Media pool order

riredale wrote on 9/19/2002, 8:18 PM

I am beginning a new project. I have captured my files from the first tape, and because I asked VV to do scene detection, I have several hundred clips in the Media Pool.

I have been used to seeing the thumbnails appear in sequential order (as is done in Studio7) and because they are in sequence it is a simple matter to view them in order and pull them in as desired. But in VV3 I notice that they are ordered as follows: 1, 10, 100, 101, 102, 103...

In other words it looks like VV3 is ordering the thumbnails by most significant digit, not sequentially. Is this normal procedure? Is there any way to change the ordering? Otherwise, this is incredibly cumbersome when compared to simple little Studio7.

In addition, and this is of less significance, it appears that VV3 rebuilds the thumbnails every time I visit the Media Pool. Surely it would be much better to save those images and not waste time rebuilding several hundered of them every time I need to look at them.

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 9/19/2002, 9:02 PM

Thumbnail view is not sortable, and as you've pointed out, can be slow if you want to display hundreds of clips. Using the text view you can sort by date, tape, comment etc.

mako wrote on 9/20/2002, 12:04 PM

Heh heh, I'm a software engineer that writes a lot of tools for graphic related stuff. This is always a fun one to tackle. What helps is to name your files with preceeding zeros. For example, if you know you'll have 99 or less files, name them 00, 01, 02, 03... if you might have more, name them 000, 001, 002... This will get them in order. For a programmer, this makes script writing easier knowing that you can sort the names alphanumerically.

I think you can rename the files manually (ack, but what a pain), then have them reregistered into your veg file. You can write a script that renames the files for you, but you still have to reregister the files into the project. Can't think of an easier way.

BTW, when I use capture video the saved files do have preceeding zeros (001, 002, etc.). Is there a reason why your files are names differently? Is there some preference setting in the video capture that isn't doing this for you? Goodluck.

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