View Full Version : Metadata via bluetooth?
Shawn Nelson
01-07-2007, 11:11 PM
So I read that Red will have space reserved for metadata. Is there a chance you guys could make it XML with a node reserved for user defined meta data that we could send over a bluetooth connection? It would be so helpful. Someone could make a PocketPC app for someone to make notations about a take and anything else helpful and then just beam it to Red to be locked in with the footage. Priceless.
Brook Willard
01-07-2007, 11:16 PM
There are SD slots on the camera body. One could put a bluetooth or 802.11 card into these slots and transmit data.
Shawn Nelson
01-08-2007, 12:06 AM
So is RED doing the programming necessary to take incoming XML data from one of those slots and putting it into the metadata?
Rob Lohman
01-08-2007, 04:11 AM
We will have ways to ingest data from external devices. Details for that are in development.
IAN SUN
01-08-2007, 07:10 AM
We will have ways to ingest data from external devices. Details for that are in development.
You guys rock!
Mark L. Pederson
01-08-2007, 07:25 PM
We will have ways to ingest data from external devices. Details for that are in development.
ahhhh - ingest into header of each frame ... say it isn't so ... I need to take a cold shower ....
and if all that data would flow to DPX header AND be able to be VIEWED AND EDITED VIA in REDCINE ....
Rob Lohman
01-09-2007, 01:44 AM
Yes, that's the idea. Obviously it will need support in the camera for whatever you need to ingest.
Metadata flowing through the post system is something we are working on.
Chris Kenny
01-09-2007, 02:21 AM
I assume each time you hit the "record" button, you end up with a separate file on the digital mag. Being able to set the name of this file either manually or, even better, automatically in a customizable format based on other metadata, would be extremely useful and would cover a lot of cases where there wasn't software support for whatever more advanced metadata Red's file format supports.
As far as that more advanced data goes, the possibilities get really interesting in terms of managing large numbers of clips if someone releases a Spotlight plugin for OS X that can search it.