Grouping files with latakoo

Send videos, images, audio and text files in one folder

At latakoo, we understand that your workflow needs extend beyond moving individual video files efficiently and easily. Sometimes you have audio files, such as voice over or music files, photos, or graphic images that should be grouped.

That’s why we developed the grouping function in latakoo.

What is Grouping?

With the Group setting, the latakoo cloud stores these files in a single folder, where they can be shared and downloaded with the Flight application to your computer.

latakoo groups are compatible with audio, image, audio and graphic files. We’ve now expanded this feature to include groups of videos.

Grouping starts at the upload

You make the decision to group file when upload them with the latakoo Flight application.

In the desktop app, drag and drop the file or folder of files into the application window. Then select the type of Upload.

Select Group to keep those files together as one item in Pilot. Then, choose the type of Metadata form. Individual means that there will be a separate set tags and descriptions for each file in the group. Group metadata form means that all the files in the group will contain the same description and tags.

As your files are uploading, you’ll see a “G” icon, signaling that these will be grouped together in latakoo Pilot.

On Pilot, you’ll be able to see thumbnails of the media files or you’ll see icons as a placeholder for audio files, text or pdf files.

Downloading Group Files

Grouped files can be downloaded with the latakoo Flight app.

For videos, select the default file type, such as .mp4, indicated by (App), or choose to transcode the files by selecting the codec and file type from the available list.

For images, documents or other types of files, select (App) and the files will automatically be transferred to your Flight app for downloading. Click start and the files will be retained in their original folder structure.

Download individual files within groups

If you need to download a single file within a group, you can do that from Pilot. First, click on the thumbnail within a group. Then, in the browser window click on the arrow in the upper right hand corner.

Selecting the arrow will show you a link to Download File. Then, a menu will appear allow you to download the file either through the Internet Browser, marked (Web) in the drop down menu, or by selecting one of the transcode options available, which will open the latakoo Flight application and download it. You must click start to begin the download.

Grouping is another way that latakoo adapts to your workflow, moving files efficiently for professional video teams.

To learn more about latakoo and workflows, contact our sales team or join our How to latakoo training.