Metus MAM has a skillful viewer application in itself. When you double click on an asset, it opens with the viewer
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File Menu
ASSET
You can save your modifications done in the viewer (mark, master in-outs, metadata changes, custom in-out points etc) with Save Changes Now
With Save and Continue, a pop-up window will come up. You will enter a name, and MAM will save the modified asset as a new one with the entered name
NOTE The presettings for Save and Continue command is under Settings / Save and Continue Options
Reload is related with play growing files feature in MAM, whenever clicked the viewer will update the file to the point where ingested at that particular time. Please see #play growing files in MAM
You can save a particular frame from the video as an image (in many different formats) to your local disc, or an asset in the system
TRANSCODE, CREATE PROXY, ARCHIVE, RETRIEVE commands are the same with the Asset Right Click Menu. Please see #
With Save As, you have detailed options to save your modified asset. You will enter the new name, choose the bin to save to with options of reloading the original asset after save and trim mark in-out points (also, you have the Only File option in library projects which allows you to have a new file in your disc, but not a new asset in the project.
Save as in archive project- viewer
Save as in library project- viewer
VIEW
View menu is where you can customize your Asset Viewer's appearance and select the panels to be shown.
PLAYBACK
Play, Pause, Stop, To Start, To End, Next Frame, Previous Frame, Next Clip and Previous Clip is the traditional VTR control commands which also can be found as buttons bottom panel of the Viewer.
You can configure the Viewer to start playing the asset automatically with Auto Start
Loop button can also be found at the bottom panel
You can set the Viewer to play between In-Out points, only between Custom In-Out points , and play excluding Custom In-Out points from Playback Range
Playback Rate is where you can set your playback speed (left panel)
Offset is where you can jump to particular offset points in the timeline
Audio settings can also be found in the right bottom panel of the Viewer
TIMELINE
This menu is the same with the right click menu in the timeline. Please see # for more information
SETTINGS
Both Use Proxy and Use Original File if Proxy is not Present options are checked by default in Metus MAM. The Viewer will play the proxy if present and hi-res version if there is no proxy for that asset.
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You can overlay any metadata field in Viewer preview. With Configure Metadata Overlay, you can set which fields to be shown, where on the picture, and font size,type and color.
NOTE Show Overlay Metadata must be active from the View menu, for the metadata overlay to be visible.
You can enable Auto Save and set a time interval in seconds for save period
You can save the options that are changed for the Viewer as a Profile, or reset to default settings.
Top Panel
You can see Mini-Browser where you can toggle between your recent viewed assets,
You can see the info box at right, where some basic info about the asset is summarized. (you can click on the box to change the shown info)
Right Panel
In the right panel, you have Use Proxy button. You can change between proxy (if there is one available for the particular asset) and hi-res version of the video asset with this button.
You can change the thumbnail for the asset with Create Thumbnail from current frame. You can also add frames to the storyboard of the asset with Add SB button. This button will be inactive if the asset has no storyboard.
You can change the aspect ratio for the image or add a letter box from the drop-down menu
You can zoom in and out the image in the viewer screen from the drop-down menu
With the lock button - bottom of the right panel, you can lock the Viewer against changes
You see the audio controls at right-bottom corner, where you can change audio volume, mute and set left-right balance for the asset