AJA Video Diskover Media Edition User guide

AJA Diskover Media Edition

Version 1.0
Published April 14, 2022

Plugins Operation Guide

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Contents

Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Contacting AJA Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Chapter 1 – Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Installation and Conguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Data Curation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Software Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Basics of AJA Diskover Media Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

How AJA Diskover Media Edition is Unique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Improves Workow and Reduces Operating Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Consumers of Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Access to Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 2 – Media Specic Challenges and Solutions . . . . . . . . 10

Lack of Files Visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Inecient Workows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Fast Pace Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter 3 – Media Edition Plugins Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Chapter 4 – Media Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Hide/Unhide Media Info Column in Search Results Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

View Detailed Media Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Search on Media Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

File resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Codec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Codec long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Pixel format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Framerate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Bitrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Search on Media Info Fields with Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Media Info Fields Containing Error or Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 5 – Find All Files in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Chapter 6 – Xytech MediaPulse Order Management. . . . . . . . .20

Xytech MediaPulse Asset Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Xytech MediaPulse Order Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 7 – Telestream GLIM and Vantage Workow Automation 24

Preview/Validate Media Files with GLIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Submit Transcoding Jobs to Vantage Directly from Diskover. . . . . . . . . . . 25

Steps to Submit a File for Transcoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Chapter 8 – Support and Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Help within the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Email and Phone Support for Paid Subscription Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Technical Support and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

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Chapter 1 – Introduction

NOTE: This guide is intended for daily operations by the Line of Business Users.

An unparalleled data management and curation solution, AJA Diskover
Media Edition consolidates in a global index, unstructured data spread across
heterogeneous repositories including direct attached storage, cloud, AWS
buckets and more. Cutting-edge analytical tools combined with uniquely
fast search capabilities empower all levels of an organization to have their
own relationship with data, resulting in informed decision making, significant
operating cost reductions, along with enhanced workflows and their
monetization.

Installation and Configuration

Although AJA Diskover Media Edition is intuitive and easy to use by any Line
of Business Users, its installation and configuration must be accomplished by a
System Administrator or someone with equivalent expertise.

Documentation

This document is intended as a supplemental user guide explaining the unique
and powerful features and plug-ins that are available with AJA Diskover Media
Edition Software.

For more detailed and frequently updated documentation including technical
guides and user guides, please visit:

https://docs.diskoverdata.com

Data Curation

Data curation is the practice of managing data collected from various sources as
a valuable asset to unlock its potential, organization and cost analysis decision
making. Managing data effectively requires having a data strategy and reliable
methods to access, integrate, cleanse, govern, store, archive, mark for deletion
and prepare data for analytics. The value of the data is maintained over time and
remains available for reuse and preservation.

Software Overview

The Basics of AJA Diskover Media Edition

• Efficiently and quickly searches data fragmented across heterogeneous
repositories bringing you all the answers in one global view.

• Works with Elasticsearch, giving you extraordinary speed and reliability, as
well as continuously updating all your indices in parallel in real-time.

• Provides a global index in non-proprietary format, enabling organizations to
maintain data independence of their index.

• Well suited for long term asset preservation.

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• 100% open-source tool allows for add-on plug-ins to be developed
alongside plug-ins unique to the media industry that are included as part of
AJA Diskover Media Edition

• Supports all known file types.

How AJA Diskover Media Edition is Unique

• AJA Diskover Media Edition scales data by using Elasticsearch search engine
in the back-end, allowing for massive amounts of data to be searched
instantaneously.

• AJA Diskover Media Edition is the only data management software in the
industry able to rapidly scan and index all of your storage volumes at the same
time, regardless of where they are located.

• AJA Diskover Media Edition-Web’s global index offers the ability to be fully
cloud-based, meaning that all storage volumes can be indexed all at the
same time and in the cloud, instead of each storage volume being indexed,
separately and sometimes serially, in their own location.

• Points in time indices snapshots, allowing the ability to search and compare
indexed data, as well as analyze anomalies.

• The powerful heatmap report is unique to AJA Diskover Media Edition and
allows for at-a-glance comparisons between two points in time on any
scanned indices.

In addition to Diskover's core features, the AJA Diskover Media Edition offers
distinctive features developed for the Media and Entertainment industry. The
bridge between AJA Video Systems products and Diskover Data software offers
cutting-edge tools to handle media assets.

