Point to proxy CatDV didn’t create

[Nathan Mcalpine]

This creates another problem. If I have 1000 different paths, and I archive these projects, is there a way to make these paths auto-update?

~ Nate

[Rolf Howarth]

Unless you have 1000 different projects and their proxies dotted at random places around your file system you should only have to set up a mapping once for the root of your media hierarchy.

If I set up a proxy path mapping

/Volumes/Media => /Volumes/CatDV/Proxies

then that covers ALL the projects on my media volume:

/Volumes/Media/Project1
/Volumes/Media/Project2
…
/Volumes/Media/Project1000

[Lee Legg]

This thread has been very helpful, but I’m having trouble making CatDV see the proxies I’ve created. I have my original media in the location E:\Video Projects\B-Roll\General Terminal

I set my Path-Based Proxies location in the proxy manager to E:\CatDV Proxies\E\Video Projects

The names of the files are the same, except the extension. One of the original files is E:\Video Projects\B-Roll\General Terminal\20130123110536.m2ts. The path of the proxy file is E:\CatDV Proxies\E\Video Projects\B-Roll\General Terminal\20130123110536.mp4.

When I click on the video clip in the catalog, the proxy tab does not highlight.

Here’s a image of the proxy manager:

Thanks for the help.

[Rolf Howarth]

The two sections in the Media Search Path preferences don’t directly relate to each other. In each case, they specify how to get from the media path (as stored against the clip) to either the proxy or the current location of the full-res media files. In the case of full-res files you might use it to map from a Mac path to a Windows path (or vice versa) if the catalog was created on a different platform, for example.

In your case, you want a path-based proxy mapping of E: => E:CatDV ProxiesE

in order to map E:Video ProjectsB-RollGeneral Terminal20130123110536.m2ts to
E:CatDV ProxiesEVideo ProjectsB-RollGeneral Terminal20130123110536.mp4.

[Scott Goddard]

I am trying to work out a way of using the worker to place the externally created proxies (episode and compressor etc) into their correct folders in the proxy path mapping.

I can get the files sent to the external encoders but I am having difficulty getting the worker to pick them back up and place them in the relevant proxy folders.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Scott Goddard

Neo Verite Limited
http://www.neoverite.com

[Bryson Jones]

The only way I’ve done what you’re describing is to receive the files together in a directory, with the proxy named “something-proxy”. Then, if you’re putting the hi res away with the Worker, you can easily use a regex to remove the “-proxy” from the name and place the proxy in the correct proxy folder.

This only works if the Worker is moving the file, so it has a pre-defined path to use, or at least one that it’s “aware” of. If you need to proxy a file that’s already in a folder structure…

If you want to drop the files somewhere and have CatDV pick them up and import them, that’s really hard as you’d have to query the database for the path, looked up by filename, which is way harder than just scripting the encoding app via command line.

(Warning – blatant advertisement here. I only include these because they answer the question.)

NSA provides scripts for both Compressor and Telestream’s Episode command line interface through our dealers.

Compressor can be set up without outside scripts so if you’re handy you can probably get that running, or ask your integrator to pitch in. We offer it as a service because some folks don’t wanna suffer through the hassle.

Episode and CatDV Worker Node actually have somewhat opposing variable syntax so we wrote a translation script that enables the Worker and Episode to communicate correctly.

Honestly these systems are difficult to support and could impact other your storage (both need directories created for the files to land in) so I don’t offer them “on the Cow”, (not to mention the hours of dev work that went into them by our staff.)

If someone has a way to determine the correct path to drop a file into the proxy path without a lookup, please post, but we do it through the CLI and if you are interested in the scripts I mention, contact your CatDV Reseller or JB&A rep.

bryson

bryson “at” northshoreautomation.com

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