Grass Valley Xplorer Vertigo Suite v.4.8 - Manual (Page 55)

Xplorer User Manual 4-15
Moving assets to/from the Xmedia Server and other devices
Publishing assets from the Xmedia Server to a device
In the Vertigo workflow, assets are centrally stored on the Xmedia Server. Before an asset can
be used on an output device, a copy of the asset must be transferred from the Xmedia Server
and stored locally on the device. This transfer process is referred to as publishing the asset.
When you publish assets to a device, the Publish Progress window keeps track of which
assets have been recently published and the status of the publishing process. You can also use
the Publish Queue Monitor to monitor and manage a device’s publish queue (see
page 4-17 ).
There are two (2) ways in which assets can be published to a device:
•
“Automatically publishing assets to devices” on page 4-15
• “Manually publishing assets from the Xmedia Server to devices” on page 4-16
Automatically publishing assets to devices
You can set up Xplorer so that when you ingest or import an asset into the Xmedia Server,
the asset is automatically published to preselected devices.
To set up Xplorer for automatic publishing assets to devices:
1.
Prior to ingesting or importing the asset(s) into the Xmedia Server, open Xplorer and verify
that the XMS and the devices are present and actively connected in the Device Viewer. If
not, see
page 2-8 and page 2-12 for instructions on how to add and/or connect devices.
2. Select the XMS icon in the Xmedia Server Viewer.
3. Select the Asset Category’s icon in the Asset Browser and navigate to the category
where the asset(s) will be ingested or imported into.
4. Right-click on the category and select the P ROPERTIES command.
The P UBLISH D EVICES window appears.
5. Select the devices that you want to publish the asset to when it is received by the XMS.
6. Click OK.
From this point on, every time an asset is added to the specific category on the Xmedia
Server, the asset will be automatically published to the selected devices.
To deactivate the automatic publishing of a category:
1.
Select the XMS icon in the Xmedia Server Viewer.
2. Right-click on the category and select the R EMOVE F ROM command, as well as the
device(s) from which they are to be removed.
The P
UBLISH R EMOVE window appears and lists the assets that are being deleted from
the device. Once finished close the Publish Remove window.
3. Right-click on the category once again and select the P ROPERTIES command from the
context menu. The C ATEGORY P ROPERTIES dialog box appears.
4. Disable the check boxes next to the devices that you no longer want to automatically
publish to.
5. Click OK.
N OTE
Re-enabling autopublish does not trigger a publish. To force a publish, you must manually
publish using the P
UBLISH T O command (see page 4-16 ).