Why/when would we need to connect an asset?
- Local editing = Editing with assets stored from your system’s file path
- Remote editing = Editing with assets being streamed into your project that are stored in Curator
- Curator is your library - IPV’s advice is to only connect assets into your project that you are using for an edit or in a sequence and not use Adobe applications as an asset library. Let Curator be your asset library.
- Connect what you need - If you open (check out) an Adobe project (production) with assets disconnected then you’ll need to connect the asset to Curator.
What is connecting an asset?
When working with a Curator Production, it may include hundreds or even thousands of Curator assets. Naturally, importing each asset and linking them to Curator proxies for playback in your Adobe bin can take some time. The Connect and Disconnect options help streamline this process by allowing users to selectively connect only certain assets to their proxies, rather than all of them. See How to connect assets, How to disconnect assets and Swap the asset stream between lo-res (proxy) and hi-res.
This feature can be a major time-saver, especially if a project contains assets that are not part of the same sequence or if playback is only needed for specific assets. Alternatively, users also have the option to connect all assets for playback or disconnect them entirely when playback is not needed.
