Metadata

Information is displayed for each media file added, including the file name (or alias, in the case of files added from a Media Player playlist, discussed later), Duration, and Preset (depending on settings, multiple entries pointed at different destinations may be added in one operation).

The Comment column allows you to add remarks that are sent along with the upload to sites that support this. Click in this column to enable keyboard entry, or navigate to it and start typing. Press ENTER or click elsewhere to end editing.

Similarly, type in the Title column entry to change the title supplied for the file to social media accounts, but note that this has no effect on FTP or Transcode preset operations.

Presets

The Preset column provides a menu allowing you to change the export preset or even add multiple targets for each individual item in the bin. A checkmark beside a preset indicates the target is active.

Of course, Preset selections can vary from one item in the Bin to the next. Obviously, if no checkmarks appear here, the entry on that row is not fully configured, and are ignored by the Export processor.

List Management

We touched on the Add button in the previous section. Three other nearby features help you manage your Bin entries.

• Remove, as you’d expect, deletes entries from the Bin, doing so without any effect on the source files.

• Duplicate clones selected entries. You may prefer this way of publishing an item to multiple targets (over adding multiple checkmarks to the Preset column for a single entry) at times.

  

• For example, the encoding settings for one target may involve longer processing than you want to allow at the moment. Using a duplicate entry, you can defer processing that entry until a more convenient opportunity.

• Click the Trim button in the footer to open a trimmer pane that allows you to set the In and Out Points for clips you plan to share (some file formats do not support trimming). Clips that are added while still being captured can be re-trimmed to take advantage of file growth.

The Export Button

Also located in the footer of the Export Bin, the Export button is a toggle; that is, like the light switch in your foyer, it has two states: On and off.

When lit, the Export processor is activated, and is either watching for qualified entries Bin entries to appear for exporting, or actively processing those that are ready to go. (Conversely, of course, no light, no go…)

19.3.5 Other Add to Methods

Let’s handle the final details you need to become a social media maestro. It seems obvious that manually managing the minutiae of exporting could intrude into the already hectic life of a switcher operator. Live production already demands a lot of attention.

Using Add in the Export Bin panel, entering comments, etc., would be quite a distraction. For this reason, Export makes it as simple as possible to share your media, as follows.

Once you have configured your Export presets, check-marked one or more in the Export menu, and decided whether to add checks to Stills, Clips, or both in the Auto Queue menu, you have eliminated a good deal of the fuss. But we can do better, in two ways:

• You can add either stills or clips to the Export Bin from the playlist of a Media Player.

• Second, you can even automate the matter of adding custom titles and comments. Grab, Record as well as the Media Players all support individual custom Names and Comments, which supplies the corresponding metadata for your Export Media additions.

Better still, the Name and Comment fields for Grab and Record features support DataLink. This lets you automatically supply unique and meaningful information to social media sites along with your Export uploads. You can even mix DataLink keys with literal text, to produce comments that embed things like the current time, the current score of a game, or the name of the person on camera at the moment into coherent sentences.