Grass Valley Xplorer Vertigo Suite v.4.8 User Manual
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Moving assets to/from the Xmedia Server and other devices
Propagating assets from the Xmedia Server to another
server
Propagation allows you to automatically or manually transfer and save assets stored on one
server (i.e. XMS-1) onto another server (i.e. XMS-2) even though both of these servers are
otherwise independent. This is accomplished by configuring the servers specifically for
propagation, in which one server is the propagation server (master) and the others are
propagation nodes (slaves). This configuration is perfomed in the XMS Panel on each of
the servers, and is therefore described in the XMS P
ANEL
documentation, not in this Xplorer
User Manual.
N
OTE
While propagation does require some initial setup, once it is properly configured it makes
transferring assets quick and effortless. It is therefore ideal for situations where the transfer
of assets between servers is frequently performed. If this is not the case, then it may be
more beneficial to can transfer assets by exporting assets from one XMS and then importing
them into another XMS manually (see
and
).
Once the propagation configuration is properly setup on the servers’ XMS Panel, no further
setup is required in Xplorer. The automatic propagation will transfer, update, and save
assets to the propagation nodes automatically when you do any of the following to an asset
category that is associated to a propagation node:
•
create a new asset
•
edit an asset or the asset’s properties
•
rename, recategorize, or delete an asset
•
change or delete the asset’s proxy/thumbnail
If while working in Xplorer, you want to force the propagation of an asset or asset category,
you can use the P
ROPAGATE
T
O
command to execute a manual propagation.
To manually propagate assets from one server to another:
1.
Open Xplorer on the propagation server (master).
2.
Select the asset category or the asset that you want to propagate to a node server from
the Asset Browser or Asset Gallery.
To select multiple assets to propagate, press the SHIFT key as you click on each asset
for consecutive selections, or press the CTRL key to select a grouping of non-
consecutive files.
3.
Right-click on the selection and select the P
ROPAGATE
T
O
command from the context
menu. The menu extends to display a list of the associated node servers (that were
setup on the XMS Panel).
4.
Select the recipient of the assets and the assets are immediately transferred to the
selected node server.