Workflow long term shooting

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Seaborn

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Workflow long term shooting

PostWed Mar 27, 2013 2:26 am

Hi guys, i'm shooting documentary with BMC.
By the end i will get aprox 40Hrs of ram 2.5K footage 18TO hard drive....

So i put all the raw data on classic Hard Drive (3 copy) and
i'm editing with prores offline version.

My question: is there a way in resolve or what ever soft... to copy only the needed png raw 2.5K (from xml)
to ssd high speed to make my online grade??

Materiel needed to make the online 400GB of bmc raw...
I don't want to put back 18TO on ssd drives! way too costly!!!

any ideas??
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Re: Workflow long term shooting

PostWed Mar 27, 2013 8:01 am

You could conform the EDL in Resolve first, then right click all the clips in the media pool and choose 'copy' them all to the SSD.
Or try EDL Spy before bringing the EDL into Resolve: http://edlspy.felixhuesken.de

Let us know how it works out! You can also file a feature request for Resolve to trim DNG files the way it does with R3D. I think that would be ideal.
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Re: Workflow long term shooting

PostWed Mar 27, 2013 3:00 pm

Thanks, i will try this with little project, but it should work...


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Re: Workflow long term shooting

PostWed Mar 27, 2013 11:52 pm

in a similar situation we used Hiero (as suggested by another poster...)

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/hiero/

conformed and copy only surviving shots + handles to the resolve san...
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Re: Workflow long term shooting

PostThu Mar 28, 2013 1:42 am

ok we hurt another roadblock.

ARRIRAW sequences.

1) Resolve cannot copy with the method described by Elliott (it fails)
2) Hiero cannot work with arriraw unless they are converted to dpx (that is NOT what we want)
3) EDL Spy will copy the full takes and not the surviving clips + handles

to give an idea, for a short commercial we had, the full takes necessary for the conform where 130.000 frames, the surviving clips + handles 10.000, the final piece only 6000 frames....

Any other solution?
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Re: Workflow long term shooting

PostThu Mar 28, 2013 2:52 am

I'm sure that with a little time, it would be possible to write a script to parse the EDL and copy only the needed .ari frames. But as far as I know there is not yet any existing commercial product for this. Blackmagic are you listening? This would be a great feature...
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Re: Workflow long term shooting

PostThu Mar 28, 2013 2:55 am

Just found this: http://www.michaelcinquin.com/tools/edl_repair
Has an option for "build a consolidation script for an image sequence"
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Re: Workflow long term shooting

PostSat Mar 30, 2013 6:08 am

Hiero will do this (1.6v1) and does support ARRIRAW natively. Conform a sequence from .ari files. Export.

Change the Content option to "Copy Exporter" and under Handles set it to "Cut Length" with desired handles. This will simply copy the original ARRIRAW files (referenced by your EDL) to the destination.
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Re: Workflow long term shooting

PostMon Apr 01, 2013 7:22 pm

Tashi Trieu wrote:Hiero will do this (1.6v1) and does support ARRIRAW natively. Conform a sequence from .ari files. Export.

Change the Content option to "Copy Exporter" and under Handles set it to "Cut Length" with desired handles. This will simply copy the original ARRIRAW files (referenced by your EDL) to the destination.


Yes, we did NOT have the last version... bummer!!!

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Re: Workflow long term shooting

PostThu Apr 25, 2013 9:49 pm

Hiero 5000$ solution,
it does a lot of stuff that i don't need,
edl spy only copy folder not survival shot...

Any other idea??

for advertising project, this isn't a big deal but i'm shooting documentary in full 2.5K raw
i will get something close to 25-30 tb of bmc footage...
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Re: Workflow long term shooting

PostFri Apr 26, 2013 9:50 am

Hi Seaborn,

I used the Resolve succesfully with the "add to mediapool based on edl's" command and lot's of
RED-EPIC files.
Once only the used files are in the mediapool you can copy and paste them to your local drive.
(there only a small problem when high framerates were used and you have duplicate timecodes,
then you end up with more files than you need)
An other method is to conform the edl or xml and then sort the mediapool with the 'used' colum;
then copy only the 'used' files to your local fast disk.

Regards, Jaap Kok

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