ELEMENTS With Wasabi

Wasabi has been validated for use with ELEMENTS. ELEMENTS provides a powerful hardware and software platform that supports every post-production and broadcasting workflow step from sophisticated on-premises technologies with unique features to future-proof cloud solutions.

Reference Architecture

Requirements

• ELEMENTS version 26.2 and higher

  • Admin access to ELEMENTS Web UI

  • Media Library license and third-party cloud storage license

• Active Wasabi storage account

  • Wasabi Bucket (see Working With Buckets and Objects)

  • Access and Secret Key Pair (see Creating a User Account and Access Key)

Connecting a Wasabi Account

1. Log in to the ELEMENTS Web UI.

   

2. Navigate to System and INTEGRATIONS. Click Connect a Wasabi account.

   

3. Provide a name for the connection. On the Connection tab, provide the following details and click Save.

   • Access key ID—Wasabi access key

   • Secret access key—Wasabi secret key

   • Endpoint—the service endpoint URL of the region where the bucket is located

   Select the Enabled checkbox.

   

4. Navigate to the Cloud Workspaces tab. In the Credential Management section, enable the Share credentials option. Click Save. Click Close to close the dialog box.

   

The new integration will be displayed in the Active Integrations section.

Adding a Cloud Volume

1. Navigate to System and GENERAL. In the Storage section, click Manage volumes.

   

2. Click Add cloud storage.

   

3. Select the desired Wasabi bucket. In this example, the bucket is elements-wasabi.

   

4. Provide a name for the cloud volume. Click OK.

   

5. Enable the Workspaces option to allow creation of new workspaces on this volume. Click Save.

   

The Volumes tab displays the Wasabi cloud volume.

Creating a Workspace

1. In the navigation bar, click Workspaces. In the Workspaces section, click Create workspace.

   

2. Provide the following details and click Create.

   • New workspace name—provide a name for the workspace

   • Production—choose the desired production

   • Cloud volumes—select the Wasabi cloud volume created earlier

   

   The Wasabi workspace will display in Workspaces.

   

3. To enable Media Library on this workspace, click the Wasabi workspace. Navigate to the ADVANCED tab and click Create Media Root.

   

4. Provide a name and path for the workspace. Click Create.

   

Mounting a Workspace

ELEMENTS workspaces can be mounted locally using the ELEMENTS client.

1. Download the client from the Web UI login page.

   

2. Once the client is installed, launch the client and log in using your credentials.

   

   The client will display all the mountable workspaces for which you have access permissions.

   

3. Click on the workspace icon to browse the files.

   

You can access the media in the workspace locally.

Configuring Valet for a Workspace

Valet lets you sync and relocate workspaces (completed projects) with a secondary location, whether on-premise or in the cloud, and optionally clean up the local copy to save space.

1. In the desired workspace, navigate to VALET. Click Set up Valet.

   

2. Select the cloud volume for the Parking location. Click Set up and sync.

   

3. Click Continue to start the initial sync.

   

The Valet tab will display the parking location and related valet options.

Creating Automation Jobs

The Automation page enables you to set up complex and fully automated jobs. It also enables you to trigger jobs from the Media Library or directly from the Windows Explorer or macOS Finder.

Creating a Copy Job

1. Navigate to Automation and JOBS. Click Create a new job.

   

2. Click Copy files.

   

3. Enter a name for the job, then click Copy files.

   

4. To enter a source, click Add input.

   

5. Select the desired source path. To configure a destination, click on the folder icon under Destination.

   

6. Click Go to to browse the cloud volume.

   

7. Select the desired cloud volume. Click Select this directory.

   

8. Configure additional desired settings. Click Save.

          

   To run the Copy job, click Start job.

   

Creating an Archive Job

1. Navigate to Automation and JOBS. Click Create a new job.

   

2. Click Copy files.

   

3. Provide a name for the job. Click Copy files.

   

4. Configure the desired input and destination. Click Save.

   

5. Click Add step.

   

6. Click Delete files.

   

7. Configure the input (same as the input configured in the Copy files task earlier). Select the desired action to delete the source files after they are copied to the cloud volume. Click Save.

   

8. To run the archive job on demand, click Start job.

   

9. To run the archive job on a schedule, navigate to SCHEDULE. Click Create.

   

10. Enable the schedule and configure the desired setting. Click Save.

    

The Archive job will run on the configured schedule.

Creating a Restore Job

1. Navigate to Automation and JOBS. Click Create a new job.

   

2. Click Copy files.

   

3. Enter a name for the job. Click Copy files.

   

4. Navigate to Input, choose the files you want to restore. Select the destination for the restored files. Click Save.

   

When you run the job, the selected file will be restored to the configured location.