#Silverstack report no thumbnail update
#Silverstack report no thumbnail verification
#Silverstack report no thumbnail license
#Silverstack report no thumbnail free

(Which you don’t want to fuck with because if something goes awry and you haven’t followed those steps the insurance claims can be denied).

#Silverstack report no thumbnail verification

Not always what specific application is used, but rather specifically outlining how many copies of the footage are created, in what format, and what type of verification and reporting must be done. One thing many people don’t know is that often the production’s insurance policy also has a say in the workflow. It’s actually pretty common that the studios insist that Silverstack be used as the offloading tool of choice if only because of the reporting capabilities. Then we have some pretty extensive reporting that needs to be done that you can send along with the shuttle drives to post.

#Silverstack report no thumbnail update

That includes not just basic hash verification (which by the way you need to be able to decide which type of hashing algorithm to use because some studios require different things) but also establishing very specific folder structures, offloading to multiple drives simultaneously (or in a cascading fashion), the ability to relocate and then re-link and re-verify the moved clips to ensure they match the originals.įrom there you’re looking at metadata management - which can get crazy because each camera manufacturer handles it differently and you need to be able to parse all of it as well as update / edit it without affecting the original files. (Although in the past I’ve gone so far as to make an Apple Automator app that uses rsync to handle the offload - but it’s very quick and dirty and was on a zero budget indie)Īnyway… For lack of a better term, you are effectively managing a chain of custody from set through archival and then post that has to be easily traceable at every point from offload, to duplication, to shuttle drives to LTO archival to ingest into editorial’s NLE. My bet is the reason you haven’t seen any open source tools along these lines is that there just isn’t a massive user base for that sort of thing.Īnyone with a budget is using Silverstack, or ShotPut - anyone that doesn’t have a budget is using terracopy, or (frustratingly) just dragging & dropping because they don’t know any better. Honestly - being a loader/media manager is a pretty niche job (even more so if you’re a DIT). Once you get into more serious paying work with a budget, and clients or ad agencies or film studios to be answered to, things get exceedingly complex. It just likely wouldn’t be exactly what’s needed here. I’d be surprised if an rsync GUI doesn’t already exist. I’ve got some technical objections, but mostly i just really hate the interface - which I concede as being totally subjective.įor absolutely beginners, and super low budget projects… something along those lines would probably be a welcome tool.

Shotput us an okay option, and has been around forever, but Pomfort tools are industry standard and if you’re spending money… again I’d use it as an opprtunity yo get comfy with what we use on larger productions. It lacks some features found in Silverstack, but it lets you start to get familiar with their shared interface.

#Silverstack report no thumbnail license

If you need something for longer than thay a yearly license makes the most financial sense.

I’d recommend Pomfort’s Offload Manager - a 14 day license runs $35, and a 30 day license is $49. One thing that you may not have considered is that many of the upper tier tools for this sort of thing actually offer project based licenses - and these are the tools you’d be using on a real productuon so it’s a pretty good opportunity to get comfortable with the interface.

#Silverstack report no thumbnail free

There aren’t really any good free options that are worth dealing with - and I cannot understate gow much you dont want to fuck around or take chances with your data managemwnt.