Robb Harriss
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It’s both easy and relatively bullet proof to setup. It assumes that you’re using “path” as the way to locate your proxies. My Proxies are all on a portable USB drive. And they’re very small, highly compressed mp4 copies, so an awful lot of them, all of them, fit on an external USB drive. Then the path to the proxies needs to point to the external drive for the new machine. Or to wherever you place them. I’m using the laptop remotely to search the proxies. The catalog itself is exported as a local catalog and copied onto the new machine.
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I had my server on my MacPro for a long time. Then I kept running into issues where I’d have to reboot it and that would take the system offline. I didn’t have another Mac that I could leave online and that would run the software. So I used one of my older XP machines that was sitting around hardly used. It’s been running the server for most of the year without any issues. All the client machines are Macs. Actually, it’s the only use I could make of the machine and it seems to be a good one. I’d still prefer to get it back on a Mac simply because I’ve gotten out of practice with Windows having spent the last 6 years almost exclusively on Macs.
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ok, that makes me feel better. I was scared for a second there.
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Wait, you have a single catalog with 15000 clips in it? Ok, that’s going to cause a problem no matter what you do.
I have a LOT more clips than that, but they’re cataloged by shoot location. That’s just for convenience. Many of our projects are created by pulling clips from many different locations, as if it were stock footage. Well, I guess it is because it’s repurposed as well. We’re our own stock agency in that sense. So I have a long list of catalogs filled with lots of clips, as I hope all the CatDV users do. But then how to find anything? Well, that’s why we went from a couple of copies of Pro to the Workgroup server. The server version allowed us to search across all the catalogs. So now that we have a boatload of shots and clips in many catalogs we can treat them all as one when we have to. We have one drive on the network that holds all the proxies all the time. That way I don’t have to worry about having full-fez footage online for logging and searching. Plus I’m pretty much the only one who needs to go near the full-fez clips.
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The obvious question:
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Ah, I get it. I certainly wouldn’t argue with that. It’s not so much an issue right now because I’m mostly just capturing and building catalogs. But I’ve been looking into the future and seeing all sorts of logistical issues. I have a few issues with Pegasus. It all comes down to Avid’s less than user-friendly environment. On the other hand the database and capacity for a large number of clips in MC is very attractive.
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Ok, I can see the math. And yes, I’m using the MXF option on a single seat of 10.4 connected to a workgroup server.
But if I don’t scan the Avid Media drive how am I supposed to get clips into CatDV? I’ve thought from the beginning that having to load all the files would be a pain, i.e. too many files at once. But my process is to scan the drive, make proxies, and then move the clips into new and separate catalogs. The resultant catalogs have only a tiny fraction the number of clips, counting them any way you want: as absolute number or MXF composite clips. It all works fine, right now. The only issue so far is the warning about displaying more than 5000 clips.
I’ve been in the middle of a large number of major projects so I haven’t had time to fool around with Pegasus, yet. But the tide has turned and review of the new version is on the table. I’m hoping that it will be an opportunity for CatDV to capture some Avid users, the way Avid and Adobe capitalized on the demise of FCP 7.
Note, again, that I have only one copy of CatDV using the MXF option. No one else attached to my workgroup server needs to touch original footage. They all work off proxies doing research on shots.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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when was the last time you backed up the database? Restoring it from a backup would help. And yes, you can repair tables, but their might be other tables that were corrupted. There will be better people to walk you through the table repair. I’ll have to go find my notes on it.
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to do web you’d need the web plugin as far as I know, and a web server and all that. Beyond me.
But if you’re on enterprise you should be able to make a simple interface and then lock it and give sales people access only to that interface, and restrict them from adjusting or changing anything. Plus you can put all sorts of restrictions in so they can’t get at files they don’t need to. That’s the great value of Enterprise over the Workgroup Server. You have the power, use it wisely.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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You on the Enterprise Server?
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