Fast checksum with Red Drive...

[Mitch Deoudes]

Perhaps RED (or a third party when the format is available for others developers) may make a verification app that will verify the integrity of the actual data to conform to the format standard.

Or make the camera write a checksum to the media. This is apparently a planned feature - though not sure when. (Sorry, dylan - I couldn't resist. :bleh:)

In the meantime, pull up one of the smaller proxies, sit back & watch. This is actually a good argument for not shooting too long on one drive, or using CF cards.

[Etienne Caron]

in resume, just shoot no more than 30 minutes of content par Red Disk (or CF), copy only the Good take on back-up drive (or just one good take per shoot) and watch the smallest proxies to see if everything is alright (light, Red setting, etc..).

My goal is to be able to do some DIT stuff as a second assistant camera on small project and being able to run on set to do actors mark... copying all the project during lunch break and at wrap.

thanks

[Mitch Deoudes]

That sounds like a lot of work to be trying to do simultaneously with 2nd AC duties. From my experience, you probably won't have time for a visual verify of each shot if you're playing both roles. (And you don't want to be picking individual takes if you're running back and forth - just do a bulk copy & checksum.) Unless you've got enough drives to get yourself through to lunch every day, and time at lunch and at wrap for the visual verify.

Another idea: load up all the takes in RedCine at once, then watch footage a little bit at a time, pausing when you have 2nd AC work to do. It'll still be tight, but there will be a lot less thinking involved.

Of course, all of this depends on your shoot & how fast your crew is moving.

[Dylan Reeve]

Will REDCINE actually load a damanged clip, or will it throw up an error? Presumably the RED apps have the capability to verify the integrity of a file...

If that's the case then it's as simple as loading the clips into REDCINE. If they load, they are not broken - assuming of course that it does error on damaged clips.