[Leonid Nekrasov]

Ah. o.k.. I see. It’s a pity i didn’t mentioned your post before, even though I searched the forum for some similar issues. But you have just the same problem as I have. It is often so difficult to spot the cause of the problem, when so many elements are involved in a workflow.

The Telestream distresses me more and more. I use different Telestream products and have always some confusing problems with them.

So it seams I can’t use the expensive episode encoder I just bought for building proxys. Hm…

I will try the CatDV 9.0.6 asap.

Thank you very much!
Regards
Leo

[Leonid Nekrasov]

Hi Kevin,

the Problem seems to be the compatibility between the mp4 files and the CatDV. The Proxys were build in a proper way. The Paths and the naming are correct. I checked this by exchanging the not working mp4 testfile by another mp4 (that was created with MPEGStream Clip) with the same name. In that case everything worked fine.

I am confused because my mp4 files causes a strange behavior. If they wouldn’t work at all, it would be clear. But they work in the slider “Movie” (if I use them as main assets, by importing in the catalog) and don’t work in the slider “Proxy” (if I try to use them as a proxy files) in CatDV Pro. I don’t know how CatDV build, but it seems that two different engines trying to play the same moviefile, and the proxy one fails.

Regards,
Leo

[Leonid Nekrasov]

Hi,

that’s strange 🙂 Yesterday it didn’t work. But today it seems to work like a charm. Maybe just the restart of the system was needed, what I don’t really believe. I will do some more tests and will see if it work stable.

Here are some code snippets for any case:

# look up for a source clip to grab its metadata. print the metadata and wright them in a temporary text file.
catdv -query STS="new" -query CAT:2:Catalog1 -limit 1 -format bar -print ID,U72,U1,U2,U3,U4,U6,U8,U10,U21,U23,U26,U29,U50,U42 > $tmpfile

#read the tempfile and set new variabels
ID=`awk -v FS='|' 'NR==2 {print $1}' $tmpfile`
U72=`awk -v FS='|' 'NR==2 {print $2}' $tmpfile`
U1=`awk -v FS='|' 'NR==2 {print $3}' $tmpfile`
...

# now look for target clips and set the metadata from the variables
catdv -query U72:2:"$U72" -query CAT:2:CAPTURE -set STS="updated" -set U1="$U1" -set U2="$U2" -set U3="$U3" ...


maybe not a award winning script, but it works well for my purpose. I of course would appreciate any advises and ideas for improvement.

Best Regards
Leo

[Leonid Nekrasov]

Hi Neil,

maybe you could check, if my mails are also hanging in your spam filter. I wrote you several requests about the Web Client 😉

thx and regards
Leo

[Leonid Nekrasov]

Thanx everybody. This will bring me much further. I think this and some other often needed examples of using regular expressions belong into the manual of the Worker 😉

Regards
Leo

[Leonid Nekrasov]

Hi Rolf,

thank you. After Upgrade of the CatDV Server an the Worker the roles and the permissions have changed. That caused the wrong permission failure.

After setting up new roles and users, no problems occurred anymore. The new Worker seams to work slightly and has many new great features.

Great job. Thank you.

Regards, Leonid

[Leonid Nekrasov]

Thank you. I will have now to figure out, what solution fits better in our workflow and (what is much more essential) in our budget 😉

Regards
Leo

[Leonid Nekrasov]

Hi Matthew,

is this CatDV basic plug-in a part of CatDV Pro or is it a stand alone software, that I need to purchase separately?

Thanks and Reagrds
Leo

[Leonid Nekrasov]

Thanks! It works great for me.

Regards
Leonid

[Leonid Nekrasov]

Hi,

we are planning to use both: the PC’s and the MAC’s.

Our Problem: We noticed, that the solution with Worker and Enterprise Server doesn’t work for this case at all. Because the Worker doesn’t have any Path-Mapping-Mechanism (in opposite to CatDv Pro). So when the Worker runs on a MAC Server it cannot edit any clips in the Database, that have MS-DOS paths (\\folder\file). The same case in the other way around. The guys from Squarebox promised me a solution with the next release of Worker. I’m waiting desperately for it.

The performance is indeed different. In some cases the PC version seams to be faster. But on the other hand it crashes more often.

Regards
Leo