Bryson Jones
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Also, could you post a sample XML here? We’d be happy to test on other systems and confirm that they work for you.
bryson
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Dougal, thanks for the step by step man.
bryson
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You may need to use an XSLT to transform the XMLs on the way in. (All sorts of things could be incompatible.)
If you’ve got the experience, it’s pretty simple. Additionally, some US CatDV dealers offer XSLTs as a line item.
If you want to test manually to see how it would work, export an XML from CatDV of an asset and change the fields using the info from the Reuters XML. It should come right in. From there you can plan your XSLT.
bryson
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“Online” is a very subjective thing… right? 😉
Since it’s dependent on the system component you can’t really track it in the database.(We actually have workflows where Worker Nodes are deliberately left “offline” for one reason of another so the asset is online and offline at the same time depending on which machine you are using.)
One Note: A full file system scan might take a while in a large file system.
Lets use 1 sec for a Worker Node task transaction time involving the file system. (YMMV) That would be 83 hours for a 300,000 item file system. (I’m assuming that you guys are going to be far above that file count.) Also for those 4 days nothing else could be done on that Node.
I’ve never seen this type of scan done in the Worker, personally. But you can have a script check to see if a file is online before performing an action and then respond accordingly. Remember that a workflow can have several actions in it so multiples might get you what you want.
One thing to mention as an example of something similar. We’ve recently developed a connection from CatDV to Isilon where we are using the OneFS API to manipulate files directly from the Isilon cluster for Tier1 to Tier2 archiving. The reason I mention this is that If your storage/file system is sufficiently fancy, (technical term there) you can gather a lot of info from it, including checking file location/existence very quickly.
bryson
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Carla,
We generally create our own “status” fields. Also the idea of one status is something of a misnomer. We find that 2, 3 or more “status” fields are necessary, along with a status log field for each so that you can track what happened.
If you use “clip status” and the status changes a few times and in different ways, it’s very hard to troubleshoot. By using a status for each move or action you can track an asset through your workflow.
The side effect is that you can control how and where the “status” is used.
The built in Clip Status field is commonly used by the Worker and so your data can get replaced without you realizing it.
bryson
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Ok, are you perhaps using 2 copies of CatDV that don’t have matched settings?
If you are using the standalone product, there’s no way to ensure that someone doesn’t change the field layout.
If you enter data on a machine. Then save it and re-open the catalog and the data has moved, then you have a situation that I’ve never seen.
If it’s flipping when moving between machines, then you have mapped the fields incorrectly perhaps.
People always wonder why we start every deployment with a clear document laying out what fields are where and this is the reason. Names don’t matter in a db, the ID is the law. Check the field ID’s (you can do this by hovering over the field labels in the GUI) and see if there are discrepancies in the layouts.
bryson
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Could you give us some more info?
Specifically are those 2 fields that switch as in:
“Working Title” = USER11
“Production Team” = USER12
And the values from USER11 end up in USER12?
Or is it like “Production Team” has “Bob, Sam, and Bill” in it and t comes back ?Sam, Bill and Bob”?
If you’re not clear what USER ID the fields are, then you’re probably close to finding the answer, keep looking into that.
bryson
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Vik, you have it right.
If you add additional paths to the settings under “Media Search Paths” CatDV will look at all of them until it finds the one it needs. So adding the PC path to the settings won’t affect the Mac systems, nor will adding a local PC path affect the systems that can see the network.
So in this way, you can have proxy on the laptop and then when they are in the office they will just re-link to the network share.
Re-sync or copy the proxy directories you need before the trip and the producer can view as if they were in the office. (Providing you have the catalogs local as well.)
Sometimes an external drive makes this easier to manage as you can just sync the whole proxy share if it’s not too big.
A little testing should get this sorted.
bryson
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Matt, I’ve never seen this but I’ve been monitoring this as it develops.
Can you check that the .mov extension isn’t hidden in your OS? Just a weird wild guess but something to check.
bryson
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Scott, we’re evaluating this for a client as I type. (Damien actually fired up CatDV with MariaDB under it at last NAB in our demo suite.)
You do need to compile MariaDB yourself currently, but of course if Squarebox adopts it I’m sure there will be compiled versions out there. (Hint hint, John.) 😉
The reasons John laid out in his post are North Shore’s reasons for staying as well. We know it, and there are tons of scripts and tools for working with it. For instance, all of our deployments include a script that automatically backs up the db to a network share several times a day. We didn’t see the need to re-write and test those. For that reason as well as the lack of data on CatDV with high file counts on H2, we’ve stayed MySQL.
We were driven to MariaDB by our clients getting up over 3 million assets and needing something stronger but not really wanting to deal with MSSQL licensing etc. So we’re testing and sharing data as we get it with Squarebox.
bryson
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