Conforming Rules

The standard conforming rules match the source media with the timeline using the following criteria: UMID, File name, Tape name, RED tape name, Partial file name, Timecode, and Folder names.

These rules can be extended in the Python API by defining classes derived from the ConformRule class and instantiating them.

For instance, the name matching rule can be re-implemented as:

class NameConformRule(ConformRule):

  """Match media filenames."""
  def __init__(self):
    ConformRule.__init__(self, "Name")

  def compare( self, media, candidateMedia ):
    try:
      sourceName = media[ kName ].lower()
      candidateName = candidateMedia[ kName ].lower()
      return sourceName == candidateName
    except KeyError:
      return False

The compare() member function has all of the logic to determine a match. It takes in a dictionary of metadata for the timeline media and the candidate media.

To activate this rule, an instance needs to be constructed:

nameRule = NameConformRule()

To turn off the rule, it can be either destroyed by setting it to None or by explicitly calling deactivate:

nameRule.deactivate()

If you want to list the currently active conform rules, a tuple can be returned by calling the activeConformRules() function:

activeRules = activeConformRules()

An example of a custom conform rule can be found in conform_rules.py with the other examples that ship with Hiero, or you can view it here: BinView Drag & Drop