Bryson Jones
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I agree, you should not allow this. This is the very reason that we use read only proxy shares.
If you are nervous, and don’t choose to create proxy, then lock the user’s accounts to read only for those shares or provide alternate logins that are read only.
This is not a failing of CatDV, it’s a flaw in the environment/workflow. Lock the shares, or create proxy.
Even if you had a web client, you’d need to create proxy, so why not just do that?
Did your integrator survey your network and storage and make recommendations before rolling out the system? I agree that there’s huge potential for data loss in your environment.
A “right-click” could cause a disaster.
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Mac, PC, OS? Ram, clip length? All these things matter.
I’d probably say that you might try only working on Proxy in the verbaitim logger. That’s not based on anything other than all my clients are on proxy in the Verbatim logger.
Any of the Squarebox crew have any thoughts?
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Man, to be honest, regex is a bear, no matter where you do them. We never do them as part of a “fixed scope”. If a client wants regex, We put a guy on it and we see how long it takes to sort.
One way we deal with them is to break the action out in to a shell script so that you have more control over the action and not be subject to the Worker Node interpretation and then hand the data back to the Worker.
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Jeff, that’s a solid way to deal with non-QT stuff, but I’m not sure if the P2 proxies are single files. I think they may also be split MXFs like the main P2 media.
(Honestly, I haven’t seen any P2 proxy in years.) Per, are they encapsulated or are they split audio and video like the main files, as in XDCAM?
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$1 is enough, there’s no need for a regex if your file is named as you show.
$1 = 0001
$2 = snowman
$3 = peter
The Worker just does that as if my magic. 😉
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Check your import settings.
“Recursively include non-media files” is what you are looking for.
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I’m always a fan of separate jobs, just so you can troubleshoot easier. And yes, I believe you’re getting one “analysis” pass.
The Reg Ex stuff is the hardest part of the Worker. Can I ask why you aren’t using the $1, $2 and $3 variables?
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I’d love to hear more from Squarebox on this. I know that XDCAM proxy is supported but I’ve never heard of P2 proxy being used.
I will tell you that in my experience, the time spent letting your machines create Quicktime proxy is well worth it if only for compatibility. If you use P2 or XDCAM proxy, you need the software/codecs loaded to see the proxy, whereas with an mp4 or h.264 proxy, you can view it with any mac or PC and even on the web.
My policy has always been to create the proxy as the footage comes in to guarantee ease of use later on non production machines or the web.
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Might need something a little more fancy to get it perfect, but if you don’t mind renaming the catalogs later, you can set the root to the drop folder and use $h to put /folder_name in the Catalog name.
I’d probably script it if it was a lot of catalogs but if you needed cheap and quick, that would get you there with a little cleanup later.
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That’s interesting, on my setup, a “-set” command changes the value, it doesn’t append. Is there a specific option you are passing other than -set U??=???
So far, as I’ve seen it, the Worker CLI is one field at a time, query, return result and then pass that to the field you want to write.
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