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Hi all,

I am trying to understand the asset manager. There are some basic things I cannot find. Could you guys help me out? 

How do I replace a media-file in a show? (WO6 Media specs, browse, choose new mediafile)

How do I get a changed media-file into the show? (WO6 refresh)

How can I find the path to the original media-file?

Thanks, Michael.

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On 10/6/2024 at 5:31 PM, Michael Scheck said:

Hi all,

I am trying to understand the asset manager. There are some basic things I cannot find. Could you guys help me out? 

How do I replace a media-file in a show? (WO6 Media specs, browse, choose new mediafile)

How do I get a changed media-file into the show? (WO6 refresh)

How can I find the path to the original media-file?

Thanks, Michael.

Hi Michael,

First of all, the online manual is growing day-by-day and explains a lot around the asset manager.

https://docs.dataton.com/watchout-7/am/asset_manager.html

To replace a file, you can add a "new version" to an asset by dragging the new file into the properties window or through the browser access to the asset manager. After this, you'll see that the asset consists of more than one file and you can select which one to use, e.g. in the properties of a media cue. Unlike version 6, you can select any version of the asset and go easily back to an earlier state.

WATCHOUT 7 doesn't keep a link to the original files. It will process all files, optimize them for better playback and cut them in chunks. You will not be able to recover videos from a display computer since the local assets are encrypted and cut into pieces.

Hope this helps!

Rainer

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3 hours ago, RBeddig said:

To replace a file, you can add a "new version" to an asset by dragging the new file into the properties window or through the browser access to the asset manager. After this, you'll see that the asset consists of more than one file and you can select which one to use, e.g. in the properties of a media cue. Unlike version 6, you can select any version of the asset and go easily back to an earlier state.

That works great, the only problem is that for the moment you can't remove yet versions you don't want to use anymore so they take space in your disk. Hope they add it soon.

Quim

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On 10/8/2024 at 5:04 PM, RBeddig said:

WATCHOUT 7 doesn't keep a link to the original files. It will process all files, optimize them for better playback and cut them in chunks. You will not be able to recover videos from a display computer since the local assets are encrypted and cut into pieces.

Hi Rainer, A few questions on this topic of Asset Manager.

1 - Where are all the, "optimised" assets stored ? Are these accessible to understand storage limitations ? 

2 - are the original assets needed in the original folder ? Or can they be deleted / stored on another system / dedicated asset manager

3 - when files are rendered as Hap/NLC/ preferred codec, does WO7 always re encode them? Is there a way to use original media as is ? 

4 - Post Optimization, WO strips audio and video into two seperate media files and puts them together into a composition by default, while I understand stripping them into two media files is for efficacy, can the composition part be bypassed ?

 

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