Bryson Jones
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Can you check this on a short clip like 10 seconds?
I jokingly call the “beachball” the “spinning wheel of progress” in Java apps.
While you may have a quicktime issue or something like a slow network connection, you should know that the status bars often don’t update in a progressive manner.
For instance, a 10 minute clip will have a spinning wheel and no progress bar movement and then it will magically complete.
A 1 hour proxy job will sometimes show no change for an hour and then be done. CatDV Pro will show as locked or “not responding” but not actually be crashed.
So first test with a very short clip and you will see if it’s just reporting slowly or actually failing.
Next step, try to make proxy to a local location or export the clip from the file menu to make sure that the basic export function is working, before adding the proxy side of things.
bryson
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Sorry, I missed this one!
I don’t think you can do TC offset with Worker but ffmpeg is really solid, glad you are using it. It really makes a lot of things possible.
bryson
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Can you post the OS version?
If it’s older, you can select the 32-bit option in the Java Preferences (in utility folder.) That may have been swapped by some weird thing.
bryson
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It should work fine without an import. But if your logs show a “status 1” on your curl command, Worker is firing the command, but your curl syntax is wrong.
bryson
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CatDV is super flexible and powerful but of course any system will have issues with a file from time to time.
In a very mixed environment such as you describe, North Shore would normally give it one or two alternate means of transcoding proxy and tune the actions to read the media format and send it to the most appropriate transcoder.
Ex. In RED workflows we use Worker Node for the Quicktime media and send the RED clips to REDLINE for processing. Works like a charm and it’s good to spread the load a bit.
I can’t wait to see 11, however, it’ll make life much easier for us all.
bryson
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From what we’ve seen recently, a Named Query is only for your station. (Saved into your local settings, I assume.)
A “Shared Smart Folder” under Tree>Server>Smart Folders is where you’d save a “search”.
I’d love an update on this from Squarebox as it stymied us recently.
Dougal, you guys got any input on this one? I thought I remembered shared Named Queries being a feature in older versions, but my brain may be foggy.
bryson
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Toni, I’ve not seen this myself. However, I did some quick tests.
In my testing, I did not get the IN2 and OUT2 to come in from the sidecar file, even with the values set in the same 00:00:00:00 TC. We should get confirmation of this from Squarebox support.
It does make sense that your media and your in and out points would need to match up and also I’m fairly sure that CatDV would read the TC from the file over a sidecar but we should get support to confirm.
In the end, the “correct way” would be to do one of the following:
1. Translate your in and out points to 00:00:00:00 times and express them as a “Marker Range”.I was able to get these to import. This destroys your start time.
2. A better way IMHO is to apply the correct start TC to your files.
In CatDV under Tools>Apply Timecode Offset you can do this. However, this does not, however change the start TC of the file, only updates the CatDV clip record.
It’s looking like AVI might not be the best format for these files due to the TC and wrapper limitations. This translation can be easily done in QT and other wrappers.
bryson
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You can use most any web hosting storage for proxy if you use the http proxy setup in CatDV.
But I’d like to clarify that Google Drive is not Google’s Cloud Storage product.
https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage/
If you’re looking to use the actual “Google Drive” storage, the way that Google Drive exposes your clips to the “public” might not be the best way to store proxy. However, if you are looking to have the media served by your Tomcat server, then that will work fine but still generate a copy on your hosted server, which defeats the purpose by serving it off of the server’s hard drive, as the Google Drive would sync to your drive where the Tomcat server would store it.
I believe you are looking for web users to pull from Google directly and that might not be easily done with traditional Google Drive storage as CatDV proxy is usually served from a straight
“/path/to/proxy/media/path” type structure and I believe “Drive” needs to serve a specific URL from the Drive app. (check this.)
But there are a ton of cheaper options for web storage out there that I’m sure you could use (Amazon and the Google Cloud above) that would support the type of protocols that you need.
As always, you need a solid web admin to do these more web centric configurations, as security is highly dependent on your configuration.
bryson
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Sorry, I missed this one.
The catdv2.war is stored in /usr/local/catdvServer on the mac os.
If you don’t have that file for some reason and are familiar with examining packages, you can manually pull the catdv2.war file out of the server installer.
View the package contents for the “Install CatDV Server.mpkg”and then expand the “Archive.pax.gz” file inside.
That will give you a folder called “Archive2” where you can navigate to:
Archive 2/usr/local/catdvServer/catdv2.war
Copy that to wherever you need it.
bryson
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Thanks for the update, and please keep us posted as to how it goes over time.
I’m curious about Cantemo as well, was it strictly price that swayed you to Axle?
As to the licensing, you can’t really gripe about at the price (though you know we all will). CatDV and Axle are so far under the competition that I really don’t consider that a limitation. 60 users on any DAM is a significant investment.
Speaking of investments. Are you fairly confident that you’ll be rolling out Adobe Anywhere? And will that likely be in-house or over a WAN?
Knowing that it’s looking to be a $50k+ solution, once you have hardware and software integrated for let’s say 4 users, I’m curious as to how many people will really dig in and use it below the large broadcaster level. (For those of you curious, check the AA hardware requirement and network needs. It doesn’t exactly run on a Mac Mini over wifi.) We’ve looked at it seriously and think that the average deployment of that product will be pushing $100k for a decent sized shop.
I love the idea and the product but I think people are really unclear about the infrastructure needed at the current time.
That all said, congrats on deploying a DAM and getting into the mix and thank you for posting your results.
bryson
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