Charlie Langrall
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Thanks Rolf.
My clients frequently ingest directly from the snapshot window. Another common use of snapshots is to answer the basic question “is file x on external disk y?” A “Find” feature in Disk Space Tool, similar to the Quick Filter in CatDV Pro, would help a lot. The addition of Find would make Disk Space Tool functionally equivalent to Disk Catalog Maker and consolidate the workflow for facilities that track many external drives.
Charlie Langrall
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I’ll echo Matthew’s question here – I’m experiencing the same limitation with importing image sequences. It appears that drag-and-drop ingest of an image sequence folder produces hundreds (thousands) of individual still files, not a single metaclip, regardless of Preferences settings. The only exception is if the first image in the sequence is number 0000, which in real-world terms is rare.
Thanks,
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Hello all,
Attempting to run queries on a user-defined field of type DATE returns the following error:
Failed to run query (Server error, maybe incompatible with this version)
Running CatDV Pro 11.0.3 64-bit on mac OS 10.9.5; CatDV Enterprise Server 6.9.6-4353.
Interestingly, querying the database by a metadata DATE field does work; e.g. Media Date or Import Date.
Thanks,
Charlie Langrall
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Thanks for your reply Dougal.
The problem is powershell actually does not exit after executing the script. You can confirm that it continues running by looking in Task Manager. I only see this “staying open” behavior when the powershell script is executed from Worker, by:
cmd /C “powershell -Command C:\path_to_scripts\myScript.ps1”
Following your suggestion, I placed the above command into a batch file. When I double-click the batch file to execute it, or if I execute it by name from the command prompt, powershell opens, executes myScript.ps1 and then closes. Perfect.
But when I execute this same batch file from Worker, powershell continues running after its script completes, just as before.
The work-around I’ve resorted to is to launch powershell from Worker using the START command, something like this:
cmd /C “START powershell -Command C:\path_to_scripts\myScript.ps1”
This method gets myScript.ps1 executed and powershell then exits. The problem here is Worker never receives the exit status of the powershell script. It receives exit code 0 (success) from the START command, whether the powershell script had errors or not.
Am I wrestling with a Windows 7 security feature perhaps? Worker is somehow not fully authorized to execute powershell scripts?
-Charlie Langrall
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Anyone know the correct way to execute a powershell script from within Worker? The following command works correctly from the Windows command line:
powershell -Command “C:\path_to_scripts\myScript.ps1”
When this command is run in Worker, myScript.ps1 executes correctly, but then Worker waits forever for powershell to exit.
Interestingly batch files execute correctly from Worker and return cleanly using:
cmd /C “C:\path_to_scripts\myScript.bat”
-Charlie Langrall
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Was this issue resolved? I’m also seeing slow/hitchy playback of h.264 proxies in CatDV Pro 10.1.1 on Windows 7 (not a trial version). The same proxies play smoothly in QuickTime Player, Windows Media Player and they work as expected in the web client.
-Charlie Langrall
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I guess this raises a bigger question about how CatDV works with media frameworks: QuickTime, JMF and Xuggle.
I’m looking at a large media asset repository that has accumulated over the last 7+ years and contains a wide range of video formats, codecs, and wrappers. CatDV can import and play most of these files, but it does less well at rendering consistent proxies that can be played and tagged via the web client.
Is there a good source of information about media frameworks in CatDV 10 — i.e. what is installed by default, and how to choose, install and use additional frameworks? Or is an external transcoding application (e.g. Telestream) the way to go with media this diverse?
-Charlie Langrall
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Thanks Dougal, that’s what I suspected.
-Charlie Langrall
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How about searching for clips that do – or do not – have preview clips (proxies) associated? We made a field to track whether clips have been submitted to Worker to render as proxies, and it works well — except when there’s an issue that prevents a proxy from being completed. The field “Preview File”, which contains the path to the proxy media, can’t be queried (as in Preview File = IS BLANK). Is there any other way to find missing proxies?
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We’ve been using Telestream Episode Engine to render proxies with good results. Our master clips are primarily XDCAM EX, with the filename extension .MP4. We use a Worker action to periodically query the database looking for new clips based on a user defined field called “proxies” with the values “to do” or “done”. The rendered proxies have the identical filename as the full-res clips except for the suffix, which in our case is .mov. Worker places the proxies in a separate directory on the media array, and we point to that directory in the Media Search Paths preference. CatDV then handles the linking automatically. Our experience is that matching filenames and correctly specified search path(s) are all that is required.
The only issues we’re having involve configuring the HTML Live Publisher to serve proxies, rather than original media, to the web client. Has anyone out there been using this feature successfully?
Charlie Langrall
Postproduction Supervisor
Found Films