Introducing R3D Data Manager

R3D Data Manager is an application designed to help you better manage your data workflow. With the terabytes of data that you will create with your RED system, R3D Data Manager helps to step in, making sure copies of each R3D file go to the right place, and accurately.

Data Management for Production and Post

R3D Data Manager helps to fill in a major gap in todays digital media. R3D Data Manager is designed to keep track and follow R3D files, wherever they go, and ensure that each copy is valid. It provides accountability at each step and validity to each copy. Its designed to give you a perfect copy end-to-end both from RED Media and standard hard drives or LTO tape.

On Set

R3D Data Manager helps to speed up your on-set workflow. Now you can make multiple copies of each R3D file at the same time to different destinations. No need to copy once, then copy elsewhere. Simply mount your RED MEDIA (Red Drive, CF Card, etc.) and hit the start copy button. Your data will instantly go to all the destinations you have setup. No sitting waiting for multiple copies, and no single point of failure.

Copies Made Safely

Make sure that the data from your RED MEDIA is truly unique, and if not, make it unique! We've run into times when the RED camera accidentally creates folders with identical names to previous shots (either due to human error or computer fault). With R3D Data Manager, it will alert you to any such situation and by default create a new folder to safely store that data in. If you know its a duplicate shot, you can always override the program.

Copies Made Correctly

R3D Data Manager helps to ensure that the data you read from your RED MEDIA is the same data you have throughout your post process. With the terabytes of information you will create, its very easy for a digital zero or one to get misplaced, not to mention hard drive failures and overwrites. Any one of these issues can lead to a failure of your R3D files. We overcome this by creating checksums right off the card and passing those through the copy process. If one byte of data is missing you will know about it.

Post Process

By gathering more information during the first on-set copy process, we can help to alleviate the search for missing shots. You can enter info about the shots before you copy them, and R3D Data Manager will record those to simple text files along with all copys of the footage. From there, editors can help search for missing shots, or for an audit log of what was transferred where.

Archival

R3D Data Manager offers 3 levels of protection against missing or dropped data. With these different levels of protection, you can be assured that your data written to your archival system is the same data that will be read out. Simply by including these checksums, you can ensure that the data is correct when you read it years from now.

Accountability and Audit Trails

By using this system, you can track when each file was transferred, when, and if the file was transferred correctly with a matching MD5 sum. This will help to pinpoint where things went wrong, should that happen. In addition, it is possible to see which files were originally transferred off the camera, to see if a shot was ever copied.