Rolf Howarth
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This is fixed in the forthcoming CatDV 10.0.2 update. Cache-A have made some improvements to the Check Archive Status API and you need the new CatDV update to make use of them.
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That’s not quite true, you can right click on a FCP project in the tree and choose Update Catalog, which will look at the clip id (fcp uuid, catdv clip ref) to see if that clip already exists in CatDV and if so updates it rather than reimports it as a new clip. It doesn’t actively keep track of individual changes though, so if you import a clip from FCP then modify it in CatDV then update it from FCP, you’ll get the latest values from Final Cut again, overwriting anything you changed within CatDV.
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People all have different workflows so you can use CatDV in different ways. It doesn’t automatically suck all assets into its storage the way FCSrvr likes to (though you can configure CatDV to do that sort of thing via watchfolders in the Worker Node if you desire). In your case, you should be able to import the contents of an FCP7 (or FCPX) file into a CatDV catalog via XML and then work with the clips further from there as required eg. save them to the server, build proxies, etc.
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If you use the Final Cut Projects node in the tree navigator you can right click on the name of a project and choose Update Catalog. That will insert new clips into the CatDV catalog the first time but after that it will update the existing clips with the latest metadata from Final Cut.
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If you import XDCAM files as metaclips they should include the relevant clip xml files so they will be archived, but it’s possible that the DISCMETA.XML and MEDIAPRO.XML and other disk level files aren’t archived if you didn’t select “Import all types of document” in your import preferences so you should avoid deleting them.
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It all depends on what sort of workflow you’re trying to set up.
Typically you might use a watch folder to import assets into the system and create proxies. You can also implement a publicly writable drop box which moves files to the read only library location to control access to your shared storage (perhaps you want to avoid all your users randomly putting files anywhere they think of on your disk or accidentally moving or deleting files which are still in use).
Server triggered tasks might then be used to process files based on a status change. For example, if a file is marked as To Be Archived, you might copy it to slower long term archive storage and delete it from your SAN, or if an asset is marked as Approved For Publication you might generate an H264 version and ftp it to your web site.
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The two sections in the Media Search Path preferences don’t directly relate to each other. In each case, they specify how to get from the media path (as stored against the clip) to either the proxy or the current location of the full-res media files. In the case of full-res files you might use it to map from a Mac path to a Windows path (or vice versa) if the catalog was created on a different platform, for example.
In your case, you want a path-based proxy mapping of E: => E:CatDV ProxiesE
in order to map E:Video ProjectsB-RollGeneral Terminal20130123110536.m2ts to
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You get three user defined fields in the standard edition (User1, User2, User3) but can create as many as you want in the professional edition.
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DOS used to have an 8.3 character limit and Mac OS 9 had a 31 character limit but modern Mac OS X and Windows let you have much longer names (up to 255 maybe?) but it’s probably a good idea to keep to a lot less than that, say 60 or 80 characters or less, simply on practicality groups (filenames being listed in windows etc.). Also, there may well be shorter limits on certain file systems eg. memory cards, certain types of network file system, etc. And there are likely to be a lot of punctuation characters that may cause problems, most obviously : / but perhaps others besides. And don’t rely on having two files with the same name that only differ in case.
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It’s off by default, you need to double click on specific folders of interest if you want to browse their contents in the main window (rather than just list the files in the tree when you expand the folder).