Robb Harriss
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I don’t believe that we’re getting the whole picture. The process described makes no sense
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What happens if you do a standard drag and drop into FCP from WITHIN CatDv, not using the finder?
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I’ll toss in a warning. You can easily run into a problem with the overall number of characters in the entire PATH gets too long. I’ve had it happen. I can’t remember when, but there was a nice long string before ever getting to the file name. Error ended up being something like “excess of 255 characters, blah, blah, blah” and it took a bit to figure out it referred to the entire path.
I use old school naming conventions. I try to have a reel ID and a number. That’s the tape name and it’s relatively short and human readable, say SWA22 for Southwest Airlines 22. After that, well, depends on the system. Avid is going to make DNxHD files that are non-human readable except for the first few digits. However, you can name a clip whatever you like within the Avid bin structure. Final cut and Premiere are going to let you go all out. Still I keep it simple: MB15 cover 12.mov is going to be Missouri Baptist Hospital cover footage set 12. Interviews: RJ23 Mary Thomas interview 2 of 3.mov is Ranken Jordan Mary Thomas interview part 2 of 3, etc. And then lots of file-based systems have their own naming conventions that you change at great peril. But enter CatDV. The file name is simple and sweet but all the notes and metadata you add with CatDV is way better than sliced bread. I spent the day dropping time coded transcripts into the Verbatim Logger. Life is good when someone can skim the transcript and click on a timecode entry and bingo, the shot cues to it. Much more information than you could ever pack in a file name.
Oh, and the longer and more complex a file name is, the more perfect you must be in writing out the search string to find it. Learned that the hard way, too.
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a single seat of the Calibrated Software plugin runs US $260. You can download and run it in demo mode. It works just fine but limits you to a maximum of 30 seconds on any clip. I’s forgotten and then “discovered” that fact when I made a set of 153 proxy files only to have a copy writer ask why all the files he wanted to review were only 30 seconds long.
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Odd is right. It’s working today. I keep going back and forth depending on whether or not I need the connection to the server or to read MXF files. And no, the server isn’t set to be the license server. There are only two of us anyway.
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yes, I was really surprised. Everyone carries on about dealing with file-based media and here it was connecting no problem. But then the tape based didn’t work at all. Currently I’m importing the entire Avid MXF media directory. But it results in lot of repetition and then a lot of hand work to move files into their respective catalogs. There’s got to be an easier way.
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This appears connected to the MXF option. Versions 9 and 10 show up with the server menus and work normally. Once I setup the MXF option on 10 I lose the server menu for both 9 and 10. I end up reinstalling, without MXF, to get the server menus back.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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My guess (and it is just that, a guess) is that the terminology is similar to that at the OS level. It did what you asked—it copied the files, it did not MOVE the files. It if you’re looking for is to move them and reference the new location, which I think you’re looking for, then maybe it’s copy, like you did, and then UPDATE LOCATION. A caution: I know that when move the originals the proxies don’t move or copy. When I do what you’re doing I have to go in and move the proxy files at the OS level. I’ve been using ChronoSync to copy and move files because it does verification. It’s much less fun when a file becomes damaged during a move.
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That’s what I suspected.
What data is in the FileMaker file? I’m wondering if there’s a way to merge data from FileMaker into clips already in CatDv. Let CatDv scan the clips and then merge data. Not something I’ve done. Someone will jump in.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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I’m not sure you can “relink” media that hasn’t yet been attached. Have you tried attaching media?
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