Search, explore and extract multimedia items and corresponding listings




Please note: This Multimedia Module will not allow to preview or extract items when Termbases are encrypted and read-only. However, browsing file names and exporting listings is still possible.  
Credit where credit's due: if you have MultiTerm Desktop you can export in bulk all multimedia items, even for read-only Termbases.

In addition, when picture, video and audio file names are longer than 50 characters, then pictures, video and audio items and their names will not show in this module. This is by design in this application.
[It is advisable to name your files using 50 or less characters]


With Tb-Scout v4.0 you can explore multimedia items and not just terms or Descriptive Fields.


With this Tb-Scout v4.0 Multimedia Module it is possible to:

    • Search multimedia items by name or by file type
    • Preview image files and video files. Listen to audio snippets.
    • Extract audio, image and video files
    • Generate and export an inventory, a listing, of multimedia items (found in a Termbase) by file type


The three icons below ('multimedia indicators'), in the Termbases Explorer, is how a user can tell that a Termbase has multimedia items:



      1. Hover the mouse pointer over this icon to see the types of multimedia items by file extension. Icon 1 is hidden whenever icon 3 is in the Off position
      2. Click on this icon to open this Multimedia Module
      3. Click on this On-Off button to enable search by multimedia file names (On), by default, or to disable it (Off). When this button is in the Off position, it is possible to get more search results for text in general (Extended Search), otherwise the results will sometimes be truncated when in the On position (green).

Multimedia items, if found, will be listed by its file name so that you can perform a search such as ".jpg" to find all the files in this format and its corresponding entry ID.

Here is a list of multimedia file types supported by MultiTerm: 

avi, .bmp, .dxf, .eps, .fpx, .gif, .ico, .img, .jpg, .midi, .mp3, .pcd, .pcx, .png, .ps, .tga, .tif, .wav, .wmf, and .wmg.


Caveat: There is an issue with multimedia files whose name is longer than 50 characters. Pictures, for instance, will not show in this Multimedia module nor in the Extended Search results, yet, their names will always be visible in a Bird's Eye View of a Termbase entry. This is due to the design of the Termbase data model itself, an issue which could be circumvented but there is no use case that merits further development.
 
The solution: Shortening file names and re-inserting them in the corresponding multimedia type Descriptive Field will make them visible inside this Multimedia module. 



Important to note regarding Trados terminology in the cloud, or Trados cloud Termbases. Multimedia objects are indirectly linked to a URL, saved in a text field, instead of using Base64 strings as the traditional MultiTerm Desktop has efficiently done for years.
So, if you want your multimedia items to travel along with your Termbase, that is, embedded, MultiTerm Desktop is the only resource available for this purpose. Trados terminology in the cloud only offers these data types: Text, Number, Boolean, Date/Time and Picklist.

In other words, there is no "Multimedia File" data type in cloud termbases. 
The fact of the matter is that only MultiTerm Desktop natively processes, stores and displays multimedia items (images, audio and video) in Termbases. And Tb-Scout v4.0 allows you to preview and extract these items. No other commercial application offers this multimedia feature with this simplicity and efficiency.