Overview

In a Compere system using timelines, all timeline assets are first ingested into a database to become a pool of timeline resources. The database itself and the logistics mechanisms are, for the most part, installed behind the scenes and require no user intervention. The technical details of how it works may nevertheless help, especially when you want to change the way you store, distribute and manage groups of assets for different purposes. Maybe you want to move to network storage, or move to higher resolutions and section large media differently. If so go to:

➢Asset Logistics App

➢Configure Asset Logistics for Remote Servers

There is huge scope in the Compere Asset Database and it can adapt with you.

Ingesting

Anything that might be required on a timeline, such as video, audio, shaders, maps, Notch blocks, mesh models and so on, are not just copied from disk to disk in Compere, rather they are processed by a separate app called MediaLogisticsApp. The ingest process secures and adds value by identifying content to be added, extracting its metadata, and moving files to registered locations. In this way the assets become identifiable and accessible throughout the entire system.

Some of metadata is drawn from the asset files themselves, more can be added by user intervention.

The contents of the database are managed in the Compere Asset Management panel.

Organising

The asset database records everything you need to know about assets and where they are located and distributed. It does not organise assets in the way you might want to see them together; that is left to Asset Management in Compere.

The Asset Management panel uses the available metadata for ingested assets to organise the user view of what is available. This includes virtual folders and subfolders, grouping, filtering and sorting as well as search. This is important, because once many assets have been ingested you want to make them easy to find and use, in the way you think about them for your application.

Assets are dragged directly out of the Asset Management panel onto timelines.

Page edited [d/m/y]: 19/01/2024