Both entities combined their extended expertise of the Media and Entertainment
industry to develop and plan future features undoubtedly lacking for efficient
file-based production line, as well as asset monetization and preservation.

Improves Workflow and Reduces Operating Costs

• Harvests metadata to add business context to extensive searches and
analytics.

• Enables everyone to accurately answer questions with the simplicity of clever
search queries, which provide immediate relevant information.

• Enhances collective efficiency by streamlining file-based workflows.

• Assists all stakeholders in making the right data related decisions about time,
resources, and investments.

• Significantly improves the efficiency of the organization and its people, in
addition to reducing storage cost.

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Figure 1. AJA Diskover Media Edition Connects Your Unstructured Data

Consumers of Data

AJA Diskover Media Edition allows all stakeholders within an organization to have
their own specific relationship with data. Here is a generic example of Line of
Business Users, their needs, and challenges:

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Figure 2. Consumers of Data

LOB Users System Administrator

Needs: Ease of search and share, files

statuses duri ng the cycle of a project

Challenges: Knowledge workers spending

valuable time f inding related data. 52% of
time is spent on non- productive data tasks
and only 48% on creat ing/extract ing value
from date

Solution: AJA Diskover Media Edition’s

global index, muk ltiple search tools and
easy sharing of result s/files/paths, tag ging.

Needs: Data preservat ion, security, compli-

ance, automated stora ge management, etc.

Challenges: Due to a lack of global system,

data is exponen tially growing ins tead of
being curated, manua l management is prone
to human errors.

Solution: AJA Diskover Media Edition’s

asset preservation and data management via
tags and automated sche duled tasks allow
prompt, accurate and safe data curation

Operations

Needs: Create complex work orders

quickly and accurately, reporting,
monitoring, analytics.

Challenges: Serious lack of centralized

index to access, act, anal yze and monitor
data, create strateg ies upon results.

Solution: AJA Diskover Media Edition’s

global index, vario us analytical repor ts,
tagging, plugins automating workflows,
monitoring.

Access to Features

Even though several data features will be added over time, AJA Diskover Media
Edition will mostly remain a search and read-only tool for the end-users; data
integrity and protection being the ultimate objective.

AJA Diskover Media Edition allows all end-users to have access to the data via
a global index in a read-only format, for them to make informed decisions, and
then in turn for the System Administrators to curate the data in a secure and
controlled environment.

Your System Administrator creates all login accounts. Depending on your data
relation needs within your scope of work, your account level will be as an end­user or an admin, the latter allowing for additional editing access (reports, etc.).
While working with AJA Diskover Media Edition as an end-user, you might come
across the icon below, indicating that you need to communicate any requests
with someone with an admin level account.

Data

USB Recording Mapping 4 Camera feeds, Primary and Backup Recording

Consumers of Data

Executives

Needs: Make sounds financial decisions

related to data (stor age purchases, hiring ,
accurately charg e clients for data stor age).

Challenges: Decision makers a re not

data enabled as t here are no tools for them
to make informed decisions.

Solution: AJA Diskover media Edit ion’s

analyt ical tools allow expendi ture visibility
by project /customer/storage usage,
therefore increasing reven ues and lowering
operating costs.

Here is a brief list of shared roles:

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Feature

File search Yes Yes Yes

Use of analytical reports Yes Yes Yes

Analytical reports editing Yes Yes

Export/share search results Yes Yes Yes

Manual tagging Yes Yes Yes

Tags editing Yes Yes

Auto-tagging Yes

Basic settings editing Yes Yes Yes

Advanced settings editing
(add fields, etc.)

Select, compare, analyze
indices

Schedule background
tasks

Data curation (move,
delete, archive, etc.)

Diskover install, config &
main admin

End-User
Account

Yes Yes Yes

Admin
Account

Yes Yes

Yes Yes

System
Administrator

Yes

Yes

Use Cases

With media workflows, there is the need to protect content from piracy; facilities
often build two completely independent networks 1) where users have access
to the Internet, and 2) a production network with no Internet access and strict
controls on personnel that have access to this network. However, in production
workflows, Customer Service Representatives, Producers, and Operations often
need to search the production network. AJA Diskover Media Edition provides
visibility to search for content, without providing access to the actual content.

