Podcast producer workflows missing

When I click on PCP and look at the workflows, all I see is Single Source, Montage and dual Source. How to do I add the ones that came with PCP? I also created a custom one and it is not showing either. Any suggestions?

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Podcast Producer - workflow is posted but the podcast is missing

everything seems fine otherwise would really like a hand with this as i'm stumped.
so i can create a work flow
i can upload it
i can see the workflow in podcast capture
i can uploads to it
no sign of the podcast after that

Podcast Capture is designed to work with Podcast Producer, which is part of OSX Server. If you are running that you would do best to ask in its Forum. I don't know whether you can get any use out of Podcast Capture with non-server OSX.

How to get poster art in the RSS feed using Podcast Producer workflow

With podcast producer there are standard workflow which create atom feeds. I can not figure out how to automatically generate a poster image (or any type of images) associated with the video to show in the rss feed. Anyone got this to work?
Here is the feed of the test site:
feed://switch.macsenior.net:8171/podcastproducer/atom_feeds/4C9A6B5A-4D09-4394-A 846-5407C8BF8FBD
I like to show poster art of an random frame of the movie.

You actually are publishing images. For example:
http://switch.macsenior.net:8171/podcastproducer/feed_logos/4C9A6B5A-4D09-4394-A 846-5407C8BF8FBD.png
http://switch.macsenior.net:8171/podcastproducer/attachments/4C9A6B5A-4D09-4394- A846-5407C8BF8FBD/2EFF4653-5E35-4F9F-B0D1-14C797DAB1C8.png
You aren't seeing these images because of the way Safari parses feeds. Try using curl from the command line or another browser. Safari and Podcast Producer really don't play well together. A good example is trying to use the SSL port to view feeds.
If you'd like to change the image to something common for all episodes in a workflow, select Window > Workflow Inspector in Podcast Composer. Be careful with your image dimensions, as it is posted unaltered.

Backup/Restore Podcast Producer workflows,feeds, content, etc

Anyone have a best practice for backing up Podcast Producer. The documentation(Podcast Composer, Podcast Producer Admin, Podcast Prod Workflow) are all silent on the issue. I would guess I can use my favorite tool to move the podcast Library root directory to some other device and I assume this will save all my content. But then how to get it back in the case of a full blown crash or if PCP2 has to be reinstalled? My 'guess' is I would get the workflows back by doing podcast --installworkflow ... and get the feeds back by copying the Content directory and then doing pcastconfig --synch_library. Does anyone know or have pointers to more documentation? Are there any more technical docs around somewhere that explain how the file system and database , workflows, feeds, web server and rails files all work together?
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Okay, just to be clear ... your log messages show the shared secret, right? What I'm asking is if you're editing it out before posting your log results to the forums here ... going by the logs, you don't have a shared secret. However, I think if you're editing it out for us, you're doing the wise thing (clearly, you don't want us to know). My question to you is that you yourself are seeing it in the log messages, correct? I do know that you're entering it in PcP ... what I'm wondering is if there is a disconnect somehow between what you have in the PcP GUI and what shows up in logs.
Another question I have for you is that if you upload content in other ways does it always work?
You know, in a worst case scenario, I could probably make you a command-line util that would do the upload ... similar, but different ... from Apple's ... just for testing purposes. You could swap mine for Apple's. Not that I think I'm a better coder than Apple ... this test would be to rule out local net issues ... that kind of thing.

Podcast Producer Youtube workflow fails. Script produces runtime errors

A guide was written regarding creating a Podcast Producer workflow for YouTube. Unfortunately, the completed script (even with all of the relevant API bits installed properly) returns an exception when trying to upload the video (client ID, data API have been substituted into the script). The Java script compiles and runs. However, when it failed, I decided to toString() the exception which was called and found out that Google was returning "Bad Request," meaning something with the way the Script was trying to talk to Google was bad. The code is still the reference code with the CID/DevKey subbed in, but because of the Bad Request exception passed by Google, it fails to upload, and thus, fails entirely.
Is there a proper working YouTube workflow anywhere?

Apologies: I just found the Podcast Producer forum, so I'm going to mark this one as answered and repost the question in the Podcast Producer forum now that I know a specific forum for it exists.

