Hedge It has updated three major platforms. These recent updates address common issues such as dealing with unorganized media that require custom-built metadata fields, RAW transcoding and ensuring that individual media archives can spread multiple LTO tapes.
Hedge material – Elements are hedge words for varied and customizable metadata that users can now attach (and keep) to a file so that they can later explain the role of that file to other creative and technical professionals in the workflow. Hedge Elements is ideal for organizations that need video files compatible with their organizational structure and approach, whether ad hoc or strictly formal.
EditReady RAW – The popular, brilliantly fast, and easy-to-use transcoding application now supports RAW video, including ARRI RAW, Codex HDE, ProRes RAW, and RED R3D, and Blackmagic RAW. The latest release, the first new version of EditReady since being part of Hedge, solves the problem of converting RAW footage to a quickly editable format.
Canister spanning – Until the release of Hedge Canister, an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop interface and catalog for LTOs, users were stuck with an unfriendly, extra-tech software experience. Canister has become a converter for LTO users, and now supports spanning – the ability to span file transfers across multiple tapes.
EditReady RAW
EditReady is a useful piece of software when your NLE does not support your camera codec or container. This allows you to transcode your footage in an editable format, and with this latest update, it can now handle RAW formats.
EditReady supports the following RAW formats:
- ProRes RAW
- Blackmagic RAW
- Redcode (R3D)
- ARRIRAW
- Codex HDE
- Sony’s RAW and X-OCN (Coming soon)
With many faster computer and hard drive solutions on the market now, RAW has become a much more viable format for working with. The biggest problem is that many different RAW formats and different NLE and color grading platforms don’t always support some of them. That’s where EditReady comes in.
RAW files need to be debarred first and foremost How this is done depends on how the camera makers designed their RAW formats. EditReady’s RAW implementation goes a long way in using the camera manufacturer’s own RAW decoder and decoding video files using each specific camera’s own log format. Thus, what is done with RAW files is intended to give you an accurate, ready-to-edit media file that reflects the original shooting intent.
Ultimately the goal should be to create a high-quality functional derivative of the RAW file that is easy to edit while offering as much flexibility as possible.
If you purchased EditReady after joining the Divergent Media Hedge in August 2021, the new EditReady is a free upgrade. For all other users, Hedge will mail you an upgrade coupon. If you do not receive an email, open your EditReady and you will receive a notification
Each EditReady license comes with permanent and one-year guaranteed updates and support. $ 39 USD for upgrading an existing license, and $ 39 USD for adding two activations that come with each license.
EditReady 22.1 is available for download today. The trial allows you to transcode up to 1 minute of each clip so check it out with all your existing footage, as long as you want.
Coming soon Sony Venice and X-OCN support, and then EditReady will see the image sequences.
Hedge 22.1
Hedge elements are custom fields that you can use with a preset and then review before starting data transfer. Elements is a direct result of close collaboration with VICE and DPG Media, who have been using a pre-release version in active production for over a year.
Copy and verification programs are great, however, if the data handler simply throws unorganized media into the lap of the media manager, there is still a lot of work to be done. To date, Hedge has been about to streamline your media organization as soon as the presets are moved, but production often requires a lot more information, so Hedge has now added metadata.
Metadata means a lot to different people and depending on what you do, you only need to see specific customizable metadata. Hedge is called this customizable metadata type element. An element can be anything you want: a fixed value, something generated, something brought, or something that requires human input. And this is the next one which is by far the most important because it adds the most context.
Elements lets you create custom metadata fields for use in your presets, for the structure of your folders, or just for adding notes so that there is more context for people below the line. Hedge want media managers, data handlers, and creatives to spend less time organizing files before and during an edit. Editors and assistants lose a lot of time for administration but if all their information is attached to incoming clips before they come into post-production, they can start editing now.
When you define the metadata elements of your preset and use presets in data transfer, Hedge will ask you to add data to that transfer.
The review only shows when it is needed. When the review pops up it tells you that you need to add some data. If you close the preset, the review will disappear again. If your preset only uses auto-populated elements such as timestamps and auto-labels, click on a label to review that data.
Elements are also found in hedge integration like scratch and fullcat. The material is now available Hedge 22.1.
Canister spanning
Canister is Hedge’s archive software that has helped transform the industry’s perception of LTOs.
Hedge has added two features to canister, spanning and preflight checks.
Canister’s new spanning capabilities allow you to store more data than fit on a single tape. The contents of a hard drive no longer need to be cut into matching sections with a single tape, then save to different tapes one by one. Instead, select everything you need and the canister will keep asking for new tapes until everything is done.
Users tend to ask for a powerful way to span hedges that do not rely on databases. A database is usually a way of organizing data from a single manufacturer and this means you usually can’t move your tapes to another manufacturer’s system, or it will be difficult to move data from the database.
Spanning relies on Canister’s catalogs to recreate your tape indexes as small files on your own computer. Thus the file system, depending on the database that your OS relies on, carries heavy loads with zero chance of data corruption or vendor lock-in.
When a file does not fit on a tape, most applications cut a file in two. There is nothing wrong with doing this, but you will need the original software to put the parts back together. There is no point in scattering data across a group of tapes unless you find out which tapes belong to that group. Canister solves this in a very simple way. When starting a transfer that will not fit a single tape, you are first warned, and then asked to specify a label. That label will appear as a separate tape in your catalogs, along with shortcuts to all the tapes that make up your spanned catalog.
With a single tape, it’s annoying, but with multiple tape transfers, it’s definitely crazy. Also, given the time it takes to fill out a tape, we think it is possible for you to stop the transfer at any time that suits you, and then restart it, even on a different computer or hardware setup.
The second new addition to the canister is the preflight check. When you start Canister, a range of tests and probes shut down, reporting information about the status of your system. Incorrectly installed extensions have been identified, older versions have been reported, and missing components have been offered, giving you a better overview of what you need to do to get up and running.
Canister Hedge has the same licensing model as the other apps, with one license being permanent, cross-platform (if available in more OS), and guaranteed years of updates and support.
If you purchased a license less than a year ago, you will receive this update for free. Everyone else can upgrade their license for 149 USD.
