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Aurora Edit 7

High-Speed Nonlinear Editing FOR

WINDOWS 7/XP

Aurora Edit is the fastest nonlinear production tool available for editing within high pressure, quick-turn environments. Its intuitive userinterface, flexible format support, and tight system integration make it the most efficient editing product for your workflow.

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 system is Aurora Edit, the fastest nonlinear production tool available.

Available in software-only or laptopbased configurations, the Aurora Edit system is a perfect fit in any production operation. It uses standard PC and networking technologies and features broad format support. It also offers a wide array of options for tailoring the platform to the level of production you need.

KEY FEATURES

To speed your work the Aurora Edit system eliminates pre-digitizing, and its Realtime Edit™ feature lets you see edits as they’re made—just as it is done in tape-to-tape editing. This includes setting split edits, punch-in and punch-out of audio and video tracks, and a live audio preview for real-time mixing.

The Aurora Edit system also delivers all of the benefits of nonlinear technology, including instant random access, multiple levels of undo, a real-time transition effects preview option, and the ability to quickly repurpose existing stories.

For effects, the Aurora Edit system offers a full set of options for adding everyday effects or providing higherend capabilities for producing sweeps packages. Adding blurs, mosaics, or resize effects is done easily through

the easy-to-learn user interface. It also includes a color-correction feature that is especially valuable for hastily shot news footage with improper color balance. In addition, smooth interpolated slowmotion effects can be added to meet the demands of sports production.

The Aurora Edit platform now supports Orad and VizRT graphics systems. This graphics support allows editors to link to embedded graphic objects directly from the script and place them on the timeline. In addition, editors may optionally transfer graphic timing information for Orad-based workflows, which will allow Aurora Playout to frame-accurately play the Orad graphic

elements directly from the control room, freeing up the responsibility from the technical director.

•Integration with Orad and VizRT for graphic insertion and optional end-to- end playout workflow

•Format independence: I-Frame and Long GOP MPEG-2, DV100, JPEG 2000, AVC-Intra, DV25, DV50, and IMX support

•Supports agile timeline with multiformat and multi-aspect ratios on a single timeline

•Support for Infinity, P2, XDCAM, and XDCAM EX removable media formats

•Background renders and sends

– offload mixed media render to conform engine and send to playout server with no waiting, and continue editing without interrupting workflow

•Seamless integration with ENPS, iNEWS, Octopus, and other MOScompliant newsroom computer systems by request

•Seamless workflow integration with optional K2 BaseCamp Express content management system

•Record from tape to timeline and edit directly to timeline without predigitizing

•Preview closed captioning

•Zoom in on long source files for easier navigation and editing

•Intuitive design for quickly adding effects such as blur, mosaic, and resize effects

•Color correction for rebalance of improperly shot footage

•Proc. amp controls support luma and chroma level adjustments

•Smooth interpolated slow-motion with real-time preview

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To speed production workflows further, the Aurora Edit system is compatible with the Grass Valley K2 media server/ media client system, Network Attached Storage (NAS), K2 Storage Area Network (SAN) system, and K2 Summit™ production client. These systems let users simultaneously view and edit feeds, and edit the same material in different bays simultaneously—even start work on a sequence in one edit bay and finish it in another.

Unmatched Speed and Efficiency

By converging video, graphics, text, and effects on a single workstation, the Aurora Edit system supports the multitasking requirements of news professionals. Taking efficiency a notch higher, exchanging sequences between high-resolution and low-resolution workstations is instantaneous as each editing solution has access to the same folders, media, and timelines.

As a result, journalists can browse and assemble a low-resolution version of a story using Aurora Edit LD, and Aurora Edit HD can then instantly finish or preview the sequence in high resolution. This approach significantly streamlines newsroom workflows.

If craft editing is required, Aurora Edit can export EDLs for use with direct SANattached editors such as EDIUS® and Final Cut Pro.

The Aurora Edit system can also access feeds captured by the Aurora Ingest system—whether a scheduled or interactive event—to combine media with field footage.

With K2 BaseCamp Express integration, Aurora Edit users can search, add, and modify metadata for any asset within the asset management system. In addition, K2 BaseCamp Express allows operators to mark and access key segments of video within any clip. These segments are then searchable and immediately accessible to any other K2 BaseCamp Express enabled client within the system.

The Aurora Edit system is fully integrated with the K2 platform for resilient and automated playback and upconversion

of finished sequences, eliminating the confusion and errors often associated with tape-based playback while providing the flexibility of output formats in real time or permanently rendered files.

For even greater workflow efficiency, the Aurora Edit system offers media object server (MOS) support, letting you integrate it with MOS-enabled newsroom systems such as ENPS, iNEWS, and Octopus. A real-time rundown status display shows the editor how close to air as well as where in the

rundown their assigned stories really are.

Aurora Edit – Audio/Video Formats

Taken together, these capabilities create an advanced solution that can link your entire news production process—from rundown to script to edit to playback. With this level of integration, producers and editors can access assets, view rundowns, read scripts, and edit video all on a single PC, making it easier, faster, and more efficient to bring breaking news to air.

An Intuitive Interface

The Aurora Edit interface is incredibly intuitive and has a number of features, tools, and technologies to streamline production workflows.

Media Bin

Used for organizing clips and storyboarding packages, you can view bins in either thumbnail or tree mode. You can also quickly sort and sift them by name, duration, description, and other familiar database categories.

Timeline

The timeline lets you view an entire story while editing. It supports two tracks of video plus graphics and titles and up to sixteen tracks of audio. You can record clips and voiceovers directly to the timeline or import them from the media bin. From within the timeline, you can trim clips with frame accuracy or split, move, or reorder them. And you can easily preview real-time effects, such as blur, mosaic, resizes, dissolves, wipes, and variable speed video manipulations.

Aurora Edit Series

Video I/O

AURORA-EDIT-LD AURORA-EDIT-HD AURORA-EDIT-HDR

SD/HD SD only PC

Aurora Edit Series

Audio I/O

AURORA-EDIT-LD AURORA-EDIT-HD AURORA-EDIT-HDR

PC

		Input						Output
SDI	Composite	Component	Video-S	FireWire, RMI & AVC,	SDI	Composite	Component	Video-S	FireWire 1394) (IEEE	VGA Dual

		Input					Output
SDI Embedded	XLR-AES	BNC-AES	XLR Analog	RCA Analog	SDI Embedded	XLR-AES	BNC-AES	XLR Analog	RCA Analog
8	2/1	2/1	2		8	2/1	2/1	2	2

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