With the release of Wacs 0.9.2 we have finally addressed one of the most serious shortcomings of the WACS web system - the lack of web-based tools to manage video clips. At the forefront of these changes is a new app called wacsiconmgr. If we follow a link to it, we are presented with a page that shows what we already have for that set, and what can be updated:

As you can see we already have a normal icon and an official icon for this video set but we have no thumbnails showing the contents of the video. We've therefor ticked the "generate new thumbnails" box and when we click on "Take Actions", a range will be created for us to select from as those icons that best represent this video.

Here you see five possible icons for each suggested thumbnail position within the set. You simply click the button next to the one you prefer for each position - they are typically taken a few seconds apart at certain points through the movie - here we're looking at 5%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 95% providing five thumbnail images depicting the video clip. Once you've selected the ones you like, you can just click "Select These" and they will be copied to the set's thumbnail area and the database updated to point to them. The final page shows us what we have choosen:

We hope you'll agree this is a very useful new feature and helps address WACS's previous issues with handling video files. In keeping with our normal modus operandi, it is designed to be very configurable and we haven't got round to writing the tools to access that configurability with this first release of the technology!