Searching for assets

This article explains the various ways of filtering 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 configure custom face recognition parameters to improve searchability and organisation.

• Review and manage assets with closed captions (SRT and VTT).

• Organise assets into collections and folders for editing in Adobe or other software.

• Collaborate with colleagues on assets, collections, and folders.

• Manage 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 to indicate transparency. 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-hand side of the screen, you can choose the way assets are displayed in the asset pane, selecting between:

• Filtering by metadata in the filter panel by selecting the Filters icon ( ). This allows you to customize the filter panel options of the selected 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 or 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

Collections

A Collection is a selection of assets you can group together ready for a specific task, action, or identification. In addition to this, you are also able to group one asset in multiple collections.

You can use a collection to do the following:

• Prepare assets for an edit

• Group together assets belonging to a TV series

• Group assets centred around a specific sports player

• Easily share a set of assets with colleagues

If your Curator license includes the Edit & Publish Functionality Module, you can use Curator alongside video-editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro. 

Productions

A Production is an Adobe Premiere Pro project file (.prproj) that has been saved into the Curator database that you can retrieve whenever you want, allowing you to work on it immediately from directly within Curator.

6. Activity Log

Any processes taking place on an asset or the creation of anything in Curator can by monitored from 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 (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.