Upscaling video in Podcast Producer

Hi all,
We have some videos that we would like to convert into Podcasts. Unfortunately these videos were originally recorded in a very low resolution. Podcast Producer handles them fine except it keeps them in the source resolution, which means the watermarks, ticker etc is also scaled down.
My question is, is there a way, either as part of the Podcast Producer workflow or before it, to easily scale up video in order to ensure the watermarks aren't scaled down?
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Erik

Could you cue them all in Handbrake for a batch job first and customize an output that targets the size/bitrate you want and then process the output in PP?
That said, you may want to do one first to test as you're going from low-resolution -> higher-than-intended resolution -> workflow compression.

Compressor 4, Podcast Producer 2 and distributed encoding

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I am quiete new to Podcast Producer and Compressor. I found in the documentation of Podcast Producer that it is possible to create new encoding types for the Podcast Producer export media type. However it did not say when I create such a new export type if the export is automatically send to Compressor when it is performing the encoding inside the Podcast Producer Workflow. As far as I know PP2 normally only supports XGrid. Now I was wondering if I can send the encoding job to Compressor in order to make use of the distributed encoding capability of Compressor withing the PP2 Workflow. Did anybody try that out yet? I would appreciate any comment or hints that could help me.
Thanks in advance and happy belated new year

Hi Robert, righto cheers. I did spec in Final Cut Server just in case as i guessed as much. I've used episode before but it used it's own binary to encode the podcasts. Now it uses Compressor instead somehow apparently for rendering under 10.6.. Well we'll see how it goes.
cheers, Dave

Podcast Feeds and Custom Workflows missing after 10.6.2 update

Podcast Producer was working fine. I had some custom workflows and a number of podcasts. Then I applied 10.6.2 System Update.
Now my custom Workflows are missing in the Podcast Capture dialog box, the web page shows no podcasts (and the fact that it was updated at the time I ran Software Update!).
I have tried pcastconfig --sync_library without success.
The podcasts are there, the atom feed just can't see them!
And ideas what I need to delete/change?
Nick

I have managed to get all but one of my workflows back using (as root)
podcast --installworkflow --path /Library/PodcastProducer/Shared/Server/Workflows/F520417E-7E57-4EF8-8FE1-4CD1CB 495B1B.pwf
where F520417E-7E57-4EF8-8FE1-4CD1CB495B1B.pwf was one of the missing custom workflows identified by creation date.
then
podcast --enableworkflow --workflow_uuid F520417E-7E57-4EF8-8FE1-4CD1CB495B1B
Also I used Podcast Composer on a client machine instead.
Copy the problematic workflow over to the client machine, open it up in Podcast Composer, and then use the option to Deploy to Server.
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Is there a way to create a iTunes U feed using .pdf or .epub files using a Podcast Producer 2 backend?

I'm in the process of creating an iTunes U site for my university. We are in the process of activating an Xserve running Snow Leopard and Podcast Producer 2 to server as a backend and trying to figure out how to create various workflows and feeds for populating both the Public SIte Manager "public site" and the authenticated "private site". So far, I have not found any information regrading how to upload .pdfs or .epub documents using Podcast Composer or Podcast Capture. Is this possible?

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maybe a chmod fix if needed?
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# pacman -S iw wpa_supplicant
but using query does not find any package that resembles iw wpa_supplicant
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I thought I would post back with the solution I finally found in case someone else runs across this. I was going crazy!
This link and the comments in reply to the topic show what the problem is. I could not find it in any Apple documentation so I'm very grateful to those who posted at this link, "Mounting a shared file system for Xgrid":
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100609114725470
Basically, Xgrid agents don't have permission to access folders pointed to under /Volumes. The solution is to provide the complete network path in your workflow, starting with /Network/Servers/<servername>/<path to folder>.
As long as the Podcast Producer Xgrid user (in my case, "pcastxgrid") has permission to the directory exported and once the full path is in your workflow the agents can publish to the folder. Again, thanks to those who posted to the hints at macworld.

