Bryson Jones
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Hi there,
You would need to use another application such as Episode that supports audio track mapping. I don’t believe the Worker can remap audio tracks.
I believe you just get tracks one and two by default.
bryson
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Is that proxy path in the settings that you’ve blacked out the same as the proxy path in the client?
Also, does the web server have access to that path?
For instance if your proxy is kept at:
\\192.169.1.12\proxy
But that share isn’t mounted to the server the same way, you will have issues.
bryson
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Shane, are the files on a local drive or on a network?
There are many issues with QT files playing over a network on Win.
(You might search here for UNC path issues.)
Hope that helps.
bryson
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There were some posts about Portal on here a while ago. You might search for those.
I’m not sure that there will be many people who use Portal on this board as most companies choose one DAM/MAM and stick with it.
bryson
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Good news,
Thanks for reporting the mappings as well. It’s nice to see solutions pitched back onto the board.
bryson
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I’d discuss that interaction (searching the db) with Squarebox. They are just rolling out the server API and traditionally the only supported way to “search the db” was through the Worker CLI.
There are ways around that (accessing the MYSQL directly) but that’s not supported by SB and might be more trouble than it’s worth.
Glad you got your archive sorted! Keep us posted here as to the progress as Dougal mentioned.
bryson
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If it were mine to manage, I’d say get the folder size more manageable.
You don’t mention a reason for not using folders. Is there a reason? If not, then split it up and many problems will disappear.
As this is an AFP (I’m assuming 1Gb ethernet) I believe that this indexing will be a problem for many apps, not only CatDV. Additionally, it will only get worse as the file count increases.
Also note that if you want to work with this structure you could also look at moving to a 10Gb infrastructure and faster storage. (Not sure what the raid speed is like on it’s own.) But I’d imagine that opening this folder in the OS X Finder is probably pretty slow/impossible if the previews are turned on.
This situation was fairly common on Final Cut Server rigs. We used to joke about saying “do not open that folder” as it would take forever to open and would lock your system until it was done or the rig would crash. This was just in the finder, not even an app.
bryson
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Server is pretty wide open.
We use MySQL on OS X a lot because we have shell scripts to manage backups and some GUI tools to perform maintenance tasks. Since it’s a unix variant it’s pretty easy to translate.
If you have a linux sysadmin, or the skills, you can put it on a pretty solid server box but remember you lose that nice CatDV Control Panel.
Windows has been fine but our clients don’t usually have the admin chops to manage a Windows MySQL instance and we prefer unix variants so we do’t use it much. There’s no reason not to if you are solid on the Win side.
Hardware has a big part in it as well. A Mac Mini vs a serious server machine is obviously not a fair fight. 😉 And a lot of people have strong Windows hardware already. But that said, a mini with an SSD raid is pretty hard to beat for under a grand.
Another pitch for OS X is if you run your Worker Node on the same box. In a Mac editing environment it’s way easier to script with a Mac Worker. (Less path conversions etc.)
One note, NSA is working with Squarebox support on an alternative db to MySQL to get the speed up without a big license fee. We have a client with 3.2 million assets in their db who’s feeling the need to bump to something more robust under the hood, but MSSQL and Oracle get expensive fast. We’re testing and hope to roll out a beta site within the month with a strong test completed by NAB.
In the end, it’s really up to your skills and if you need others to support the system. Since so many of our guys come from the Unix side and Squarebox has such good OS X support, we go that way.
bryson
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If you’re talking about using the tree to browse the file system, yes, that will be slow.
Just use your finder and drag and drop, or better yet, use your CatDV filters to gather groups of files and move them into folders to ease that issue.
When you browse in CatDV a lot is going on as the system is gathering info as it goes and that can create a lot of overhead.
Is there a reason that you are using the tree or is that just the way that you came to use the app? I tend to not use the file browsing much so I’m curious to hear what the advantage or use case is?
bryson
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Man, splitting automations is pretty common.
I’m still thinking your path might be weird. /D/Platform seems strange unless that volume mounts to the mac as “D”, as in /Volumes/D.
If the volume mounts on the Mac as /Volumes/Platform and on a PC as “D:” then you can deal with that as an equivalent path. But “CatDV Proxies/D/Platform” seems strange as a path.
Also, if possible, use UNC paths so that the mapping gets even easier to parse. Drive letters can be tricky for many reasons.
If the mac path is: /Volumes/Platform
Then the PC path could be \192.168.1.1Platform and that’s easy to manage and keep straight.
Not sure if that’s what’s going on but it looks that way.
If you have an equiv between /Volumes/Platform and \192.168.1.1Platform and vice versa as John mentioned, it should all map correctly.
bryson
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