[Lindsay Simpson]

Hi Rolf,

Thanks for your reply. As for the transfer of media CatDV > CacheA the media begins to transfer from VTAPE to tape almost instantly once the archive process has been initiated in CatDV. Generally the VTAPE to tape transfer does not complete until a few minutes after the CatDV transfer to the VTAPE is complete.

The error message ‘Resource temporarily unavailable’ at some level implied to me that perhaps there was a permissions issue occurring with the Raid where the raw media sits. I have checked and double checked this and find no issue in regards to permissions.

As for dumping P2/JVC folders directly to the VTAPE for archive, I have not tried it yet with those two particular media types, but I will report back when I do. I have successfully performed a direct VTAPE dump of an Ikegami MXF media directory, as for now I am not ingesting that media into CatDV as it can not be read as a Metaclip, at least on a PC based system, which we have discussed previously.Again, I will report back with findings from direct VTAPE transfers of P2 and JVC today or tomorrow, including transfer logs.

Thank you and have a great day,

Lindsay

[Lindsay Simpson]

Hi Allen,

Thanks for your thoughts. I recently upgraded to CatDV 9 which seems to have allowed the software to finally recognized the Calibrated XDCAM MXF plug-in and now the JVC Media imports correctly as Metaclips rather than Movies in the catalog. The disconnect issue is no longer a problem. And of course I should have mentioned this is a PC based system.

Now if only I could have a single successful ‘Archive to CacheA’ from any of my CatDV catalogs…though at this point CacheA has little room left to blame CatDV.

Lindsay

[Lindsay Simpson]

Hi Tom,

Thank you for your response. I look forward to continuing this conservation via your help line. I will send those logs along the email address you provided shortly.

Thank you,

Lindsay

[Lindsay Simpson]

Hi Rolf,

We have corresponded directly before, but I have a question specifically relevant to this post. I currently have CatDV Pro 8.1 with archive and MXF options as well as the entire Calibrated suite on a Windows 7 PC platform.

I have a handful of XDCAM EX MXF clips and a large quantity of JVC MXF clips (which I understand is the same structure as the XDCAM). I have been using CatDV to sort my media into different categories and then archive to Cache-A. After preparing to archive the catalog containing the XDCAM media, I noticed that those clips in particular were given the red ‘X’ and were not accessible. Bryson has pointed out the difference between the green ‘Movie’ and blue ‘Metaclip’ Type indicators in CatDV, as well as the importance of the Metaclip to retain the original media structure when archived. Having learned all of this I will now have to return to all of my JVC media, which I now recognize as also importing as movies and not metaclips.

This is where my actual question comes in, how do I get CatDV to import these MXF directories and read the Metaclip data properly? As you indicated in this thread, having the MXF option does the trick, and I do have that installed and licensed. Am I importing improperly? Or perhaps pointing to the wrong folder in the MXF structure?

Thank you for any insight you might provide, and please feel free to respond offline if appropriate @ lindsay.simpson@wyo.gov

Lindsay

[Lindsay Simpson]

Hi Bryson,

Thank for your response and clarifying CatDV’s handling of the XDCam media. Luckily I don’t have much of that, and I will likely just convert out of the MXF format.

With this greater understanding I will also go back and re-examine all of my cataloged JVC media as it has the same structure as XDCAM EX.

When you refer to changing settings, are you referring to the format of the media targeted for import? Or import settings within CatDV?

I believe I have all of the full licenses for CatDV Pro including the MXF and archiving options, thought I am running CatDV 8.1 and unfortunately don’t see an upgrade happening any time soon. I’m hoping Rolf and the guys at CatDV will hear my cries and include the Ikegami back end in a future release. Kevin Duggan did point me to a solution for a Mac based system with a Telestream product referred to in this thread, but alas I forgot to mention this is all Windows 7 PC based…

[Lindsay Simpson]

Thanks Kevin. I should have mentioned before this a PC based system on Windows 7…looks like this all of the MXF components are built for a Mac OS. If you have any other options, I would love to hear about them whenever you have the time.

Have a great day,

Lindsay

[Lindsay Simpson]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for your post. In fact you reminded me that I had plum forgot about downloading and giving Telestream Episode 6 a trial. I believe you provided this suggestion to me previously. After a 3 week edit hiatus I am back on the case,and thanks again for the reminder.

Is the media required to be transcoded? I’m trying to avoid any extra steps. Or does the installation of the telestream application provide the underlying codec needed for other applications, like CatDV, to ingest the MXF files as metaclips?

Do you have any thoughts on the main issue of this post? Importing movie vs. metaclip?

Thanks,

Lindsay

[Lindsay Simpson]

Hi Bryson,

Thanks for your response and defining the distinction between the green and blue ‘Type’ icons. The rest of the catalog media does have the blue metaclip icon. Going back and taking a closer look, I discovered that actual all the JVC media imported as movies, not metaclips, as well. I am importing using the same ‘Import Directory’ workflow for the other media types. Is there a way to specify Metaclip vs. movie? Or when using the ‘Import Directory’ function should I be pointing to a specific level of the media directory, instead of the top folder?

On a related side note, I have archived to data tape catalogs containing the movies not metaclips of my JVC media? Will that impact how the media is restored in the future?

Thanks,

Lindsay

[Lindsay Simpson]

No, in fact I had nothing selected in the catalog! Worked like a charm. I figured it was something simple that I was overlooking. Thank you 🙂

Lindsay

[Lindsay Simpson]

Thanks for the tip! That would remove a huge road block from getting our media archived.

Lindsay