Content Management Application (CMA)
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• Creating a Content Archive
• Deploying a Content Archive
Use the following table to determine the best method for your situation.
6.4.3 Downloading Content from a Media Server to Your Local Drive
The CMA supports downloading User content files or folders from a media server to your local drive. To download a file or folder of
User Content:
1. Display the Folder or File that you wish to move in the right pane of the CMA window
2. If the destination for the file on your local drive is visible, you can simply drag and drop the folder or file to that location or
an external drive connected to your computer.
OR
3. Select
Copy
from the
Media Files
or
Objects
drop down menu or the right click popup list.
4. Browse to the destination on your hard drive; then select
Paste
from the
Media Files
or
Objects
drop down menu or the right
click popup list.
6.5 Uploading Content from Your Local Drive to a Media Server
You can upload User Content Media files, Media folders and Object files from your hard drive to a DML w/Axon, DL.3, DL.2 or Axon
media server, provided they are:
• A valid file format (.jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .mpg, .m2v for Media Files; .x for Object files)
• You are uploading them to the appropriate User content folder on the media server
• They have been encoded correctly
To upload content:
1. Display the file or folder destination in the right pane of the CMA window
2. Browse to the file or folder you want to upload on your hard drive and click on it to select.
3. Drag and drop it into the appropriate User content folder
OR
4. Select
Copy
from the
Edit
drop down menu or the right click popup list.
5. Select
Paste
from the
Media Files
or
Objects
drop down menu or the right click popup list.
As files are uploaded to fixtures, the User interface displays progress information and notifies the user of any naming conflicts in
renamed files or encoding problems.
Fixture Network
File-Transfer Method
Transfer Type
Notes
From Server
to Client
Machine
From Client Machine
to Server(s)
Between
Networked
Server(s)
Drag and Drop
Yes
Yes, if format is valid for
the destination folder
No
Does NOT preserve DMX Values
Copy and Paste commands
Yes Yes No
Clone
No No Yes
Preserves DMX values and Replaces any
previous User Content on destination drive
Deploying a Content Archive
No Yes No
Creating a Content Archive
Yes No No
Saves assigned DMX values when creating
archive from content on a fixture
Mac OS X: Downloading files
You can drag single or multiple files and folders from a fixture to the Finder.
You can use the copy/paste (Apple-C, Apple-V) to move multiple files from a fixture to the Finder.
Mac OS X: File transfer
SMB limitation is 4GB file size per transfer. What this means is more than 4GB of data may be transferred, but no
file can be greater than 4GB in size.
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