New: Clipfinder Application

[Hans-Georg Daun]

I've just come back from my summer vacation.

Luckily, with the help of Dan Duran, my camera arrived just the day before I left, so I have been able to play around with it for the last 2 weeks (thanks also to Octamas, who kindly lent me the charger and batteries that were missing in my shipment).

Until build 16 came along I have used REDCine to view my clips and apply some basic corrections.

Since build 16 I have been using REDAlert and have struggled to find a way to quickly view all clips shot on a given day, apply corrections and render them for editing. I have searched the board but have not found anything (my apologies if I have missed something), so I knocked together a very basic application today. It is called Clipfinder (yeah, I know, very original...)

It will open a directory containing RED clip directories and display a list of clips, that can be sorted by name, date/time and clip size.
Moving through the list with the arrow keys will display the selected clip, pressing the space key will play/pause the selected clip.
Pressing RETURN or double-clicking on a clip will launch REDAlert and open the clip in REDAlert.
That's all there is to it, but I find it makes the process of selecting clips for processing much quicker.

In the sharing spirit of the RED community, anyone who finds it useful, may download the application from
http://www.daun.ch/software/clipfinder.zip

I have tested the application on an Intel Quadcore Mac under OS X 10.5.3. It may work on a G5 (it is a universal binary) and older OS versions but I have not tested that.
The usual caveats apply, i.e. the software is provided "as is" without any explicit or implicit warranty of any kind. Use at your own risk.

 

[Greg M]

Thanks very much!!

I'll put this to good use in the morning, our first real job in B16.

Thanks, Greg

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

cool...definitly useful

 

[Fredrik Callinggard]

Great! Keep things like this coming.

THANKS!


Fredrik

 

[Nils Ruinet]

Very nice. Works fine.

Thank you !

 

[Michael Mayda]

Thanks for putting this together, it is a very useful tool while B16 waits for new tools.

 

[Vincent S]

Thank you very much, this is great.

\v

 

[Trevor Meier]

Hey - great tool. Been using it for a few days as an alternative to searching for _M proxies in the Finder...

A couple bugs to report:
* non-16:9 clips display in the wrong aspect (e.g. 2:1 shows as 16:9)
* spacebar, other kbd shortcuts not working everywhere - e.g. I can't scrub the clip in the quicktime window then use the up/down arrows
* highlighting of the active clip in the clip list is hard to read when scrubbing QT window
* clicking below list of clips throws an error

A few feature requests:
* it'd be nice to be able to resize the playback window
* I often turn off the high-quality playback option in quicktime player to make playback smoother.
* Be nice to drag & drop a folder onto the window to open
* root mag folder allowed too (not just .RDM)
* bigger font options

Thanks for your work!

 

[Patrick Tresch]

Hello Dan,

Thanks for that tool. Where are you from Switzerland? Hope to see you.

Patrick

 

[Hans-Georg Daun]

Thanks everyone for the friendly comments.
Trevor: I appreciate your detailed comments and I'll see what I can do regarding the bugs and feature requests, but I cannot make any promises. The QuickTime component I am using is not very flexible and my resources are limited.
Tresch: I live in Rafz and work in Zurich. PM me if you want to get together for a beer or so.
I'm considering adding batch rendering features (via REDline). Anyone interested ? Any suggestions ?

 

[Rainer Fritz]

Hi hgdaun !

Thanks for this very useful and nice application! One question: Would it be possible to add an import function from a RedCine XML, that the program shows all used clips? So we could do the onelight in Redalert? That would be great...

thx
rainer

 

[Hans-Georg Daun]

Hi hgdaun !

Thanks for this very useful and nice application! One question: Would it be possible to add an import function from a RedCine XML, that the program shows all used clips? So we could do the onelight in Redalert? That would be great...

thx
rainer

That's a good suggestion. I'll see what I can do.

 

[Rainer Fritz]

thx a lot....

 

[Ido Karilla]

Thank you very much!

Very useful indeed. I vote for the batch redline rendring.

Thanks again.

 

[David Morgan]

Any chance this will eventually be available for PC? Sounds very useful, except no mac here.:nerd:

 

[Hans-Georg Daun]

Sorry David,

I have no plans to create a PC version as this would require a total rewrite and I barely have the time (and knowledge) to support one platform.

Best wishes
Hans

 

[fubbi]

Hi hgdaun !

Thanks for this very useful and nice application! One question: Would it be possible to add an import function from a RedCine XML, that the program shows all used clips? So we could do the onelight in Redalert? That would be great...

thx
rainer

I second that! that would be a great feature.
and thanks for your philanthropic programming

fubbi

 

[Rainer Fritz]

its already a long time integrated...

 

[fubbi]

its already a long time integrated...

my bad, i am updating now

thanks