Can't Modul8 REFIND clips
  • technomorph
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    Can't Modul8 REFIND clips

    by technomorph » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:46 pm

    So with thousands of video files in various folders.

    I end up moving my clips around.
    Grabbing clips from other gigs.
    Moving them to a new larger hard drive etc.

    But when I open my old Modul8 projects.
    The files that have been moved can't be found and
    the media browser just puts an empty spot on them.

    This has been an issue with every single media program I've worked
    with from ProTools to Final cut pro etc.

    ProTools and FinalCut have integrated a FIND MISSING MEDIA feature.

    1) when the program opens it tells you files are missing and asks you:
    a) if you would like to locate them
    b) if you would like modul8 to find them for you (and it will find other files within the path)

    so say you've move them to a new drive and new folder......
    you locate the new file and click a check box called "find all in relative path"
    so any other files that are missing, it will find them as well.....so
    your not having to refind every single file.

    2) If you can't find the file, maybe it's on a drive that's not attached right now....
    it will BLUR out the media file, so that next time you open, you'll have the option to refind it again.......

    You don't want any of your hard work in your project to disappear, just because you've moved a file.

    does this exist or will it or how do you deal with it.....

    thanks

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    by sigmasix » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:30 am

    this question has already been posted many times but I will again give an answer. Of course, it would be good to have a real solution.

    Open your .md8 file with a text editor like BBEdit, it's a standard xml file. Then you can find the parts indicating the path to your files. with a simple find/replace, you can change the whole document.

    Good luck
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    by technomorph » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:08 pm

    sigma6 wrote:this question has already been posted many times but I will again give an answer. Of course, it would be good to have a real solution.

    Open your .md8 file with a text editor like BBEdit, it's a standard xml file. Then you can find the parts indicating the path to your files. with a simple find/replace, you can change the whole document.

    Good luck



    Sorry if it was posted before.

    But that's not really a solution that makes sense in any form.

    Like I said this is an issue that many software programs have already encountered and have come up with solutions.

    Technomorph
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    by sigmasix » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:25 pm

    and like I said: of course it would be better to have a real solution... but in the meantime the only way to do what you want is by using a text editor... If you don't like this way wou'll have to wait a new version of modul8, I'm sure that it's on their to do's list
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    Can we get a hint?

    by VjKg » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:30 am

    Can we get a hint of where to look? I opened a small project and it was over 36,000 lines of code.
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    by sigmasix » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:36 pm

    near the end of the file:

    Code: Select all

             <key>(g3_INT)10</key>
             <dict>
                <key>(g3_ASCII)mediaName</key>
                <string>THE_NAME_OF_YOUR_FILE</string>
                <key>(g3_ASCII)mediaPath</key>
                <string>THE_PATH_TO_YOUR_FILE.mov</string>
                <key>(g3_ASCII)mediaStorage</key>
                <string>(g3_ASCII)STREAM_PRELOAD</string>
                <key>(g3_ASCII)streamQuality</key>
                <string>(g3_ASCII)HIGH</string>
                <key>(g3_ASCII)surfaceFilteringMag</key>
                <string>(g3_ASCII)LINEAR</string>
                <key>(g3_ASCII)surfaceFilteringMin</key>
                <string>(g3_ASCII)LINEAR</string>
             </dict>


    this code is the group of infos for the media n°10 (I assume the 2nd one in the 2nd library group)

    I encourage you to use search and replace for this kind of job, i's faster
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    by vanakaru » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:55 pm

    It works for some projects. But if you have reorganized your media folders there are no media name to search for.
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    by ilan » Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:43 pm

    A media collector is something that is slated for a future release.
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    by boris » Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:47 pm

    Sigma, Ilan,

    A more simple solution ...
    Read this (old) tread :

    http://www.garagecube.com/forum/viewtop ... light=file

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