media managing RED for a conform?

[Chris Hall]

Clipfinder 2.2 is a great free way to do this (version 2.5 is available for $100, but the free 2.2 will do everything you need). Basically you take your FCP XML and import it into clipfinder and it will identify all your red files in your project (no matter if they are prores qucktimes, transcodes, or proxies). Then you can relink those files to the original .r3d’s; and then copy and paste all the .r3d’s that are in your project into one folder on your hard drive. Then obviously just import only that folder into your media pool in resolve and your good to go with only the red files included in the project.

They’re are other solutions to this, but I use clipfinder for both FCP and AVID projects that I’m conforming in Resolve. Works like a charm, and its free!

Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA

[Sascha Haber]

But even would be using Storm or REDCineX to truncate the RED files and only use the part you really need.
That normally eliminates another 90% of unused media if space is tight.

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DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
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[Michael Stirling]

thanks for the reply

i’m not quite there on the method:

1) open the xml in clip finder
2) replace mov with r3d – all good and if i right click reveal in finder it points to the r3d
3) highlight all clips in list and drag to a new finder folder – this gives me a folder of full sized proxies (_F.mov) at about 20kb each rather than a folder of r3d files.

i’m guessing that it’s step 3 I’m doing wrong but I can’t see what else to do

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

thanks for this…

i successfully got the whole r3d’s files I needed by removing the in and out points then exporting as trimmed r3d’s.

i also tried trimming and found that i only got the 1st instance of the clip in my Da Vinci timeline with others being red Xed. But apart from that the space saving is immense though it was really about unweildy Resolve projects rather than drive space for me.

Cheers,

mike

[Chris Hall]

Highlight all the .r3d’s in clipfinder, and apple v to “copy”, then “paste” these in the file folder you want. This will copy he .r3d’s and not the proxies. Kind of weird I know, you’d think the click and drag would do thee same thing but it doesn’t.

Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA

[Michael Stirling]

Thanks

Probably would have taken a month to figure that out

M