Robb Harriss
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You don’t make a folder for a catalog on the server. The sever “holds” the catalog inside the database on the server. If can save a local catalog in a folder if you want, but it won’t be referred to on the server’s database.
CatDv will also read the media in any folder you point it to. So that’s a folder you create ahead of time. But it’s for media.
I often make copies of a catalog and save them in Dropbox so I can call them up remotely. Plus they’re a backup.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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You can just open a catalog, select all, and build movies. It skips over the ones that already have proxies. I do it all the time. It should work on any query, too. I add material to projects/catalogs allmthentime and lose track of which have proxies. Works fine.
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Are you trying to figure out which clips don’t have proxies so you can isolate them and make proxies?
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I always export a master reference file that’s self contained. Then I make a proxy from that (using CatDv) as am mp4 or motion jpeg. Non-self contained “reference files are playing back your timeline as best they can, in non-real time. If there are elements FC cannot find (say a drive is offline) then it burps. When you’re asking another app to convert that “virtual master” it may be asking too much at times. Me, I like having the self contained master sitting around. Always seems that someone wants to see the cut when the project is offline, or I have to render it out as a different size or format. I used to have a lot of trouble with Soundtrack Pro loosing the video links when using a non-self contained reference file.
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Do you have the advanced menus turned on?
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I thought that would be the case. Hard to know if you don’t have the version in front of you.
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it’s that machine’s administrator isn’t it? Unless you’ve set permissions. I just have the workgroup server and it doesn’t have multilevel permissions.
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It sounds not entirely different than what I do. The primary difference: I’m using 1T or 2T raw SATA drives for my “archives.”
We’ve been shooting on HDCam for 11 years, and before that DigiBeta and super16. We have a lot of tape originals. I’m slowly making us pseudo-file based. I setup one of the rooms to capture the field footage (or master off tape) into FCP (7)-with the capture directory the name of the shooting location. It’s easy for me to setup large and odd batches. Then I transfer the files to an archive drive. Then I Scan the capture directory on the archive drive into CatDV and let it make proxies. The proxies are stored in that eSata drive hanging off one of the edit systems, which happens also to be the machine hosting the workgroup server.
So I end up with the camera originals in volumes\archive 11\WCSC and the proxies in volumes\G-1\CatDV Proxies\Volumes\archive 11\WCSC
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Here’s what mine look like. They’re actually quite messy because they go back a few years to when I was using Tape-based and had to change everything and then all sorts of things have been moved all over the system. It’s all fixed now. Fortunately for me.
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first check to see if the proxies are on the promise raid. (I use a 2T esata G-disk hanging off one of the systems). If you let CatDV make the proxies (what format?), you shouldn’t have to set anything other than the initial settings in the preferences. And made sure the volume itself is actually mounted.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.