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Storage Management By Project
All,
Riddle this: Exactly how much storage is being used by a given project at any point if you are not on Unity and your storage is not project specific and you’re not on DS Nitris? It seems like such an elementary workflow question yet strangely I’ve never before been tasked with how to figure this out, that being what is the total storage consumption of a project if multiple projects share the same localized storage on the same system.
Unity makes this easy: volumes are project specific. DS Nitris makes this easy: individual guid folders per project and a Project Manager that actually tells you. But how is this done in the rest of the Avid product line when fixed or localized storage contains media for many different projects?
I’ve used Media Tool to isolate all media for a given project and then hit Control-I to bring up the console with a total duration. That somewhat works but if you have mixed resolutions, it’s a bit of number crunching and it gets trickier when factoring in precomputes etc.
We used to have Tony B’s Media Mover, but that requires actually moving the media into a singular directory and then getting properties.
Anyone have thoughts or methods on how best to do this? Project Statistics file perhaps? Is there some equivalent of the DS Nitris Project Manager?
Thanks,
MattMatthew Schneider
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Check it out!
Click that link and download MediaSift–the download link is on the right.
It works much like Media Mover, but this little app is free and will tell you exactly how much space every single project is taking up, then will Sift that media into it’s own folder (folder is named after the project), copy that media to another drive or another location on the same drive, or move the media entirely. Best of all, if you don’t want to do any of the above, you can just close it after you see how much space your project is using.
To get the most from the cool little program, delete your media database files in your OMFI media folder (msmMMOB.mdb and msmFMID.pmr files), the start the Avid. It will rebuild the databases. Start MediaSift. Select the drives you want information on and click “Scan Drives”. On the right, every project currently in your Avid will show up with a total of how much space that project is taking on your drives.
I use it all the time. Definitely worth looking at.
Mike.
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So I’m stumped…
I downloaded the MediaSift app, and it just says “no media” next to the 2 drives that have Avid Media on them… one is an AVID raid, and the other is an internal drive (which has media by accident…).
I deleted and rebuilt the index files, and got some “Disc_Access_Error” messages, but didn’t think that would be a total showstopper.
The little app that everyone is raving about can’t find anything, and I’m sure it’s because I have something set wrong.. any ideas?
Thanks!
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