Package templates allow you to create a delivery configuration that you can apply to any title containing multiple files.
To create a package template, perform the following steps:
Open the Templates menu and select the Package sub-menu. The Package templates menu is displayed.
Select New package template. The Create new package template page is displayed.
Enter a relevant package name.
Select the package type: Classic, IMF or iTunes.
In the Deliverables section, select Add deliverable template. The section is updated.
You can add as many deliverables as you want.
Set the deliverable type: Timed Text, Composition, File, Metadata, Thumbnail or Transcode. Based on the value you select, different options are displayed.
Select the delivery mode: Copy, Feed or None.
Optional: If you want to set the deliverable as optional, you can set the Optional field to Yes.
In the Source files configuration section, you can assign multiple tags that allow the system to identify the correct sources for your deliverable.
When selecting tags for sources, you can use three additional options in the Input file tag options field:
In the Deliverable files configuration section, you can assign multiple tags to your deliverable-specific inputs.
Optional: If you want to automatically include all tags found on sources, set the Include all source tags field to Yes.
When setting the Include all source tags field to Yes, the Deliverable tag exceptions field is enabled. Use this field to specify which source tags are omitted from the deliverables.
Set the deliverable name format.
If you want to find out more about the naming format, click Learn more. The Naming format help modal is displayed.
Select Save deliverable. The deliverable is added to the package template.
Select Save. Your package template has been created.
Based on these settings, when using this package template, Connect will go to a certain title, find the files that have the Feature tag and copy them from their initial location to the location set on the platform used for the delivery. When copying them to the platform, the file names will follow the movie_{{title.name}}.mov naming conventions.