Bryson Jones
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I’m gonna try to keep this in both but it’s relevant here too.
Have you tested the system outside of CatDV? Could you do the same job in Compressor and QT Pro and see what the results are? I’m curious.
Also, just so we have it, can you shoot out the OS and other versions?
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Hey there, Kev, I wanted to respond to this. (I missed your post originally, sorry.)
As you’ve probably seen, proxy creation is a Quicktime process so yes, it can take a while.
Standalone CatDV is amazing, for the price. But know that you are a lone gunman so to speak. There’s no way to access extra horsepower to speed things up, as in a server install where you can have multiple machines making your proxy and processing files.
If you have to be standalone then you basically have to treat it as an overnight process and let your machine run.
In our larger systems we have multiple machines, clustered, creating the proxy, controlled by the Worker Node. My personal fastest site is 32 cores on fibre storage that can transcode 1 hour of ProRes to h.264 in 6 minutes. I didn’t build that cluster, it was there before me and I just got to hitch CatDV to it, but it’s impressive to see it run.
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Yo Matt, you seen this?
I’ve not run into it if QT can play them. Usually it’s path related but if you can’t even drag them into CatDV that’s odd.
I’m gonna throw out “Java version?” as a hail Mary.
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[Robb Harriss] ” Cloning is going to tend transfer a software issue.”
It’s also going to tend to transfer a software solution, if it comes from a good source. 😉
Also, if you use CCC, you can just clone the OS and leave most of the user files so it should be pretty small.
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Can I offer a test idea?
Clone the working box and temporarily boot the “broken” box to the clone. If things go away, you can start from there, or simply migrate the data and re-license the software and go forward.
I refuse to chase this stuff these days if I have a “working” version. There’s simply too many variables and too many things that some crazy editor may have loaded, updated or changed.
If it works off of the clone, go forward from there.
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Agreeing with Kevin and also, engage a reseller/integrator as soon as you can.
DAM is about so much more than software.
Quick Answer: If you need the footage later, catalog it and archive it. If you don’t, discard it.
How you do that, is an insanely deep subject. Note that the pros on this forum regularly engage for weeks and months with our clients on these projects before a single bit of software is purchased or installed.
There are several CatDV users with millions of clips and tons with hundreds of thousands of clips, so no matter your size, there is a solution for you.
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I only argue for my billable rate.
For free, I merely report what I can.
Short answer, CatDV is an asset management system. It does not manage storage and filesystems… it also will not do your taxes. 😉
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There are some technical issues that that would open up that would bring all sorts of hell to your world.
Interacting with storage and managing permissions on a file system is a huge undertaking. If you think about it, how would CatDV then “talk” to every type of storage in the world. (Fibre, SMB shares, AFP, NFS, the list goes on.) If CatDV could do this, or any program, it’d be either the most expensive app in the world… or it would lock you to one type or storage.
Does a web browser control your access to web pages? No.. the server does. And that’s what servers should do.
Filesystem interactions breed pain for programmers and users.
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First, congratulations, this is a tough one to learn and install on your own. I admire your initiative.
Secondly, be careful. Allowing someone to delete all your media is one way to make it easier to manage. But I don’t recommend it. 😉
With great power, comes great responsibility.
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It’s weird that they play in Quicktime though.
I’m stumped on this one.
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