Before you start offloading, backing up, transferring, or transcoding media with Limecraft Edge, it’s essential to properly configure your project settings. These settings are managed in your Limecraft Workspace to ensure consistency across your team.
Note: You need Workspace Admin permissions to view or adjust these settings.
1. Edge Metadata Settings
These settings define the path structure used in:
Edge Library
Limecraft Workspace Library
Offload disk
Take time to set up a structure that supports efficiency and scalability.
Pro Tip:
Create and use custom metadata fields, including multi-valued fields with smart suggestions to maintain consistency.
You can also configure categories in your Limecraft Library settings. These categories can be applied when transferring media to the Workspace, ensuring that files are automatically organised under the correct predefined category.
The clip name prefix used in the Workspace Library will automatically display the episode, scene, shot, and take as a prefix. This setting can be deselected in the Library Settings if preferred.
Example of setting up the metadata and Library settings for the project.
Filling up the metadata details in the Edge application.
Example of the same metadata used for structuring media on Limecraft Workspace.
Read more about this topic in our advanced article on offload path configuration.
2. Edge Project Settings
Review the Audio Metadata Processing settings in the Edge Project settings to ensure Edge can correctly interpret scene metadata from your audio recorder files.
This metadata is automatically used to populate the Episode, Scene, and Shot fields for both the audio files and the synced video clips, helping to maintain accurate and consistent project organisation.
Maintaining a consistent pattern when setting metadata on the audio recorder is essential for ensuring that Edge can correctly recognize and interpret the metadata.
3. Media Encoding
Review the available transcoding profiles in your project settings. You can add new profiles or adapt existing ones to match your workflow requirements.
Note: These are advanced settings. If you're unsure, don’t hesitate to contact the Limecraft team for support.
4. Edge Ingest
Configure your ingest settings to ensure a smooth and consistent workflow across your team:
Enable or disable Transcode Profiles for use in Edge. This helps maintain uniform processing, especially in distributed teams.
Create Destination Templates to streamline the process of transferring and transcoding media. Once created, these templates become instantly available on the ingest page in Edge.
If you're setting up a Destination Template for shared storage, first create a placeholder and map it correctly in the Edge Settings of your desktop application.
Now only the transcode profiles defined in these settings are available when working in the project in Edge. The Destination Templates are automatically shown to speed up the process.
5. Look-Up Tables (LUTs)
You can import LUT (Look-Up Table) files and assign them to specific codecs and output formats. This ensures your media is processed with the correct color transformations throughout the workflow.
Don't forget: To apply these settings in your Edge desktop application, go to Edge Settings and click ‘Pull Settings’. If that doesn't work, you might need to shut down and restart your Edge application.
