The Stereo Video device enables the ingest of pairs of videos as stereo takes. An audio file (.wav) may also be provided alongside the video.
Display Name: The name of the device as it will appear in the Devices list.
Take Directory: The path to the root folder containing pairs of video files. This folder can contain subfolders.
Video Discovery Expression: Tokens that can be extracted from the folder and file name of the video to identify the take.
Audio Discovery Expression: Tokens that can be extracted from the folder and file name of the audio file to identify the take.
A visual example of the content expected to be found by the Stereo Video device in the Take Directory is shown below:
+-- take_1
| +-- top.mov
| \-- bot.mov
|
+-- take_2
| +-- audio.wav
| |-- top.mov
| \-- bot.mov
|
+-- take_3
Discovery Expression Tokens
The Video Discovery Expression and Audio Discovery Expression are used to define the naming convention for video and audio files in your takes. The available tokens are:
| The slate name. |
| The identifier for the camera in the stereo pair. |
| The take number. |
| Any valid string. |
| Used without any other tokens to automatically identify takes based on the directory structure. |
Tokens can be separated using the following delimiters: _-.\
When not using the <Auto> token, both <Slate> and <Name> must be present.
For example, consider the following take: MyTakeFolder/MySlate_MyName_SomeString-005.mov. If the Video Discovery Expression is set to the default value of <Auto>, the following tokens will be identified:
Slate |
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Name |
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Take |
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However, if the Video Discovery Expression is set to <Slate>_<Name>_<Any>-<Take> the following tokens will be extracted instead:
Slate |
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Name |
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Take |
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Any |
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In both cases, the extension .mov is ignored.
The same applies for audio files, where any audio extension (such as .wav) is ignored.