Howdy from ClipWrap

[Chris Borjis]

I can’t think of anything Colin, but while you’re here I must say
clipwrap saved my butt many times when I was exclusively running final cut pro.

thanks for that.

[Petros Kolyvas]

Chris,

This is wonderful news! I will no longer have to warn users about the issues of using ClipWrap in a native-workflow; I say this as a paying ClipWrap customer, so this is better than good, it’s fantastic.

Regarding MTS, is there anyway to do something magical: give us an option to extract the User 2 clip name from the metadata and change the name of the clip to that?

For example, the AF100 we have starts each card at 00000.MTS, which makes file management hard. We were using ClipWrap until we discovered the slowdown. However if we can return to it, the biggest advantage would be able to read the Panasonic Metadata for the User Clip Names and name the files according to this setting. I say this because the name increments permanently, meaning ClipWrapped-renamed clips would never have the same name unless I made the mistake of resetting the counter in-camera.

Eitherway, thanks for posting here and congrats on the release!

PK

—
There is no intuitive interface, not even the nipple. It’s all learned. – Bruce Ediger

[Colin Mcfadden]

That’s an interesting idea – any chance you’d be able to pass us a sample file with a known user string set? Shoot me an email at support@divergentmedia.com and I’ll give you an upload address.

We often get sample footage without any details on how the camera was setup, and metadata isn’t standardized in the spec, so we have to do reverse engineering – if we don’t know the string we’re looking for, that gets far more problematic!

-Colin

[Petros Kolyvas]

Collin,

First off, sorry for calling you Chris, my bad!

Second, clip sample in the way.

PK

—
There is no intuitive interface, not even the nipple. It’s all learned. – Bruce Ediger

[Truls Lie]

Dear Collin,
Clipwrap is fantastic for all of us using Adobe Bridge, to sort out
tons of footage with avchd cameras (like Sony NEX FS100).
The possibility to put in metadata makes us rewrap the files (the first choice),
but could you please tell us if there is really no lap or harder processing
in Adobe Premiere CS6 with these mov files
than with the previous MTS directly imported?

I would like to hear before I start deleting the old MTS-ones..

Truls Lie
Filmmaker and
editor-in-chief of the European DOX film magazine

[Colin Mcfadden]

Hi Truls – I’m not sure I follow your question entirely, but if you use ClipWrap with the settings from:
https://www.divergentmedia.com/blog/fullpost/clipwrapppro6

the rewraps should perform just like MTS files. The only exception is that with very long files, we’ve seen a Premiere bug that causes it to reindex the files routinely. We’ve got a case open with Adobe on this issue, and hopefully they’ll fix it in a future update. (This issue impacts all long-gop quicktime files, not just clipwrap files)

-Colin

[Truls Lie]

Hi again Collin,

Just aware of the
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/932740
saying there is a “lag” when editing after he used clipwrap.
So it is exactly the same?

Is there a way to return,
to make a rewrapped (first option) back to the original .MTS file in case?

I have used the terminal for the settings now,
and will rewrap all the files I have done so far again.

🙂 Truls

[Colin Mcfadden]

ClipWrap doesn’t support MOV->MTS conversion, though it may be possible using a tool like ffmpeg. I’m not sure if the issue described in that thread is related – it sounds like he may not have followed the steps to enable the special conversion mode.

-Colin

[Truls Lie]

Thank you Colin.
After the line in terminal, it changed clipwrap from really unusable to usable.
Before the mov clips didn’t play (nearly) at all when you moved around in APP,
but after and restart, the rewrapped clips plays like the .mts,
— who has been responsive al the time.

Thank you for mentioning that one.
But please, for other APP users, we are many now,
tell them this at the web-site or in the manual!

Best, Truls

[Fabio Bressan]

Hi, I’m trying the latest version of ClipWrap with some clips. With the previous version MTS to MOV wrapped files performed very bad in Premiere CS6, so I tried the new version and followed the instructions involving Terminal commands, but the newly-rewrapped MOV just don’t work at all, I can get barely a frame of preview or black screen or Premiere hangs out forever and I have to force quit it. As soon as I “touch”a newly rewrapped clip, even other MTS and MP4 clips which used to work flawless become unresponsive, and I have to restart Premiere to get everything working back. I tried undoing the Terminal command, restarting, but there’s no way to make them work.
Any suggestion? Clips are 50p, may this be the problem?

Thanks

Fabio Bressan