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Archiving Options - GENERAL
Storyboard
If you are archiving from a library project (some of your assets may already have a storyboard created by MAM) you can import the storyboards as well. For the others, you can set MAM to automatically create storyboards. For more information on storyboards, please see Storyboard Options
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Create Index will create indexes for archived assets, for frame matching. Please see Image Matching for more detail .
Archiving Options - TRANSCODE
You can transcode all your assets to be archived into one single video profile for future purposes. As Metus MAM has a powerful transcoding engine in itself, the process will be done seamlessly while archiving. You can set transcode profiles for Image , Sequence , Video and Audio files. Also you can set overlay presets for transcoding assets ,first you need to create Overlay Presets . Please see Overlay Presets for detailed information.
If you need your assets to be transcoded to more than one video profile, you can use Batch Transcode feature. Please see Batch Transcode for more detail.
Archiving Options - METADATA
You have the option to also save file based metadata types to save into MAM database. These are grouped as Video, Audio, EXIF, IPTC, MP3 and Summary. You can see which fields are listed for each group by clicking on 
at right.
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You can import metadata information from files automatically, while importing them to MAM database.
Normally these files are located in the same folder with the source files, but also any file located in a different folder than source file's folder can be parsed and added as metadata of an asset while it is being created.
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