Bryson Jones
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I’ve not explored it. We usually have users report them and the assist or whoever, refires the script since it doesn’t happen too much.
If it’s a problem, a checker” script could be easily written. (I’ll try to test and see if the CLI in Worker 4 can see that field if I get a chance.)
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Is the Calibrated codec licensed or a demo? That could be something.
I’ll buzz the Calibrated folks about this and see what they say.
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Add one of the stock fields to your search like Codec or Type. Then you can only return clip or still or QT or whatever you like.
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That’s sticky –
The way I do it is to put it into a “group” that you can allow the other groups to see.
If it’s for ProjectA but for instance ProjectB and ProjectC users need to see it but can’t see anything else in A, then it has to be in something like ProjectD that all groups can see. Then you can map it various places using Saved Searches or Smart Folders.
Often I end up with ProjectA-edit, ProjectA-approval and ProjectA-raw groups that serve the same project but that way you can hide clips from different groups of users. The editors could see edit, approval and raw, the producers might only see approval, for instance.
It becomes a balance of groups, users, catalogs and names that you work with to create your workflow.
This is one of those areas where “knowing” CatDV is different from creating a working solution. The layout and intended use of media seriously impacts the way you build the database and user structure. Go slow and remember, you can always change it up later.
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John, I tend to move things from a watch after they are processed, just to avoid the “rescan” issue, but I know that doesn’t work for all workflows.
Not sure about the settle thing, but I’ll take your word for it. I don’t have many with such a wide range so I can usually guess my wait time but in a situation like that I’m sure it’s critical.
I’d also like to be able to kill a single process without stopping the whole app.
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Thank you! And that’s a hard one I’d have chased it forever.
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CatDV includes no device drivers and cannot directly interact with LTO or any other tape device at a hardware level.
The integrations we speak of here are with the various software packages that control the drives. Atempo, PresSTORE and in the case of the Cache-A units, they have hardware and software in one unit.
If the Tivoli software can be accessed from a command line interface, then the CatDV worker can be scripted to hand off archive jobs to it, but this is a custom function and is usually done on a job by job basis.
Generally your integrator should be able to engage Squarebox or their own team to help you set up scripts such as this. I’ll take a look and see if I can find any Tivoli documentation to see if it allows for outside control.
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I’m assuming the usual escaping of spaces etc has been done so I’ll just share what I’ve seen.
I’ve seen timeout errors in shell commands from Worker myself.
Curl would timeout on large ftp transfers, for instance.
But once it’s passed to a script I’ve not seen failures since the shell completes or does not, generally.
For something that simple you could just use a cron job (or similar function) on a folder and remove the Worker completely, if you had to, but obviously a variable passed to a separate shell script should work
Let’s see what the support team has on this.
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You bring up one of the harder concepts to grasp in the CatDV system.
Managing access to clips through the balance of Catalogs, vs. Production Groups vs. Roles.
As I paraphrase Kevin Duggan, “often the way you think you’ll do it, is not the way you do it.”
In the end, it’s easy once you dig in and see how the permissions structure works but it’s not obvious at first glance.
Using the Worker to move clips in and out of the user’s catalog is also a good thing to explore. By moving clips based on a metadata flag, you can make them appear (and disappear) in the client’s catalog.
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Check that there’s no firewall software blocking port 1099. (that’s the default port for CatDV Server.)
Also, check and see if that machine has Atto software loaded on it.
If it does, you may need to set the port from 1099 to 1199 on your server setup.
If you do this, then the address you connect to will contain the port number instead of just the ip address or hostname.
192.168.x.x:1199
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192.168.x.x or whatever it is.
See if that helps at all.
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