FileCatalyst Integration [VC 21.3 GEN]

Vidispine can initiate transfers between storages using FileCatalyst. For this to work, the source and/or destination storages must first be configured properly.

Transfer type

Three different transfers are supported:

1. Transfer between two storages listed in FileCatalyst Server.

2. Transfer from a local storage (with a file URI method) and a storage listed in FileCatalyst Server.

3. Transfer from a storage listed in FileCatalyst Server to a local storage.

Storage configuration

To specify that FileCatalyst can be used to transfer from/to a storage, a special Storage Method has to be added:

URI

filecatalyst://{user}:{password}/{host}[:{port}]/{any relative path from the FileCatalyst root}

type

TRANSFER

Example

Assume that Vidispine and FileCatalyst runs on the same server, and that you want to create a storage to handle /srv/media/incoming. Further assume that in FileCatalyst there is a user fc with password s3cret which has is FileCatalyst home root directory at /srv/media. Further, assume that FileCatalyst is running on port 2100.

Then the storage should look like:

<StorageDocument xmlns="http://xml.vidispine.com/schema/vidispine">
  <type>LOCAL</type>
  <method>
    <uri>file:///srv/media/incoming/</uri>
    <read>true</read>
    <write>true</write>
    <browse>true</browse>
    <type>NONE</type>
  </method>
  <method>
    <uri>filecatalyst://fc:s3cret@localhost:2100/incoming/</uri>  <!-- /srv/media + incoming = /srv/media/incoming -->
    <type>TRANSFER</type>
  </method>
</StorageDocument>