Scott Goddard
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Hi Parham,
Good to hear from you again and thanks for clarifying that in place ingest is possible.
Scott Goddard
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We do this quite a bit. I find the best approach is to copy your material at the OS level to the new volume so it’s in the correct folder structure that you desire.. Then import the media from that new volume and rename and tag.
I would also suggest that you create a field for ‘original file name’. Copy the old filename here before you change it. It’s great to have a record of it so that when you open that project you thought you would never need again you can find that media with the old referenced file name.
Scott Goddard
Neo Verite Limited
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Some interesting points John. I will test this out. Hopefully the GUI issues (lighter grey when mousing over certain parts) will also be fixed in 10.0.5..
Scott Goddard
Neo Verite Limited
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Thanks for the clarification. At present we are dealing with very small proxies 10-20MB testing multiple hosting services, amazon, cloud front and just a regular go daddy location. All the proxies are h264 Mp4 with ‘fast start’ enabled in compressor. In a browser they open and we see the video bar load the video.
In your current functionality do you see this in the proxy tab? ie when you click on a clip the proxy is visible and you see the video loading or does it just show the video section that it has available at that point? Curious as to how it will deal with larger video files (hour long proxies etc).
In all these cases wireshark confirms that CatDV sends a request for the video and returns an http ok. One curious issue is that even when the proxies are working from the URL the window ‘manage proxy movies’ under the ‘media’ tool bar always displays the ‘directories not found’ error.
Seems very hit and miss from each workstation and all are using the same server based preferences.
Will keep testing..
Scott Goddard
Neo Verite Limited
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Hi, still trying to get to the bottom of this and will report back with more conclusions. Do you know if CatDV keeps a cache of the URL proxies that it downloads/streams?
Scott Goddard
Neo Verite Limited
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Hi Matthew, working on Linux so doing it all through the properties file. I will try the wizard on another setup and use what it gives me and enter it in the properties file. At present it works but only on some machines and very intermittent. Wireshark confirms Catdv/Java making the request to the server but the proxies do not always show in CatDV. This was testing with direct file to file mapping.
Will try your suggestion.
Scott Goddard
Neo Verite Limited
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So I have attempted this with some amazon S3 hosting with permissions granted and files set to public but have not been able to get the client to see these url proxies.
Has anyone had any experience Amazon s3 and CatDV url proxies?
There is an option in the main catDV properties file to map a URL path for proxies. Is this something that others have used? What is the purpose of these properties path maps compared to the client level path maps?
Scott Goddard
Neo Verite Limited
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I will test once I have some cloud storage up, thanks for the heads up.
Scott Goddard
Neo Verite Limited
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After a lot of trial and error I seemed to have solved this.
Here’s how:
Having the root path in just ‘Original Location’ of the path mappings did not work for me. If I put the same path in BOTH Original and Current location then it works. Still not sure as to why my results are different from yours Bryson? Maybe there is another issue here but either way it appears to be working well now.
This goes against the manual and other advice, but hopefully it will help others who have the same issue.
Scott Goddard
Neo Verite Limited
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When I specify the correct root and correct my path names according to this and perform a ‘test’ on the watch action the report tells me that the files that match the query are on the server but ‘offline’. If I remove the root folder and specify full paths in the Worker (or even specify specifically broken paths) it tells me the files are online.
Slightly confused as to how the root or any scripting path is affecting the worker to correctly query the server which as I see it is a separate part of the workers process?
Scott Goddard
Neo Verite Limited
https://neoverite.com