[John Heagy]

I’m guessing your working in 23.976.

24000/1001 is the fractional way of defining 23.976.

24000/1001=23.976

Probably Adobe’s way of defining that frame rate.

John

[John Heagy]

[Craig Seeman] “AVMovie with support for AVFragmentedMovie!

Hodgetts thinks about the QT Reference movie equivalent but perhaps it’s the “missing link” for Motion round tripping.”

My heart leapt at the thought of ref movies being supported in AVFoundation but no such luck.

Fragmented movie refers to a fragment duration setting in AVF that allows a movie recordings be safely closed at this interval protecting the recording incase it is busted. This has the side effect of enabling read while recording. What AVFoundationMovie seems to allow is the app to get updated allowing the growing file to grow within the app unlike with FCPX and 7 which requires one switch away and back from the app to update the duration.

John

[John Heagy]

Hi Bryson,

We would not consider “punching metadata” into camera original files. I am interested in adding metadata into our 24p to 1080i processed footage. This is the media we link to and where we need our metadata ideally embedded into the file.

John

[John Heagy]

[Rolf Howarth] “Harvesting metadata from the file path is something you can do easily when importing files with the Worker Node. “

I guess I’m asking for away to embed the harvested metadata in QT “reel” or other com.apple metadata

[John Heagy]

Hi Rolf,

Thanks for the info. We generally don’t need to modify TC but we do Reel, and unfortunately Reel is tied to the TC track. Without “Add TC Track” there is no way to change “Reel” so I would certainly like that re-introduced. Having said that I think moving to the more modern com.apple metadata is wise. The equivalent entry is com.apple.proapps.studio.reel. Ideally the re-introduction would populate both.

I posted a request, a few weeks back, to harvest metadata from a file’s path as a way of automating embedding metadata. Using the enclosing folder name as the source for “reel”, or other metadata entries, would be helpful. Resolve does this in addition to parsing it from a filename.

I’ll be sure to get a demo license and test CatDV 11

Thanks
John

[John Heagy]

We have a Coraid system that uses zfs straight from the source in the form of a Sun X3-L2 server running Solaris with half populated 256GB of ram. It consists of six 36 drive SRX 6300 chassises each with 18×6 vdevs in raidz2. The chassises are half populated with 18 drives each and can be scaled up as granular as one drive per chassis. No L2ARC or ZIL. The vdevs consist of one drive per chassis meaning we have a RAIN 6 system so we can loose two whole chassises without data loss.

Other zfs based systems are Nexsan’s NST, tho you’ll find no mention of zfs on their site, and OWA’s Jupiter Callisto NAS.

John

https://www.coraid.com
https://www.nexsan.com/products/NST-Series.aspx
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/L0835R016T

[John Heagy]

CatDV will do exactly what you want. It only works with .mov and does it as a text track and not “burned in” so it will need QT player to see it.

John

[John Heagy]

I have to agree especially the lasting effect Apple’s arrogance has had. Both the incredible botched rollout and terminology change.

We finally purchased CC and I literally breathed a big sigh of relief what I saw all the preferences necessary to a professional workflow.

John

[John Heagy]

[bryson jones] “Then the idea is that you would check the status of a “temp” file before re-restoring it?
“

We would never restore the “temp” file but simply delete it. Once deleted it would ideally be deleted from the catalog. The alternative would be to create a new catalog very 1/2hr and delete all previous. We would use CatDV to tell us “what’s there” and report the metadata to our in house linking app.

[John Heagy]

Well there’s a “widespread” need here 😉

We are planning a restore workflow where the restored files do not go back to there original location but to a “restore” location that is very transient. We plan on using CatDV to catalog these files and communicate what is there. Since these files are regularly deleted and never restored it would be useful for CatDV too actually delete the files from the catalog when they are deleted from the restore location, Otherwise we will need some sort or online status for catalog/s that are full of deleted files.

John