MediaHub Reference: Browsing for Archives

Archives Buttons

With No Opened Archive

New Archive button: Creates a new archive in the location displayed in the file browser. Opens the New Archive Creation dialogue box.
View Content button: Displays basic information about the contents of the selected archive, in a web browser. This does not open the archive.
Open Archive button: Opens the selected archive or device.

With an Opened Archive

Close Archive button: Closes the archive and returns to the file browser.
Archive Project button: Adds the current project to the archive; this includes every Workspace of the project, Shared Folders, as well as Batch and Desktop when available; also includes all the setups.
Clear Pending button: Clears the Pending Archive or Pending Restore folders. This does not delete any material in the archive or in the Media panel, it only clears out the queue.
Archive/Restore button: Commits the Pending folders, either to archive or restore material clips. Nothing is archived or restored until you click this button.
The folder Pending Restore displays all that will be restored. The folder Pending Archive displays all that will be archived. Only one operation is permitted at any given time: you either restore or archive, you cannot do both simultaneously.
Archive/Restore Setups button: Click to archive or restore all of the application's modules setups. You must be at the root of the archive to archive setups. You must select a Projects Setup folder to restore setups.

File-based Archive Options

Linked Archive Option box

Select how archive paths are treated when restoring an archive. Use Archived Path is best used when you are restoring the archive on the workstation used to create the archive. Select Convert to Local Path in other cases.

Archive Verification box

Verify Source Media checks the integrity of the source media before adding it to the archive. In case of missing source media, the archive proceeds without the clip. Verify Archived Data checks the integrity of the data as it is being written to the archive: archiving stops as soon as it detects an error.

Verify Source Media validates all the media, which can be time consuming.

Media Options box

Select Cache Source Media to copy the media to the archive, using the Cache and Renders settings defined at the creation of the project; this ensures that your archive is self-contained, but requires the caching of everything that was not cached at import. Select Archive Links Only to only archive paths to the media; this option requires less space, but does not create a self-contained archive.

Cache Source Media: The media is automatically written to the archive and becomes managed. This ensures that material will not be overwritten accidentally in the shared storage when you restore the media. When you restore the media, the clips will reside on the local storage as managed frames.
Archive Links Only: Only the path to the media is archived. You can later restore the clip in the original form as unmanaged media, provided the media resides at the original paths saved with the archive. If the source clip is not found at restore time, it is displayed as a checkerboard pattern image. Archiving files using the linked option significantly reduces the amount of space required for your archived clips. It also alleviates bandwidth when archiving to a VTR. Using Archive Links Only, you can archive both video and audio files.

Default Resolutions button

Legacy option. Opens the Default Resolutions List menu, used by the application to restore legacy archives from Smoke 6.0 and Flame 8.5.

These versions did not store resolutions and associated pixel aspect ratios, and the Default Resolutions table fills that gap.

VTR Device Options

Auto/Manual Start box: Select Auto Start to have the application rewind the tape and then go forward to try and discover the location of an archive. Select Manual to enter the start timecode and get to the archive faster.
Timecode field: Displays the start timecode. Editable.
Rewind On Close button: Rewinds the tape after when the archive is closed.
Open Mode box: Select whether to open in read only mode or in read/write mode.
Engineering button: Opens the VTR engineering menu.

New Archive Creation Options

Limit File Size button: Disable to create an open-ended, one-segment archive file. Enable to partition the archive into manageable segments of the size specified by the Segment Size box. If the archive ends up being larger than what you entered in the Segment Size field, its content is split across multiple archive segments.
Segment Size box: Select a pre-defined segment size, or define a custom one. Make sure to use a segment size small enough to fit in the specified destination. Enabled when Limit File Size button is enabled.