Zoom 7.6.1 onward, users will be able to retrieve high-res assets from archive storage using the plugin. Prerequisites The setup of the hub on your workstation ExternalStore for high-res/native files is configured as a Zoom Third Party Mount Point. Ask your media manager, if you don’t understand what this means. To check just click on the Z menu …
Zoom 7.6.x series has been specifically built towards maximising the ease of working remotely. The setup usually involves the Zoom servers running on the cloud. The high-res original assets are stored centrally on S3 and shared to users’ desktops on demand via Zoom. This article walks you through the setup required, the end-user experience and …
This article covers the commonly faced issues in the archive module, and how best to resolve them. My colleague ingested a hi-res media, and I want to now use it for editing in my local machine. I triggered Restore to fetch the asset from S3, but it is not working. Why? Check the status of …
The Asset Browser provides easy means of triggering archive, restore operations on Zoom data. In 7.6.x series, we have some additional controls that let us exercise these operations on more specific targets, with ease. Before we go further, let us recall some key points about Zoom: Zoom deals with data in two different ways. One …
Access to the Zoom repository is secured via a user sign-in. However, when an unattended process runs, such as third-party scripting, transcoding, shared hot-folder ingest or another complex ingest flow, no user may be available to perform the sign-in. This becomes even more relevant when a Single Sign-On (SSO) mechanism is used for authentication. Presently, …
The Search and Execute feature generates reports containing some basic information. In 7.6.2 and above, the media managers can customize the information that gets captured in the reports. This article will walk you through the steps to configure and customize the report generation. For a recap about running the Search and Execute actions from the …
External users of Zoom such as partners or freelancers, i.e. those who do not have a user account within your organization’s user directory, would be able to access content shared with them after signing-in on the Zoom Web apps. There are multiple ways to sign-in for external users. Basic sign-in The Basic sign-in mechanism is …
Up until 7.6.2, Zoom has only supported purging of content directly held within the Zoom repository database. Users had to manually remove the unwanted external assets from tier-2 archive storage locations like S3, and also from their individual TPM paths, or shared P-SAN paths. Starting with 7.6.2, Zoom provides support for clearing the high-res / …
Working from home or remote office? Zoom client-side Hub can automatically manage hi-res/native media transfers to Zoom MAM in the cloud. The Hub uses available network bandwidth between your workstation and the cloud to maximize the data transfer speeds. It can deal with interrupted transfers due to Internet connection breaking or computer going to sleep. …
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Evolphin Zoom supports OIDC natively. However many Identity Providers (IdP) only support older SAML2 standard for federating with other IdPs. For example if you were using Azure AD as your OIDC provider for Zoom, but needed to provide Zoom Web app access to partners/freelancers that were using Google’s G Suite, you will need to federate …
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Supported Zoom Version: 7.6.x Target Audience: Media Managers, Freelancers, External Agencies, Content production partners, VOD services For large volume of data such as a camera card with 1 TB of video clips or a 60 GB InDesign catalog linked with 3000 images, upload or download using the Web Browser directly can be slow and frustrating …
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Right after switching realms between Zoom, OpenID (Ping), or LDAP, Zoom apps still show the login prompt for the previous realm. The correct login prompt is shown only after the user attempts to log in using the old login prompt and the login fails. All subsequent login prompts on that user workstation are then shown …
Using our AWS S3 Connectors customer can store large media assets in AWS S3. This serves as an online archive. Content can be copied or restored from AWS S3 relatively quickly whether you are editing in an office, from home or in the cloud. However, the cost of AWS S3 can start to rise as …
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Issue: On MacOS the EJH Client Hub doesn’t start up In some installations on MacOS Catalina+, the Hub’s client folder owner permissions gets configured as root causing the hub to not start up as the current logged-in user doesn’t have ownership of the folder: Resolution Using Terminal If you are conversant with terminal commands, you …
Zoom 7.6 can be quickly set up to connect to the online cloud storage of your team’s media collection using C3. C3 stands for Client Cloud Connector. It is first configured on the Zoom Server and then the switch to enable C3 is turned on at the client end. Follow these steps to set up …
Problem I want to transfer large media files between Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket in a different AWS account than Evolphin. Also, I want to be sure that my account doesn’t get charged for these transfers. How can I do that? Solution As long as the S3 buckets in your AWS account and …
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There are 5 pre-defined entity references in XML: Escaped Entity Reference User Visible XML character Description < < less than > > greater than & & ampersand ' ‘ apostrophe " “ quotation mark Before you use the Web Admin > Metadata Editor > Import from XML function or if you are live editing the …
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Fixing the Installer that stops responding If the installer stops responding while installing the EZ Client, then follow these steps to fix it: Select Force Quit from the Apple menu. Select the Installer app from the Force Quit window and click Force Quit. The installer will stop. You should follow the steps in the next …
OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an authentication protocol built on the OAuth 2.0 standard that a Zoom user (desktop or web) can use to securely sign in. By configuring the app integration in Microsoft Azure AD endpoint’s implementation of OpenID Connect, you can add sign-in to Zoom via your AzureAD credentials, or, federated credentials if Azure …
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User accounts, group memberships, and credential hashes can be synchronized one way from Azure AD (AAD) to Azure AD Domain Services (Azure AD DS or AAD DS). Azure AD DS integrates with your existing Azure AD tenant, which makes it possible for users to sign in using their existing credentials. Azure AD DS replicates identity …
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