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Information Overdrive and Tech Minute are brought to you by Crews Control. Our video series focuses on trends and technical video production solutions for vi. On a Mac laptop, there are many things you can do using the trackpad (a device you use instead of a mouse, aka touchpad) besides pointing and clicking. For example, you can move two fingers up or down on it to scroll. To see the whole range of options and to see video demos, go to System Preferences —> Trackpad. Information Overdrive and Tech Minute focuses on trends and technical video production solutions for. Tech Minute: ShotSum for Mac from Imagine Products.

CineGear is always a great show. Who doesn’t love being on the Paramount lot?

There’s an incredible amount of history in one place AND there’s more being made everyday. This year we were on Stage 15 which has been home to some incredible movies and tv shows like True Grit, The Hunt for Red October, The Birdcage and Glee. Probably the coolest building I saw was the furniture warehouse – what I wouldn’t give to walk through there! New at CineGear for us this year was – it’s a transcoding app – as if that weren’t obvious from the title. Between that and talking about long term storage with I don’t think I stopped talking for a solid two days. Which is great particularly since that’s my job!

One of the coolest things about being in Hollywood is the casual name or project dropping. We talked to people who had worked on Guardians of the Galaxy and American Gods and learned how far and wide our software has traveled!

We heard horror stories of lost media and hero stories about how saved a project (and probably someones job!). We also made some people VERY happy by announcing would be released as soon as we got back – and it was (and it’s awesome)! Overall it was another incredibly successful show for us. Check out some of our pictures below and if you are looking for workflow tools –. Another thing that comes into play with tapes is the available and consumed space calculations depend upon responses from the deck.

In the real world, tape sometimes has bad spots on it and the tape deck is designed to check for those and automatically skip bad sections. When that happens it simply rewrites the file it was working on to the next segment of tape and marks the bad section as deleted. This of course consumes what was thought to be usable space, but the drive doesn’t communicate that to our software so we really only have an approximation of how much data might fit on any given tape. To allow for this tolerance, we give a cushion of 5% of the reported space–in other words, we won’t let you attempt to add more data to a tape than 95% of it’s reported available space.

This reserve is purely to allot for any bad tape sections. About PreRoll Post: PreRoll Post is an LTFS archiving application optimized for the media and entertainment industry. PreRoll Post securely archives assets to LTO tapes or ODA cartridges using simple drag and drop functionality as well as checksum technology to ensure archives are 100% accurate.

PreRoll Post uses the LTFS open-source so even tapes not created in PreRoll Post can be imported and retrieved (.only those using LTFS). PreRoll Post is compatible with any LTO tape drive as well as Sony’s Optical Disc Archive. For more information visit the on. Sometimes customers run into firewall or internet issues when trying to activate applications. Have no fear! There is a simple manual activation process that I am going to walk you through step by step, right now.

In the activation window select Manually Activate (for users with Firewall/Internet problems). The manual activation window will then pop up with three spots for different information; serial number, ID number and personal activation number.SIDE NOTE: The ID Number is for that particular computer, this is a great way to keep track of your serial numbers. Create an excel spreadsheet and with the serial number, ID number and application for reference in the future. This is especially important for those that own multiple licenses of the same application. Anyway, back to manual activation! From your phone or a computer that has internet access log into your account on our website.

On the My Product page select Manually Activate button for the application you would like to activate. On the next page you will see your serial number (product code) at the top and then a place for your ID number (pictured above). In the Manual Activation window in the app, put your serial number in the top spot where it says. Serial number!. On the webpage put the ID number in from the application, then select the Activate Now button. The next page will provide you with a personal activation number, put this number in the manual activation window in the personal activation number spot.

Select Activate and you are all set! We hope you’ve enjoyed another fascinating (riveting even) and incredibly informative blog from Imagine Products!

Before you read this, The free software that comes with an LTO tape drive is meant only to get you up and running with LTFS so that you can see the contents of your tape in Finder or Explorer. Free software lets you browse the content, but it doesn’t make the content searchable, it doesn’t guide you through the process, and retrieval is excruciatingly slow. On the other hand, having software that organizes files are keeps track of their positions on the tape is important for performance.

Such software can quickly locate files and put them in a logical sequence for optimum retrieval and restore speeds. Beyond the performance benefits, paid software can walk you through the whole process in order to optimize the archive for video and avoid the pitfalls mentioned above. The idea is to create a good backup from the beginning to prevent problems down the line. For instance, some paid software forces uncompressed mode during formatting and also automatically formats the tape to meet Discovery Channel’s file-structure specifications, which seem to be the most stringent in the industry right now. Paid software also makes it easier when it’s time to copy files onto tape. Remember the?

Advanced LTFS applications analyze names and flag problems with illegal characters so you can fix them before you start the backup. With certain software, you can even configure it to replace illegal characters automatically during the backup process and then restore those characters when you restore the files. This capability is helpful in cases where it’s important to keep the same file name regardless of illegal characters, such as when linked files are referenced by other media. Likewise, if the files you’re copying contain references or links, the software checks to see if they are valid. If not, it will flag the problem so that you can address it before starting the backup. It is helpful to have LTFS software that is video-aware.

That is, it always knows the typical video formats, the different types of data coming out of different cameras, and how to break up or keep together different data sets when spanning multiple tapes. Video-aware LTFS software can also extract thumbnails and even play proxies before ever pulling anything off the tape.

Finally, unlike free LTFS software, paid software compares source and copied files and performs checksums on the data, a common and often required practice in the postproduction industry. Checksums provide assurance that the source and copied files match exactly and didn’t get corrupted during the backup process. Takes checksums a step further by calculating a checksum again after the file is restored.

This extra checksum calculation helps ensure the file wasn’t corrupted during restoration. It pays to be organized and judicious about what to back up. Most people back up far more than they can use. For example, it almost never makes sense to back up hidden files because they will be incorrect when restored.

Remember the rule of two: It’s not a true archive without at least two copies of the content – most likely on two or more sets of LTO tapes – stored in two different buildings. LTO and LTFS create a long-term, reliable, economical storage solution.

If you’ve never backed up to LTO before, there is a slight learning curve, but with some common sense, best practices, and the right tools, you can easily set up your archive to deliver worthwhile results down the road with far more reliability than you would ever get from hard disk. Once you’ve decided to create an LTO/LTFS archive, there are some things you need to consider in order to be successful with it. It’s not the same as copying files onto hard disk and sticking it in a storage closet.

The mechanics are different, so there are a few more steps, and there are rules associated with LTFS that require some forethought. One thing to know is that LTO tapes are raw media that do not come formatted, so you have to format them before you can use them. You can format using terminal commands – a cumbersome process that few would undertake – or, when formatting for LTFS, you can do it using LTFS software. After that, any hardware that has LTFS software installed will be able to read the LTO tape.

One of the defining characteristics of LTFS is that in the process of formatting, it partitions the tape so that one section stores the actual content and the other section stores an index of metadata. The index allows the tape to be self-describing, which improves archive management. It also helps ensure organizations are compliant with broadcast networks that require indexed tapes. Another consideration is whether to format the drive in compressed mode, and the short answer is “no.” Operating in compressed mode is useful in the IT industry when backing up things like documents and text files.

But in the media industry, where nearly all video files are already compressed into a format that saves space, there’s little to be gained by formatting a tape in compressed mode. In fact, it can slow down the writing and retrieval processes considerably.

Besides formatting considerations, there are rules related to LTFS that affect how you handle your archives. LTFS has its roots in the IT world, where most servers are running UNIX operating systems. In UNIX – and therefore in LTFS – certain characters, such as ampersands and backslashes, are reserved for formatting purposes and are off-limits in folder and file names.

For those of us in the video world, who are used to using just about any character we want, those restrictions can cause trouble when setting up an LTFS file structure. That’s why it’s important to know those “illegal” characters and be diligent when naming files. If you use illegal characters, then the archive retrieval process could crash later. A related issue, and a common stumbling point for most people, is trying to back up files that contain links or references to media that are not part of the backup. Such files can cause restoration to fail because the application is trying to find a file that doesn’t exist. The same thing can happen with files that contain absolute paths, which trace back to a specific point on a hard disk but lead nowhere on a tape. For more LTO tips and tricks read.

CineGear 2016 was our first time attending the LA show – and what a treat it was! The weather was nice and hot but the people were completely cool and friendly. You can expect to see us again at CineGear in the future! Check out our impressions of the show and see what we showed – LOTS of new things coming from Imagine Products this summer! Let’s start with the picture collage above, this is a great representation what we saw and what we showed at CineGear.

Top left corner; ProxyMill 5 is due out this summer and we showed it off at the Tech Awards banquet – that’s right, we think it’s award worthy! Left middle; Dan the demo man talking about ShotPut Pro Windows on the Surface tablet, imagine how much lighter travel can be with ShotPut Pro on a tablet and now it’s possible! Bottom left corner; we always find a fun place to toast the end of the show and there was plenty to toast at CineGear 2016. Top middle; showing off our new pop up banners! Bottom middle; there were all kinds of neat toys running around the show. We ran into this guy a number of times, can’t wait to see all the footage of the show he got! Right; it was very cool to be on the Paramount lot.

It was neat to get a behind the scenes look at all the different aspects of filming on a studio lot. So what did we show? And who did we see? ShotPut Pro This offloading application for Windows and Mac users offers security, reliability and continuity when offloading your assets.

Offload from multiple locations, to multiple locations with naming conventions as well as checksums. Don’t trust your valuable content to finder or explorer! HD-VU2 The perfect companion to ShotPut Pro! HD-VU2 is a native file viewer that instantly plays over 20 camera formats without transcoding. Add LUTs and sync external audio files for a complete quality check. Watch folders enable HD-VU2 to ‘talk’ to ShotPut Pro and pull in clips for viewing.

