Newsroom LAN

Automatic Scene

Web Pages

Detection Thumbnails

and Metadata

		Aurora Browse
	Aurora Browse	Browse Edit System
		Servers and Encoders
	Archivist/Journalist/Producer Workstations

Embedded SDI	K2 Ingest Client
Incoming Feeds

Aurora Ingest

	100/1000Base-T Ethernet Facility LAN
	K2 Shared Storage
	Combine K2 with
	RAID Shared Storage
	K2 Playout Client
Aurora Edit
High Resolution Editing	Aurora Playout
	RAID Shared Storage
Gigabit Ethernet or Fiber Channel

Streamlining workflows further is the system’s storyboard-creation feature that creates a thumbnail image for each scene change or keyword. Whether viewing media through Aurora Browse, Aurora Edit, or Aurora Edit LD, users can select a picon image and the application will bring the operator directly to that location.

Robust Asset-AccessTools

For asset access, the Aurora Browse system includes a sophisticated query engine and media database. They keep track of media assets and preserve the important links between the low-

resolution versions used for browsing and initial editing and the high-resolution versions used for finish editing and broadcast.

The Aurora Browse system also lets you add wide-ranging descriptive information about media assets—and features advanced search technologies to quickly retrieve them. For example, you can add, modify, or delete metadata and annotations, and review and

delete individual keywords for clips or frames. You can also annotate and enter information in custom metadata

fields before, during, and after clips are

ingested. An administrator can even create predefined metadata fields, or pick lists, to speed selection and avoid errors.

Text entered into the Aurora Browse system is indexed and searchable. You can also retrieve low-resolution versions of high-resolution media from both online and offline media storage systems.

To keep assets secure, the Aurora Browse system lets administrators set functional and media-access permissions on a user-by-user basis, including the ability to assign read-only versus create metadata, archive/restore privileges.

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