Grass Valley GV STRATUS v.3.1 - Manual (Page 67)

Figure 1: Shallow copy
• Deep copy — When you copy assets and the copies are in different K2 storage locations, deep
copies are created. With a deep copy, the high-resolution media files are copied. The K2 media
database on each K2 system references its own media files. The GV STRATUS database
references all the media files on all the different K2 storage locations and archive locations. In
the GV STRATUS system, this results in an asset with multiple high-resolution associations.
Figure 2: Deep copy
When deleting assets, the following occurs:
• Assets with shallow copies — When the GV STRATUS system attempts to delete the shallow
copy, the asset is not deleted. You must delete the referenced copy before you can delete the
asset.
• Assets with deep copies — When you delete any one of the associated high-resolution assets, in
any K2 storage or archive location, by default the GV STRATUS system deletes all the
high-resolutions assets in all locations. Since it is one asset with multiple high-resolutions
associations, the entire asset with all its associations is deleted.
Take care when creating copies, considering your workflow in which copied assets are deleted. The
GV STRATUS roles of
Delete Rights and Media Manager can be assigned to user accounts to
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Managing assets