Tech Minute: Shotsum For Mac Pro

ProxyMill Transcode clips to shareable or editable files in just one step with ProxyMill. Burn in time code or a watermark as well as color correction for shareable files. Easily up-res to ProRes for editing as well as merge or stitch clips together. You can also make audio-only files for transcripts. PreRoll Post Our LTFS archiving application can work with any LTO drive and Sony’s Optical Disc Archive. Archive your completed projects or dailies with PreRoll Post easily to multiple locations at the same time. Checksums deliver peace of mind that archives are 100% accurate and secure.

Roger Mabon stopped by the booth and talked to us about the archiving solution = PreRoll Post + LTO7 mTape. CineGear 2016 was a great show! It’s always nice to meet new people, reconnect with old friends and see all the new cameras, lights, gadgets and toys. See you at CineGear 2017! About PreRoll Post: PreRoll Post is an LTFS archiving application optimized for the media and entertainment industry. PreRoll Post securely archives assets to LTO tapes or ODA cartridges using simple drag and drop functionality as well as checksum technology to ensure archives are 100% accurate.

PreRoll Post uses the LTFS open-source so even tapes not created in PreRoll Post can be imported and retrieved (.only those using LTFS). PreRoll Post is compatible with any LTO tape drive as well as Sony’s Optical Disc Archive. For more information visit the on. About PreRoll Post: PreRoll Post is an LTFS archiving application optimized for the media and entertainment industry. PreRoll Post securely archives assets to LTO tapes or ODA cartridges using simple drag and drop functionality as well as checksum technology to ensure archives are 100% accurate. PreRoll Post uses the LTFS open-source so even tapes not created in PreRoll Post can be imported and retrieved (.only those using LTFS).

PreRoll Post is compatible with any LTO tape drive as well as Sony’s Optical Disc Archive. For more information visit the on. One of the most common questions we get everyday is “How can I move my license from my laptop to my desktop?” It’s a fairly simple process if you know what you’re doing and it’s that last part that is so key, if you know what you’re doing. We’ve decided to lay the steps out for you here to increase flexibility and usability for our products because after all, its you the customer that keeps us moving forward in the industry. Shameless plug: Recently we were notified that we’ve made the shortlist of the “20 Most Promising Solution Providers in 2016” in the Media and Entertainment sector. We’d like to take a minute to thank our loyal customers, making excellent software is all well and good but without you, it would be all for nothing!

Thanks for your unwavering faith in us. OK let’s get started! Deleting or removing applications DOES NOT DEACTIVATE them. If you’re trying to move an activated copy of an application from one computer to another you MUST deactivate the registration before removing the application.

Deactivate is a function under the application menu, just above Quit inside our Macintosh applications. For Windows applications, the Deactivate function may be found under HELP, ABOUT or FILE menus depending upon the version. For the Mac applications PreRollPost, ShotPut Pro, ProxyMill, LUT Sync and ShotSum; go to Applications menu and move the application to the Trash. For ProxyMill, you’ll find a folder named Imagine Products in the Computer Root Hard Disk that contains ffmpeg folders which can also be deleted. The registration/preferences information for these are stored in the Computer Root Hard Disk’s Library/Application Support/ImagineProducts folder.

PreRoll Post also stores it’s database in this directory so you can remove the PrerollPost folder as well, if you wish to permanently delete the database.Please note to move the database contents from one computer to another you may copy this folder intact. Please note for PreRoll Post the default location for thumbnails and proxies is in the Application Support area mentioned above. However, the user does have the option to store them elsewhere when setting up the application. For Windows applications ShotPut Pro and PreRoll Post, simply right-click on the application in the Start menu and choose UNINSTALL. Depending upon your version of Windows you may need to go to Program Manager to Remove the application. I don’t know about all of you, but we had a great time in Vegas this year.

Every year gets better and better, there’s no doubt about that but this year surpassed all expectations. We showed more workflow software and met more incredible people than ever before.

We showed new software and gave sneak peaks of two MAJOR updates due out this summer. If you were there you know how exciting it was and if you missed it, that’s ok! There are plenty of ways to get caught up. Below is a little taste of what we showed.

Stay tuned for our next blog post on NAB 2016 thoughts and impressions. ShotPut Pro This offloading application for Windows and Mac users offers security, reliability and continuity when offloading your assets. Offload from multiple locations, to multiple locations with naming conventions as well as checksums. Don’t trust your valuable content to finder or explorer! HD-VU2 The perfect companion to ShotPut Pro! HD-VU2 is a native file viewer that instantly plays over 20 camera formats without transcoding. Add LUTs and sync external audio files for a complete quality check.

Watch folders enable HD-VU2 to ‘talk’ to ShotPut Pro and pull in clips for viewing. ProxyMill Transcode clips to shareable or editable files in just one step with ProxyMill. Burn in time code or a watermark as well as color correction for shareable files.

Easily up-res to ProRes for editing as well as merge or stitch clips together. You can also make audio-only files for transcripts.

Tech Minute: Shotsum For Mac Os

PreRoll Post Our LTFS archiving application can work with any LTO drive and Sony’s Optical Disc Archive. Archive your completed projects or dailies with PreRoll Post easily to multiple locations at the same time. Checksums deliver peace of mind that archives are 100% accurate and secure.