duplicated red clips in clip folder. weight 2,15 GB each

[Paco Bech]

Hello

I have found something strange, I dont know if this could be a big problem.

I benn shooting with a red one. The camera guy has tranfer all the clips to hard drives, I did a back up copy as well. So I open the folder and see diffents folders, each contains a different. inside the folder theres is the R3d clip in question and then the proxies, so far this is the normal thing. Some of the folders, in instead of containing one clip and the proxies, they contain like 6 or 7 times the same repeated R3d clip, and then the proxies. You see the name of the clip plus 01, 02, 03 etc.


When I check propertes , the weight of all these repeated R3d clips is always 2,15 Gb. I can playback then in red cine and its seems to be OK, they are all the same clip, but the weight can´t be 2, 15 GB. I see half of the material has the same problem and it is the same in the back up copies with the same clips

Whats happening?

best regards

[Stefan Scherperel]

This is perfectly normal. The max file size that could be recorded on the Raid drives for the RED one was 2.15GB, so those folders that you see multiple files are longer clips spanned across several files. Do not delete the duplicate clips, or you are losing parts of your clip.

[Paco Bech]

Ok, I wan to copy some clips to a different hard drive to do dome editing, i need to copy the whole folder, I got that, but when I select clips to open in premiere, do I have to import all of them? just number 01?


Best regards

[Nick Pasquariello]

Treat the FOLDER as the clip, not the individual R3D files.

Period.

Those "6 or 7" R3D files you are seeing are 6 or 7 chunks that make up the whole. You need them all. They are one entity. Deleting one would be like chopping off your arm.

You should be able to just import the folder into Premiere, or anywhere, rather than the R3D file itself.

[Stefan Scherperel]

When in Premiere, you only want to import the first file. If you import all 6 or 7 chunks, you will have 6 or 7 copies of the same clip. When importing red footage, only use the browser in Premiere. This will allow you to point to the main folder holding all of the other folders. Now the folders show up as clips however and you just import those clips as you would normally.