Content Management Overview

Content management is divided into three broad areas which consist of content version control, proxy management and frame replacement.

Content Version Control

• The software understands version tags in video filenames (_vXXX where XXX is one or more numerals, optionally followed by a letter).
• You can copy new content versions to actors while the software is running (as long as you’re not trying to overwrite a file that’s currently being played).
• When a new version of a file arrives, the software will automatically replace older versions on the timeline wherever they occur.
• You can drop any asset back to an older version instantly.
• Once new content arrives on a machine, it becomes available instantly, without having to refresh.
• If content is unavailable on actors, will warn you by colouring layers on the timeline (yellow for wrong version, red for no content).

Proxy Management

• In order to sequence large shows with multiple large video files on a laptop, you can substitute them with low-resolution versions (proxies).
• Proxy files are indicated by adding ‘_proxyXYZ’ to the video filename, where XYZ is any number. Higher numbers indicate lower resolutions.
• In the visualiser, use your camera position (in stage view) or view position and zoom (in feed view) to select which proxy level to display.

Frame Replacement

• A new version of a video file can replace a subset of frames of the overall video file.
• Add the tag ‘_frameXYZ’ after the Version Control tag (‘XYZ’ should be a frame number), and Designer will interpret the video file as a ‘patch’ to the file.
• This saves time when you want to replace single corrupted or erroneous frames in a clip, or short runs.

The Frame Replacement feature requires a Version Control tag greater than the file that’s being replaced.
For example, to replace content from frame 130 of a file called “Video_v1.mov” one would need to name their replacement file as follows: “Video_v2_frame130.mov”.

Media Ingestion History Tool

• Disguise analyses new content and displays them in the Media Ingestion History Tool.
• This is used to find and fix naming or spelling errors in filenames when they occur.