Vantage Transcoders

You can use Telestream Vantage to transcode supported formats if you have an existing Vantage that the iconik Storage Gateway can utilise.

The files must be stored on a storage which both the iconik Storage Gateway (ISG) and the Vantage server have access.

Parameters

For most of these parameters you should speak to your administrator for Vantage

• Host - The HOST address for Telestream
• Port - The Port used for Vantage.
• Share Name - This is the location where Vantage picks up the files. It must be configured to the same location that the ISG’s Mount point is located.
• Proxy Folder - The folder used for proxy output
• Workflow ID - The ID of the workflow that should be triggered
• Include Patterns - The transcoder will only transcode files which contain the (case-sensitive) pattern from this field. Examples:
  • *exclude* (match file/folder with substring exclude)
  • *.mov (match file/folder that ends on .mov)
  • You can also use regular expressions: re:/^.*\.mov$/ (match file/folder with .mov ending)
• Exclude Patterns - The transcoder will ignore files which contain the (case-sensitive) pattern from this field.

Advanced Information and setup

During submitting a transcode job the ISG sets context variables that can be used as the Path that will be used as the Output Location when Vantage transcodes:

• keyframes_folder, lowres_folder, ppro_folder - preferred locations for outputs.
• proxy_resolution_width, proxy_resolution_height and proxy_bitrate, will be added if appropriate config variables are set in the ISG’s config.ini: proxy-resolution and proxy-bitrate.

To add support for creation of edit proxies for Iconik Panel there should be an output media file nickname with value of PPRO_PROXY in the workflow action that is responsible for creation of the edit proxy.

ISG will use nicknames to retrieve transcode results: lowres - web-proxy, keyframe, keyframe_map are used for keyframes accordingly.

Any other nickname will be used to create a new format associated with the target file asset.

Customization of used nicknames can be made by setting variables in in the ISG’s config.ini:

• vantage-transcode-skip-nicknames
• vantage-transcode-lowres-nicknames
• vantage-transcode-keyframe-nicknames
• vantage-transcode-keyframe-map-nicknames

Multiple nicknames can be used with a semicolon as a separator. Example: vantage-transcode-skip-nicknames = original;skip_media_item_nickname

Nicknames comparison is case-insensitive.

Switch to REST API

In order for ISG to use Vantage REST API enable it in the config.ini by adding a new attribute:

• Default value: false

vantage-rest-api = true

Learn more

• Transcoder Overview
• Adding Transcoder
• Storage Overview
• iconik Storage Gateway