
Benjamin KAHANE
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This page details the ways you can manage your assets with the Preview Panel which appears on the right of the screen when you click on an asset. It also explains how you can enrich your asset usng the tabs in the Summary Panel at the bottom of the Preview Panel.
The Preview Panel features a player for video and audio assets. Here you can review your
assets as well as perform various actions such as name changes, asset download, clipping, commenting, and more.
For a list of valid media formats, consult: Supported File Formats and Object Types.
Click on the left of the asset name in the Preview Panel to expand or collapse asset preview. When preview is collapsed the Summary Panel is displayed.
Click at the top right of the Preview Panel to select from custom preconfigured wizards that you can run against your asset.
You can use the playback controls to play and pause your video or audio asset, as well as skip and rewind to the previous and next frames.
In addition to using the playback controls, you can also hit the spacebar on your keyboard to play/pause your video, hit "j" to reverse playback, "l" to forward playback. Hit "," or "." on your keyboard to skip the video back/forward by one frame. Hit shift + ← to skip backwards by one second and shift + → to skip ahead.
PDF text assets can be previewed in FlexMAM.
The Summary Panel is located at the bottom of the Preview Panel. It contains a number of tabs that you can use to view and configure your asset metadata, view comments, as well as set and create keyframes.
The Metadata tab allows you to add metadata to your assets. This is useful for categorizing content, processing data, and specifying technical information about the asset.
A Thesaurus can be configured in Metadata Designer to create a list of related terms. When you select a term included in a Thesaurus, Dalet FlexMAM suggests additional matching terms that you can add to your metadata. Thesaurus metadata fields can be regular fields or tag fields. See here to learn how to create a Thesaurus in Metadata Designer.
Clicking the next to the metadata will create a chip in the search filter bar, allowing you to search for items with the same metadata field values.
Navigate to the Details tab by clicking the tab marked with . This tab displays basic additional details for your selected asset such as date created, asset type, asset owner, asset origin etc. The fields in this tab are fixed and cannot be changed and most of the information in them is read-only.
It is possible to change an Asset/Object Type from the Details tab in the Summary Panel/Manage Page. This is available for any object that supports variants.
Click in the Type field, a dialog opens to select a new Type and a Metadata Schema for the new type.
To facilitate your work, FlexMAM displays recommendations for similar content when you select an asset in the Search listing. Recommendations are based on asset tags, which you manage in the Details tab of an asset.
To add a tag to an asset, type in the value. If the tag already exists in the tag collection, you will be prompted to select it from the drop-down list.
If the tag does not exist, type in the value you want to add and click Enter; the new tag is added to the tag collection.
You enable recommendations from the FlexMAM table settings menu.
Add tags to your assets to improve the recommendations of related material. FlexMAM searches for content that has closely matching tags and displays the most relevant items in the Recommendations panel at the bottom of the screen.
Click on one of the Recommendations to open it in the Manage page. You can hide/show the Recommendations panel using . Clicking on
disables recommendations.
Navigate to the Technical Metadata tab by clicking the icon . This tab contains technical metadata about the file associated to the asset. It displays the file, format, video stream and audio stream information. These details cannot be edited.
Comments can be posted against the entire media asset, as well as against a specific point or time range within a video asset. Learn how to add a timeline comment here.
Navigate to the comments tab by clicking the tab marked with .
Here, you can view comments you and other users have left about the selected asset.
In the Relationships tab , you can see the different relationships belonging to your selected asset.
This tab displays assets derived from the selected (parent) asset. Hover over an asset child to see the following icons:
You can double click a child to reveal a full view of it and see its details.
In this tab, you’ll see a list of the objects, e.g. a UDO, Group, Collection that this asset belongs to. You can click the that appears on hover to go to the parent object and view its other assets.
In the Access tab , you can see a list of which Users or Groups have access to your selected asset, and the roles of these users and groups. Users with the correct permissions will also be able to grant user or user groups access to an asset.
Custom markers mark events at specific times in a video asset. You can view markers for your selected asset in the Custom Markers tab by clicking the tab marked with in the Summary Panel, but you must go to the Manage Page to add custom markers.
Selecting a marker range in the table highlights it in the player, and you can use the green playback button to play the range.
Clicking on a marker in your search results list in Markers View opens the preview panel for the relevant asset and loads the Custom Markers tab to display the selected marker. When Markers View is selected in the Asset table, the Single Mode/Multiple Mode button is displayed in the Custom Markers tab and you can easily toggle between the selected marker and the list of all markers belonging to the asset.
When the button is green (single mode), the marker selected in the Marker Results table is displayed in the Custom Markers tab.
When the button is white (multiple), all markers for the asset are displayed in the Custom Markers tab.
You can perform a number of actions on custom markers using the icons that are displayed when you hover your mouse over them.
Use this icon |
To do this |
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Edit the range of the cutom marker and its metadata |
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Run a wizard on the custom marker |
Perform an Action on a custom marker: Add to Clipbin (or other Collection), Manage Collection (set the collection clips are added to) , Play, Delete |
Navigate to the keyframe tab by clicking the tab marked with .
The Keyframes tab shows keyframes associated with the asset. In this tab, you can manage the keyframes of your selected asset:
Hover over a keyframe to display its description and a set of available action icons.
If an asset has many keyframes, use the pagination to navigate between the pages, up to 24 keyframes can be displayed on each page. Use the Sort by icon to sort keyframes in ascending/descending timecode order.
In the History tab, you can view the history of an asset by most recent activity, i.e. changes and actions applied to the asset, the user that made these changes, and when they were made.
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Hello DocTeam,
Could you add the supported format/resolution for the preview player in this article please.
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