How do I add thumbnails?

You can add thumbnails to the following objects: Projects, Shots, Elements, Assets and Tasks.

There are two ways to add a thumbnail to an object in the system today. One is to attach or upload a thumbnail to an object, and the other is to fill in the "Image URL" (thumbnail_url) of the object.

The URL method requires that the file be available somewhere on the internet. Obviously, this is unacceptable for a feature film because of the total lack of security -- still, some find this method useful. The other disadvantage to the URL method is that it pulls in whatever image you supply, meaning you could be referencing a huge image for the smallest thumbnail region.

Uploading thumbnail images is better because the image is converted to JPEG for the web (good if the original was PNG or TIFF) and is stored with three different thumbnail sizes, to make pages load faster. There are three ways to attach a thumbnail image:

1) Simply click the button next to the thumbnail image, and choose a file.

2) Click the "Set thumbnail" button on any existing image attachment.

3) Designate a file when you are creating a new shot.

The files are stored and served from secured cloud storage. The files can only be accessed by valid ShotRunner project members, are sent over SSL, and the links are only valid for a short period of time. We feel this is quite secure.

We have some experimental Python code that can upload and attach files as well.