1. Protean 1.1
User Guide

2. Login Screen
Input the serverIP for the server to
connect to and your user credentials
to enter protean.
Once validated, you can choose
projects for which you are a
collaborator and may also add new
projects by pressing the ‘Add Project’
button.

3. TASKS
DRAWING TOOLS
MEDIA AREA
FILE COMMENTS
FILE APPROVALS
COLLABORATORS
PROJECT CHAT

4. PROJECTS
FILES TO BE DOWNLOADED
DATE TO UPLOAD
FILES TO BE UPLOADED

5. Live upload/download
Pause download Cancel upload

6. The uploads directory should be the
directory where all the project
folders are present.
Eg. In your D:/Projects folder you
have all the directories of the
folders, i.e., BR, TM etc. Your
uploads dir would be “D:/Projects”
The files should be kept two levels
below the date folder.
Eg.
D:/Projects/BR/2011/06_June/25/M
od/file.avi

7. Drawing tools
Blinking Chat
Assign file tags

8. Pressing this button under files list opens a file filter window where
the criteria for fetching files onto your system can be stored.

9. Pressing this button on top right of the application will start pdf
generation for current date.

10. Keyboard shortcuts
Next Frame/Previous Frame : ->/<-(Arrow keys)
Next Cue/Previous Cue : Ctrl+->/Ctrl+<-
Full screen : F5
Escape full screen : Esc
Fit to screen/original : Ctrl+]/Ctrl+[
Drawing tools : P,L,R,T