AJA Diskover Media Edition offers numerous search tools, reports, and other
functions to fulfill the needs of all stakeholders. Below is a simplistic example of
AJA Diskover Media Edition’s tools being used in a media environment:

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Figure 3. AJA Diskover Media Edition's Toolkit Overview

Project

$$

2

Data
Manager

10

Installat ion of AJA Diskover Media

1

Edition and configuration of all storage
volumes for indexing , as well as all other
parameters (ex: s torage cost per GB),
automated tasks , login accounts, etc.

Data Manager recei ves details of new

2

project for space an d cost analysis.

Analysis of available space to onboard

3

new project and ne ed assessment
for curation (cleanup, archive, etc.) of
existing dat a via reporting and t ags to
make space for new project

3

Accurately Quote and Invoice

for Storage Space

5

Sales & Execs

4

Reporting & Analysis Tools

• Smart Searc hes

• Heatmap

• File Tree

• Treemap

• User Analys is

3

Operations Manager Artist

Cost analy sis of storage space for

4

project, a s well as planning for ser vice
level agreement af ter delivery, etc.

Abilit y to properly quote and invoice

5

for storage space.

Client sends f iles for the project as

6

directed.

Operations M anager receives details

7

of project and searches /finds associa ted
files to create work order.

6

Cost Analysis Repor t

T

Tags

1

Installation, Configuration

& Administration

All Unstructured Data Available in a Global Index

Tags

T

7

AJA Diskover

Media Edition Data

File Search

8

Efficient creation of

accurate work orders

Work order creation is au tomated

8

and enhanced by the Me dia Pulse
plugin, increasi ng production and
reducing human.

Artis ts receive work order and are

9

able to search/f ind files as needed
and complete the project.

Project is deli vered to the client and

10

files are eithe r kept, archived or deleted
as per the ser vice level agreement ,
allowing for promp t invoicing and
methodical data curation.

System Administrator

Data Curation

11

Tags

T

9

System Adminis trator can accuratel y

11

and effic iently curate data t hrough
tags repor t and/or scheduled
automated task s.

Tagging can happen a t any point of

T

the process a nd is a crucial par t of
workflows and curation (clean, keep,
delete, archive, fix naming convention
issues, etc.)

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Chapter 2 – Media Specic Challenges and
Solutions

This chapter describes the prominent challenges that most Media and
Entertainment facilities are currently facing.

Lack of Files Visibility

The lack of visibility and access to files' location and metadata is a real problem
for end-users in media facilities, mostly due to the protected production network,
as security is paramount because of piracy concerns and possible leaks to the
public prior to release dates.

Challenges Solutions

There is a difficult to non-existing
balance between allowing people
to do their jobs while keeping the
appropriate level of security around
clients’ file.

Difficulty finding disorganized assets
from different sources (ex: intra and
inter companies’ systems).

Users need to be notified when files
are available and where they are
located.

Too many search results due to the
inability to refine searches.

Unable to verify if the file found/
needed is the right one.

Diskover gives read-only access to
the files’ metadata and attributes
therefore safeguarding your valuable
assets while allowing employees to
efficiently find the files they need.

Diskover scans all fragmented
data living across heterogeneous
repositories and brings all the
information in one global index.

Diskover offers extraordinary speed
and reliability with Elasticsearch in the
back-end continuously indexing all
storage volumes in parallel for instant
findability.

Diskover includes many search tools
and filters, as well as granular search
on media specific attributes (ex:
resolution, codec, duration, etc.)

Diskover's media info plugin enriches
the ability to locate the correct file.
Future thumbnail/preview plugin
functionality will further increase
accuracy.

Inefficient Workflows

Tremendous amounts of person-hours are wasted due to a lack of continuity and
automation around file-based production lines.

Challenges Solutions

Need to track orders through the
production process, from order
creation to invoicing and delivery.

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Diskover order management and
scheduling plugins reduce or
eliminate manual correlations and
provide automation and scaling
capabilities. One example of such
plugin is Xytech MediaPulse.

Challenges Solutions

Order system is usually not an integral
part of the storage infrastructure,
affecting the ability to charge
accurately for storage per specific
project.

The inability to identify files that need
to be managed at the source.

Fast Pace Environments

Significant increase of order volume is compounded with shorter deadlines.

Challenges Solutions

Manual orders are prone to errors and
don’t scale with today’s high volume.

The cost analysis tool within Diskover
provides the ability to associate a
storage element to the cost of goods
sold to a project, client, work order,
etc.

