Bryson Jones
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Tim’s right. Get a second opinion.
bryson
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Ask your IT staff to check your internal DNS. If it’s not set up, then perhaps set up an in-house DNS.
Or, as Tim says, a static IP solves the issue as well.
This has nothing to do with CatDV.
bryson
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It’s a good idea, but since the script is such a simple “if then” and the market is so tiny, I’m not sure I’d push too hard. (We’ve got our own “wish-list” for the next build.)
If this is stopping your work, you should be able to get a script written to do this fairly easily.
bryson
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John,
The only way we’ve been able to do this is to “hold” the first file and then through an external script do a lookup based on name in the “holding” folder once the other file arrives. (media or xml arrival triggers the “lookup”.) That, or create a record via XML and then have the media file attach itself by landing in the correct path and then move on with the actions once the file is linked. But again, that requires that you write the path into the XML with outside scripting.
Both options require a little work outside Worker Node.
We did this sort of thing with a client that wanted to archive high res versions of assets from a remote office, that they sent into their Approval-Q hosted at their home office, during the day. So they wouldn’t swamp their internet pipe, we sent the proxy and xml immediately and held the high res at the remote location. A copy of the XML was staged and “waiting” for the high res files. At 8pm, after the day shift was gone, the high res went over via Aspera and met the XML on the other side. We ingested the high res, matching its path with the proxy that arrived earlier and then sent it into the Archive system through another Worker action. (SDNA in that case.)
bryson
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Toni, sorry, I missed this post.
You can’t change the TC embedded in a clip with XML to my knowledge.
. To do that you need to write into the wrapper. CatDV can do that in the client or you can do it with an external tool (some of which can be scripted with the Worker I’m sure.)
Most of the high end transcoding systems can take a start TC in a sidecar XML and embed that into the wrapper but those are generally pretty expensive.
bryson
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Lee, does this handle clip spanning correctly? I noticed the import is Xuggle media which if I’m correct might not handle the spanning the same way as say Premiere does.
(In long AVC clips we can have 15 media clips in one actual “take”.) Can you let us know if you’re doing spanned clips or just running the media through the Worker as is?
I’m actually impressed that CatDV Pro client seems to do the clip spanning correctly (even Adobe has issues with that on some cameras) but we’ve been reluctant to put Worker Nodes on the transcoding just due to the time it takes to transcode.
If it’s over 2X real time people get a little antsy when you send an hour long clip. I guess I need to do some time tests on one of our boxes.
bryson
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Missed this one, yes, Calibrated allows you to treat mxf exactly like .mov.
bryson
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P2 requires the MXF option and also the Calibrated codecs (calibratedsoftware.com)
Works like a charm with those turned on and not at all without.
AVCHD is s tough one. CatDV can generally span the clips correctly but no codecs exist on the mac to play it in Quicktime so I can’t offer a good automated workflow, you need some manual steps.
Personally I hate that AVCHD was ever invented. It is the enemy of automation and the creator of manual busy work.
bryson
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We use curl to ftp (and other types of transfers and communications) but you can mount and copy too.
Note that if you mount and copy, a WAN connection is a lot flakier so you need good error checking or someone watching things.
Also, due to the nature of the Worker, (it must run as the logged in user and can’t run in the background as a daemon) having a web server mounted on a computer in your facility might be less secure. (People can drop the wrong file to that remote location easily.) Some IT folks won’t like that.
Glad that helps.
bryson
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Not a problem, all are welcome!
Generally a re-wrap is faster than a transcode no matter what the software that’s doing it.
bryson
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