Grass Valley Xplorer Vertigo Suite v.4.8 - Manual (Page 42)

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Moving assets to/from the Xmedia Server and other devices
Managed versus unmanaged assets
At the center of the Vertigo Suite’s architecture is the Xmedia Server (XMS), which acts as
a central archive of the assets available on your system. Xplorer is the application that not
only allows you to manage the assets on the Xmedia Server, but also helps you to publish
assets to and access assets that reside on other processors like a Vertigo XG, Intuition XG,
ImageStore, or Intuition.
When discussing asset management involving the Xmedia Server and other devices, we
must distinguish between managed assets and unmanaged assets. A
MANAGED ASSET is an
asset which has been ingested into the Xmedia Server. The Xmedia Server manages the
asset and it is responsible for the various tasks that are performed on or with the asset like,
publishing, deleting, renaming... etc.
An UNMANAGED ASSET is an asset which resides on a device, which has not been ingested into
the XMS and therefore the XMS does not know about it. For example, the first time you browse
an Intuition or Imagestore using Xplorer, the Xmedia Server retrieves a list of all the assets on
the device using the device’s publish history. If an asset resides on the Intuition or Imagestore,
but was not published there by the Xmedia Server (i.e. not in the publish history), it is considered
unmanaged. In such a case, the asset was not ingested into Xmedia Server, but it was published
to the Intuition or Imagestore by some other means. Similarly, unmanaged assets can also exist
on a VertigoXG if they were ingested directly into the EXMS.
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An unmanaged asset can be made into a managed asset by dragging the asset from the
Asset Gallery onto the XMS icon in Xplorer’s Device Viewer.
Identifying managed and unmanaged assets
A device can contain both managed and unmanaged assets. Identifying whether an asset
is managed or unmanaged in Xplorer is easy. In Detail view, the colored square beside the
asset name is light blue if the asset is managed and dark blue if the asset is unmanaged.
In P
ROXY V IEW , managed assets are identified by the asset’s light blue tile
background/border color, while an unmanaged asset displays a dark blue tile color.
Figure 4-1. Identify a managed versus unmanaged asset by its tile’s background/border color
Managed asset (light blue) Unmanaged asset (dark blue)