Bryson Jones
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Going back to this, I think that you might also look at the way that you are presenting the footage.
This is probably more of a workflow thing than a technical one.
Hearing your business, I’d also consider the idea of presenting a clip as a full length master and then highlight subclips, if you’re logging in-house already.
Then someone could check the highlights and that’d probably serve a lot of your clients, and if it looked promising they could suffer through the long download.
Also, not sure what web front end you’re using but if it’s your own CMS, you could also present several resolutions of the proxy so that people with low bandwidth could watch for content and then check at a higher bit rate later, if necessary.
Although CatDV can link one asset and it’s proxy, by default. It has a lot of flexibility if you are creative with your data management. We have designed workflows where people are tracking several versions of an asset using CatDV as this is something that a lot of people must do. Sometimes you have to leave the idea of “1 clip/2 versions” behind, especially in the stock footage world where you serve all different types of customers.
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Justin, I’m watching Premiere closely as well.
The aspect ratio thing should be an easy fix but I don’t know enough about Premiere’s API to know the likely hood of a “drag and drop” solution.
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Whitney,
You can have the subclips exported from the Worker. There used to be a problem with this but I believe it was fixed. (Worker would export the whole clip when you requested a subclip.)
Also, if you just subclip in the client and then choose to export self contained movies it should work fine. (If they don’t, you are seeing the bug I mentioned above.)
I can see the advantage of both. I’d vote to keep the whole clip for editors and then via a naming convention maybe make the short subclips available for web browsing in proxy form. As long as you weren’t doing much automation an assist could easily find the main clip. Or, if you had to automate, keep both hi-res copies live and just let it all flow and take the hit on the size.
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It’s actually a setting as well. You can drag the folders in if the mxf settings are set up correctly.
Looks like you sorted it though, so whatever works!
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Drag them all into the “main” window. (That’s the one where the list of clips appears.
If you drag several folders, CatDV will sort it out and display clips.
If, you have the MXF plugin and Calibrated codecs.
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Hello and welcome to the forum.
I’ve asked the Squarebox crew to contact you regarding a reseller and providing a more end to end solution. Your plan looks solid it’s mostly a matter of making sure it’s executed well and you have the training to feed it properly since it seems to be a large and long-term project.
Feel free to contact us here again if they don’t reach out soon.
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Not in the field, but if you have space, you could add an example to the field name.
production date: yr-mo-da
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I believe you may have this issue, as laid out in a previous post.
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Correct – from the tests we’ve done here – where the large viewer window in CatDV shows the green/pink plaid over the video:
1) Only XDCAM EX, XDCAM HD 35 Mb or HDV Interlaced video is affected (these are 420 encoded)
2.) XDCAM HD 50 Mb (progressive or interlaced) is 422 encoded and is not affected .
3.) XDCAM EX, XDCAM HD 35 Mb or HDV Progressive video is not affected.
4.) The issue is only present when either the 2.0 or greater Apple XDCAM Codec is used. If the v1.6 Apple XDCAM Codec is used then everything is fine.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
GregCalibrated Software
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I’m not sure that most QT apps can do that. (FCP gets to cheat.) 😉
You can speed up playback with JKL keys and also preserve the pitch so you get fast sound without chipmunks.
Check the prefs, that’ll probably help you out.
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Server or standalone?
In Server, just select all the assets and drag them to the catalog in the Tree under Server>Catalogs. The system will ask you if you want to copy or move. Select “move” and the clips will move into the other catalog.
In standalone… um… drag the clips from one catalog to the other?
If you’re talking about combining metadata, you’re on your own. 😉
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