Hi John,
Just came through your post today. You mentioned several things about DPX management and partial restore. Atempo ADA 3.1 (soon 3.2) handles archiving of DPX files. It can read the DPX file header to read its metadata and store it in the ADA database. It then becomes searchable in the ADA GUI. You can search on DPX files with a specific frame rate for example.
ADA 3.1 also offers native partial restore of MXF files.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like more information.
Yannick Guillerm
Atempo Inc
yannick.guillerm@atempo.com
PS: I’m also in favor of a new “ARCHIVE, BACKUP and ASSET MANAGEMENT” forum on Creative Cow 🙂