Vantage Integration

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Table of Contents
Vantage Integration ................................................................................................................. 3

Purpose of Vantage .................................................................................................................. 3

eMAM Workflow Management ..................................................................................................... 3

Importing Workflow to Vantage ............................................................................. 4

Accessing the Workflow ID ................................................................................... 4

Activating the workflow ...................................................................................... 5

Adding authorization for network paths ................................................................... 5

Creating new Workflows ........................................................................................................... 7

Ingest workflow: ............................................................................................... 7

Delivery workflow: ............................................................................................ 8

Super Admin Configuration ........................................................................................................ 8

✓ Ingest profile configuration ........................................................................ 8

✓ Delivery profile configuration ................................................................... 10

✓ Passing variable values ........................................................................... 11

Submitting ingest job using eMAM Feeder .................................................................................... 11

Submitting delivery jobs from director ........................................................................................ 13

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 Vantage Integration
Vantage is an offering from Telestream and is a scalable and intelligent workflow animation for the
file-based content production and multi-channel distribution. eMAM and Vantage together bring
transcoding, media capture, metadata processing, and analysis into a single, unified system with the
ability to automate complex decision making and workflow decisions. The collaborative product allows
users to design fully automated, self-adapting video workflows with easy-to-use tools for any video
environment. The intelligent workflows automatically make decisions, manage content and correct
workflows based upon incoming metadata and content properties. eMAM and Vantage together offer
recognized speed, excellent quality, intelligent decision making and hands-free automated workflow.

eMAM integrated with Vantage through Web services API. eMAM has developed a wrapper web service
to communicate with the vantage SDK. This web service will be hosted in the same server in which
eMAM ingest manager is running. All the applications can use this web service method to trigger the
jobs in vantage and get the job status back.

Purpose of Vantage
• Vantage users can create their own workflow & use that in eMAM. Vantage is already integrated
with QC & other delivery vendors hence users can configure them in their workflows and can
easily use it in eMAM.
• Vantage notification – Users also have option to configure email notifications in their workflows.
• Vantage includes native support for content ingest, analysis, file format conversion, and
transcoding etc.
• Vantage allows you create adaptive workflows & can detect and recover errors in video files.

eMAM Workflow Management

After installing Vantage, import the workflows needed for eMAM transcode manager as well as eMAM
Delivery manager.

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Importing Workflow to Vantage

Users can import a workflow to Vantage

from the Vantage workflow designer.

Browse the xml file for the workflow after

selecting File → Import Workflows. Do this
for both the workflows (eMAM Delivery
Workflow and eMAM Ingest Workflow)

Accessing the Workflow ID

Workflow id’s created in Vantage is used in ingest profile and delivery profiles in Super Admin Console.
To get workflow ID details, right click on a workflow - click on Details Panel. A pop up window will
open up with all details of that workflow including ID.

Viewing Details panel & Workflow ID

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Activating the workflow

After the workflow is successfully imported, activate it by clicking “Activate”. Once the workflow is

active, the icon will be changed to this icon. This will release the workflow from editing, save
it, and activate it to start the watch action.

Activating workflow screen

Adding authorization for network paths

Add entries for the network paths that will be used in the workflows. This can be done from the
Vantage management console. Select Settings & Options then select Authorization tab.

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 Adding Authorization

Add new credentials by clicking on the icon in the authorization tab.

Authorization tab screen

Adding new Credentials

After adding credentials, ensure that it is correct by clicking on Test button.

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Creating new Workflows
Users can create their own workflows with Vantage workflow designer for Ingest & Delivery. The
Workflow Design tab which is a design space can be used to create and update your workflows. As you
design (or modify) a workflow, all of the changes you make to the workflow are automatically stored in
the Vantage database. Once you've designed a workflow, you can activate it - starting its monitor task.
When a monitor identifies a new file, it starts a job, to process the file using the workflow monitoring
the hot folder where the new file is located. You use the Job Status tab to view all of the running jobs
for the currently selected workflow. You can view the task-by-task details of jobs, and watch them
execute. Further, both the Monitor and Job status tabs allow you to see a history of previous jobs and
monitor sessions.

Ingest workflow:

Users can design their own Ingest workflow in Vantage interface & the workflow Id created can be used
while creating Ingest profiles in Super Admin console.

Workflow Designer window

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Delivery workflow:

Similarly, users can also create Delivery workflows & workflow id created can be used while creating
Delivery Profile in Super Admin console.

