Say your cutting a reel, r3d on multiple drives, best aproach?

[Joel Arvidsson]

Say you were going to cut a new reel and your r3d sources where not on a big server but stored on many internal disks i a closet. So you cant connect them all at ones and start cutting. As i understand its not recomended to delete files from a transfered ssd. Thats why there is no red media app that let you brows and delete the r3d files youre not using. That said i know it will of course work if you only copy the interesting r3d files.

So i wonder how you would do it?

I would plugin a disc with an finished project on and open the final premiere project. Find the interesting clips and use the reveal in explorer function in premiere. Copy the r3d files to a fast raid. Do this for all projects that contains shots that will be used. Start a new project and name it reel... And cut the reel.

Of course it would be much easier to just collect the different master files of finished projects and go from there. But im more interested how you would do this with the original

 

[Joel Arvidsson]

I did a little edit on the way i would go about it. But im interested if you would copy just the r3d and dont care about the filestructure. I would copy only the few r3d files of interest of each project not care about copy the full ssd offloads from each project.

 

[Marc Wielage]

Resolve Collect will allow you to copy over just the specific R3D files you need for a project that has an existing XML:

http://www.niwa.nu/2013/06/collect-source-files-with-resolve-collect/

This really only works with Resolve, but it will allow you to at least confine the necessary files to just the ones needed for the project.

In general, when I do projects like this, I don't bother with the original camera files, but instead use the files in context from the finished project, since they're already color-corrected and (theoretically) ready to go. It'd be much, much, much too much trouble to build a new project from the original files, particularly when the final result is only going to be 3-4 minutes long.

 

[Michael Romano]

I think what you're getting at is "do I need the whole file structure to go with my single .r3d?" The answer is no. Almost all software that you'd be cutting anything with doesn't need the full RDM/RDC file structure to work with the clips. I do this all the time with stock footage.