Metadata

Access & Visibility

Technical camera metadata (ISO, shutter speed, lens info, etc.) and production notes are restricted to users with the metadata permission. This typically includes:

• DITs and data wranglers
• Script supervisors
• Camera department
• Post-production supervisors

Other users will still see basic clip information like clip names and scene numbers, but won't have access to detailed technical or production metadata.

Adding Metadata

Metadata can be added in two ways:

1. Automatically sync your Silverstack DB to our online DB, or
2. export and manually upload ALE files ("Avid Log Exchange" file format).

Note

Before you've uploaded metadata, o/DAILIES uses the date extracted from the file name to sort clips.

Silverstack Link

Most camera metadata is synced. If you miss something. Please let us know!

Shooting Day Information

Silverstack's "Shooting Day" information is automatically synced to o/DAILIES. You can set this in Silverstack by:

• Choosing the shooting day in the offload dialog when importing footage
• Setting it in General Info → Slate Info → "Shooting Day" for existing clips

User edited data

Here's what has an effect from Silverstack to o/DAILIES so far:

• Not "Flagged" respectively "uncircled" clips are shown only to the users with the matching permission "uncircled".
• If you enter a tag named "hidden" in the "Tag" field, the clip is shown only to the users with the matching permission "hidden". For more details on hiding clips, see the FAQ.
• If you enter a tag named "ignore" in the "Tag" field, the clip will be completely excluded from sync and will not appear in o/DAILIES at all. This is useful for test clips or footage you don't want to include in your dailies.
• The "Script supervisor commentary" of a clip is shown only to the users with the matching permission "metadata".
• The "rating" of a clip is shown only to the users with the matching permission "metadata". To change the rating, the permission "comments" is needed.

Tag Behavior

Tags are case-insensitive, so "hidden", "Hidden", "HIDDEN" all work the same way. The same applies to "ignore", "Ignore", "IGNORE".

ALE

We accept ALE files from many sources like AVID or DaVinci Resolve. We try our best to read the different, not standardised column headers. To make sure we get all your metadata right, please send us a sample ALE file to odailies@ottomatic.io.

Shooting Day Information

o/DAILIES supports shooting day information in addition to shooting dates. This allows you to organize clips by production day rather than calendar date

The shooting day information is extracted from ALE files using any of these column names:

• Shooting Day
• Shoot Day

The value should be a number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) representing the production day.

Tag Support in ALE Files

ALE files also support the same tag functionality as Silverstack:

• hidden tag: Clips with a "hidden" tag are shown only to users with the permission "hidden"
• ignore tag: Clips with an "ignore" tag are completely excluded and will not appear in o/DAILIES at all

Tags should be placed in the "Tags" or "Keywords" column of your ALE file, separated by commas. Tag matching is case-insensitive.

Note

When metadata does not show up, most commonly the uploaded clip names do not match the "Tape" column in the ALE.

Export ALE from DaVinci

Please make sure to set reel names to the source clip filename in your project settings:

Then you can export your ALE from the timeline on the media page:

Export ALE from Silverstack

While you most definitely might prefer to sync metadata using Silverstack Link, you can also export an ALE from Silverstack using the following settings:

Night shoots

If you are shooting at night and want to have all the clips sorted under the last shooting date you have to change the date in the ALE. Here is how you would do that in Silverstack: