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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

We give out Quine Ingest (Qi) OS X copy-tool for free, for now

Gunleik Groven

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For non-enterprise customers, we've just decided to let people use Qi, until we have time to fix our backend.

qi has been on Broadcast and film production the last 18 months.

Qi has some nice transcode at ingest with LUT tricks for Alexa and Sony F55
It can join segmented RED Prores at ingest

Qi integrates with a ton of different metadata formats.

But we haven't made our payment and support system yet.
Also we are curious how this model will work.
Paid for clients who want modifications and quick features and fixes.
Free for the rest.

Free for now, until June

nJoy
https://www.quine.no/shop/qi-quine-ingest-osx

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Gunleik
 
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Thanks David.

It seems to be pretty robust now, serving multiple TV productions and feature films the last year and a half.

A nice thing with it, is that you can throttle the performance to your hardware, by changing a few settings.

By default we don't "hog" all the machine resources, but you can tune it to do that, if that makes sense on the hardware you are using:

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Another nice feature (for larger productions), is if your project resides on a shared volume (RAID/SAN/NAS) and you have the bandwith available, you can set up multiple machines to ingest and transcode into the same project. (the version out has no limitations as to how many installs you have, so it's possible to test).

It is built for professional, large-scale "houses" with the need to quickly ingest, structure and transcode to multiple projects from multiple sources and to multiple destinations simultaniously, while giving the project a "good" file-structure out of the box, and the ability to tweak that on an individual project level.
 
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Tutorial 2: Open existing project


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7uQTDcpKGo

Handy when you want to add/change clients to a production for either speed or convenience reasons.

There is no limits to have many users can work/ingest on the same production, it's al a bandwith issue towards the shared volume.

New users get all the settings, but back-up disks (for example) can then be individually modified.

Sound department uses Qi to ingest their files into the main project, but also to their deparment-related backup solution.

Register to download:
https://goo.gl/forms/PJaOUC1tkYuUIESn2
 
Doh, I could've sure used that "join segmented ProRes files at ingest" feature on a documentary I just worked on. This looks like a terrific product, Gunleik.
 
This, we are pretty proud of, considering the despair that might occur when a 2TB ingest/transcode job goes haywire when you are 99% done and the whole thing has to be re-done for you to feel safe:

Tutorial 04 - Restarting a task when somethings go wrong, with Qi

https://youtu.be/Io4CgF11L0M
 
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We are looking for magazine samples from a multitude of other cameras.

If you want to support the development on compatibility with more cameras in ingest/transcode/logging, please PM me or mail me at:

gunleik at quine dot no
 
Tutorial 30: Setting up parallell copy-tasks

You can do an unlimited number of parallell copy-tasks with Qi, but you will ONLY gain from that if all your destinations are RAIDs/SANs/NASs
And even then, unless the write-speed is not the bottleneck, you will gain a lot more by adding machines with Qi copying and transcoding into the same share.
If you ingest to single spinning disks, there are a lot of reasons of setting up a queue and finish one task before starting the next. Thus, the default setting is to do exactly that.

If you however have many slow read stations, and surplus bandwidth for write, AND you copy to RAIDS, this can be a huge time-saver.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzcM47PfDxI&t=1s
 
NAB is done. A few 100 registered users are on.

And I have learned that Qi has issues with OSX 10.9.

Which isn't too unlikely as I don't think it has ever been run and tested in scale on anything prior to 10.10.

We will probably make that a requirement in the next update.
 
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Thank you! Am going to be trying this out on the next project. Will be willing to buy if it works out for me!
 
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Thank you! Am going to be trying this out on the next project. Will be willing to buy if it works out for me!
Click to expand...

Thanks. Ironically we do not sell it to "non-institutional customers" at this stage, so you will probably be good to use the copy part of it for free for a while :)
 
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Still in US, and planning for the next service update on QuineIngest and new tutorials when I come back home.

I don't mind PM's with suggestions.
 
There is an update coming out today.

the previous release goes out 1/6

This one works until 1/9

No charge

And if you wonder why we build this app, it is to manage large datasets connected to a single shot from prep to delivery:

here is a first public dataset for our tracking solution recorded with our hardware and software.

http://www.quine.no/datasets/qb-rt-set-01/
 
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Thanks for make this available. I am having trouble getting the link to work though. I have tried three times today with two different email addresses and never get a download link. I have been checking my spam folders and have not seen anything come through.
 
Looks like a fantastic tool Gunleik. I always wanted a way for production devices (cameras/sound mix/slate/lens data/etc) to generate metadata on a regular schedule that would be input to the master database as a framework for managing all your assets. Are you using any part of the SMPTE "Time Label" for tagging?

All the best my friend, and thanx for doing this - I'd much rather be using my hours doing creative stuff, than pulling my hair out looking for media half the frikkin' night.

Cheers - #19
 
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