How to ingest using Curator Connect

  • Updated on Mar 19, 2025
  • Published on Apr 18, 2024
  • 2 minute(s) read

Applications this article relates to: Curator Connect

Curator version supported from this article: 4.0

Ingesting ensures files on your system, camera card or drive from one source are hosted in Curator, allowing you to easily manage your media assets. This guide will show you how to ingest files, a folder of files, or a camera card. If you are ingesting .mogrt files, your system administrator must ensure that ingest is configured to support .mogrt files.

Select media

NOTE: You are able to select Clear at any stage of the ingest to restart your ingest journey.

  1. Open the Curator Connect application installed on your system
  2. Drag and drop files/folders/camera cards into the drop area. Alternatively, browse for files:

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  1. You will be asked to confirm the files you have submitted for ingest.
    1. You are able to deselect one/many files to proceed with.
    2. You are able to drag and drop or browse for more files/folders/camera cards to submit for ingest if you wish to do so, at this stage.
  2. When you are ready, select Next.

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If you are ingesting a camera card, then Curator Connect will detect the camera card's folder of files and advise which file(s) it will create an asset of.

  • Example: A typical folder view of multiple files and folders on a camera card when selected for ingest are recognised as five individual files.

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Add name

  1. The file name will remain the same in the database and when becoming a Curator Asset. If you’d like the asset name to be different, you have the opportunity to change the name.
  2. When ready, select Next:

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Add Metadata

For more information on what a destination is, refer to the Ingest (upload) article.

For more information on what a metadata view is, please review Metadata Management.

  1. If you have been provided permission to ingest against one/many Destinations - select one.
  2. The Destination you select will determine what Metadata view you are presented with to submit and tag your preferred metadata to the file at this point of ingest so that the asset has the metadata tagged when you review the asset after ingest.
  3. Submit data into your Metadata and mandatory Metadata fields.
  4. If you have been provided permission, you can add the metadata to a specified folder and/or a new or existing Collection.
    NOTE: If you have opted to add the assets to a collection, then:
  • If a folder has been selected, and a collection by that name already exists within the specified folder, the assets will be added to it.
  • If no folder has been selected, the collection will be created in the Library folder by default.
  • If the collection name does not match that of any existing collection, a new collection will be created in the specified folder or (if no folder has been selected) in the Library folder.
  1. When ready, select Next:
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Confirm

  • Review the files submitted from the location/source they are being ingested from.
  • Review the Destination setting where you are converting this file(s) into an asset(s) and the Metadata/folder/Collection details you have submitted where necessary.
  • When ready, select Confirm.
  • Once the ingest begins, you are able to queue and ingest more files:
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Activity

From the Activity section, you can review the progress of your file(s) ingesting into Curator.

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