The optimized media function is fantastic, but flawed. I'd like to list a few suggestions for much needed improvement. Sorry if this has been posted before. Did a quick search, and could not find anything in this forum.
-most important: some sort of fail safe. In case of crash during process one loose all the media optimized in the process, even though the actual files are still on the harddrive. Some sort of way to write a log independent of the database project file, or a relink or scan function would be very very valuable. This has happened to me too many times. Just yesterday I lost 10 hours worth of converted files, that was rendered useless due to a crash. Even if the software was 100% stable, this scenario is still releveant in case of a power loss or OS failure.
Since the generated media is stored as independent frames, a failsafe should be able to pick up and or use partially converted clips, which is very valuable for long clips that take a long time to transcode.
-A more specific progress indicator: instead of just showing a total perentage of converted media, a per/clip progress would be valuable. For instance in case one needs to abort the process, it would be beneficial to know if the process is just about to finish transcoding an especially large clip so one will not loose valuable time by aborting, say one minute before a one hour clip is done.
- Ability to delete optimized media for specified clips. The way it is now, it's either all or nothing. Also it's too easy to delete optimized media by mistake, as this option is right next to the 'use optimized media if available' option. Deleting optimized media for an entire project by mistake can be catastrophic.
-Ability to set custom resolution, not only half, quarter etc. The way it is now is somewhat confusing and also cumbersome if one for some reason needs to change project resolution during a session.
-most important: some sort of fail safe. In case of crash during process one loose all the media optimized in the process, even though the actual files are still on the harddrive. Some sort of way to write a log independent of the database project file, or a relink or scan function would be very very valuable. This has happened to me too many times. Just yesterday I lost 10 hours worth of converted files, that was rendered useless due to a crash. Even if the software was 100% stable, this scenario is still releveant in case of a power loss or OS failure.
Since the generated media is stored as independent frames, a failsafe should be able to pick up and or use partially converted clips, which is very valuable for long clips that take a long time to transcode.
-A more specific progress indicator: instead of just showing a total perentage of converted media, a per/clip progress would be valuable. For instance in case one needs to abort the process, it would be beneficial to know if the process is just about to finish transcoding an especially large clip so one will not loose valuable time by aborting, say one minute before a one hour clip is done.
- Ability to delete optimized media for specified clips. The way it is now, it's either all or nothing. Also it's too easy to delete optimized media by mistake, as this option is right next to the 'use optimized media if available' option. Deleting optimized media for an entire project by mistake can be catastrophic.
-Ability to set custom resolution, not only half, quarter etc. The way it is now is somewhat confusing and also cumbersome if one for some reason needs to change project resolution during a session.
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