User Guide Instruction Manual

ENGSoft v1.5
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IPDirector metadata mapping issue handling
ItmayhappenthatasourcesequencemetadatamappedtoanIPDirectoruserfieldisofanincompatibletype.Awarning
popupisdisplayedatthetimeoftheingest.
Figure 99: Metadata mapping warning popup.
Thepopuphasalinktothe"IPDirectorMetadataMapping.log"filelocatedin"C:\ProgramData\OpenCube Tech-
nologies\OpenCube ENGSoft\log\"wheredescriptionsofallrecentmetadatamappingissuesarelisted.
Anentryintheloglookslikethis:
Wed Dec 19 14:26:11 2012
IPDirector ingest of SourceClip.mxf with profile News has raised following errors:
Metadata parsing error of "Hold Date": cannot convert "Clip Name (IMX50_50i)" to a date.
whereSourceClip.mxfisthenameofthesequencewheretheerroroccurred,Newsisthenameoftheprofileusedtoingest, 
"HoldDate"isthenameoftheIPDirectoruserfieldand"ClipName(IMX50_50i)" isthenameandvalueofthesource
sequencemetadatathatdoesnotfit.
Ifsuchanissueoccurs,theingestwillbeperformedanywaybuttheerroneoususerfieldswillbeblankedout.
12.4 Consolidation
Theconsolidationfeatureallowsyoutoglue/mergemultiplesequencesintoone.
Toconsolidatesequences,simplyselectthemintheexplorerwindowandclickon tolaunch theconsolidationoper-
ation.Youcanconsolidateallofthebrowsedmaterialbyclickingon .
Thesequencesareconsolidatedintheorderinwhichtheyhavebeenselectedintheexplorerwindow.
TheTCinandthemetadataoftheconsolidatedclipistheTCinandthemetadataofthefirstsequenceintheconsolidation
list.
ê Youcan only consolidatesequences thathave thesamecharacteristics. Heterogeneoussequences willnotbe 
consolidated.Anerrordialogwillappearwhenyoudropheterogeneoussequencesforconsolidationintheingest
stack.
TheconsolidationfeatureisnotavailableinAuto-Ingest.
Theconsolidationfeatureallowsforthemergingofsubclips(markedforsubclipintheENGSoftPlayerortheresultofapre-
vioussubclip).OnLongGopsequences(suchasXDCAMHD422sequences),theconsolidatedclipmaypresentoneormore
ofthefollowingartifacts:
-Additionalframesatcliptransitionsandattheendoftheconsolidationmayappear.Consequently,thedurationofthe
consolidationclipmaybegreaterthanitssumoftheindividualparts.
-Framelagsormacroblocksmaybevisibleduringcliptransitions.