Robb Harriss
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See my post of today about the files that won’t play from one machine. Interesting.
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Well, then. Perhaps it self-healed, but I rather doubt that. After all this time messing with this issue-suddenly- I can now play and render files. I can play the masters and proxies that were not working previously. I just successfully render a series of proxies and they’re fully playable from the proxy drive across the network. No longer are the Movie and Proxy tabs graying out. Hmmm. It may have to do with exporting the settings from the one machine and importing them into this one. I’d already checked to make sure they were identical, by hand. I was set to pull setting from the server. But I thought I’d try this anyway. Apparently the secret lay somewhere deep in the settings and the export/import helped. This was prompted by the posting above about moving settings from machine to machine. And you know, I’d used that months ago with little success. Maybe something’s changed in .06?
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I’ll take a look again tomorrow—especially at the log file.
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as far as I know the settings are the same. As I mentioned it worked and then suddenly stopped. I can neither create proxies, nor play any made from the other machine. Nor can I play full rez originals. And when I say “can’t play,” I mean the panel won’t even come up. I click on the Movie or Proxy tab and it goes dark. It acts like nothing exists. It isn’t a matter of the player coming up and then not being able to play the video. Initially the Movie and Proxy tabs have the highlighted (white) text indicating that the video is available. But click on the tab and it goes dark and there’s nothing there.
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Brilliant.
Wonder if they come with the new version of Compressor…
And they might also come with the setup and drivers for things like the AJA Kona card and a few others. I’ll have to check that one out.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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there is a way to do it, I just don’t remember it offhand
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is FCP installed on that machine? ProRes codecs aren’t included in all versions of Quicktime.
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I booted the Mac Pro from the SuperDuper clone of the laptop. Using the CatDV installed on the clone everything was fine. It could read the master files on the server, and then generate and playback proxies.
So what do you think? Apparently a software problem installed on this particular Mac Pro. Note that it did work correctly a couple of weeks ago. The only thing I know I changed was updating the copies of CatDV. Note, too that CatDV is working fine on all the other machines.
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Good to know. Wonder if it was the length of the name? As a survivor of 8.3 file names I avoid “odd” characters. My graphics people tend to use hyphens and underscores, which make the file names work better on the web.
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I’ve been bringing in all our old footage and creating a library in two levels. First all the footage comes in based on the shooting location. This localizes the footage at least to an identifiable area: a business, school or hospital, something alone those lines. We do the same for accounting purposes as well. Shooting is “research.” A project (which must be amortized in our little world) doesn’t come into being until we actually sit down and design it (based on our ‘research’) and start to edit. So now I have list of places or areas where we’ve shot lots of different things. Footage comes in as ProRes422 and I’m storing it on raw external drives for later use. Maybe I get more than one location on a drive, and CatDV keeps track. I’m making proxies of everything at low rez. Sometimes that means M-Jpeg, but lately ProRes Proxy (with the file name and timecode burned in). CatDV proxies are stored on their own drive on the network.
Using Workgroup Server we can do scans and queries across all the footage. Primarily we’re using the proxies and doing initial edits with the proxies. I can make copies and consolidate footage onto a machine if I want. Eventually I move closer to a finishing stage — dumping the footage from the timeline and making it “offline.” I move the full rez footage from the raw drives onto a machine, and conform it. I have to do a lot of mixing and matching of footage no matter what I do. In the past, in the “traditional” non-linear methodology I was doing a lot of loading, and reloading from HDCam and DigiBeta tapes. I’ve reduced the time devoted to that part of the workflow a great deal by making my own files as part of my logging/archiving/library process. There are still kinks here and there, but it’s working for us. The best part is having huge amounts of source footage available all the time in the form of the proxies. I love being able to hunt up an extra shot in just a couple of minutes and then simply drag and drop it into my timeline. Plus some of our people are capable of creating “sequences” in CatDV and they arrive directly on my desktop where I can open them fully populated. A lot better than trying to read poorly scrawled lists of shots and numbers and spending a couple of days loading them just to start.
Good luck,
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