Ingest Specific Clips from RED media with R3D Data Manager

[Chris Ratledge]

So I'm trying to ingest the last 4 clips ONLY from a Red drive using R3D Data manager. It appears that I can't select these source folders and add them to the source list, only the top-level Drive volume of the Red Drive (.RDM folder)

If I do a finder copy to another attached external from the Red Drive of these clip folders, I can add THOSE copies as a source, but not from the Red media itself. But that obviously totally defeats the purpose of using R3D for verified copies.

This RED drive has several GB of previously-ingested material on it that I don't want to wait around to re-ingest just to get the last 4 clips. If I have no choice, could I not just delete the previously-ingested stuff and just keep the 4 clips in question only? Obviously this won't jive with the magazine information ingested, cause it will reflect 14 other clips that I'll delete. What kind of problems could I run into with this, if any?

[Conrad Hunziker]

Id invite you to look at the "if RDC folder exists" option on the lower right of the main window. If you select skip, it will skip RDC folders that already exist at the destination.

Alternately, you could create a folder on the source and move the RDC folders you want to copy into that folder, then select that as the source. This doesnt move any of the actual files on the drive, just the table of contents. So youd get the same level of protection.

BTW, if you are copying from a Red Media, you should always be selecting the drive root as the source, not a RDM or RDC folder.

[Chris Ratledge]

Id invite you to look at the "if RDC folder exists" option on the lower right of the main window. If you select skip, it will skip RDC folders that already exist at the destination.

Alternately, you could create a folder on the source and move the RDC folders you want to copy into that folder, then select that as the source. This doesnt move any of the actual files on the drive, just the table of contents. So youd get the same level of protection.

BTW, if you are copying from a Red Media, you should always be selecting the drive root as the source, not a RDM or RDC folder.

The Destination volume is different, went to new backup drives at the start of this day.

For clarification I do select the drive, not the .RDM folder when Ingesting. Trying to be clear in my description I obviously slipped up describing that.

So I can just create a new folder on the Red media, put those clip folders in there, and select that as the source, doesn't that conflict with what you just said about selecting the Red media itself as the source?

[Conrad Hunziker]

I forgot to put: or you can go the other way and put clips you dont want copied in a different folder, then select the Red Media as the source.

[Chris Ratledge]

I forgot to put: or you can go the other way and put clips you dont want copied in a different folder, then select the Red Media as the source.

So I tried this, I put a folder called "former" on the Red Drive at the same level as the RDM folder, put all the clip folders I didn't want in there, and selected the Red drive as the source. It still started copying all the material from "former" as well. Halted the copy, deleted the partial copies on the destination, and selected the .RDM folder as the source, this copied in just the clip folders I wanted.