Flow Production Tracking - Connect to Flow Capture Enablement (Playlists Beta)

Share playlists with Flow Capture workflow overview

Welcome to Share playlists with Flow Capture.

This guide will help you install and integrate Flow Production Tracking with Flow Capture to experience the capabilities of Share playlists with Flow Capture.

Getting started

Before sharing playlists from Flow Production Tracking with Flow Capture, verify that your Flow Production Tracking site meets the requirements described in the requirements page.

1. Connect Flow Production Tracking to Share playlists with Flow Capture

Are you activating Share playlists with Flow Capture for a new project or an existing one?

• For a new project, follow these instructions.

2. Connect Flow Capture to Share playlists with Flow Capture

You must also connect Flow Capture to your Flow Production Tracking project before being able to share playlists between these two products.

Follow these instructions.

3. Share Flow Production Tracking playlists with Flow Capture

Now that both Flow Production Tracking and Flow Capture are connected through Flow, you can share playlists.

1. Add media to the playlist to share. See Create a playlist to share

Requirements and limitations

To Share playlists with Flow Capture in Flow Production Tracking, you must have a Flow Production Tracking site that meets the following requirements. Please note the media restrictions and playlist limitations listed at the end of this topic.

• You must have a Flow Production Tracking hosted site.

  The Flow Production Tracking cannot use media isolation (aka bring your own S3 bucket).

  If your Flow Production Tracking site is configured with DIY transcoding, the sg_uploaded_movie  field must be set with the s3 signed URL of the uploaded media that will be shared in the playlist.

  You must have a Personal Access Token (PAT) created on your site.

  We do NOT recommend enabling the connected workflow on Production sites at this stage.

  • All beta customers should have an additional site to test any of the workflows. To create this site yourself, follow the instructions from this article.

    Beta customers should not use Production data to test.

    Disabling the Share playlists with Flow Capture workflow will not remove any data from Flow at this point.

  • Data can be deleted on demand.
• Beta customers should not to rely on mid- or long-term availability of the data on this additional site. We reserve the right to break the compatibility of the data at any time.

Uploaded media format limitations

Only versions with movies are supported with the current workflow.

Supported uploaded media formats:

• H.264
• H.265
• Apple ProRes

Playlist limitations

• Playlists should have more than 20 versions.
• The version of original movies should be smaller than or equal to 20MB.
• There is no upper limit on the number of playlists that can be created..

Activating Share playlists with Flow Capture

Share playlists with Flow Capture is activated at the project level, not globally. You can activate it when you create a new project, or after the fact. For more information, see Enable from existing project and Enable from new project.

Enable in Flow Production Tracking

Enable from new project

You enable the Share Playlist Flow capability from Flow Production Tracking. If you're activating Share playlists with Flow Capture for an existing Flow Production Tracking project, see these instructions. To create a new project with Share playlists with Flow Capture enabled from the start, see the following instructions.

1. Navigate to Projects.

   

2. Select the option Create a new project and connect it to Flow, select a project template, and click Next.

   

   In the Connect project to Flow dialog box, you are connecting your Flow Production Tracking to Flow. It's this connection that allows Flow Production Tracking to exchange data with Flow Capture, and is required for Share playlists with Flow Capture. You must click Next to enable Share playlists with Flow Capture.

   

   In Enable share playlists with Flow Capture, you actually enable the capability to share a playlist from this new project with Flow Capture. Click the toggle to enable the capability, and click Next.

   

   In Select who can share playlists, select the Flow Production Tracking Roles that can share playlists with Flow Capture, and then click Next.

   

   Wait for the setup to complete.

   

   In Share playlists with Flow Capture, you can:

   

   • Click Launch Flow Capture to launch Flow Capture and complete Share playlists with Flow Capture setup. See Connect Flow Production Tracking to production in Flow Capture.

   • Click Open Media App to open the Flow Production Tracking Media app, and start importing media, and create playlists to share with Flow Capture. See Start and stop Share playlists with Flow Capture in Flow Production Tracking.

     You do not have to set up Flow Capture or load media immediately. Both can be done at a latter time. Click Close to dismiss the dialog box.

You have now created a new project connected to Flow, and can share playlists using Flow Capture.

Set the roles that can share playlists

You can set which roles can share playlists with Flow Capture. For more information about roles in Flow Production Tracking, see Permissions.

To select the Flow Production Tracking Roles that can share playlists from the project:

1. In Flow Production Tracking, open the Project Overview for your project.

   
   

2. 

   Open Project Actions, and select Sharing playlists with Flow Capture.

   

3. Open the Playlist Sharing tab, and select the roles than can share playlists with Flow Capture.

   

4. Click Save Changes to set the new permissions.

Enable in Flow Capture:

Sign in with Autodesk Identity

Connect to Flow

Connect a Production to a Project in Flow

Connect Flow Production Tracking to production in Flow Capture

To access playlists shared from Flow Production Tracking trough Flow, you must connect Flow Capture to the Flow Production Tracking project.

1. Open your Flow Capture site.

2. Enter your Autodesk Identity email and click Next.

   

   Important:

   You must sign in with you Autodesk Identity or you will not have access to the Share playlists with Flow Capture feature.

3. Enter your Autodesk Identity password and click Sign in with Autodesk Identity.

   

   Note:

   If you do not have an Autodesk Identity, the first time you click Sign in with Autodesk Identity you're invited to create one. See Autodesk Identity.

4. Open Assets, and select a group, or create a new one.

   

5. Open the group, and create a new production.

   

6. Open the production, and then open the Production Settings.

   

7. In the Production Settings, click Flow Enabled.

   

8. Click Linked Project, and select the Flow Production Tracking production to connect to Flow.

   

9. Your Flow Capture production is now connected to the Flow Production Tracking project. Any playlist shared from Flow Production Tracking now appear in the Playlists menu in Flow Capture.

   

To learn how to use Playlist in Flow Capture, see the Flow Capture documentation.

Autodesk Identity

If you do not have an Autodesk Identity, the first time you click Sign in with Autodesk Identity you're invited to create one.

1. You're redirected to Autodesk ID creator.

   

2. Enter email and click Next.

   

3. In the Create Account page, the page is pre-populated with the information from FCAP.

   

4. Verify that information is correct and click Create Account.

5. Click Continue to Flow Capture.