Moving RMD to one drive to another.

[Julien Deka]

Hi everyone,

I have a workflow question.

Our DIT did some pre-grad while we were shooting, and saved them as RMD.

We liked the look a lot, and the footage came with it right away in Premiere CS6 when edited (which was great!). We carried this look all along the editing process, and at the end, we tweak it just a bit so the transitions were smoother from one shot to another; just little continuity adjustments as it was already pretty consistent.

The way we did it:

we were scrolling into Premiere, and were stoping at a shot we wanted to change. We were then localizing the R3D on the internal hard drive, and tweaking its setting into Red Cine. I know there is tones of other workflows, but we wanted to try that one.

Now, we're done with the project, and I have 2 back up external drives with the footage already in it. I'd like to back up my projects (Premiere, Redcine and AE), but instead of re-copying all the footage, I'd like to update only the RDM files on those external drives.

Is there a convenient way to do it? Like a function in Red Cine that would copy the RDM where they belong in a new hard drive where the same footage as already been copied...

Thanks in advance for helping me to sort this out!

all my best

Julien

[David Ibbitson]

Hi Julien,

From the context I'm going to assume you mean .RMD's throughout here, as you said RDM's a couple times, which are a very different thing.

But if you just want to quickly back up all your .RMD files, you can go to the application Preferences -> General and set a master RMD directory. Load all your clips
into a Bin, select them all, right click and choose Save RMD.

Now the .RMD's will all be saved into that master .RMD directory.

Now remove all the clips in your bin and load all the clips from the backup drive into a bin. (or create a new bin)

Now go back to the preferences and clear the master directory.

Select all clips again and again do a Save RMD.

This isn't quite what you want, but it's the easiest, as we don't currently have that kind of one click functionality.

David

[Cory Petkovsek]

This is an OS function. You could just drag the updated folder and let it overwrite the backup folder. If you don't want to wait to copy everything, and only want to copy updated files, do one of these from the command line. Replace src and dest with the source and destination folders.

win7:
robocopy src dest /MIR /NDL /L
This will just view. Remove the /L to actually do it.

mac:
rsync -u -n src dest
This will view what will be updated; remove the -n to actually do it.

Cory

[Julien Deka]

Sorry guys,

I missed your answers as I jumped on other projects...

But thanks a lot to both of you. That would do it for me!

Great!

(and yes David, I meant RMD of course :) )