Re: Appropriateness of git for digital video production versioning

From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2009, 10:13 UTC
Message-ID: <46d6db660901300213q21ad099w2b49ceba8690d51a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8c4a72800901290736p4952e53byddca243f300dd8af@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Charles Earl <charles.cearl@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
> Are there past instances of git having been adapted to support version
> control of digital media production workflow?
> I'm evaluating CMS and versioning systems for the backend of a SaaS
> for digital media production workflow.
> The bulk of content stored is binary data -- there have been posts on
> this about integration of various binary diff implemetations with git.
> The versioning of metadata, scripts, project structure seems to argue
> for applicability of system such as git -- these fit the paradigm of
> traditional scm.
> Example content is from media production suites such as Adobe After
> Effects/Premier: video, compositions, etc.
> I'd also like the object storage to be in S3/Amazon BlockStore or
> similar remote stores.
> Charles
> --

for what it's worth (call me crazy, call me sick), I used msysgit only on the project files from Windows Movie Maker (not on the media files, but the timeline and my personal cuts, etc...).

it works perfectly, so (whatever system you're using) my advice would be identify the small files and formats saved by your video editing software (I see xml files are usually used there), only add these in the git repository and make sure the video inputs and outputs files are in .gitignore

doing so, you have a fast and cheap tracker of your timeline edition, splitting and joining of video files.

HIH

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Christian
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