RedRushes and ALE

[hdnow]

Long time lurker, first(or second) time poster.

I'm having issues with the ALE generated from a MacBookPro running Tiger 10.4.11 and RedRushes 3.6.0.
Clips get renamed in the ALE by adding 3 odd letters in front of the original name. For example: original name=A004_C009_080419 becomes Pf@A004_C009_080419 in the ALE.

This gets annoying when trying to batch import clips in MC3.1.2 running on the same Mac: because clip name in the ALE does not match the name of the QT transcoded clips, I have to manually map them 1 by 1, in order for Avid to see them. Or alternatively, rinse the ALE with a text editor to get rid of all the extraneous characters in clip names.

I also noticed the QT Wrappers > Options > No Resolution Ext(_F, _H, _M, _P) switch affects only the names in the ALE and not the transcoded clip names.

Am I missing something obvious here?

thanks for reading,

Bob Feld
thinkhd.tv

[MichaelP]

The No resolutions in the QT wrapper is suppose to affect both the resulting QT's as well as the name in the ALE - if it is not, then it is a REDrushes issue. I will look into that. There was someone else who had the strange characters in the ALE file and I can't remember what solved it. Make sure you have "Scale to 1920x1080" set to ON - that solved some other issues which may have solved the character issue.

Michael

[hdnow]

Thanks Michael,
I'll give it a shot.

Bob

[hdnow]

No dice with Scale turned on.

Bob

[MichaelP]

I need to find out what that customer did... does your target directory have any spaces in the name?

Michael

[hdnow]

Nope, no spaces in folder names.

thanks Michael

B.

[a.falk]

hi,

i think »that customer« was me :)
I did not find a solution for this, but i can say that this seems to be an issue caused by the combination of redrushes & os.
i can say this because i have two media composers running redrushes 3.6 on 10.4.11 producing these strange names.
and i have one machine running 10.5.6 producing correct names.
it's the same result when you use redline.

so my conclusion is that redline is working different depending on the os.

regards.

[hdnow]

That's what I guessed myself.
Will confirm on Monday a the office.

Thanks for your feedback,
Bob

[MichaelP]

Ah, that was it! Thanks for chiming in. I was going through my email history to see what the outcome was for that issue. It does appear to be an OS issue with REDrushes.

Michael

[a.falk]

the crazy thing is, that every machine does create three other strange letters with the same footage.
and if you're using different footage, it is creating other strange letters.