Curator version supported from this article: 4.0
This article explains the different ways you can filter assets in the asset pane, making it easier to view, manage, and work with your media.
The Clip Link application is your central hub for navigating and managing assets in one place. With Clip Link, you can:
Quickly find and discover assets, or create sub-clips.
Edit metadata and set parameters for custom face recognition to improve search and organisation.
Review and manage assets with closed captions (SRT and VTT).
Organise assets into collections and folders, ready for editing in Adobe or other software.
Collaborate with colleagues on assets, collections, and folders.
Manage your Review and Approve threads in Curator.
Prepare assets for detailed logging, including advanced notes and descriptions.
Note: If an asset contains an alpha channel, its thumbnail background will appear checkered. Supported formats include .mogrt, .png, and .tiff.
Clip Link at a glance
1. Search, Search Operators, Advanced Search
Search: Simple search for an asset name or asset with metadata of the search text.
Search Operators: Expand your simple search with multiple asset names or assets with metadata of the search text in one search and define how you want the results produced in the asset pane.
Advanced search: Custom search queries around specific metadata tags and groups of metadata.
From the Asset Pane, you can hover over an asset thumbnail to reveal the metadata of the search you submitted with specific metadata highlighted matching your search term(s).
2. Filters or Folders
Using the Folders and Filters panels on the left of the screen, you can switch between how you view your assets in the asset pane, choosing between:
Filtering by Metadata in the filter panel by selecting the Filters icon (
). This allows you to customize the filter panel options of metadata.Viewing by folder path and location by selecting the Folders icon (
).
When selected, the icon will be highlighted green.
With either the Filters or Folders panels expanded, you can select from the available asset type icons to ensure the asset pane only displays results belonging to the specific asset type(s) you want to review:
Video
Audio
Image
Bookmark
Sub clip
Collection
Folder
3. Asset Pane
The asset pane displays your asset library, allowing you to select assets, open an asset to view, create sub clips from, and/or log. You can view the asset pane in grid/list view, paginate between pages and choose how many results per page you wish to view. You are also able to sort by a metadata tag. The panels on the left side can be expanded or collapsed for you to utilize the entire width of the screen for your asset pane.
4. Asset Manager
The Asset Manager is a holding/marking area for assets that you wish to task/action. This may be useful when handling multiple assets which you want to identify easily from within multiple collections.
5. Collections and Productions panel
A Collection is a selection of assets you can group together ready for a specific task, action, or identification. You are also able to group one asset in multiple collections. Uses of a collection could include the following:
Preparing assets for an edit/editor
A tv series/programme
assets of a sports player
Sharing with colleagues
If your Curator license includes the Edit & Publish Functionality Module, you can use Curator alongside video-editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro.
A Production is an Adobe Premiere Pro project file (a .prproj) that has been saved into the Curator database. You can think of it as a .prproj file that you can retrieve whenever you want.
6. Activity Log
Any processes taking place on an asset, or the creation of anything in Curator can by monitored in the activity log.
7. Desktops
Host multiple Clip Link tasks/searches at the same time using multiple Desktops.
8. Asset menu
Each asset thumbnail has a menu with a variety of built-in options to help you navigate and manage your selected asset(s). You can also create your own custom options and workflows within Curator.
9. Asset metadata
By clicking the three dot menu and selecting Edit Metadata, or by right-clicking on an asset and selecting Edit Metadata, you can show/hide the metadata view in the Asset pane that details all of the metadata tags (edited or empty) of an asset. You can filter your view of the metadata of the asset selected by freetext and metadata view, or edit the metadata displayed in this area as needed.
