[Steven Pattinson]

That does look like it could be a good option…

I do have an update to my initial query… it looks like the business is investigating the idea of moving everything to cloud based storage, so our archive would no longer be on the NAS.
I’m not sure how this is going to effect editing performance, it may be that we have to download clips when we find them rather than editing straight from the server.
So, after going through and sorting everything ready for upload, is there anything software based that would be able to do what we’re looking for? Add tags in the metadata, integrate with Adobe CC. etc.
By my research, services like pics.io tend to offer the cloud storage as part of their service, so what I’m looking for is just the software functionality to work with an existing cloud server.

Thank you for everyone’s input so far, it’s much appreciated.

Steven

[Steven Pattinson]

Should mention – my plan was to copy everything off the NAS that’s currently on there onto hard drives temporarily, so the NAS would be a kind of clean slate to work on.

[Steven Pattinson]

Hi Eric, thanks for replying…

I think the NAS is a Synology, not sure on the model as I’ve never actually seen it ‘in the flesh’ so to speak, but I can find out.

Currently, the NAS is basically full, so there’s around 18TB, then we have a lot of footage on external hard drives too, probably another 6-8TB.. But, I suspect a large portion of the footage on both will be able to be deleted, or transcoded to a smaller file format, or there’s possibly a lot of duplicates in the archive currently.

Formats and codecs are a real mix, recent stuff has been shot on FS7s and EX3s so theres .mxf files and .mp4s, a lot of the older stuff is .mov, some has been ripped from old videos, DVDs and even film reels in various ways by different people so nothings been done consistently.

So one of the things I’m going to do as part of the process is encode everything to the same format – I assume ProRes would be best for this if we’re using the files for editing in the future.

Don’t know whether this information makes things more complicated or easier!

Thanks,

Steven

[Steven Pattinson]

Hi Daniel,

Update for you as I know how frustrating this is!

Have been back and forth with Adobe support, and got them to replicate at their end on both Mac and Windows.

So they’ve said it’s a bug and that it’s going to be added to the list for a future update, no timeline given but at least it’s some sort of progress and now we know it’s not something in our settings.

Out of curiosity, what camera files is it that you are using?

Mine are from a Sony A6300, can’t remember it doing it with anything else, although I only really use the Fs7 other than that which doesn’t have the problem as it’s HFR is conformed in camera so don’t need to interpret in Premiere.

Thanks,
Steven

[Steven Pattinson]

Yep – I’ve got a brand new iMac i9… It does seem to have just started in the past few months so maybe it is to do with an update.

And you’re right, it makes the simplest thing such a hassle. Haven’t been able to find any sort of answer yet.