Workflow Designer window

Super Admin Configuration

✓ Ingest profile configuration

Users can create new Ingest profile in Super Admin console using Workflow ID created in Vantage
interface.

o Manage Transcode Servers

• Transcode Server Name : Input the server name where Vantage is installed
• Transcode Server IP/Host Name : IP of the vantage server
• Transcoder Type: There is a drop down list to select various Transcoder types
For Transcoder Type Vantage, define the following:
Webservice Url : http://localhost/eMAMVantageService
(This is the base address of eMAM Vantage Service in Ingest Manager's config file. It will
be used by Delivery Service for Vantage Delivery. Replace local host with machine IP of
the server in which ingest manager is running if needed)

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 Default Parameters
Workflow ID: ID of the Vantage workflow to be used by the Ingest Manager

Screen for Telestream Vantage transcoder type

Define Variables: Users can add custom variables in the workflow using icon. System
variables are reserved for eMAM services. Its values will be provided by eMAM so users
cannot add or edit those variables.
o Variable Name- -Name of the Vantage Variable used in the workflow
o Type- Data type of the variable Int, string etc
o Value- Value for the variable
o Control- It can be one of the following
▪ Super Admin- Only Super admin can modify the values of these variables.
They won't be available for editing in Feeder.
▪ Unit Admin- Super Admin or Unit Admin can modify these variables. They will
be available in Feeder for editing only if the logged in user is a Unit Admin
▪ Unit User- Super admin/unit admin/ unit user can modify these variables.
They will be available for editing in Feeder.

In eMAM Ingest profiles there are two variable options:

1. System variables - These are system defined variables that a user cannot change the
value. This has already defined the basic eMAM workflow.
2. User defined variables - In addition to the basic workflow, the users can add their
own actions to modify the workflow. Also they can pass data from outside into the
workflow eg. Custom metadata values or other custom values. This can be achieved by
defining variables in the workflow and in eMAM ingest profiles. Once these variables are
defined in the ingest profile, eMAM Ingest manager will submit the job with these
variables to the vantage transcoder engine.

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 ✓ Delivery profile configuration
Users can create a new Vantage delivery profile in eMAM Super Admin Console using Workflow ID
created in Vantage interface

o Manage Transcode Servers

Transcode Server Name- Name of the server where vantage is installed
Transcoder Server IP/Host Name- IP of the server where vantage is installed
Transcoder Type: For Vantage Transcoder Type, Define Default Parameters.

▪ WorkFlow ID- ID of the Vantage workflow to be used by Delivery Service

▪ Define Variables: Users can add custom variables in the workflow using icon.
▪ Variable Name-Name of the Vantage Variable used in the workflow
▪ Type- Data type of the variable eg: Int, string etc
▪ Value -Value for the variable
▪ Control-It can be one of the following
o System: System variables are reserved for eMAM services so users cannot add
or edit those variables.
o Super Admin- Only Super admin can modify the values of these variables.
They won't be available for editing in Delivery Widget.
o Unit Admin- Super Admin or Unit Admin can modify these variables. They will
be available in Delivery widget for editing only if the logged in user is a Unit
Admin
o Unit User- Super admin/unit admin/ unit user can modify these variables.
They will be available for editing in Delivery widget.

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 ✓ Passing variable values

Vantage users have option to interchange variable/values from eMAM to Vantage. Users can define
variables, add values & set up controls for different type of users in Super Admin. In order to pass a
value a variable created in eMAM, user need to create a variable with same name (case sensitive)
in eMAM Ingest profile/eMAM Delivery profile.

Custom variable configuration in super admin for vantage transcoding

Submitting ingest job using eMAM Feeder

While ingesting files using eMAM Feeder, when a user selects eMAM Transcoder Manager as transcoder
and Vantage profile as ingest profile, Custom variables button will become visible in the metadata
window.

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 Ingest through eMAM Feeder using Vantage Ingest Profile

When user clicks on Custom Variables button, a new popup window will appear to modify the Vantage
transcoder’s variables.

Custom variables window

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Submitting delivery jobs from director
In Director Interface, assets dragged and dropped into the Delivery widget can be added to the
Delivery Queue to send to the next station or user in the workflow, or for final sequencing and delivery
to client. Users can click Deliver from the widget’s pull down menu to send assets to Vantage delivery
profile (already configured in Super Admin). A pop up screen with list of all delivery profiles will show
up. Vantage delivery or Vantage transcoding delivery when selected will have option to Edit variable
values in another small pop up window. Assets sent to Delivery Queue can be monitored in Dashboard
widget.

Selecting Vantage Delivery Profile & Editing Variable values screen

If you are facing any trouble performing the above steps, please contact your immediate
contact/ eMAM Technical Support:
support@emamonline.com

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