Wes has a program that does that for FCP and Avid. It's called Media Copy and it works very well.
http://automaticduck.com/products/mc/
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
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> I pulled this request from the CML-post list. They basically want a program like what MonkeyExtract does for RED files, only they want it for ALL types of file-based media. Here is the original request and another paragraph of clarification. It almost sounds like a combination of Automatic Duck and Tony Black's old Avid media wrangling program:
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> I have a question about external hard drives and getting material off of them as quickly as possible....
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> As we primarily work on commercials, we are typically in a scenario where we get an EDL from an editor - and a hard drive(s) full of source material.
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> We prefer to work off raw material or camera originals whenever possible. So, for Red jobs, we typically use Monkey Extract to load the EDL - and then Monkey finds all the R3D files on the drive. We then hit *copy* and can copy just those shots to a selected destination, typically a SAN. This is much easier and faster than manually searching through a drive to try and find shots obviously....
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> However, we are in this situation all the time with other kinds of media ( Prores, H.264 < TC added via QT change >, many others ) and I am convinced that there has to be some software out there that will let me go grab any kind of files I want from a drive via an EDL the same way as Monkey does, I just haven't found it yet. Monkey only seems to work with R3D files. Anyone know of any kind of software that does something like this?
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> The key info for me is that I DO NOT want to change the original files, or transcode them in any way at the time of copy. I want to merely use a utility to parse a drive, and use a computer for what it's good at - sifting through miles of numbers and meta data - and give me a result based on an edl. I then want to copy those selected files to anywhere I want; typically a SAN, but maybe another drive, a network destination, etc - and THEN I will use other software, platforms, etc to work with the RAW or original data files, whatever the case may be. Sounds easy right? What am I missing?
> Somebody has to make something like that, and while I like the idea, it shouldn't be a Resolve or an Avid or FCP to do this prep. This kind of stuff happens all day everyday all over a facility, and as far as I'm concerned, people are wasting far too much time and effort on this task.
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