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Roles

These are the roles that are needed:

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

Watch Folder Transcoder for iconik Storage Gateway

A Watch Folder transcoder can be used for integration with generic transcoders; it will persistently monitor a filesystem path for new files such as the resultant of Blackmagic Proxy Generator from Davinci Resolve 18.

For more information with an example with Blackmagic Proxy Generator please see our tutorial: How to Create Proxies for RAW Footage

Parameters

  • Keyframe folder name - Name of the folder where the resultant keyframe file should be located. If file not present, the ISG can use ffmpeg to generate a keyframe from a created proxy. Default: Keyframe
  • Keyframe map folder name - Name of the folder where the result keyframe map file should be located. If file not present ISG can use ffmpeg and montage to generate a keyframe map from a created proxy. Default: KeyframeMap
  • Proxy folder name - Name of the folder where the result proxy file should be located. For Blackmagic Proxy Generator use Proxy.
  • Watch folder location - Absolute location of the watch folder.
  • Create web proxy from edit proxy - Create a web proxy from an edit proxy using the iconik Transcoder.
  • File grow threshold - Growing proxy file threshold. After proxy file stops growing in size a job is considered finished.
  • 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.
  • Keep as edit proxy - Keep a proxy as an additional format.
  • Storage - The storage that the files created will end up on.
  • Storage Path - The specific path for destination storage.
  • Proxy timeout - Amount of seconds to wait until a growing proxy appears inside the watched folder before marking a job as failed due to timeout.
  • Use unique sub-folder workflow - Enable workflow that creates a new sub-folder with a unique name inside the watch folder per job. Otherwise, a job id suffix will be added to the filename. Transcoders could differ in how they consume media from their watch folders. Disable this option if your preferred transcoder requires files to be directly inside the watch folder.
  • Use soft link - Use a soft link to add originals to the watch folder, otherwise a hard link is used with a fallback to copy.

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