Well, you could start out with keeping all formats at specific drives /
mediafolders, so it's easy to take them offline before doing the work.
And, can't MediaMover help with this?
Otherwise, i've got something here that analyzes a shitload of filetypes for
TC / Reel. It won't be that hard to add some functionality to take some of
it offline (by renaming the extension to .!XF or something...
Bouke
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Terence Curren" <tcurren@aol.com>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 1:01 PM
Subject: [Avid-L2] FR: "Smart Transcode / Consolidate"
With "Smart Decompose" I can select which source reels I want to decompose
thereby skipping ones I don't want to decompose. I would like the same
functionality with transcoding and consolidating.
Why?
I have a sequence with a mix of DNxHD resolutions, AMA XDCAm and ProRes, and
mixed frame rates. This media is spread across multiple drives.
1: If I consolidate (to resolve AMA issues) skipping media already on the
target drive, I am going to be consolidating media I may already have on
other Avid drives, just not on the one I have selected as the target. By
selecting just the reels to consolidate I can avoid that. Of course being
able to select multiple target drives with the skip media already there
option would be better, but probably harder to implement.
2: Working with ProRes in the timeline causes major lags on my system when
doing simple things like changing track monitoring, stepping in and out of
effects, rendering effects etc. I have several hour long ProRes clips that a
few seconds worth of material is used from. If I choose transcode to resolve
this issue, I am going to transcode every bit of media in the timeline that
doesn't match the target resolution, even if that media is already DNxHD
media of a different resolution. Being able to just select the ProRes
sources in the transcode operation would be ideal.
3: Mixed frame rates. In a 1080 23.98 timeline, I have several sources that
are SD 29.97 from original film transfers. Avid's smart motion effect is
good, but in these cases I prefer to select film as the original source and
remove the 2:3 pulldown and keep both fields as opposed to the blended
option Avid adds automatically. This results in a clean 23.98 original. The
problem is that transcoding in a 23.98 project will bake in the motion
translation with the blended fields. Being able to selectively transcode
sources means it would be easy to transcode those sources in a 29.97 project
without having to convert the sequence then go back to the 23.98 project and
I can then adjust the motion effects.
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