Rolf Howarth
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The reason it works this way is because CatDV tries to interfere with your files and your storage as little as possible. Some asset management systems insist on you using their storage, or on sucking all your media files in and storing them in its preferred format or in its preferred location. We will work with both original and proxy files wherever they are, and play them as long as they’re accessible through the file system somehow. CatDV can also be used standalone, without having to set up and run a server, or in a networked environment, giving you a lot of flexibility.
Having said all that, we understand your concerns about not wanting to give people full access to the proxy files. For now the best solution is to put the proxies on a common read-only network share, but in future we will plan to allow http streaming access to your proxies without having to mount the volume.
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Sorry to hear about your verbatim logger crashes. There are two things that might help. Turn on the protected player (under Media Playback), and reduce the autosave interval (under File System).
As for selecting the proxies in preference to the original media we need to investigate that. It should do exactly what it says and only “prefer” the proxy but play the full res if there is no proxy but perhaps the verbatim logger behaves incorrectly in that regard.
Another option is to reverse the meaning of “proxy” and “full res” files. Instead of a mapping from MTS => ProRes files, set up a mapping from ProRes => MTS and check the “Allow import of proxy files before full res versions” flag (under Proxies & Thumbnails). There are some specialised workflows (eg. DSLR footage) where it can be convenient to work that way round.
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When you say they play in QuickTime Player, do you mean 7 or X? Are you using Calibrated?
From the sound of it, I believe you may be seeing an issue with the AppleHDVCodec that Greg at Calibrated did some analysis on. It seems the current version of this codec gives green and pink patterns when playing XDCAM EX and HDV footage in some applications, whereas if you revert to AppleHDVCodec 1.6 then it works.
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Is storing the proxies like that a standard P2 feature? Our P2 importer doesn’t currently recognise such proxies but if you tell us what camera is creating the proxies and forward a screenshot that shows the folder structure to support@squarebox.co.uk we’ll see if we can add support for that in a future update.
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You don’t need the ^.* part in your regex above. That means consume any number of characters at the start of the text, but you don’t need that. Instead, try
$q{s/^([^_]*)_.*/$1/}
to pull out everything up to the first underscore
^ = start of line
[^_] = any character other than _
_ = the first underscore
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We can read .srt files not but currently .scc files I’m afraid.
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Is that user field one that the New Subclip dialog is showing and prompting you to enter a value in? If so then leaving the field blank will fill in a blank value. It will only inherit fields which AREN’T shown in the dialog.
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As will all shell scripts, something you have to be very careful about is handling of spaces and special characters and blank values and make sure they’re properly quoted or escaped. Perhaps that’s where the problem lies and it depends on your data?
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Can you post details of the command line you’re using? As far I can tell something like
catdv query -set STS=should blank out the status field.
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To echo what Bryson said, we do extract a lot of Adobe metadata from IPTC tags, XMP files etc. when importing media files but if you think data isn’t coming over when it should please send a short example to support@squarebox.co.uk and we’ll be happy to invesigate.