Welcome to Portal’s User’s documentation

Within this guide you should find an overview of how to use a Portal system.

Portal has been developed to be customized, so you may have more or less options than those included in this guide. The look of Portal can also be changed from site to site, and this is not covered in this documentation.

• Welcome to Portal
  • Flexible access rights
  • Additional functionality
  • Web based
  • Recommended environment
• Logging in and out of Portal
  • Login
  • Logout
• Settings
  • Metadata Settings
  • User jobs
• Dashboard
  • Widgets
• Searching
  • Freetext Search
  • Criteria Search
  • Search results pods
  • Search results filters
  • No results
  • Differing results
• Last 10
• Saved Search
• Collections
  • Add to collection
  • Searching and browsing all your collections
    • Collection Pod
  • Viewing a collection
    • Actions on collection items
    • Standard actions
  • Exporting items
  • Change Access Rights
    • Adding
    • Removing
  • Adding Sub Collections
  • Collection Metadata
• Media Items and SubClips
  • Placeholders
  • Previews
  • Metadata
  • Formats
  • Thumbnails
  • Posters
  • Transcoding
  • Exporting
  • Access Control Lists
  • Versions
  • Delete
  • History
  • Subtitles
  • Multiple video tracks
  • Return to placeholder
  • Comments
  • Related
  • Sharing
• Media Bin
• Metadata
  • Metadata Groups
  • Applying metadata
  • Editing metadata
  • Batch editing metadata
    • Batch metadata updates and subgroups
  • Metadata fields
  • Metadata subgroups
  • Metadata elements
  • Conditional metadata
    • Mystic River
    • The Bridges of Madison County
• Creating and ingesting items
  • Creating placeholders
  • Importing from storage
    • Sidecar files
  • Uploading items.
• Archive handling in Portal
  • Archive
  • Restore
  • Delete from Archive
  • Purge from Online
• Apps
  • Annotation Tool
    • Introduction
    • Features
    • Requirements
      • Light usage
      • Heavy usage
    • Notes
      • Browser support
      • Preview files
      • Audio annotations
      • Zero-length annotations
      • Sortable fields
    • Using the Annotation Tool
      • Starting the annotation tool
      • Annotation tool overview
      • Video player
      • Annotation list
      • Annotation entry in list view
      • Timeline view
      • Annotation entry in Timeline
      • Adding annotations
      • Editing annotations
      • Removing annotations
      • Growing annotations in Timeline
    • Keybindings
  • Rough Cut Editor
    • Requirements
      • Light Usage
      • Heavy Usage
    • Notes
      • Browser Support
    • Using the Rough Cut Editor
      • Starting the Rough Cut Editor
      • Rough Cut Editor Overview
      • Source Panel
      • Viewer Player
      • Canvas Player
      • Timeline
      • Sequence Panel
    • Typical Workflows
    • Searching For Material
    • Defining Edits and Adding to Timeline
    • Manipulation of Edits in the Timeline
    • Playing Back a Sequence
    • Saving a Sequence
    • Keybindings
  • NLE in general
    • Premiere Pro CC Integration
      • Introduction
      • Installation
        • Prerequisites
      • Requirements
      • Notes
        • Known issues
        • Preview pods
      • Using the Premiere Pro CC Panel.
        • Opening the panel
        • Settings
        • Searching
        • MediaBin viewing and importing
        • Sequence and exporting
        • Exporting using the Cantemo Agent on OSX
        • Opening from the web interface
        • Media Tracking
        • Project Export
    • Apple Final Cut Pro X Integration
      • Requirements
      • Importing media into Final Cut Pro X
      • Transfering metadata to Final Cut Pro X
      • Exporting media back into Portal
        • Direct export
        • Watchfolder export
      • Working with libraries
        • Export Libraries
        • Import library
      • Offline workflow
        • Reconnect items
    • Avid Media Composer Integration
      • Opening Items in Media Composer
        • The Pod Menu
        • The Gear Box Menu
        • Collections
        • The MediaBin
      • Working with AMA Link
        • AMA Link Directories
        • Dynamic Media Folders
        • Enabling Background Services
        • Defining a Dynamic Media Folder
        • Acquiring Clips with DMFs
        • Exporting Media to Portal
        • Creating a Watch Folder
        • Exporting to Portal
    • Check-In / Check-Out
      • Break lock
      • Search for checked out projects
  • Premiere Pro CC Integration
    • Introduction
    • Installation
      • Prerequisites
    • Requirements
    • Notes
      • Known issues
      • Preview pods
    • Using the Premiere Pro CC Panel.
      • Opening the panel
      • Settings
      • Searching
      • MediaBin viewing and importing
      • Sequence and exporting
      • Exporting using the Cantemo Agent on OSX
      • Opening from the web interface
      • Media Tracking
      • Project Export
  • Apple Final Cut Pro X Integration
    • Requirements
    • Importing media into Final Cut Pro X
    • Transfering metadata to Final Cut Pro X
    • Exporting media back into Portal
      • Direct export
      • Watchfolder export
    • Working with libraries
      • Export Libraries
      • Import library
    • Offline workflow
      • Reconnect items
  • Cantemo Agent
    • Uploading files through Cantemo Agent
    • Configuration