This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Off-line Logging for Avid Media Composer?

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Off-line Logging for Avid Media Composer?

Regarding the use of P2 Contents Manager and Sony Content Browser 2, per their website descriptions:

Sony Content Browser list export to AAF for Avid, which suggests that this will serve as a logger for Sony XDCAM files, particularly camera original, with the added benefit that it can prep Avid compatible files when necessary. I have never been able to load a non-Sony MXF into this app, so I would not presume it could be used as a logger for files from a non-Sony media recorder such as we routinely use.

P2 Contents Manager description does not explicitly mention AAF or other compatible export. I guess I'll just have to try it.

As it happens at the moment, I have quite a bit of P2 original at the moment, though we do not routinely use P2. Neither helps with archival logging.

Anyone else have experience using these for Avid prep? Tips or pointers to tutorials?

cheers,

tod

On Dec 19, 2013, at 8:57 AM, T Hopkins wrote:

Close! I wish it could read MXF files. The vast majority of what I want to log for Avid is MXF or MP$. I'm returning to Avid after a 5-year absence and wrapping my head around a new file-format workflow is a chore. While I do have a ton of Quicktime on the shelf, going forward with Avid, the inbound materials will be MXF. And a great deal of what I log is in off-line formats, particularly MP4. We do a lot of archival work.

The more I think about this problem, the more I realize how complicated it is even to pin down what I want this logger to handle.

Hmmm... Sony and Panasonic both have "browser" apps. I need to determine whether these could be purposed "loggers" prior to Avid import. I should investigate that.

cheers,
tod

On Dec 18, 2013, at 10:46 A M, Edit B wrote:

Of course there is one :-)

http://www.videotoolshed.com/product/24/rs422-file-logger

But it's a long time since i've touched it, no idea if it runs.

(well, on windows it probably does, but not sure about mac)

Bouke

VideoToolShed
van Oldenbarneveltstraat 33
6512 AS NIJMEGEN, the Netherlands
+31 24 3553311

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From: T Hopkins

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Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Off-line Logging for Avid Media Composer?

All good products, but nothing that creates "logs" for file based media. I want to create bins for Media Composer without Media Composer.

The methods I've found so far:

Manual creation of tab delimited files using Excel as the collection tool.

Adobe Premiere via AAF export.

Final Cut to Excel to tab delimited file, with many little gotchas to avoid.

CatDV, I think.

None of these is particularly simple or cost effective.

The only product I've found remotely like what I want is MovieLogger from Digital Heaven, but not for Avid.

I was sure there would be some kind of "field" loggers for Avid. Guess not.

cheers,

tod

On Dec 17, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Steve Hullfish wrote:

Check out products from Imagine Products: ShotPut, ProxyMill, etc.

Steve

On Dec 17, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Is there any worthwhile software for "off-line" logging and prepping of file based footage for Avid Media Composer, other than Avid Media Composer itself? I can't find anything, and that surprises me.