[Andrea Barnett]

Hi Marcus,

Just curious what hardware your running with your LTO 4 machine? We are using Tandberg Data with Presstore and are having lots of issues. Just not sure if it’s Tandberg or PresStore….been in constant contact with both for support and no luck so far.

Where I used to work we used StorageDNA and loved it, wish we had it here.

Any light on the subject?

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[Andrea Barnett]

When I worked with Cat DV pro and LTO we just created custom fields for any information we wanted to know about what was on certain LTO tapes. Also just making sure we tagged all our media with what LTO it was on. Then you can do a nice search query for what’s on what LTO since the media will be tagged with it.

Not sure what Cache A’s integration abilities are with Cat DV, but we used SDNA to automate populating some of those customized fields in our Cat DV catalogs. So for example, when we cataloged media that was ready for backup, we would select all the media and go to one of our customized fields to “send to archive.” This sends it all to through the SDNA interface, which then once it’s all done archiving, it sends back LTO information to automatically populate into cat dv.

Hopefully that helps?

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[Andrea Barnett]

OK great, thank you guys for your help!

I’m going to do a little test with renaming the name columns and make sure they have been setting tape names from when they are transcoding in resolve, hopefully all goes well. I will be back if other wise!

Thanks again!

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[Andrea Barnett]

Yes, we have tried three different ways of importing the footage and still get broken files. Maybe we are bringing them in the wrong way through the media browser? The way we’ve been doing it is we will go to our media browser and locate our files and see them in clip format, then right click on the contents folder and select “import”. This give us broken files.

Is there a different way to import through the media browser then right clicking on the folder?

[Andrea Barnett]

Hi Andie,

Just wanted to chime in on your comment saying “However when copying your cards always copy the entire contents folder and this will prevent longer clips being broken down into their individual files as a 30 minute piece of footage will actually be made up of 3 or 4 individual files on the card.”

Myself and all my coworkers are having the issue where we are bringing in C300 footage and the clips are spanned and broken up instead of combining into the big long clips it’s should be in. We are making sure to keep their folder structure in tact so that shouldn’t be the problem.

Any ideas?