User manual

328
Video Station
Video Station (2.3) is a video management tool used to organize videos on the NAS and to share
them with friends and family across the Internet. With Video Station, you can classify videos into
home videos, movies, TV shows or music videos for personal collections. Smart collections can be set
to automatically sort videos that match certain criteria and help you neatly manage your videos.
This chapter covers the following topics:
 Starting Video Station
 Familiarizing yourself with Video Station
 Using Video Station
 Media Library and Privacy Settings
Starting Video Station
Install and enable Video Station from the App Center (for QTS 4.1 or later) and follow these steps:
1. Upload videos to a shared folder on the NAS: You can upload videos to the NAS in 3 different
ways: 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 "Connecting to NAS
Shared Folders."; 2) Click "Shared Videos" or "Private Collection" on the left panel and "Import"
(up arrow) on the main menu to import videos from the local PC. A new shared folder with the
date that files are uploaded will be created on the NAS to store 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 folder view browsing mode and drag &