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Worker Node 4.0
Simplify your workflow by automatically triggering actions when a new file appears in specified watch folders, is dragged onto the worker icon, or based on a clip status change:
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- Worker nodes watch directories or job queues looking for "work" to do.
- Supported actions include automatically compressing files, performing scene detection, publishing to the server, moving or renaming the file, or sending an email
- Conditional actions can be trigged by properties such as file type, media format, audio sample rate etc.
- Based on the acclaimed CatDV engine to analyse and process media files
- Multiple worker nodes can work cooperatively, increasing throughput
- Worker node normally runs as a background process but offers a simple user interface to display its current status that can be brought up when required
- Actions may be triggered either by performing a query against the server or by files appearing in a watch folder, for example a user might review a clip and set the status to 'Approved', instructing the worker to copy the file to the playout server while simultaneously rendering a web version of the finished segment
- Available now for Mac OS X and Windows.
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Use the worker node to enforce project best practice, for example automatically placing still images in one folder, video in another, and render audio if it's the wrong sample rate, or as a compression engine to convert files to different resolutions in the background without tying up the user interface.
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- Support for unlimited server query terms
- Improved management of watch definitions, including a new test mode for watch folders and server queries and the ability to solo individual actions
- Support for media path mapping
- Improved handling of jobs submitted via XML batch files
- New options to use time of day timecode, add watermarks, and perform two-pass transcoding to add a second audio track with different settings
- Support for loading user-defined field names from the server
- Ability to specify separate emails for success and failure notifications
- Ability to perform processing on completion of an xml or server triggered batch
- Use regular expression substitution patterns to modify variables
- A major new command line interface to generate reports or perform updates on the database for use within external scripts.
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