[Rosie Walunas]

I’, just assuming I would for future ref. A lot of these places are mom and pop style vendors so having both can be really helpful.

Thanks.

[Rosie Walunas]

Well I guess it doesn’t have to be a literal EDL for instance but a list of the archive and vendors and TC to order. Since I’m a new Avid AE I’m wondering how that list should be be comprised as far as accuracy and efficiency. Examples of experiences are always helpful.

Thanks for your help.

[Rosie Walunas]

This is helpful.

Yeah, I was thinking, use a column to copy the original vendor codes to. But I assume this will not be exported in the EDL? Does the EDL just out put the clip names that the clips get called in the Name column? Or what?

How can these be used? “5 extra timecode columns to track alternate/in-house codes.” For example, the source TC of the clip probably starts at zero. But there’s probably a BITC in the clip that starts at 13hours or something. Is the source TC typically changed to match the BITC?

Not too sure, or knowledgeable about what this means: “TAB file can be converted to ALE and merged into existing clip.”

Thanks.

[Rosie Walunas]

Yeah, that’s it. Actually figured it out and if need to match frame have the choice to match back to main sub clip or master clip. That’s great to have the ability.

Thanks.

[Rosie Walunas]

I see. Helps to set up keyboard with Fn controls – idiot mistake. Thanks.

[Rosie Walunas]

No idea how many drives. The project is currently on two drives each partitioned so there are four partitions. All together the drives are supposed to be 3TB – but when I get info all together around 2TB is showing. Calculated drive space used, which is 1,610GB (390GB free right now).

A previous technical editor of the project left this message with the producer:

“Clone the media (don’t drag and drop, copy paste media files for the love of…) Clone with checksum. Carbon Copy Cloner. Then once they’re on the drive, throw them into new media directories. (you know less than 5k files per folder is decent depending on the speed of the drive). Rebuild databases from scratch. Re-index all directories. Then I’d go into the media tool and sort out the renders from media and get rid of most.

Move the renders to a temp holding directory, make sure nothing goes offline… then delete. Then set up a seperate partition for renders or seperate drive. Have a media drive, render drive, project drive. (or by that I mean seperate partition for each) If you’re going to use that drive for online work, maybe a online partition, and another partition for elements.

It needs a lot of media management. Most important thing is to just gather all the files by cloning them to a new drive, then put back the old drives in the box. Took me 2-3 days last year of letting it copy at night. (over FW800)”

Honestly some of this seems a bit daunting to me having never had to do this before.

Any direction or video tutorials would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Rosie Walunas]

So do you think it would be better to have a RAID 1 because the drives are mirrored while RAID 0 would only span the media?

[Rosie Walunas]

Thanks for the tip regarding partitions and renders. That’s a good point.

RAID might solve the “having three copies” of your media rule some follow. Though there are the tapes.

Thanks.

[Rosie Walunas]

Would it matter if the drive is raided or not? Could I just go straight on to one drive without raid being ‘activated?’

Sorry I’m not to keen on understand RAID drives. Don’t some such as GTech come out of the box not raided? Meaning 4TB is 4TB even though it could be set up as 2TB on 4TB drive ?

Don’t worry about the partitions on the old drives?

Thanks.

[Rosie Walunas]

Oh. And then just. Change it back to SD?

Ithe SD is actually 4:3 with an in camera letterbox, so hat HD footage should fit in the frame.

Thank you so much.