As of Cantemo Portal 2.2, we can now create hierarchical metadata fields in the system. Obviously when we have large data sets, this may be uncomfortable to do by hand. Luckily, there is a REST API that allows us to create, delete, and update metadata hierarchies. To get IDs on fields we know are hierarchy … Continue reading “Creating and modifying hierarchical metadata programmatically with Cantemo Portal”
I get asked all the time how the Archiware P5 CLI works. It is actually a fairly intuitive CLI, the docs can be found at Archiware’s knowledgebase here. Below is a heavily commented python script for doing some of the basics with P5 archive via the CLI. This code should work with Python 2.6 and … Continue reading “Using Python to talk to Archiware P5’s CLI API”
Often times you will want to use third party tools to create files and related items in Portal rather than uploading, importing from storage, or using an auto-import folder. Here is the process I took which worked in registering both a new element available in a storage as well as adding different shapes to it. … Continue reading “Importing placeholders, items, and files into Cantemo Portal”
Often times I see customers of Archiware P5 that are using the internal Quicktime preview generator in the hope that it will work well for their proxies. Unfortunately, when working in short form production video, the preview created by this system often times is actually the same size as the source file. The way Archiware’s … Continue reading “Scripting re-encode of Archiware P5 previews”
Recently I had a project that required remote systems to create calendar events for ToolsOnAir’s Just:In ingest product. While Just:In supports scheduled record, it is based on the Apple Calendar for scheduling events. The bad news here is that Apple Calendar local calendars don’t have any method for remote access/sharing. The good news is that … Continue reading “REST API for ToolsOnAir Just:In Engine Calendar”