[John Heagy]

[Oliver Peters] “Quicktime is no longer part of Apple’s media architecture;”

Yes and no. The Quicktime file format – no. Apple seems committed to .mov. The Quicktime API – yes, and will eventually be fully replaced with AVFoudantion on Macs. There is currently no substitute on the horizon that will replace QT on Windows which Apple doesn’t seem to understand the importance of.

John

[John Heagy]

[Oliver Peters] “The irony is that this inflexibly with media files is a direct copy of what Avid has always done”

Yes but FCPX lacks the collaboration that Avid’s “walled garden” enabled. FCPX is walled off but with little benefit.

Regarding Tape/Reel metadata and Avid… Avid does embed Tape in the mxf file if it’s a tape based workflow. This is indicated by the resulting Avid.mxf file name starting with this Tape name. There is a TapeMOB ID created in this case and is something we are trying to preserve in file based workflows. One can, like Oliver says, add the Tape ID after the file is created but then there is no TAPMOB in the file, just a database entry. We prefer the file have the Tape ID embedded so there’s no orphaning potential.

John

[John Heagy]

I have side car files working in 10.0.6 but have a workflow question when it comes to the order of things. I don’t want the xml cataloged so I set .xml files be excluded.

Here’s what I’m seeing in CatDV 10.0.6…

If I catalog a folder containing both media and xml, CatDV will assign the proper metadata while excluding the xml.

If I catalog a folder with just the xml then nothing appears in the catalog as expected. If I then add a media file in the folder and do a “Scan For New Files”… nothing appears in the catalog. If I reverse the order the media file is cataloged first without the xml metadata as expected, but adding the xml and doing a “Scan For New Files” does not transfer the metadata to the media file.

My ultimate goal is to have a Worker job export ref files with filename and Tape from the xml. Based on the above behavior in CatDV I don’t see a way of getting files and xml metadata on the same page considering the xml and media files will not always appear in the watched folder at the same instant or even minute/hour.

Is there a way to require a sidecar file before an action is triggered? Presumably this would be done in the “Conditions” tab where one could check a box that requires a matching xml in order to trigger the action.

Thanks
John Heagy

[John Heagy]

[Matt Compton] ” I don’t see how this can be actioned from the workers QT export settings?”

There’s a Reference Movie preset in Conversions/Movie Conversions..Edit..Movie Format. You’ll need to add a Movie Conversion preset.

John

[John Heagy]

We use CatDV to feed our Episode cluster. I don’t know how large your source files are but if there in the >5GB range consider doing a reference movie conversion straight to the Episode watch folder. It keeps all the media in place and gets you the encoded file faster.

John

[John Heagy]

Hi Bryson,

I confirmed it works in CatDV 9.06 but I don’t see it working in Worker 5.05. It does pick up the file but does not pass the xml metadata to the ref movie. I’m doing this as a watch folder action with “Look for metadata in XML files” and “Enable Content Analysis” checked but all for naut.

You said you’ve seen it work in Worker… which version?

Thanks
John

[John Heagy]

Yeah 2 1/2 hrs vs 10min in one case so we really take advantage of it when possible.

[John Heagy]

[bryson jones] “It’s been reported to Squarebox and they are checking it.”

Thanks for that!

[bryson jones] “Also, John, you can send a transcode job to Episode without a ref movie, using the CLI.”

True, but we use CatDV to assign Tape/Reel and, in the case of GoPros and the like, TC. The Episode CLI does not support either. Yes you can enter a TC number but you can’t split and stitch it like you can a ref movie.

John

[John Heagy]

Hi Dougal,

Hmm… that’s interesting. What was the metadata you passed? Was it CatDV metadata or custom? Can you paste the contents of the xml here?

I do have the xml pref selected.

Thanks
John

[John Heagy]

Hi Bryson,

[bryson jones] “n 10.0.5 I’m not getting a sidecar to work either”

Thanks for checking.

[bryson jones] “I’m fairly sure you don’t want to rename a file via XML sidecar”

The rename in CatDV would be used to generate a source ref movie for an Episode transcode into a new file.

I’ll try Worker and will notify Squarebox.

Thanks
John