Resolve alternative tool for project collection

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resolve 18.6 cant trim alexa 35 clips.

resolve 19 apparently adds clips twice (ive had numerous eamples in the current project)

I rely on the media-management-trim function to trim stuff fron the source media to keep my cloud storage costs in check, i dont care for the 14 tb of camera files if youve only used 30gb of that.

are there any other tools that can do mediamanagement like resolve does just stable and maybe more professional?

I bascially want to throw a few xmls at a tool and i want it to collect the used clips and trimm them with X amount of handles.

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@finn - umm, there’s this thing called flame…
:rofl:

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is there a hidden secret trimm and collect function in flame that I am missing?

i would love to keep the ability to trim various raw formats with no transcoding …

of course sources sequence → publish → put in resolve → call it a day is always a option :wink:

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Check out YoYotta. It’s meant to archive to/from tape. But it has the ability to read AAF and trim source files. Not sure if supports Alexa35, but I suspect it does or could.

That does make it somewhat similar to your use case. And it can write to disk, no tape drive required.

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@finnjaeger - no
I think scratch and the proprietary red software used to be good at that with red files - you could trim an r3d file.

Early Arri raw files was easy too, since they were individual containers per frame, some modern Arri (codex) files too.

I don’t know of a tool for Sony files, but I expect there is one, most likely on windows.

Truncation/interruption of compressed streams could be problematic which is why I always liked the Arri solution to frame encapsulation.

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Wow! TIL… Thank you @allklier

This is a great solution for my workflow. And it does do raw trimming on various formats and codecs.

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Is that right? I feel like we have done that on a project here but there’s a chance it was on Resolve 18.1 as we only went to 18.6 a few months ago. I know we’ve done it on loads of Alexa LF. One other thing. I think all our projects of late have been HDE which might make a difference too.

As someone else suggested, YoYotta would be a good alternative. I think Assimilate Scratch might be able to do this too. @Mazze would be the one to ask about that.

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Per help page, formats YoYotta can trim

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@allklier - that’s great.
So do you just read the conform files (EDL, AAF, XML), gather the files and instruct yoyotta to trim files before publishing? Or do you need to write code to do that?

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its some combination of used resolution and prores mxf… idk i found a post on bm forums where they have confirmed the bug and i can confirm “this” bug is fixed in 19…

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@philm

You can feed YoYotta an EDL/AAF/XML and instruct how many handles you want and to trim all within the interface.

Trim doesn’t work on all formats. We’ve also encountered issues with speed effects in the past but believe this works well now.

We tend to use YoYotta to pull OCM from LTO then do trims in Resolve.

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Aaaah. That probably explains it. Pretty sure the Alexa 35 project I’m thinking about shot RAW.

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@AdamArcher - nice. I always thought that yoyotta was just an archiving tool - i’m not sure why

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YoYotta is an awesome smart copying tool too. I think there is a common misconception that it is just used with LTO.

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Unfortunately, SCRATCH can not trim Arri RAW either

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