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  Huge PDFs from Bru-PE

  Posted by Neil Sadwelkar on April 13, 2017 at 2:23 pm

  When one does a backup of about 2 TB of Alexa shoot files to LTO with Bru, and makes a PDF of the contents at the end of the backup, one ends up with a PDF the runs into thousands of pages, since Bru lists every single file. This makes it impossible to make a printout.

  Since Alexa shoots to file sequences, every frame is a file. 1440 files per minute (per 10 GB) so in 2 TB one would have some hundreds of millions of files each faithfully listed in the Bru PDF.

  Is there some way to present file sequences as a single entry?

  For instance, an Arriraw file sequence that runs from
  A004C001_170321_R56H.1309313.ari
  A004C001_170321_R56H.1309314.ari
  A004C001_170321_R56H.1309314.ari
  ..
  ..
  ..
  A004C001_170321_R56H.1328163.ari
  A004C001_170321_R56H.1328164.ari
  A004C001_170321_R56H.1328165.ari

  has 18853 separate entries in the Bru PDF

  But, If its listed like how DaVinci Resolve lists the above example as one entry, like
  A004C001_170321_R56H.[1309313-1328165].ari
  it could potentially bring down the size of the PDF to manageable (even printable) levels.
  And make it easier to browse through looking for a particular clip.

  Red camera or Sony files are no problem as one clip is one file, so PDFs of those camera backups are compact.

  With LTO-7 doing 5+ TB this is an even bigger problem.

  Any fixes?

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  Neil Sadwelkar
  neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
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  FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
  Mumbai India

  Neil Sadwelkar replied 9 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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