Archiware P5 Archive can create previews/proxies of your archived media - viewable when browsing the index of archived files. This provides great 'mini-MAM' functionality since it allows a visual view of a folder of files that has been archived and is no longer on-line. Being able to see what an image/video file looks like before restoring can help avoid restoring the wrong file(s). In this article, we'll learn how to install two tools required for generating these previews.

Video notes: Installing Macports (including FFmpeg): FFmp.

In order to create previews of image and video files, P5 uses two open source tools:

To use MP4 output for animation in Lotta or VStitcher, you must install FFmpeg as detailed below. Animation is available for Lotta version 4.0 and later, and VStitcher version 8.0 and later.
How to install FFmpeg? From Get packages, Tap on the Mac icon Select Static build for macOS 64bit Navigate to the FFmpeg area Select Download as DMG from the snapshots side Tap on the filename Paste the copied file to a location of choice on your PC and take note of the location.

In this article, we'll learn how to use Homebrew, a popular package manager for macOS, to install both of these tools on a Mac.

Homebrew is a mature and respected tool and is easy to install (and uninstall if you change your mind). However, you'll need to know your way around the Mac Terminal to install Homebrew. In addition, further setup of P5 Archive to generate previews using these two tools requires the writing of a small shell script. This task requires moderate technical skills to complete. If you're not familiar and comfortable running a few commands in the Mac Terminal, stop now!

Visit the Homebrew webpage (https://brew.sh) and under the 'install' heading, you'll see some code to copy/paste into your Terminal window. You can do this as a regular user, root isn't required. Below is what we saw at the time of writing. Use the code copied from the Brew site though - it may change over time.

You will see many more notices fly by - keep watching. On systems where it's not already installed, you may be prompted to allow 'The Xcode Command Line Tools' to be installed. This will require you to type your password.

After this, more information will fly past and after a while - it can take a couple of minutes - and when you get your Terminal prompt back, it's finished. Ours looked like this:

Congratulations! Do as suggested and view the help, or skip to the next section below.

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Now that Brew is installed on your system, to install ImageMagick, simply type 'brew install imagemagick'. When your prompt returns in the Terminal, ImageMagick is installed.

Again, what you see above is just a few lines, you'll a lot more happening before the installation completes. Once you've installed ImageMagick, you can invoke the tool and see it's help page by typing 'convert' in your Terminal. Convert is the name of the ImageMagick tool that you've just installed.

You've guessed it - to install FFmpeg type 'brew install ffmpeg'.

Wait for this to complete and you're done. To see the help page for FFmpeg, type 'ffmpeg' into your Terminal.

Now that both tools are installed on your system, P5 Archive can be configured to call these tools as required to generate previews for your archive workflow.

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Pinnacle drivers for mac. Id3 tagging for mac shortcut. Having installed these tools, refer to the P5 documentation and articles on the Archiware Knowledgebase to learn how to configure previews within the Archive product.