Hedge is a popular solution for transferring and organizing your valuable footage and creating checksum-verified backups (read article here). But that’s not all: Hedge has released three updates to its suite of tools: Hedge Elements, EditReady RAW, and Canister Spanning. According to Hedge, these latest updates address common problems such as dealing with unorganized media that requires custom-built metadata fields, RAW transcoding, and ensuring individual media archives can span across multiple LTO tapes. From their press release: Hedge customers have been a driving force in our product development and roadmap from day one. These product releases are a direct result of their most popular (and persistent) requests, and customers actively helped in testing these releases in their workflows. Today, we’re proud to announce Hedge Elements, EditReady RAW, and Canister Spanning and Preflight Checks: three major updates that we can pretty much guarantee will make your life as a video professional easier.Paul Matthijs, co-founder and CEO of Hedge Hedge Elements Elements is Hedge’s term for the varied and customizable metadata that users can now associate (and keep) with a file to clarify the role of that file to other creative and technical professionals later in the workflow. image credit: Hedge It’s very important to keep track of files: Knowing what they’re for, where they came from and why they’re important is a critical part of a modern video workflow. According to Hedge, the term “metadata” is not consistently defined across roles and departments. For a camera operator, metadata means camera, reel...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 1 February, 2022