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These are the roles that are needed:

  • Admin
  • Can delete transcoders
  • Can read transcoders
  • Can write transcoders

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Telestream Vantage Transcoder

You can use Telestream Vantage to transcode supported formats if you have an existing Vantage that the iconik Storage Gateway can utilise.

The files must be stored on a storage which both the iconik Storage Gateway (ISG) and the Vantage server have access.

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Parameters

For most of these parameters you should speak to your administrator for Vantage

  • Host - The HOST address for Telestream
  • Port - The Port used for Vantage.
  • Share Name - This is the location where Vantage picks up the files. It must be configured to the same location that the ISG's Mount point is located.
  • Proxy Folder - The folder used for proxy output
  • Workflow ID - The ID of the workflow that should be triggered
  • Include Patterns - The transcoder will only transcode files which contain the (case-sensitive) pattern from this field. Examples:
    • *exclude* (match file/folder with substring exclude)
    • *.mov (match file/folder that ends on .mov)
    • You can also use regular expressions: re:/^.*\.mov$/ (match file/folder with .mov ending)
  • Exclude Patterns - The transcoder will ignore files which contain the (case-sensitive) pattern from this field.

Advanced Information and setup

During submitting a transcode job the ISG sets context variables that can be used as the Path that will be used as the Output Location when Vantage transcodes:

  • keyframes_folder, lowres_folder, ppro_folder - preferred locations for outputs.
  • proxy_resolution_width, proxy_resolution_height and proxy_bitrate, will be added if appropriate config variables are set in the ISG's config.ini: proxy-resolution and proxy-bitrate.

To add support for creation of edit proxies for Iconik Panel there should be an output media file nickname with value of PPRO_PROXY in the workflow action that is responsible for creation of the edit proxy.

ISG will use nicknames to retrieve transcode results: lowres - web-proxy, keyframe, keyframe_map are used for keyframes accordingly.

Any other nickname will be used to create a new format associated with the target file asset.

Customization of used nicknames can be made by setting variables in in the ISG's config.ini:

  • vantage-transcode-skip-nicknames
  • vantage-transcode-lowres-nicknames
  • vantage-transcode-keyframe-nicknames
  • vantage-transcode-keyframe-map-nicknames

Multiple nicknames can be used with a semicolon as a separator. Example: vantage-transcode-skip-nicknames = original;skip_media_item_nickname

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