total data in bins

[Andrae Palmer]

Is there away to see the total amount of data or time... in all of the clips in a bin?

[David Battistella]

Clipfinder.

Or

if you mean something else, drag it all onto the timeline.

At the finder level you can figure that it is roughly 2GIG per minute of footage.

100GB = aprox 50 min,

David

[Andrae Palmer]

I'm doing RED Rocket transcodes and bill the clients based on realtime of the clips. Unfortunately all the clips inside of the transcoded bins came from different source folders and some were previously transcoded by the client. Having the ability to see the total time or even total data inside of the bins for processing would make things a whole lot easier for me. Thanks for the clipfinder info... I will give it a try.

[David Battistella]

FCP timelline with Proxies maybe?

David

[David Battistella]

FCP timelline with Proxies maybe?

David

[Andrae Palmer]

The source footage is in different folders and some clips are excluded. It would be great if one could drag all clips to the timeline and the program didn't take forever to give you the duration. Of course having away to see the duration or data n the bins would be the easiest route.

[Martin Weiss]

If you've exported all clips to the same location, you could add ale the files (specified finder search) in QuickTime Pro, and thus see the total length.

Our you can customize your search for only say the _p proxies, and proceed as above.

[Andrae Palmer]

I would love to have this information before the export due to needing the data to calculate RED Rocket transcode times. I am not transcoding every single clip in each folder and some folders are excluded... so the normal finder routes would be tedious or impractical.

[Jeff Brown]

Clipfinder is the easiest option - open a new file set the watch folder to your source folder and viola - duration bottom left. Works for R3Ds or QTs in folders

[Andrae Palmer]

It is the easiest option but still a big inconvenience due to not every clip in the folder being included and not every folder being included. I ended up using clipfinder yesterday but I had to individually add the selected clips from a written list of over 300 files. I would really like an easier way to do this.

[jamie parry]

what format is the written list of files in?
handwritten or a text file?
if it's a text file i could parse the list, find the red (r3d) file get the metadata for duration of the reds and add em all up.As long as you've got redline available.
On a mac i could anyway is that ok?
post up your list of files (or pm me with it)and i'll write something on friday.
Busy making pretty pictures thursday.
i've already done similar stuff for other people and i might be able to get somewhere for you....maybe!
all the best
jamie

[Andrae Palmer]

Thanks Jamie for the offer but yesterday I was able to get the duration of all the files with Clipfinder. I see running into this situation frequently. I wish there was a way to see the duration or size of all the clips in the bin or export window. That way I don't have to find the files manually again with Clipfinder.

[jamie parry]

here is a vid and all the code will be free and open.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg2dfOI8l5Y

download
http://homepage.mac.com/lindsayellis/andrae.html

let me know here if you want me to do it better!
i stand a reasonable chance of this working if i get the type of text files you get sent for the selection process.At the moment i've set it to work with an EDL type thing (after all that's a clip selection text file!)
I've set the cost to be 0.05 dollars per frame to get you rich quickly. You just have to change that value in the script text file to whatever it is really.



OS X only though....as it uses redline to get the durations.

j

[Andrae Palmer]

Jamie,

I love your software... I would like to know if there is a way to get REDCine-X to generate a text file from the files in a bin? Otherwise the client would have to do this manually and that would suck.

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

I would like to know if there is a way to get REDCine-X to generate a text file from the files in a bin? Otherwise the client would have to do this manually and that would suck.

just wrote you a quick AppleScript... (mac only) :
http://foolcolor.net/RCXbinreporter.zip

1. Organize all your clips in a bin
2. Quit REDCINE-X and relaunch if needed... (REDCINE-X only saves the content of the bins upon quit so this step is needed for the script to work)
3. launch "RCX bin reporter"
4. select your bin
5. A text report is created on your desktop with each clip's path and duration and the total duration (in frames) for the choosen bin


this script calculates full R3D clip duration, ignoring any in/out points set in RCX to an .RMD file. The later would be possible but is not done in this version...

Mikael

[jamie parry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUoIb_lLC9s

download link is in comments

nice script Mikael!

mine is all open and modifiable (just text files)
if anyone wants it-go get it
if you make it better
post it back!

[Andrae Palmer]

Very nice script Mikael... thanks a lot. Will check out both of your scripts.

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

let me know if you need any specific data from the files or some more calculation done... shouldn't be very hard to do :-)