CHAPTER 15

Content Management Application (CMA)

Moving User Content Files and Folders

User content can be easily moved between fixtures and your local drive as well as between fixtures. Which method you use depends on:

How much content you want to move

What existing server content you want to preserve

Whether the client machine is currently connected to the Ethernet fixture link

If you want to maintain currently assigned content identification DMX values

Which CMA version you are using (Windows or Mac OS)

There are several methods for moving User content files and media folders between media servers to your local drive:

Drag and Drop

Copy and Paste commands

Cloning transfers the User Content files and their DMX value assignments from one media server to one or more server(s) on the fixture network.

Creating a Content Archive

Deploying a Content Archives the following table to determine the best method for your situation.

 

 

Transfer Type

 

 

Fixture Network

 

 

 

 

From Server

From Client

Between

Notes

File-Transfer Method

to Client

Machine to

Networked

 

 

Machine

Server(s)

Server(s)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drag and Drop

Yes

Yes, if format is

No

 

valid for des-

Does NOT preserve

 

 

attention folder

 

DMX Values

Copy and Paste commands

Yes

Yes

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clone

No

No

Yes

Preserves DMX values and

Deploying a Content

No

Yes

No

Replaces any previous User

Archive

Content on destination drive

 

 

 

 

 

Creating a Content Archive

Yes

No

No

Saves assigned DMX values

when creating archive from

 

 

 

 

content on a fixture

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

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High End Systems AXON Moving User Content Files and Folders, Downloading Content from a Media Server to Your Local Drive

AXON specifications

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