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Content Management Application (CMA)
• Creating a Content Archive
• Deploying a Content Archive
Use the following table to determine the best method for your situation.
Fixture Network
File-Transfer Method
Drag and Drop
Copy and Paste commands
Clone
Deploying a Content Archive
Creating a Content Archive
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.
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.
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.
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Transfer Type
From Server
From Client Machine
to Client
to Server(s)
Machine
Yes, if format is valid for
Yes
the destination folder
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Between
Networked
Server(s)
No
Does NOT preserve DMX Values
No
Yes
Preserves DMX values and Replaces any
previous User Content on destination drive
No
Saves assigned DMX values when creating
No
archive from content on a fixture
Notes
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