NCast Presentation Server - Manual (Page 35)

NCast Presentation Server Reference Manual
5 Workflows on a Presentation Server
5.1 S
INGLE
O
PERATION
W
ORKFLOWS
These workflows may be used to ingest or modify a mediapackage with simple, discrete operations:
• Upload a Recording
• Split NCast a Recording
• Preview and Hold for Trim a Recording
• Publish
• Retract
• Undo Trim
• Undo Split
• Backup a Recording (appears only if backup directory is configured)
See more details in Section 5.3 below.
5.2 A
UTOMATED
W
ORKFLOWS
More complex, multi-step workflows are available:
• Upload and Publish a Recording
• Upload, Split and Publish a Recording
• Upload, Hold for Trim and Publish a Recording
• Upload, Split, Hold for Trim and Publish a Recording
See more details in Section 5.3 below.
5.3 W ORKFLOW D ETAILS
The following paragraphs describe in detail what each workflow does. Within all server workflows files and tracks
are tagged with a “flavor” or “type” which identifies source, intermediate or final copies of a video or audio file or
media track. Thus the notation
*/source
is simply a symbolic way to tag a file or track as a source file which should be treated in certain ways. Likewise, a
tag like
*/split
is just a notation that identifies a file which has gone through a procedure splitting a file into two pieces using
some processing algorithm. These flavors or tags in the workflows are convenient (and arbitrary) names which
help identify what state a file or track is in.
5.3.1 U PLOAD A R ECORDING
This workflow copies a recording into the Presentation Server, and puts it into the Episodes Tab.
The file is converted to H.264 stream and optimized.
There are two copies of the files:
NCast Corporation Version 1.1
Page 35