Diskover’s manual tagging and
automated scheduled tasks insure for
safe and methodical file management,
as well as file findability.

Diskover’s global view and accuracy
combined with order management
and scheduling plugins allow
for reduced human prone errors
associated with manual processes,
as well as increased automation and
scalability of production processes
associated with file-based workflows.

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Chapter 3 – Media Edition Plugins Overview

The following diagrams illustrate the functionality of the features included with
AJA Diskover Media Edition. More plugins and features will be added over time.

Figure 4. AJA | Diskover Media Edition: Media Files Plugins Overview

Figure 5. AJA | Diskover Media Edition: Xytech MediaPulse Plugins Overview

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Figure 6. AJA | Diskover Media Edition: Telestream Plugins Overview

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Chapter 4 – Media Attributes

Media attributes, like file resolution, codec, etc., are harvested during indexing
and are therefore available to enhance in-depth searches and to deliver accurate
results.

Hide/Unhide Media Info Column in Search Results Pane

When using the file search page, you have access to a column with all the media
attributes. If you cannot see that column, it means that it is hidden. To unhide that
column:

1. Go to Settings > Hide fields in search results.

2. De-select the box in front of media_info.

Figure 7. Hide fields in search results

The media_info column will then be available within the search results pane. If
the column is visible but there are no attributes for a file, this means that there
was no media metadata associated with the source file to begin with.

Figure 8. Media Info Column

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View Detailed Media Attributes

Below is an example of the location where you can see detailed media attributes.
You can access this page by clicking on a file in the search results pane or
wherever you see the magnifying glass icon:

Figure 9. Detailed Media Attributes

Search on Media Attributes

The media attributes are part of the metadata harvested exclusively by the
AJA Diskover Media Edition. If a file at the source doesn’t include any of these
attributes, it goes without saying that no details will be harvested and/or be
available.

In addition to the manual file searches and syntax explained in the Diskover

User Guide, the AJA Diskover Media Edition allows end-users to search on media

specific attributes.

• As media fields’ info can be complex, unless you know exactly what you
are looking for, we strongly recommend using the * wild card for ease of
searching and to expand your results.

• The fields described below are meant to be copied/typed in the search bar of
the Diskover user interface.

• Searching on media_info is case insensitive.

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• The following syntax needs to be respected media_info.<key>:<value> and
the < > are not meant to by typed, they are only for visual and isolating where
to input the variables:

• For more details on search syntax, please refer to our core Diskover User

Guide.

File resolution

Field name: media_info.resolution

media_info.resolution:3840x2160

media_info.resolution:*1080*

(Would return all files with 1080 somewhere in the resolution)

Codec

Field name: media_info.codec

media_info.codec:prores

media_info.codec:h264

Codec long

Field name: media_info.codeclong

Pixel format

Field name: media_info.pixfmt

Frames

Field name: media_info.frames

NOTE: Use a specific number only if you know the exact number of frames a file would

Duration

Field name: media_info.pixfmt

NOTE: This field will eventually reads time in this format hh:mm:ss, but is currently

media_info.codeclong:*apple*

media_info.codeclong:*quicktime*

media_info.pixfmt:*yuv*

media_info.pixfmt:*422*

media_info.frames:30

media_info.frames:*30*

have, otherwise use the * to expand your results.

showing duration in seconds, ex: 30.5071 = 30 seconds and 5071 milliseconds)

media_info.duration:30.*

NOTE: Use the * if you’re looking for a file for which you know the duration is 30 seconds

but the milliseconds are unknown.

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Framerate

Field name: media_info.framerate

media_info.framerate:*23*

NOTE: Would return all files with standard framerate of 23.976

Bitrate

Field name: media_info.bitrate

media_info.bitrate:*765*

NOTE: Bitrate is a difficult field to search on, but not impossible.

Search on Media Info Fields with Operators

Operators and, or, not are explained in the Diskover User Guide, but here are a
few query examples using media info fields with operators:

media_info.resolution:1920x1080 AND media_info.
codeclong:*quicktime*

Would find all files with resolution 1920x1080 with QuickTime in codeclong.

*jurassic* NOT media_info.resolution:*1080*

Would find all files containing "jurassic" in the file name and/or path, but with
any other resolution beside 1080 being part of that field.

media_info.resolution:*1080* AND mov NOT mp4

Would find all files with 1080 being part of the resolution and with file
extension .mov, but would exclude file extension .mp4 from the results.

media_info.pixfmt:*444* OR media_info.pixfmt:*422*

Would find all files with pixel format either containing 444 or 422.