Quicktime Metadata handling in podcast producer batchs

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I'm wondering if there's a way to extend the amount of metadata that can be handled by the podcast producer batch so that it feets iTunes needs ?
I know that it depends of the workflow you use for the "common" metadatas (artist name, year, type, ) but what about the exotic ones : commentaries, lyrics and even illustration ?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
Nicolas

HAZAAR! Solved it for me, hope it's the same for you. Ensure your Server HOST name is identical to your service name. IT IS CASE SENSITIVE! I had to edit the /Library/PodCastProducer/Shared/Server/memberpreferencesUUID so it matched my hostname identically, and all is now working.
You'll notice you probably have errors in /Library/Logs/pcastserverd/apache_error.log referencing SNI name not matching hostname, this is the clue. Hope this resolves it for you also.
Pete

Podcast Producer and Xgrid setup - Jobs don't run

I've successfully setup an xserve here to be part of an OD setup, setup xgrid which is running successfully, and have Podcast Producer up and running and successfully running on the xgrid. However, when i open up podcast producer and go through the workflow process and submit, nothing happens except for temp folders stacking up in the podcast recording directory.
Only thing I could find was this error in the podcast producer logs:
Sat Nov 03 00:07:37 -0400 2007 -- Unknown exception while kicking off xgrid jobs: Fail to set key base: Base directory in /Volumes/Puma/Publisher/Podcast/Recordings/32E631A1-0B26-495B-B363-66FDDDDB233B /properties.plist

Not sure if this will fix your problem, but I was having the same problem until I looked at the specs for XGrid, it has to run on an Intel Mac. This is where you can get the specs:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306737
Here is what is in the doc:
Podcast Capture requirements
Any Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iSight camera (built-in or external) or FireWire DV camcorder
Podcast Producer Server requirements
Any Mac running Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard
Xsan for optional cluster file services
Podcast Producer Xgrid rendering requirements
Any Intel-based Macintosh Server or Intel-based desktop Mac (a Mac Pro, for example)
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard
At least 1 GB of memory (RAM) plus 512 MB of additional RAM per processor core
At least 50 GB of available disk space
Xsan for optional cluster file services
Quartz Extreme-enabled video chipset
Note: Quartz Extreme support can be verified in the Graphics section of Apple System Profiler.
Note: If a system is providing multiple Podcast services (for example, Podcast Producer and Podcast Producer Xgrid rendering), the system needs to meet both requirements.

Podcast Producer for lecture capture with Kaltura

I am a relatively new employee at a university and I am helping the school set up a lecture capture system. I've researched several options already and this idea of useing Podcast Producer with an Apple Server we already have and Kaltura to host and manage our media which we already have I'm having trouble finding solid info about.
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I have already asked this on Kaltura's forums and awaiting a response but figured since this also involved an Apple product, it wouldn't hurt to inquire about any knowledge here. And I know a lot of this depends on what Kaltura is capable of as well. Thanks in advance.

Bad form, but I am going to respond to my own question here with a possible solution. I'm doing this for others who may be stuck on the same thing.
It looks like a solution would be to create a Folder Action on the directory that the raw video files will be uploaded to. This would be an AppleScript that will run the podcast (see 'man podcast') command line tool to manually submit the files to the Podcast Server workflow.

PodCast Producer - adding character to names on folder copy

PodCast Producer -the greatest capture/render/post product in the World! But when I add to my workflow the function to copy to another folder, PCP adds "+" characters where there where once spaces in the name. Can anyone give me a magic sudo command or something to fix this? Ideas or help are greatly appreciated.
Thx.
Geaux Apple!

If you have it set to copy your music to the iTunes folder, then it will do the same for videos.

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I got from Apple Enterprise that there are 2 different apps - Podcast (as in Server App) and Podcast Producer (which is the legacy app from Snow Leopard Server). Podcast Publisher in Lion works with Podcast and integrates into the Lion Wikis. Podcast doesn't require Xgrid to run as where PCP did. You can still use the workflows from PCP in Podcast. PCP is in there and we had it running, but opted to go with the new Podcast app.
It's very confusing and not clear at ALL in the Advanced Server Admin manual, but we're finding that the new Podcast app seems to be more user friendly via Podcast Publisher. In addition, being able to have non-IT people manage the podcasts via the GUI (wikis) as opposed to the CLI pcast commands to edit the feeds is a plus in our environment.
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