Grass valley AURORA EDIT 7 DATASHEET

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.

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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

Integration with Orad and VizRT for • graphic insertion and optional end-toend 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

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

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

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.

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 workst ations 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 stor y 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.

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 – Audio/Video Formats

Input Output

Aurora Edit Series Video I/O

SDI

Composite

Component

S-Video

AVC, & RMI

FireWire,

Composite

SDI

Component

S-Video

(IEEE 1394)

FireWire

AURORA-EDIT-LD

AURORA-EDIT-HD

AURORA-EDIT-HDR

✓ SD/HD SD only PC

Aurora Edit Series Audio I/O

✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Input Output

Embedded

SDI

AES-XLR

AES-BNC

Analog XLR

Analog RCA