Comments on: Media Management by Julien Lasseur,Media Manager for Hurlbut Visuals

By: Cameron Schiller

Cameron Schiller — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:36:57 +0000

Would love a copy… Here’s my email this time!

cameronschiller@fahertybrand.com

By: Cameron Schiller

Cameron Schiller — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:36:13 +0000

Would love a copy of your template!

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:24:32 +0000

I’m brand new to media management and no money for classes – would love a copy of a media management spreadsheet template.

By: paddy hoy

paddy hoy — Sun, 22 May 2011 18:33:50 +0000

Love the article. Just went thru a self inflicted media mgnmt nightmare on a 5 cam shoot. Doing a lessons learned with this as reference. Would appreciate a copy of that xcel sheet please and thanks!

By: Rubin

Rubin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:29:44 +0000

Late bus. Plz be so kind as to fwd me a spreadsheet also. Thx.

By: Vegar

Vegar — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:48:13 +0000

Using NTFS on a Mac is not difficult. But going the other way around is hard. So I format my drives to NTFS. A modern and secure file system.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070220150856279

Not really hard. I didn’t even need to compile anything.

By: peter mccabe

peter mccabe — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:45:51 +0000

its is a 4gb limitation in FAT32 file system. You can record for more than 12minutes in standard def. It would be nice if the camera would just create a new file when it reached the 4gb size and allow you to keep on rolling.

By: peter mccabe

peter mccabe — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:42:00 +0000

would love the excel log template.
thanks

By: Managing 5D Media in Final Cut Pro 7 « endless picnic blog

Managing 5D Media in Final Cut Pro 7 « endless picnic blog — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:43:18 +0000

[...] failure. Each card was labeled by camera and in numerical order. (Recently, Julien Lasseur made an excellent post on media management at Hurlbut Visuals that’s given me some new ideas on how to make this step even more efficient–that tip [...]

By: Randy Lee

Randy Lee — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:28:36 +0000

I would love a copy of the template also. randy.e.lee@gmail.com Thank you all for what you do to enrich the film community – your hard work and passion really show through. Keep it up!

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:42:26 +0000

I’d love one as well – pixelvandals@me.com
Thanks

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:41:25 +0000

Actually the “12 Minute Cap” has nothing to do with Fat32 formatting and everything to do with tax! If these DSLRs could record for longer than “12 minutes” they would be classified as video cameras and would attract larger taxes, therefore making the cameras more expensive.

By: Managing Media and Mantaining order in your Digital Workflow

Managing Media and Mantaining order in your Digital Workflow — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:19:46 +0000

[...] With HDSLRs being so common place, a production can easily have several of these cameras running around at any given time. With so much digital content being created, it is vitally important to maintain and back up that precious footage. …The next step I take in the media management process is labeling cameras and assigning file n… [...]

By: Gero

Gero — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:18:17 +0000

Julien, could you please email the template to me as well. Thank you for sharing.

By: Dave C

Dave C — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:20:55 +0000

Hi there, I would never recommend using FAT32 for media drives. The formatting is too brittle and easly damaged. Use NTFS and buy Tuxera NTFS to allow writing to NTFS drives.
Also for card cloning use Offloader from VideoToolshed.com – does dual drive cloning and verification and also does cliip remaming and timcode insertion for 5D files. Well worth a look

Dave

By: Darren Orange

Darren Orange — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:56:34 +0000

We just shot a feature using the 7D and a t2i. I found that the best way to handle this is to simply make sure your cameras date and times are correct first to make sure you have that as a fall back.

on a Given date we would have a folder labeled 101510…Inside that we just created CameraA and CameraB folders and inside those folders we just listed each card as it was shot was given reel numbers starting at 1 for that day.

We knew our workflow was being developed as we where shooting and had no way to know the “final” workflow depending on what systems we would end up using.

We then batched renamed the files in this fashion MMDDYYRRMVI_XXXX.mov (X’s stand for numbers, whatever that take was and RR is reel number starting at 01 for that day) So we knew that we could not have duplicate file names ever and not have to hassle with the naming. So the first files shot on camera A and B on a given day might look like this once naming is done.

CameraA:
10151001MVI_0001.mov
10151002MVI_0001.mov

We did not bother with keeping camera letters in there because that could be found by just listening to the slating. You could add the camera letter to the front but you would need to lose the year as most reel based softwares can’t use more than 8 letters or numbers as a reel.

We just used osx automater to add the date and number to the front of all the files this includes the .THM files so log and transfer would not be negatively effected by this choice during production.

We found trying to hassle with reel numbers and timecode to be a waste for most of our post workflow, we hope to try the lockit buddy on the next production to allow this info to be used correctly.

This is a long reply, hope this helps someone out or adds some new ideas.

By: John

John — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:39:05 +0000

Hi Julien,
Fantastic article, very useful and easy to follow. Please shoot me the Excel spreadsheet you describe if that is still available. Thanks very much and hope to see more posts from you!
Cheers,
John

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:48:42 +0000

Thank you very much for this valuable lesson. You have saved me alot of thinking and time, and most probably saved many a lost file. I would love to check out you Excel spreadsheet. (Rukarl@hotmail.com)

Thank you!
Tom.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:36:42 +0000

Hey Julien,
Great post as always and thanks for the insight.
Im wondering if it would be possible to get a copy of the excel template you use.

“After organizing the folders, I would then make a log of all the shot footage. Each individual clip should be entered into an Excel spreadsheet. The key information to put into the log are the Original Filename, Camera, and Description which should be provided based on the contents of the shot and any info visible on the slate.”

Thanks so much for you time and keep up the good work.

By: David Kaptein

David Kaptein — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:05:42 +0000

I’d love the template also. Thanks!