Preparing clips and metadata for webgate.io

This article covers features which are only available in Silverstack Lab

Silverstack Lab can provide transcoded clips as well as metadata from it’s library in a compatible format for Webgate.io cloud services. In Silverstack Lab, you can export an ALE file that accompanies the transcoded clips and provides extended metadata to be available on the Webgate.io platform. The proxy clips can be uploaded together with the ALE containing all the metadata.

There are two ways to export an ALE for Webgate.io:

1. Automatic: If the metadata export in the transcoding preset is enabled, the ALE is created automatically after transcoding.
2. Manual: An ALE can be exported using the dedicated exporter.

1. Automatically create an Webgate.io compatible ALE after transcoding#

To set Webgate.io as target application for the automatic metadata export, first go to the transcoding preset panel. Select the transcoding preset that you would like to use. Scroll down to the “Metadata Export” section. Select “Webgate.io” and press the Configure… button to select it’s content.

Fig.1: Configure the content of the Webgate.io ALE

Now, when transcoding using the configured transcoding preset, the ALE is automatically created in the same folder as the clips. Besides that, the transcoded clips are automatically ingested into the “Transcoded Clips” folder of Silverstack Lab’s library.

View our article on how to configure transcoding workflows to learn more about transcoding in general.

2. Manually export an Webgate.io compatible ALE#

To manually export an Webgate.io compatible ALE select the intended bin inside the “Transcoded Clips” folder and choose “Webgate.io” from the “Export” menu:

Fig.2 : Manually exporting an Webgate.io ALE from a transcoded clips bin

The wizard leads you through the resource selection (to select the clips that should be part of the ALE) and the content selection (which metadata should be part of the ALE).

Click the Save ALE… button to export the ALE to the intended directory.

3. Supported structural metadata of Webgate.io#

Some columns of the ALE file need to have a certain syntax to correctly translate the metadata into the structural metadata of Webgate.io. You can read more about the metadata workflow for Webgate.io in their guide.

The following structural metadata is supported by the Silverstack Lab:

• Scene / Scene- Shot
• Take
• Episode
• Reel
• Shoot Date
• Circled Take / Good Take
• Clip Comments
• Start (Start TC)

All other metadata from the ALE will also be displayed in Webgate.io but does not form part of the structural metadata.

4. Upload metadata to Webgate.io#

Use the “Add metadata (ALE)” option to add metadata via an ALE to the selected playlist:

Upload the ALE to Webgate.IO

Find more details about uploading clips and the metadata workflow for Webgate.io in their guide.