Alex Udell
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Premiere Pro Coin
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Do you see a waveform in the source viewer or timeline?
Alex
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You can select a clip in the timeline that already has the fx settings you want, then select a clip you want to have those setting and right click and choose “paste attributes.” This will allow you to select what you want to paste to the destination clip.
Is this what you mean?
Alex
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As far as I know, PPro doesn’t rely on an intermediate database like Avid does. It’s just the File path to the media. Simple.
🙂
Alex
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Bingo.
As far as PPro is concerned it’s the same files, in the same location, with the same names. It doesn’t know or care that additional files have been added.
Of course I wouldn’t do the copying with PPro open.
At worst, I would think, you might need to relink. But even that really shouldn’t be the case.
Alex
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Hello,
The short answer, based on your description is yes. You have to copy the entire folder structure to your drive every time.
TEST THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY:
If you’re building UP a card over time, then it is possible that you could copy the P2 Card to the same place on the Hard drive every time. Files that you had copied last time would simply overwrite themselves. So Premiere Projects that you’ve created based on that media SHOULD remain as they were (that’s your test). Files that you’ve added to the card since the last time you used it would simply be added in.
Alternatively there is a company called imagine products (https://www(dot)imagineproducts(dot)com) that makes some software that allows you to manage P2 media and make clean and independent folder sets. Maybe this is a route you’d prefer.
How do your Premiere Projects work? Are you progressively adding media to the same project over time, or are you making new projects every time you ingest media to the computer (because, say, the subject matter has changed). In either case remember that the location of where you copy the P2 media on to your hard drive can be completely separate from how you organize the Premiere Pro Projects, so you have have multiple projects in various folders on your hard drive importing media from the SAME P2 media folder set that grows over time until you reach the time where you archive it. Make sense?
Hope that points you in a good direction. If I can help more, lemme know…
Alex
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Hmmm….
I’d say if it’s making it messy…then opt out of that.
it might mean that caches get created redundantly per station….but at least it won’t gunk up the footage folders….
don’t know that either typically makes a difference in terms of performance…
Alex
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Max…
I could suggest two ways of thinking then. In either case the media caches live on the SAN.
Project specific: Set it to “Same as Project” where projects live on the SAN and will move with you when you access the project from station to station.
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Per Editor folders: Set up folder “per editor” on the SAN so no matter what project they open they are writing cache files to the same place. This I like a bit less, because with PPro I think it’s project specific, and when you move a project from one station to another, you’d need to reset it to that “editors folder” but it makes for easy cleanup because you can clear it all out in once go.
As far as the Metadata Controller being a contributing culprit in this….I’m curious…are the h264 files your editing single files, or dependent on a folder structure? And as a tesdt have you tried any other standard .mov codecs in PPro from the SAN?
Alex
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Facilic specific question:
there is a function in the Terrablock where you can map all your volumes on a path through the C: drive. It creates a “volumes folder.” This was implemented by Facilis so that when you move volumes from box to box and they sometimes end up with different drive letters, the path would always be consistent (i.e. C:/Volumes/name_of_volume)
are you using this method or just importing to PPro from the lettered volume of the mounted facilis volume?
ask your reseller/facilis about this…
Alex
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DVCProHD or AVCIntra?
Alex
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I pinged a contact a Facilis to see if he has any suggestions.
I’ll let you know what I find.I’ve also used Terrablock with great success. Their virtual volumes should be understood by your system to be “local” drives, so I’m really puzzled as to why it makes a difference.
Just as a test, have you tried any other codecs on the SAN?
Also out of curiosity, when you mention that everything works fine on your local drive, is this local drive also your “startup” drive? Are you Windows or Mac OS?
Alex