Installing the grass valley plug-in, Mounting the shared drive, Mounting v:\ from macos 10.4.x (tiger) – Grass Valley Aurora Edit LD v.6.5 Installation User Manual

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Aurora Edit Installation Guide

November 25, 2008

Chapter 2 Using Final Cut Pro With Aurora Edit

Installing the Grass Valley Plug-in

The first step is to install the Grass Valley plug-in to Final Cut Pro.
To install the Grass Valley plug-in:
1. Insert the Grass Valley FCP-Menu CD-ROM into the Mac.
2. Copy the file

GrassValley.bundle

to the appropriate path below:

• MacOS 10.4.x

~/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data/Plugins

• MacOS 10.5.x

~/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins

The plug-in is ready to use.

Mounting the Shared Drive

After the Grass Valley plug-in is installed, the next task is to map the media drive (V:).

The process differs slightly between MacOS 10.4 and 10.5.

Mounting V:\ from MacOS 10.4.x (Tiger)

In order for EDLs to export correctly, you need to map the Final Cut Pro network drive

and mount the V:\ drive.

Mapping the Network Drive

You need to map the drive on the Mac for the exported EDL files.
1. In Aurora Edit, choose

Tools | Options | Timeline

.

2. In the Final Cut Pro Network Mapping field, enter

file://localhost/Volumes/

K2_server_name

.

3. Click

OK

.

Mounting the V:\ Drive

You need to mount the V:\ drive from the Mac to use files on the shared database.
To mount the drive:
1. Launch

NetInfo Manager

from the Applications/Utilities folder.

2. Click the lock in the lower left corner and authenticate.
3. Click the

/mounts

directory.

4. Click

New+

. An item named new_directory appears.

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