Hey everybody!
So the company I work for does documentaries with tons of archival TV footage. Ingest of said footage is usually done by more than one assistant editor, which leads to meta data that needs to be manually attached to every piece of footage to sometimes end up in different columns in a certain bin. Let's say assistant 1 puts the aid date in column "Air Date", while assistant 2 puts it in "Date aired".
When we're done with a project we usually create an EDL of our archival footage, to easily list everything. Since you can't list custom columns in an EDL we duplicate a custom column to an unused stadard one. Let's say we duplicate "air date" to "labroll".
As soon as there's two different custom columns for one type of meta data we want to have in our EDL, we have to manually copy and paste one of the two custom columns. (otherwise we'd override with blank)
I know I could create a bin view and save that as, let's say, "archival meta", then switch to every user Profile on every machine, open a bin with "archival meta" active and save it for that user, but I was wondering if there was an easier method to create a standard binview, that's there for every user on every machine in every project. Something I would only have to set up once on every machine.
Tl;dr
In order to avoid assistants using multiple columns for one type of meta data, I'd love to create a bin view preset, that's there for every user in every project. Just like "Basic", "Capture" or "Statistics" are.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Johannes
Try saving the view in Site settings in every machine.
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Fuchur86:Let's say assistant 1 puts the aid date in column "Air Date", while assistant 2 puts it in "Date aired".
I know this is radical, but how about teaching all the assistants to follow a particular naming convention!?
Believe me, I've tried, but sometimes things around here get so chaotic, that the people who are researching the archival stuff are putting in the meta data (not the assistants), only half knowing what there doing. Once you realize that, it's too late.
But generally I totally agree that apart from trying to make it more fool proof, this is clearly a user error...
Thanks for all your replies, I'll try it on monday.
ALE export. Manipulate in a spreadsheat and then ALE import?
As siad bin view in site setting and then everyone can pull it in.
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I'm not sure if this may help since your specs say MC 7, but since MC 8.9.3 (maybe even before) you can set a default bin view in the bin settings.
So upon creating a new project, or a new bin, the bin view will be the default you set.
Took me a while, but I got back to trying a few things.
Default bin view is a cool feature, that'll definitely help, but now I just need the bin view to carry over to every user.
I tried dragging a bin view from my settings into the site settings window. It still shows and acts like a user setting though. Seems like dragging a bin view setting into the site settings window doesn't really do anything (as far as I can tell). There are 3 columns in the site settings window: the type of the setting, the name of the setting and whether it's a user, a project or a site setting. A bin view setting (which seems to always be a user setting by deafult) still says "user setting" even after I put it in the site setting window... can't seem to click or right click it to change that.
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