User manual GRASS VALLEY AURORA PLAYOUT RELEASE NOTES AND UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS V7.1

[. . . ] 071-8549-11 Aurora Playout Version 7. 1 Release Notes and Upgrade Instructions These release notes contain the most recent information and supersede previous publications, as of October 18, 2010. Check the Grass Valley website at www. grassvalley. com/docs for an updated version that contains additional important information. Copyright © Grass Valley, Inc. This document may not be copied in whole or in part, or otherwise reproduced except as specifically permitted under U. S. copyright law, without the prior written consent of Grass Valley, Inc. , P. O. [. . . ] Obtaining the software license number is important because you cannot launch channels or configure Aurora Playout after your 30-day demo license has expired. Licenses are requested through the License Wizard and managed through the SabreTooth License Manager, which is installed on the Grass Valley product with the Grass Valley software. The License Wizard and SabreTooth License Manager must be located on the Grass Valley product. License information is stored in text files that you can manage just like any other file on your system. Licenses are unique to the system for which they are requested and cannot be used on any other machine. You should back up the license text files to a separate drive or as part of a recovery image. Licenses are based on your system's unique identifier, which is partially derived from your system's Media Access Control (MAC) address. If you change your system's MAC address by performing operations such as changing the System Processor card, you must obtain a new license based on the new MAC address. Requesting a license This topic applies to Grass Valley Sabretooth licenses. Software licenses are unique to the system for which they are purchased. This requires that you provide a generated unique ID for the desired system to Grass Valley, which is then used to create your unique license. You must log in as a Windows administrator with a local account, not a domain account. The Customer dialog box displays. 18 October 2010 Aurora Playout Version 7. 1. 0 Release Notes and Upgrade Instructions 19 Licensing Grass Valley products 4. Typically the Sales Order Number is found on the Software License sheet that you received with your Grass Valley product. A License Request text file, License_Request_<SalesNumber>. txt, is generated and saved to the Windows Desktop. NOTE: If you are requesting licenses for more than one application, be sure to modify the name of the first License Request text file before saving it to your desktop. (In Notepad, use the Save As command. ) Otherwise, the second License Request text file will overwrite it. If you have K2 Summit Production Client or K2 Solo Media Server and if the write filter is currently enabled, be aware that files on the desktop are lost on restart. Therefore do one of the following: · Save the License Request text file(s) to a different location. · Keep the K2 system running (do not restart) until after you have requested the license(s). Do one of the following: · Attach the License Request text file to an email. An email will be sent from Grass Valley to the return email address you specified; your SabreTooth software license will be provided as a text file. Next add the license to the SabreTooth License Manager. If you encounter difficulties when requesting a license If you encounter difficulties running the License wizard, or the License wizard is not available, try this alternate method: 20 Aurora Playout Version 7. 1. 0 Release Notes and Upgrade Instructions 18 October 2010 Licensing Grass Valley products 1. [. . . ] If you are logged in via remote desktop, the interactive services detection service sends a notification about the pending dialog. If the notification has been missed, go into Windows Services and stop and restart the Interactive Services Detection Service. This causes the service to send an immediate notification about the pending dialog. Workaround: CR68152 Description: Workaround: CR68611 Description: Workaround: PR20458 Description: Workaround: MediaFrame CR91630 Description: Workaround: There is no Clear Points function in the MediaFrame Clip Viewer of ALP and Playlist. To reset trimmed clips back to the original mark in and mark out, you must manually move the new mark in and out back 18 October 2010 Aurora Playout Version 7. 1. 0 Release Notes and Upgrade Instructions 35 Known Issues to their original positions and reset the mark points individually. [. . . ]