The Copy Process

 

Starting Copies

 

So now you have a RED media full of shots, and are ready to copy files to somewhere usable. First you need to mount your RED Media. Once mounted, click on the + button beneath the source window. In the window that pops up, navigate to the RED Media. For camera builds 14 and earlier you should see a bunch of RDC folders in the selection window (i.e., be one directory up from the RDC folders). For camera builds 15 and later you should see the RDM folder (i.e., be one directory up from the RDM folder). Then click open.

 

You can add up to 200 sources to copy at once, and R3D Data Manager will go through each sequentially. To add a another source, simply follow the steps above once for each new source.

 

Now if you have your destination directories set, and your project, shot and RED Media info filled out, simply click on "Copy". The "Copy" button will turn to "Stop", and a wheel will begin rotating, indicating that a copy process is started. 

 

Stopping Copies

 

Once a copy process has started, you can hit the stop button to stop the copy. The program will stop copying data at the next available opportunity. It is up to you to remove any incomplete copies. You can do this by noting which file it is copying, and removing it from all destinations.

 

To remove a destination directory, simply select the directory and click the - button beneath the destination window. 

 

Finishing the copying

 

After all the RDC folders have been copied to all destinations and (optionally) all files checksumed and (optionally) all files removed off the RED Media, then the program will indicate if the copy was successful, had any warnings or errors. You can look at the activity log for exact details of any errors or warnings. PLEASE NOTE: NO FILES WILL BE DELETED FROM RED MEDIA IF THERE ARE ANY COPY OR CHECKSUM ERRORS AT ANY TIME, REGARDLESS OF ANY OPTIONS THAT ARE SET. This is for your safety. If there are no errors, it will present the user with a window that says everything was successful.

 

Digging Deeper

 

Should you want to see exactly what happened, when, and why, there is an activity log window. This is a detailed log of each files that was transferred, each file that was checked, and all the results.