QNAP TS-1079 Pro, Software User Manual

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8.13 Video Station
The Video Station (2.0) is a video management tool used to organize your videos on
the Turbo NAS and to share them with your friends and family across the Internet. With
the Video Station, you can classify your videos into home videos, movies, TV shows or
music videos for your personal collection. Besides, a smart collection can be set to
automatically sort out videos that match search criteria and help you neatly manage
your videos.
Sta rting Vide o Sta tion
Please go to the App Center and make sure that the Video Station has been installed
and enabled first (for QTS 4.1 or later versions only) and follow the steps below to
prepare for the Video Station:
1. Upload videos to a shared folder on the NAS: There are three approaches you can
upload videos to the NAS: 1) Install Qfinder on your PC or Mac, set up a network
drive and upload files to your preferred shared folders. For details on setting up a
network drive, please check the chapter "Connecting to NAS Shared Folders. "; 2)
Click "Shared Videos" or "Private Collection" on the left panel, and "Import" (up
arrow icon) on the main menu to import videos from the local PC. A new shared
folder named with the date that files are uploaded will be created on the Turbo NAS
to store your uploaded files (for "Shared Videos", this newly created shared folder is
located under the "/multimedia" folder; for "Private Collection", this shared folder is
located under the "/home" folder.) A corresponding collection will be created under
"Video Collection" as well; 3) Switch to the folder view browsing mode and drag and
drop videos to a preferred folder. Note that with the first and third approach, you
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