Media Info Fields Containing Error or Warning

If the media fields at the source are corrupted and/or Diskover determines the
file as "suspect", the media info fields will show either error or warning within
Diskover. Below are search queries to either exclude or pinpoint files with those
values:

To search all files with valid media info fields while excluding files with "error" and
"warning":

media_info:* NOT (media_info.error:* OR media_info.
warning:*)

To search all files with media info fields containing "error" and "warning":

media_info.error:* OR media_info.warning:*

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Chapter 5 – Find All Files in a Sequence

AJA Diskover Media Edition allows you to easily find all files in a sequence via File
Action.

Launch from a file - You do not need to select the line if you launch directly from

the A) inline icon. It has been selected in this example to show the option of
launching it from the B) File Action button:

Figure 10. File Action Launch from File

Launch from a directory - The same logic as launching form a file applies here as

well:

Figure 11. File Action Launch from Directory

The results will open in a new page and will show the complete path where the
sequence is located, as seen at the bottom of the following screenshot:

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Figure 12. File Action Results

A - Will confirm if a sequence was found.

B - Will give you the sequence range. If there was a break in the sequence, there

would be [multiple brackets].

C - In this example, the value means that the sequence has 0 padding and is 8

digits long, DPX being included in the digits > DPX86400.

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Chapter 6 – Xytech MediaPulse Order Management

This chapter describes the features that are currently released enhancing file­based production workflows. Please stay tuned as many more features are in
development and are on the roadmap.

More About the Xytech MediaPulse Product

Xytech MediaPulse Asset Creation

Post facilities often have customers’ assets that have been archived and lack
findability, visibility, searchability, and therefore the opaque nature of these
assets make them difficult to reuse or repurpose. Companies with years of such
archived assets have often stored these on tape media or removable hard drives
which are often stored in a physical vault.

Assets were often stored on such “offline” media due to costs. However, with
the advent of cloud and object storage, the economics are now making it viable
to store such vaulted assets on more “online media”. Although, simply putting
these assets onto online media does not necessarily make these assets findable in
context or within the facility’s order management system.

The Xytech MediaPulse asset creation tool is designed to find and index newly
restored online assets from LTO tapes, removable hard drives, etc., making
them available, findable, and searchable within the Xytech MediaPulse order
management system, as well as AJA Diskover Media Edition.

The plugin operates on the assumption that the assets restored to online media
are placed into a folder with the following naming convention: CustomerID_

CustomerName

The path location is added to the asset within MediaPulse and the asset number
is assigned to the file via a tag within the AJA Diskover Media Edition Index.

Here is an example of an asset rehydration as viewed in the MediaPulse
application:

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Figure 13. Example of an Asset Rehydration as Viewed in the MediaPulse

Application

Here are the same values, customer ID and asset ID, displayed within AJA Diskover
Media Edition:

Figure 14. MediaPulse Asset Creation within Diskover UI Results Pane

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Figure 15. MediaPulse Asset Creation within Diskover UI File Attribute

Xytech MediaPulse Order Status

Facilities often manually correlate the order management system with the
storage repositories. However, manual processes are subject to human error and
are difficult to scale as the volume of media orders and data turnover increases
rapidly and constantly.

Therefore, the lack of integration for file-based workflows between the order
management system and the underlying storage repositories makes data
management decisions difficult as they are solely based on attributes of files
or objects on storage. Additional business context is needed from the order
management system to increase precision and accuracy of data management
decisions.

An instance of key information might be the invoice date for a work order. A
status change for a work order can be a key indicator for data management. For
example, once a Xytech MediaPulse media order has been invoiced, then the data
associated with that media order can be a candidate for archival.

The MediaPulse order status plugin is designed to automate the correlation
of the order management system and the storage system by harvesting
key business context from MediaPulse and applying that context within the
AJA Diskover Media Edition platform.

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Figure 16. MediaPulse Order Status in Xytech

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Chapter 7 – Telestream GLIM and Vantage
Workow Automation

The GLIM and Vantage web tools allow end-users to view and confirm source files,
as well as submit files for transcoding, directly from AJA Diskover Media Edition,
without ever leaving your web browser.

