Global settings

The system wide settings are to be found in the common.py file. If you'd like to change their values, you may overwrite them in the custom.py file.

Site ID

For the case when the medialoopster has multiple installations, this value indicates the site ID of the current installation.

SITE_ID = 1

File extensions

If file extensions are not in these lists, medialoopster does not detect them as valid media files and ignores these file type when creating assets.

VIDEO_EXT = [".mov", ".mts", ".mxf", ".mp4", ".mpg", ".mpeg", ".flv"]
AUDIO_EXT = [".aiff", ".aif", ".mp3", ".wav", ".m4a"]
IMAGE_EXT = [".bmp", ".gif", ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".tiff", ".tif", ".tga", ".psd"]

Housekeeping interval

Default number of weeks a asset should live in the system.

DELETE_VIDEO_AFTER_WEEKS = 2
DELETE_AUDIO_AFTER_WEEKS = 2
DELETE_IMAGE_AFTER_WEEKS = 2
DELETE_PROJECT_AFTER_WEEKS = 2

Still image duration

Duration in frames of how images should be imported into NLE.

STILL_IMAGE_DURATION = 125

Compositing label

TRANSITION_COMPOSITING_NAME = "Compositing"

Empty shot name

EMPTY_SHOT_NAME = "Black"

Default license name

DEFAULT_LICENSE_NAME = u"Clarify"

MXF validation

# MXF validation
PERFORM_MXF_QUALITY_CHECK = False

Device filter setup

# UI search filter
DEVICE_FILTER = [
    {
        "display_name": "Roh",
        "value_name": "Roh"
    }
]

Label for empty metadata fields in frontend

INPLACEEDIT_EDIT_EMPTY_VALUE = "Double click..."

Location for temporary files during media upload

During media file upload, the browser will first store here the high resolution essence as temporary file. This path is by default /mnt/medialoopster/Upload/Raw, thus you must ensure that either this path exists, or overwrite it in common.py to another location, for example FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR = "/tmp/". From the temporary location, the file enters medialoopster by being moved to the Upload device. Then the asset will be created and the file transcoded and moved again to its final audio/image/video asset device.

FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR = env.get_value("DJANGO_FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR", default="/mnt/medialoopster/Upload/Raw")