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Scarlet is recording multiple duplicates of RD3 files

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Dave King

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Everytime I have a recording session I see that my Scarlet is making multiple copies of the same RD3 file. For example my last recording session I simply made 2 records both about 8 minutes long. When I got home each recording had multiple recordings. One had 8 copies one had 9 copies of the same RD3 file. Do I have a setting set to do that?


Dave King
 
Is there a way to turn this off as its eating up card space like crazy.
 
There's nothing to turn off. The FAT format does not allow files to be larger than 4gb. All the files you see make up the shot. They are not duplicates.
 
yes, these are spanned files, each one portion of the actual full clip. This is a long standing approach, which basically breaks a long/large shot into smaller uniform size chunks of roughly 2-4 GB each (I forget exactly what the R3D max span size is... sorry!)
So, for example, if a shot takes up 10GB on your REDMAG, and each span size cuts off at 2GB, then the clip folder should contain 5 spans, numbered 1-5, where each span is storing 20% of the total shot.
Where it gets confusing if you are not familiar with this file structure is that most RED friendly NLE's see these span components, and virtually "auto-combines" them into a seamless full clip on the timeline from these span references.
Thus, if you are working in Premiere, each imported span.r3d in your assets window will then appear on the timeline as a full clip, giving the illusion that you have multiple copies.
In reality, if you have a shot that has five span pieces, and you were to delete one of the spans, you are deleting 1/5th of your shot. So DON'T DO THIS.
Hope this helps,
CK
 
As CK said "DO NOT DELETE ANY OF THE R3Ds!!"
 
In other words, you should never have to look inside the .RDC folder. Ever. The Red camera and all software utilizing R3D files do what they do, and do it the way they are supposed to. Treat the .RDC folder as your "footage file". Don't look inside. Ignore the man behind the curtain. Doing anything on your own inside those folders would be like opening the hood of your car and disconnecting a few spark plugs just because, well, the engine only needs 1, no? Why not disconnect the rest? Spark Plug + Cylinder + Gas = Car go. Why use more than one?
 
Nick Pasquariello said:
…. Doing anything on your own inside those folders would be like opening the hood of your car and disconnecting a few spark plugs just because, well, the engine only needs 1, no? Why not disconnect the rest? Spark Plug + Cylinder + Gas = Car go. Why use more than one?
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Let's just hope he doesn't drive a Tesla!


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