eMAM 5.3 version What''s New

eMAM Version 5.3 New Features & Enhancements

EMAM is committed to improve our product be adding new features and enhancements to be in line with the latest
market trends. This document mainly explores the additional new features and enhancements added in the eMAM
5.3 version (from 5.3.1_18NOV2021 till 5.3.12_18NOV2022).
Read on for a quick introduction to these features at various interface levels:

New Features and Enhancements

A

eMAM Director

1

Included "User" (user performing the action) column in Asset state report in the Admin Tools page.

2

 Introduced "View history" option for assets in admin tools reports.

3

Now export all the asset data (all pages) as csv.

4

Included “UUID” in eMAM Dashboard for Ingest, Archive, Cloud and Delivery.

5

Renamed "Asset Metrics" label to "Asset Metrics (Beta)" in Director Admin tools.

6

Introduced Refresh button for Metadata, Comments, Subclips, Markers, History, File Version, Keyframes, Insights, Transcript widgets.

8

Introduced common update “Save Metadata” button for metadata (Info & Custom Metadata groups) update.

9

Option to filter assets based on Asset Metadata Set.

10

In eShare, "Enable login" checkbox is now disabled by default.

11

Introduced a popup window to display the list of unsaved metadata fields in the Metadata widget on refresh.

12

Introduced “Capella Cambria FTC” as a new transcoder. Cambria FTC imports and exports widely used professional video formats, including H.264, HEVC, HDR and Sony XDCAM.

13

Users now have option to “Remove existing category associations” with the category permission.

14

For Classic eShare links, renamed existing “Download all” to “Download using DeskLink” and introduced “Web Download” feature. Click on Web Download will download all the assets to the Download folder.

15

Add Today(), Today(+n), Today(-n) as options in Date pop-up controls in Advanced search Manage filter.

17

Option to upload the user profile photo

18

User profile pic is now displayed in the Comments widget.

19

User pic now displayed for markers under Markers widget.

20

For instant assets, the asset ingest status gets displayed on asset thumbnail itself.

21

Introduced an option ‘’Update Asset Status” to change the dashboard status.

22

Total number of assets under each category and subcategories are displayed in the Category Search Filter

23

Introduced a clear option for the search results after search using filter in the Project widget

24

Included “User Performing the action” as column in the asset details exported from the Asset State report.

B

eMAM Panels

1

eMAM panels for Adobe applications ae now compatible with Adobe 2022 applications.

2

In Premiere & After Effects, users now have option to reset the frame rate of individual files in the project they are work on, and Premiere & AE will retain this information the next time the project is opened.

a

Premiere Panel

1

Changes in Premiere panel to configure the number of import threads (localization thread) in the Settings window.

2

Display Last name along with first name in Premiere Panel check-out status.

3

After a Force check in, import will display version note with Force Check-In notes.

4

Introduced separate log file for Signiant uploads and download to track errors.

5

Link & export workflow: On export, instead of ingesting a duplicate new file from local as a new asset to the eMAM system, users now have option to link to the existing file in the same category in eMAM.

6

Option to delete the localized assets after export.

7

eMAM Premiere panel is now compatible with Adobe 2023 updates

8

Added option to relink .mogrt (.aegraphics) files.

9

Premiere panel will now use the SAS URL to import assets from Azure BLOB storage.

10

Suppressed the offline file warning message when there is no aegraphics files.

b

After Effects Panel

1

Changes in Default Panel Settings window:

1.1

Provision to add bin structure as categories in eMAM under the selected category on AEFT export.

1.2

Changes in AEFT panel to configure the number of import threads (localization thread).

2

After a Force check in, import will display version note with Force Check-In notes.

3

Display Last name along with First name for check-out status.

4

Introduced separate log file for Signiant uploads and download to track errors.

5

Link & export workflow: On export, instead of ingesting a duplicate new file from local as a new asset to the eMAM system, users now have option to link to the existing file in the same category in eMAM.

6

Option to delete the localized assets after export.

7

Different types of projects(Premiere & After Effects) displayed different icons under the Assets tab.

8

Introduced Advanced Search option

9

eMAM AEFT panel is now compatible with Adobe 2023 updates.

C

Super Admin

1

Rename "InstantAssetIngest" label to "InstantAssetIngest (Beta)" in Super Admin.

2

Introduced “Capella Cambria FTC” as a new transcoder for ingest and delivery.

3

Added Today(), Today (+n), Today (-n) as options in Date pop-up controls in the Workflow conditions.

4

New archive storages classes added for S3 Archive:

4.1

·         Amazon S3 Standard (S3 Standard):

4.2

·         Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval

4.3

·         Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

4.4

·         Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

5

Relabeled Glacier to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval.

6

Added Duration, Clip In, Clip Out variables in seconds in the Delivery sidecar XML.

7

Upgraded eMAM Super Admin to .net 4.0 framework.

8

Generate signed URL in workflow AI Indexing action module.

D

 App Manager

1

App Manager now gives you option to download Media Reactor plugin & DeskLink setup

E

Other Changes

1

Changes in InDesign panel to upload to S3 using S3 nodejs api without SigCLI.

2

Changes in Super Admin to enable eMAM Default proxy for premiere editing.

3

Disabled right click download option “Save video as” for eShare preview player.

4

Included Schedule Metadata field under "Change Metadata" Action dropdown.

5

Included all the File properties variables under Workflow conditions.

6

Generate signed URL in workflow Notify action module (if proxy/original exists in cloud) for variables OriginalCloudVirtualPath, ProxyCloudVirtualPath, CurrentOriginalVirtualPath, CurrentProxyVirtualPath.

7

Changes in Ingest manager to purge the completed Net x jobs.

8

Changes in REST API to include category metadata and usergroup in POST api/v1/Categories end point.

9

Changes in Director show the thumbnails from the pre-signed URL for the S3 / Azure / Google / Others assets.

10

Implemented Pre-Signed URL for the other type assets.

11

Implemented ingest profile excluded value and excluded pattern configuration validation in the Upload Manager.


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