Robb Harriss
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So what does one do when a proxy shows up as a “composite” in the proxy field of the Other tab?
I found a couple of these. It’s odd because they’re subclips, not full sections.
I’m guessing that I can either link to the parent file if I have it, or make a new proxy if I have the full file or some part of it.
All these goes back to a CatDV sequence that when reopened in CatDV had a “zero length” error message and showed as blank, even though I could click on each individual clip and get it to open in the trim panel and play correctly. Quite odd, actually.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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Well I’m making significant progress here, converting entire projects to path-based and it works. As I’m currently using footage it doesn’t matter that the “original” footage is a copy of the proxy. But the process does create a new file, a copy, but with a valid path and correct file name, which is linked back to a proxy.
What I’m doing is setting up a directory just as if it was one of my footage archive drives. I’m making the new files and sending them there, just as I would the original grabs off of tape. I’m doing an entire “bin” at a time. So once I’m done I’m going to my CatDV Previews drive and making a new Volume with a name at a path matching the new Archive folder for the new “originals.” I copy the new originals over to this new folder In CatDV Previews. I delete the old tape-based previews and make sure the originals link over to the newly relocated proxies. Doing this and ALL projects and file directories will conform. I can blow off the “originals,” or hand onto them. But it all works and doesn’t take that long. It’s faster, even, than mounting one of the Archive drives in the eSata dock and going back in to make new proxies when I have the originals. But I’m dealing with much older footage from a few years ago where we just deleted the originals and worked only with the proxies. The idea to reload only selects once the cut was finalized. I was even able to get all the sub clips to work, linking to the new “original.” Slick.
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ok, I believe I see what you’re getting at I do this once and I get both new “original” media and proxies. I am also getting an established path, that didn’t exist before. I can move my proxies over to my proxy drive and get them to relink using path-based. At least it means I don’t have to reload hundreds of hours worth of tape to clean up the older catalogs. I’ll see if I can get it to work.
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UPDATE:
You’ll note above that the opt-drag and drop did work, generally. However, not for all shots. I checked and some do say “composite” in the Other tab proxy file field. What does that mean?I stepped through the other process. It works. However, the process created new “original” media. That’s how the newly created shots show up. The original proxies are still being used. I’m guess I could mess around with the paths and such and fool it into using the new files as proxies by moving their locations. Is that what you were thinking?
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whoa, dragging and dropping using the Option key worked. Ain’t that nice. I can get the project done. But first back to trouble shooting to see if I can make life better.
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I’m working on it now. I just tried another file. I already have a version of it in FCP which is populated with the proxy. It’s sitting right here in a timeline. I know it’s not an original because I brand the motion jpeg proxies with the reel name and timecode burn. I try dragging the exact same clip from CatDV into FCP and it shows up empty. I go back to CatDV and look at the proxy field of the Other tab and the full path and proxy name is there. It’s a tape-based file and uses the old file naming convention:
/Volumes/EDIT 2 HD/CATDV previews/FV14/3000,1524160,1574344,96c.mov
That’s the mystery.
I’m going to try to step through the rest of your suggestion. Note that I don’t have server software installed at the moment.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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Hmmm, I hadn’t heard that one. Thanks Matthew,I’ll try that.
UPDATE: Ok, seems like lots of files that used to work are not longer working when I drop them into FCP. These are shots that are sitting in timelines in FCP from last week populated with the poxes. Try sending them to FCP now and they won’t populate. This even though the proxies function fine in CatDV. So far these are tape-based, but both old and new. Something broke. Yikes.
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Hey Bryson, how you doing?
I’m on 9 pro, no Worker (except me).
I’d remake Proxies if I had the originals. That would be easy. But I blew them off and I’d have to re-grab tape.
The proxies themselves work just fine in the catalog, which is a mystery why they’re not getting referenced correctly in the XML export. My proxy paths look ok but I can’t see where in the inner workings of the database the references are for the individual file. All I can find in the Technical fields are references to the original media’s path, which is not attached anyway.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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no, not quite. The creation of sub clips was only an experiment.
What I’m actually doing it creating a sequence first, then calling up full tapes (which exist full-length files in Photo Jpeg proxies on the system). Marking an in and out in the Source side of the sequence editing panel and dropping that marked clip into the sequence. When done I export the sequence as FCP 7 xml I can import the xml file into FCP 7. That sequence is populated with the proxy media. However, if I try to capture media to replace a shot/shots the FCP looks to load the entire original source file, not just the clip. So Instead of reloading a handful of 30 seconds of footage for a half dozen shots, it wants to load two hours worth of ProRes. The producer has put together large sections of the project as sequences in CatDV so I just want to export the sequences and reload only what I really need.Here’s one of the xml exports on Dropbox https://dl.dropbox.com/u/129533/third%20set%20of%20clips.xml
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I’ve tried exporting/importing the xml file to no avail. Tried dragging into the correct Node in the Tree and that didn’t work either. If I break a clip into a single sub clip, that exports correctly, that is—only the marked limits of the clip and nothing else from the master file. It’s the sequence exports that are giving me trouble. I spent most of yesterday reloading clips I exported to FCP as a cmx.ed. That worked fine.
Funny. This used to work fine.
I’m on 9.0.2 on a 8-core MacPro with 10.6.8. Some of the CatDV Proxies are on attached drives and some across the network on drives attached to another Mac, and some on a RAID attached to a old Discreet Edit system.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.