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Short form file ingest management
Hi folks,
I typically grade commercials and have tried several ways to handle the ingest of source media. I have copied the entire shoot to my G-Drives which is redundant and takes space and time. I have used production drives directly which is quickest and most sleek but that leaves me without source media when the drives leave. Lately I have manually copied the select files from production to my drives but besides being laborious I have to copy the entire file as opposed to the several seconds I need.
Is there a media management tool that works like the browser? It would be great to use the edl to point to the production drives to bring the clips into the system drives with user defined handles.Separately the xml import function doesnt seem to have a split and add function. Rather it imports the entire associated file which can be thousands of frames which are not needed making the master timeline obese.
Thanks as always,
Dave
Dave Pickett
Colorist
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Seems to me the best way to do this is to use either the media manager in Final Cut (if that is the edit system) or consolidate and transcode in Avid. If you’re using wrapped movie files, editing operations (and sometimes transcoding) have to be done to make shorter clips, or to extract parts of existing ones. That is not really the province of a color grading system. If you’re using DPX or other file sequences, this is simpler because you can simply copy the frames you need and put them in new folders.
Split and add is a “virtual” function. It creates Resolve clips that are the specified length, but those clips can and do point to original media that needs to be available in its entirety. It doesn’t create new physical media.
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Hi Dave,
A production that turned over a RED feature to me on Thursday said they used a free tool that takes your list (not sure if they meant EDL or XML) , parses the list and prompts you for a source directory. It then copies all the R3D takes from the source directory that are used in the list and copies them to a destination folder in the correct directory format… it doesn’t split anything, it’s just copying whole files, but they did it in order to deliver only 2TB of camera originals for the whole feature. It would handle part of your problem.
But they couldn’t remember the name at the time, perhaps somebody else reading knows what it is. I’ll have to ask where they found it when they come in tomorrow.
Cheers,
KC
prehistoricdigital.com
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There’s a Mac Automator script called R3D Collector floating around that does that. But it’s also a pretty straightforward scripting task for anyone who has used common scripting languages like Python.
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Thanks Mike and Kevin. We have two creative editors (FCP) at Jam and I could ask them to use the media manager to parse the source media. I also get work from out of house so I am wondering aloud if there is an emerging protocol specifically for this for colorists. Much like editorial specs for film dailies only now colorist specs for post-edit media.
Dave Pickett
Colorist
Jam Edit – Atlanta
http://www.jamedit.com
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The production I am working with this week used a web app from Michael Cinquin at https://www.michaelcinquin.com/tools/red/consolidate which required that you export an XML, point the web app towards it, then use the generated script in your terminal or run the generated app to copy those files.
On the receiving end it worked quite well.
KC
prehistoricdigital.com
hardworkingpixels.com
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