OK, I have another weird bug for you. When we drag and drop multiple folders containing different media types into a Cortex bin, the media gets imported but there’s tons of clips that are red. The Cortex log complains of “Error creating source extractor”.
The Cortex bin looks like this (notice some of the video AND audio files have been misread):
This only happens if you drag in a camera folder AND a sound roll folder at the same time. (For example, you drag in A001 which is a folder from a camera roll and another folder SR007 which is from a sound recorder.) If you drag each folder in individually, they import correctly. You can import multiple camera files at the same time, but the audio needs to be imported separately. And I think this is only if you drag/drop the folders into Cortex (I haven’t fully tested this with the Import button).
This only started showing up in Cortex version 1.5.3, starting with version b5126. Version 1.5.2 b5002 doesn’t seem to be affected. I’ve experienced this bug with these versions: 1.5.3 b5126, 1.5.3 b5260, 1.5.4 b5342. So whatever got changed with drag/drop import on version 1.5.3 is the culprit.
I did run a few more tests. Here’s what I’ve found:
if database is set to local, it doesn’t look like the bug is present. So far, I’ve only seen this on Enterprise with a shared MySQL database
clicking Import > Media Folder and importing the media also works. Both video and audio imported without problems. No bug there. So this is only showing up during the drag/drop.
I’ve tried with both F55 RAW and F55 XAVC files (both 4K). But because the audio is also not reading, I don’t think this is due to reading MXF files wrong. I think weird/bad data is being sent to the “source extractor creation thread” (my guess, based on the log)
The files were buried fairly deep in subfolders (ie SR007 > SHOW > ROLL2_2-43 > wav files). I reorganized the files so they were only one folder deep (ie SR007 > wav files) and tried drag/dropping into Cortex. This also triggered the bug and some media would not import.
I created an entirely new project/job from scratch (hoping to avoid the ‘corrupted database’ bug from before). Still getting the same results if using a shared database.
I made two folders. Each folder contained just one wav file, one a single camera clip (mxf, xml, bim). Video failed to import on this pair of folders also (just audio imported, not video)
any attempt to delete these red clips will crash the program
I checked permissions on the media folders - made sure they were set to Full Access for all users. Bug still present.
Media imported from two different locations: external RAID and SAN. Both tests caused issues on import.
So, I know this doesn’t really pinpoint the problem. For what it’s worth, here’s the steps I am performing to import the media into Cortex:
Create/open job in Cortex
Go to Windows Explorer
Click first folder to select it
Shift click additional folders to select them also
Drag multiple folders to Cortex, drop them into the bin list area.
I thought the same thing, so I tried with a different show which uses a sane naming scheme (as seen in the screen shot above - ie 3T3.WAV, 3BT1.WAV, etc)
