Chris,

>>> Also, I don't see on the link how I important a media package (from
>>> a new capture agent, or from another university, etc. etc.) into the
>>> episode/archive service.  I would like to do this and this might
>>> let me relax the requirement on the directory structure (since I
>>> could just archive our stuff to tape the way we already are, then
>>> import it again into the episode service to run more operations).
>> 
>> Currently, I am not aware of any requirements in that direction.
>> Importing of a mediapackage from other systems or capture agents is
>> done in an easy way by configuring an inbox where you just drop the
>> mediapackages and configure a workflow that sticks them into the
>> archive or does some other processing (or both). However, importing
>> through the archive does make sense from my point of view.
> 
> Could I put it in the inbox with a workflow that just adds it to the
> episode service?  E.g. if I distributed this to youtube already, but
> not to itunes, and I wanted to push it to itunes as well as do some
> metadata editing or something, it would be handy to put it in the inbox
> and have it just show up in the episode service where I could do
> multiple transformations on the media package.

yes, that's possible. You can specify a workflow per inbox.

> If this was something that could be done, I could see us changing the
> default workflow for the inbox to say "put in episode service", and
> then we do all of our "work" from that screen.

sounds like a good plan to me. A hold state for workflow selection would be the 
other option.

Tobias
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