How to stitch multiple files to an existing item

Stitching is done using the functions "Timeline API" and "Item conform" in Vidispine.

What is "Timeline API"?

Timeline API is used to store and retrieve timelines in the system. A timeline is represented in the system as a combination of:

The timeline itself (in the native format, but can be converted to other formats)
The rendered result as a new item.
The timeline with its constituent parts as a collection.

More information on API Timeline;

http://apidoc.vidispine.com/latest/ref/item/timeline.html

What is "Item conform"?

The conform resource exposes a simple way to combine media from one or more items into a new item. It is also possible to select specific parts from the input by specifying an input interval. There are two different types of conforming;

Start a confirm job = Starts a new CONFORM job that creates a new item and one or more shapes that contains media according to the conform timeline.The rendered result as a new item.
Start a conform job for an existing item = Starts a new CONFORM job that creates one or more shapes that contains media according to the conform timeline.

More information on Item conform and different query parameters;

http://apidoc.vidispine.com/latest/ref/item/conform.html

In the example guide below we will be using "Start a conform job for an existing item".

Example guide;

It's only for the item that the resulting shape should belong to that needs a conform job as a timeline. For example, given three items VX-1, VX-2 and VX-3 with original shapes with media. To concatenate these into a new shape for item VX-100 one would do:

PUT API/item/VX-100/timeline/vidispine

CODE

<ConformDocument xmlns="http://xml.vidispine.com/schema/vidispine">
    <timeBase>
    <numerator>1</numerator>
        <denominator>25</denominator>
    </timeBase>
    <timeline>
    <segment>
      <source>
        <id>VX-1</id>
      </source>
    </segment>
    <segment>
      <source>
        <id>VX-2</id>
      </source>
    </segment>
    <segment>
      <source>
        <id>VX-3</id>
      </source>
    </segment>
  </timeline>
</ConformDocument>

Then start the conform job using:

POST /API/item/VX-100/timeline/vidispine/conform?sourceTag=original&tag=house

This would then create a shape on VX-100 tagged with house containing the media from those three files. Note that the source items (VX-1, VX-2 and VX-3) do not need a timeline on them.