RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Corrupt Media -- What's Up Avid?

But surely you don't need this service to be running all the time? Rather than running constantly in the background, couldn't it be something you invoke when you need to hunt down some funky media in your sequence? It might be processor intensive but you wouldn't be doing anything other than trying to find the corrupt media anyway so I'd rather have Avid do it than my tired brain. Sequence starts crashing, I turn on Corrupt Media Hunter, Avid does it's thing, finds the media, quarantines it and tells me its instances in the sequence or bins so i can recapture or reimport or whatever. Saving possibly hours of dividing and conquering. I'd like this to exist.
Andi

To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
From: jeffsengpiehl@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:10:35 +0000
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Corrupt Media -- What's Up Avid?

Actually interplay does this. It's media indexers will locate corrupt media, and place it aside. As far as it being hard? No, not hard- what it is is processor intensive. Interplay's media indexers are at least a pool of two high-end servers dedicated to only performing this task.

You can do this as well, trash your media databases- the rebuild should flag corrupt media

JDS

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "blafarm" <blafarm@...> wrote:

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> This is a bit of a rhetorical question ...

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> But after more than 15 years of dealing with frustrating problems caused by corrupt media -- why can't Avid simply create a application that scans all of the media files to indicate which files are actually corrupt?

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> Is it really that hard -- or is this just plain laziness and lack of attention to detail?

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> At this point in the game -- do we really still have to approach this problem like cavemen and cavewomen -- copying subsets of hundreds or thousands of files at a time to new folder -- until we finally find the block of files that the corrupt media file "lives in". And then having to drill down even further to find the file.

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> It is absurd that we are still forced to use this Flinstonian technique to address this problem.

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