The Assets App bridges the gap between content entries from the Content App (programs, series, trailers etc.) and the actual media files the audience will see. It allows to create and manage video files, images, documents, URLS and links to external Media Asset Management (MAM) systems.
The following chapters describe how to manage (upload/create, link, edit etc.) different types of assets:
- Main article: Manage assets
- Upload video assets
- Upload image assets
- Upload files
- Create metadata assets
- Create material metadata
- Create url assets
- Create MAM assets
- How to manage assets
Annotations allow to mark specific moments in video assets with timecodes. Based on those timecodes, different types of annotations can be added. Annotation types can be created by users in the parameters.
Annotations can be used, for example, to provide specific parts of a movie with comments about partental ratings. Those comments (annotations) can then be forwarded to the corresponding department to assign extra partenal ratings to specific scenes.
In order to schedule commercials, assets need to be seperated into multiple segments to place commercials between them. This can be done in the Segmentation tab:
- See Manage ad cuts
In addition to the standard tabs in the Assets App, including stock, annotations, and segmentation (ad cuts), customers have the option to integrate custom content as an extra tab. For example, this additional tab can be used to display and manage subtitles: