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This month we’re highlighting some of our team’s favorite features — some you may know about, and some you may not! These are different aspects of axle ai with one thing in common: they all make it easier for you and your team to work with video, audio and graphics, whether you’re in the office or working remotely.
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This week, let’s talk about using wildcard searches…

axle ai makes it radically simple… to find metadata

Axle’s metadata fields and advanced search panel help users create nearly endless search parameters for their media. Sometimes, however, it’s helpful to search for something as simple as whether a chosen field has data or does not. This is where wildcard searches come in handy – by using an asterisk in place of data in the advanced search panel, users can easily find media files where a chosen metadata field is either populated, or empty.

For March, we’re highlighting some of our team’s favorite features — some you may know about, and some you may not! These are different aspects of axle ai with one thing in common: they all make it easier for you and your team to work with video, audio and graphics, whether you’re in the office or working remotely.
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This week, let’s look at two ways to track activity in axle…

axle ai makes it radically simple… to monitor activity in your axle database

When working with media in axle, it can be helpful to know what’s going on behind the scenes. The main axle interface features a collapsible status panel, found in the bottom right of the axle window. This panel gives users insight into back end processes like file transcoding, archive status, uploads and proxy creation. Standard users can use this tool to monitor current processes and keep aware of any errors.

There’s another layer of monitoring available to system administrators: the Logs Section of the Administrator Pages provides a detailed activity history, helping admins track user activity in the axle system.

For March, we’re highlighting some of our team’s favorite features — some you may know about, and some you may not! These are different aspects of axle ai with one thing in common: they all make it easier for you and your team to work with video, audio and graphics, whether you’re in the office or working remotely.
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This week, let’s look at customizing your metadata sort order…

axle ai makes it radically simple… to prioritize your metadata

axle’s custom metadata helps users create search parameters customized to their own media and workflows. Whether they have four or forty custom metadata fields, many users find it helpful to be able to create a sort order for metadata fields, so that certain fields appear first when viewing folders or preview files. This can be helpful for browsing and editing metadata. Admin users can customize the metadata sort order for each catalog in the administrator pages. The metadata sort feature uses a simple numeric ranking system to determine exactly how users would like their metadata to appear.

For March, we’re highlighting some of our team’s favorite features — some you may know about, and some you may not! These are different aspects of axle ai with one thing in common: they all make it easier for you and your team to work with video, audio and graphics, whether you’re in the office or working remotely.
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This week, let’s look at adding new media to your library…

axle ai makes it radically simple… to add media to your axle database

axle helps users add media in multiple locations to their axle database as catalogs. Users with access to the axle server can easily add catalogs to their library in the administrator pages. In Safari on Mac, users can drag and drop files paths (or manually enter the file path through other web browsers) for locally connected storage hardware. Going forward, axle will monitor that location, automatically picking up any new media added to selected folders on the storage. Users can name and set permissions for their catalogs and even subfolders within a catalog, determining which users can view, comment or add metadata.

To learn more about this and other features, join us each Friday in March at 1PM EST for a live product training session with a member of our team! Register at https://axle.ai/events/

For February, we’re highlighting some of our team’s favorite features — some you may know about, and some you may not! These are different aspects of axle ai with one thing in common: they all make it easier for you and your team to work with video, audio and graphics, whether you’re in the office or working remotely.
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This week, let’s talk about proxy files…

axle ai makes it radically simple… to work with proxies

One of the first things axle ai does as it catalogs your new media is create low-resolution proxies for fast viewing and sharing- these proxies are the preview files you see in the axle interface. By default, axle produces two proxies at a time; more powerful axle servers can be set to process more concurrent proxies. Occasionally a proxy will need to be regenerated, usually to make adjustments to the existing proxy. Users can select the check box below the chosen proxy, and select Regenerate Proxy in the Action Menu at the top right of the axle interface. Additionally, when a user is adding a large amount of content, they can prioritize certain proxies by selecting the in-progress file (or files) in axle and choosing Regenerate Proxy. This action bumps those files to the top of the queue.