Preview/Validate Media Files with GLIM

You can do an advanced search/validation of a media file and playback right from
AJA Diskover Media Edition.

NOTE: Make sure you are logged in your Telestream account before using this feature.

You can access File Action > open in GLIM by selecting a file and clicking the File
Action button as shown below:

Figure 17. File Action GLIM Selection

Alternatively, beneath the gear icon on the line item that you want to preview
with GLIM, select open with Glim.

Figure 18. File Action GLIM Gear Icon Selection

This will launch GLIM where you will be able to validate/preview the file.

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Figure 19. File Action GLIM Preview

Learn More about the Telestream GLIM Product

Submit Transcoding Jobs to Vantage Directly from Diskover

With the AJA Diskover Media Edition Telestream Vantage Plugin, you can submit
files for transcoding directly from the AJA Diskover Media Edition user interface.
This process can be utilized by all end-users without needing access to the
production tools and source files.

The major benefits include the following:

• The plugin eliminates many steps from going back and forth between the two
software tools.

• Vantage offers several transcoding options which can be confusing to non­technical users. The plugin allows for limiting the number of options to only
the ones relevant to the end-users.

• Creating a Vantage account for an end-user is intensive as it requires
complex and time consuming configurations. Single end-user accounts
for Vantage are not required with the plugin as all they need is access to
AJA Diskover Media Edition.

• End-users with a Vantage account have access to your production network.
The plugin keeps your network secure as the end-users only have access to
read-only information via AJA Diskover Media Edition.

• Files are very easy to find within AJA Diskover Media Edition’s global index
compared to Vantage where one needs to know where to look.

• The learning curve is quick and easy for new end-users.

Steps to Submit a File for Transcoding

1. Search for the desired file(s) within AJA Diskover Media Edition.

2. Select the le you wish to submit for transcoding by clicking the File Action
> submit to Vantage icon (gears icon) in line with the le. If you wish to
submit multiple les at a time, select the les by clicking the check box in
front of the le, then select the File Action > submit to Vantage button.

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Figure 20. Telestream Vantage Selection

Figure 21. MediaPulse Order Status in Xytech

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3. A window will open with a series of submission options. After clicking the
Submit button, you will get a message that the le has been submitted to
Vantage successfully.

Figure 22. Telestream Vantage Job Submission

4. If you have access to the jobs submission status view in Vantage (webpage
location to be supplied by your system administrator), you will see the
progress status of your request(s).

Figure 23. Telestream Vantage Job Processing Status

Figure 24. Telestream Vantage Job Status

Learn More about the Telestream Vantage Product.

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Chapter 8 – Support and Warranty

Help within the Software

From the AJA Diskover Media Edition interface, you can find help with search
syntax and other subjects under Settings (gear icon) > Help.

Documentation

Please see Diskover Documentation for in-depth instructions for end users,
as well as for system administrators and technical professionals involved with
installation and configuration tasks.

Troubleshooting

Please see the Technical Troubleshooting Guide for answers related to
installation, configuration and more.

Please see the End-User Troubleshooting Guide for answers related to the daily
operation of AJA Diskover Media Edition.

Email and Phone Support for Paid Subscription Solutions

AJA is focused on meeting customer needs with proven services and support.

www.aja.com/support/

Technical Support and Resources

AJA Diskover Media Edition general Information:

www.aja.com/products/aja-diskover-media-edition

AJA Diskover Media Edition support, including documentation:

www.aja.com/products/aja-diskover-media-edition#support

The Diskover Slack workspace forum is also a great place to ask questions to the
Diskover community:

https://diskoverworkspace.slack.com/ssb/redirect#/

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Index

A

AJA Support 2
analytical reports 8
analytical tools 4

D

data curation 4, 8

E

Elasticsearch 4, 5

G

GLIM

Telestream Plugin 24

I

index 4, 7

M

media assets 5
Media attributes 14, 15
metadata 5

O

operating cost 4, 5
Operators 17
overview 4, 9

X

Xytech MediaPulse Plugin 20

Q

queries 5

R

report 7, 8

heatmap 5
reports 8
roles 7

S

search results 8
system administrator 7, 8

T

tags

editing 8
Technical Support 2
Telestream GLIM Plugin 24
Telestream Vantage Plugin 25

V

Vantage

Telestream Plugin 25

W

workflow 4, 5, 8

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