{"id":132,"date":"2020-04-04T21:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T04:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senkou.com\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2023-05-28T23:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:11:15","slug":"mediasift","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/index.php\/mediasift\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaSift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.senkou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MediaSift_screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" width=\"584\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MediaSift_screenshot.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MediaSift_screenshot-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MediaSift was the direct result of &#8220;wanting to make my life easier&#8221;, with regards to editing projects at home, then bringing them back to a client&#8217;s suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It allows you to very easily arrange OMFI MediaFiles on an Avid eding system.  Unfortunately not compatible with MXF, but something is better than nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I initially looked at a commercial software package, however it was out of my price range, and having not done any programming for a few years, I figured it would be an interesting challenge. To be absolutely honest, it wasn&#8217;t nearly as difficult as I was expecting, and what you&#8217;re seeing here is about 3 weeks of &#8220;on and off&#8221; work to get it up and running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program probably isn&#8217;t very useful anymore as Avid has moved to MXF files, and this was written back in the Windows XP days.  The documentation may be useful for some look into Avid&#8217;s file formats for those who want to write software to parse the Avid database files (still relevant).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned a lot of programming by developing this tool, implemented a custom version of quicksort to work on arrays, and a lot about accessing binary files to pull data out of them.  Cool.  It was all in VB, but that&#8217;s what I knew, and it was perfectly adequate for the job back in 2005.  The installer and readme are mostly for the sake of completeness.  While it would still work on a old machine, it&#8217;s probably not usefull anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coolest part of writing this tool was getting an email from Harpo productions (Oprah&#8217;s Production Company, asking about using it.  Coolio!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-26101fd5-d8f4-4726-b52b-b1821572b381\" href=\"blob:http:\/\/www.senkou.com\/3723619e-9fca-403c-b93f-2d66b42709e5\">MediaSift Installer<\/a><a href=\"blob:http:\/\/www.senkou.com\/3723619e-9fca-403c-b93f-2d66b42709e5\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-26101fd5-d8f4-4726-b52b-b1821572b381\"><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-54f5fb6a-8b9e-468a-99c8-3f1d5d6452ae\" href=\"http:\/\/www.senkou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mediasift_readme.pdf\">mediasift_readme<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.senkou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mediasift_readme.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-54f5fb6a-8b9e-468a-99c8-3f1d5d6452ae\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaSift was the direct result of &#8220;wanting to make my life easier&#8221;, with regards to editing projects at home, then bringing them back to a client&#8217;s suite. It allows you to very easily arrange OMFI MediaFiles on an Avid eding system. Unfortunately not compatible with MXF, but something is better than nothing? I initially looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senkou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}