For February, we’re highlighting some of our team’s favorite features — some you may know about, and some you may not! These are different aspects of axle ai with one thing in common: they all make it easier for you and your team to work with video, audio and graphics, whether you’re in the office or working remotely.
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This week, let’s talk about some of the AI tagging tools in axle…

axle ai makes it radically simple… to use AI tools to tag your media

As our name implies, axle ai gives users access to a variety of AI-powered tools to quickly enable you to search your media library for faces, objects, transcript or text on screen. For faces, our AI processor can recognize many famous faces and be trained to recognize the faces of your staff, players, faculty, or anyone you choose. Object recognition, called annotations in axle, can return a large yield of results that can be searched through within individual clips. Transcription and text recognition are both editable, helping you customize metadata and ensure quick and accurate search results.

This month, we’re highlighting some of our team’s favorite features — some you may know about, and some you may not! These are different aspects of axle ai with one thing in common: they all make it easier for you and your team to work with video, audio and graphics, whether you’re in the office or working remotely.
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This week, let’s look at how axle integrates with one of our archive partners…

axle ai makes it radically simple… to archive with XenData

Axle’s integration with XenData’s archive appliances provides for a straight forward way to back up content, either to single or multiple LTO tapes or to the cloud. The easy axle interface allows users to quickly search for and identify files to be sent to archive, with a clear indication in the axle interface of the archive status of the files. Once archived, XenData passes the LTO tape details via a metadata field, making it simple to search for archived content in axle.

It’s a new year and we have even more features to share with you in 2021! This month, we’re highlighting some of our team’s favorite features — some you may know about, and some you may not! These are different aspects of axle ai with one thing in common: they all make it easier for you and your team to work with video, audio and graphics, whether you’re in the office or working remotely.
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This week, let’s talk about archive icons in the axle interface…

axle ai makes it radically simple… to see your media’s archive status

axle’s interface has a simple visual indicator to show the archive status of a file, in the form of triangles with the thumbnail. A clear triangle indicates a clip has been archived while a grey triangle appears for clips that are archived and vacated from the main storage. Users can restore vacated clips back to their original location within the axle interface. If an error occurs during the archive process, it’s easy to spot files needing attention by the red triangle icon that will appear.

It’s a new year and we have even more features to share with you in 2021! This month, we’re highlighting some of our team’s favorite features — some you may know about, and some you may not! These are different aspects of axle ai with one thing in common: they all make it easier for you and your team to work with video, audio and graphics, whether you’re in the office or working remotely.
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This week, let’s cover how axle integrates with one of our archive partners…

axle ai makes it radically simple… to archive with Spectra Logic

axle ai has a direct integration with Spectra Logic archive, enabling users to archive to BlackPearl via RioBroker software. By creating a RioBroker agent within axle, users can select media to archive directly from the axle interface. Users can take advantage of the power of BlackPearl’s internal disk cache with access to the huge range of Spectra Logic libraries on the back of BlackPearl.

“One of the benefits of axle and BlackPearl is the use of the disk cache to radically speed up the archiving process.” – Neil Blake, EAME Sales

It’s a new year and we have new axle features to share! This month, we’re highlighting some of our team’s favorite features — some you may know about, and some you may not! These are different aspects of axle ai with one thing in common: they all make it easier for you and your team to work with video, audio and graphics, whether you’re in the office or working remotely.
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This week, let’s cover how axle integrates with one of our archive partners…

axle ai makes it radically simple… to archive with Archiware

axle ai can connect to most archiving systems, and we have a direct integration with Archiware P5 software. Archiware is a cost-effective solution that allows users to make single or dual-LTO copies of media. With axle’s P5 module, users can archive directly from axle; once archived, Archiware will send details of the LTO tape information back to axle which users can view as custom archive metadata.    

Want to see more archive features? Our next virtual product demo is Wednesday, January 20th. See what’s coming up on our events page and check out our latest full length demo here.