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:
I have a question about external hard drives and getting material off of them as quickly as possible....
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.
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....
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?
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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