In this video, we will show you how to customize the e-mail director web browser interface. The Emam director interface is used to ingest, search, review, deliver, and archive assets. It is all based on HTML5 and fully customizable. Emam users log in to the director interface using their assigned login credentials. These credentials will determine what the user can see and do within the Emam system.
The Emmam director workspace has five areas to place director widgets. Each area is completely sizable.
In a moment we will show you how to arrange these spaces and the widgets contained in each area.
In each area you can place widgets. These widgets manage and run certain functions within the director interface like Browse, Preview, search and can be arranged in any order in the defined area.
To select a widget and add it to a workspace area, the user will click on the widget drawer button in the upper left hand corner of the director interface. The widget drawer will open and list all the widgets the user has permissions to use within the director interface. Please review the user group training video to see how to apply permissions. Simply click on a widget that you want to place in the workspace area, hold down the mouse button and drag the widget.
To the area of choice, release and the widget is now placed in the desired area on the workspace. In addition to adding a widget to a workspace area, users can float one or more widgets within the browser window.
Simply click on the menu button in the upper right hand corner of the widget and select float.
Users can now freely move and size the widget within the browse window.
To remove the widget, select the menu button for the widget and select close.
The director workspace has four sizing levers.
To resize the area, simply click on the resize lever and drag it to the desired size.
All of the changes the user makes to the director workspace can be saved and used next time a user logs in.
To save the workspace configuration, first click on the green button in the upper right hand corner of the director interface.
The director configuration menu should now be open. Now click on the down arrow in the Workspace settings area. You will see a list of resaved workspaces settings to select from.
If you are wanting to save changes to an existing workspace setting, just simply collect save.
Otherwise select add new workspace.
Users will now be prompted to add a name to the workspace.
If they would like to add it as public or private and then save the new workspace for later use.
The users now have a new predefined workspace to use next time they log in.
Users can also select a director theme with different colored backgrounds.
Simply click on the green button to reveal the available themes and select the one you want. The theme changes will not affect other users themes, only the user that is logged in and making the change.
Within the director interface, users will have widgets available to perform specific functions in the EMMAM system based on their permissions.
To add widgets to your workspace, open the widget drawer and click and drag a widget onto one of the five locations in the director interface.
Ingest widget.
Injustice widget is used to upload assets into the Emam system.
Select one of two ways to upload media to Emam.
The web uploader or using the Emam feeder application.
Using the web uploader, drag and drop individual files or folders into the ingest widget, assign assets to projects and categories, and apply metadata.
Using the feeder application, click download feeder to localize the feeder application to your desktop.
Launch the feeder application and drag and drop individual files or folders onto the e-mail feeder application window.
Assign assets to projects categories and apply metadata.
Browse widget browse widget is used to view the assets you have stored in the emmam system.
There are three ways to view the assets.
Thumbnails.
A list view or a filmstrip?
Sort your assets by most recent size, title, type, rating, description, category and more.
Select one or more assets to send to delivery or Ebbin.
Category widget category widget is used to organize your media. For example, organize your assets by project, event, ad campaign, type of asset, and so on. Assets can be assigned to one or more categories, making it easy to search for assets based on a project or event. Users can also globally update metadata and deliver assets as a predefined location.
Metadata widget the metadata widget is used to store searchable information about your media. Metadata information includes file properties, embedded tags, and custom metadata. Search widget.
The search widget is used to find assets based on metadata, projects, categories, asset type, asset size and more.
Click on one or more filters to filter out the assets you are looking for.
Preview the search results in the browser widget.
Preview widget.
Preview widget is used to view proxies of your media.
Videos can be played at normal Fast forward and rewind speeds.
Users can add subclips, markers and annotations to the manage proxies.
Subclips widget.
The sub clip widget allows users to create a smaller clip from the original video.
Users select the I for N&O for out point in the preview widget. Based on timecode you'll create a reference for the smaller clip.
Users have the option to drop the subclips into a timeline for later editing in Adobe premiere.
Subclips can be named and delivered as a new clip to a specific location or back into the Emam system as a new media asset.
Marker widget.
The marker widget allows users to add markers based on time code with a description.
Information stored in a marker is searchable using the advanced search marker search function.
Project widget.
The project widget is used to collect media and create rough cut sequences for editing in an entirely software application like Adobe Premiere.
Users can add a project, add bins and create sequences.
Using sequences, users can add subclips and full clips per preview and exporting to an NLE application. Emam can also manage projects and versions of projects using the project version widget, timeline, and Timeline Preview widgets.
The timeline and Timeline preview widgets are used to put a rough cut sequence together for preview or to be exported to an Inle software application like Adobe Premiere Pro.
Users can add subclips and full clips to the Timeline review and approve comments widgets. The review and approve widget is used to send notifications via e-mail with a link to the proxy files for others to review.
Internal named users.
And external users to the emmam system will receive an e-mail to review a video, photo, audio file and more.
Users review and add comments and accept or reject the media file.
All comments and responses are received by the requester.
Delivery and Ebbin widgets.
The delivery and Ebbin widgets are used to deliver media via proxy links in an e-mail or delivery media to a specific predefined location.
History widget the history widget is used to view the history of an asset, including what functions have been applied and which users applied it.
Keyframes widget.
The keyframes widget is used to apply a new keyframe to an asset which will be displayed in the browser widget.
File version widget the file version widget is used to add a new version to an asset. Add an additional audio track and subtitles.
Dashboard widget.
Dashboard widget is used to review the status of any asset including injus, delivery, purge and archive.