After a job completes, the Project Browser is updated with information about the files that have been copied and verified.
However you can also index LTFS tapes and add them to the database without copying them.
Once indexed you can export a report using the Project Browser.
Put the tape into the drive, or into an empty slot in a tape library.
Click the + button, select the tape and click Add Selected.
Click the folder button above the Job table to open the Source Browser.
The tape will be automatically loaded, mounted and indexed. The current Collection and Project are show in the top left, click here to open the Collection + Project panel.
YoYotta embeds source clip metadata like codec and timecode when archiving to tape. To read this from the tape during indexing turn on Extract Metadata in Preferences. Then check in the Source Browser to see the clip metadata.
After turning this on refresh the job to re-index and read the tape metadata.
Before writing a tape you can check in the Source Browser to see that the source material has metadata. YoYotta will then embed this metadata onto the tape.
Here the tape was created without embedded metadata. Maybe a third party LTFS app wrote the tape. When indexing YoYotta will not extract new clip metadata from tapes like this as this would be a very slow process.
Note that metadata isn't needed for restoring either manually or using the Conform option.
It is possible to read full metadata by selecting some folders and clicking the Extract metadata button. It is the same with Thumbnails, when indexing these will not be created for tape sources. If required select a folder and click Extract Metadata and Create Thumbnails. Note that extracting metadata and creating thumbnails will take a very long time for the whole tape so best to target specific folders.
If detailed metadata is required for a tape that was archived by third party app, then we suggest restoring the tape. Then you can index and create thumbnails for the restored folder.
Indexes are stored inside Projects. Projects are grouped together in Collections. Select a Collection, then select and open an existing project.
Projects are grouped inside Collections.
Select an existing Collection or create a new Collection by clicking + below the Collection table and entering a Collection name.
Collections names could be clients, years, type of work or you can just have one collection for all projects.
Select a Collection and then click + below the Project table to create a new Project.
Enter the new project name. If working with camera footage select the usual frame rate and click OK. The frame rate is used to display project timecode durations, but it's not critical to set this.
Click the book icon at the bottom of the main panel to open the Project Browser. Select one or more tape snapshots in the Browser and then export an ALE, CSV, MD5, MHL or PDF report for all assets.
In the Source Browser it is possible to write a report at the top level of a drive or tape or inside one or more folders.
Load a tape into a tape drive or library, or select a drive and add it as a job. Open the Source Browser.
This will automatically mount and index the tape.
Select the first folder in the Browser, open Folder Actions and click Create MHL or Create MD5.
YoYotta will create a report inside the selected folder, in this example the top level of the tape.
Note that multiple subfolders can be selected, in which case a separate metadata report will be created inside each folder.
When complete click the refresh button above the job table and YoYotta will re-index the job and the Browser will show the new metadata files. Here the tape is ID2015 so the checksum file is called ID2015.md5.
If some files do not have checksums (maybe the tape was created without using YoYotta) then a warning message will be shown and the report will not be generated.
To generate the missing checksums select MD5 + xxHash : Quick Verify and click Verify Job.
YoYotta will create any missing checksums, when complete click the Create button again.
If ASC MHL reports are required then make sure ASC MHL is enabled in Preferences. The reports will then be written inside an ascmhl folder.
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