We have started to work on version 1 of this feature now.
The way that we’re going about it is to leverage the existing Copy Tool as follows:
- user to selects a group of clips in the clip bin, right-clicks and chooses ‘Copy To…’
- the Copy Job dialog opens, and all the underlying files for the selected clips are set as the ‘source’
- user can choose up to 3 destinations, and whether to calculate and/or verify MD5 checksums of the copy
- on create, a Copy Job is create and starts
A couple things to be aware of:
- The source files for a single copy job must be on one drive.
- The directory structure below the point that all files share will be maintained in the output
Allowing the user to flatten the files somewhat in the output, and removing the limitation on the number of source drives are out of scope for this first version of the feature. But feel free to add your thoughts here as to their relative importance.
We’ll have another beta of 1.5.2 available soon to test out this feature. Stay tuned…
EDIT: v1 of this feature is available in Cortex 1.5.2-beta-b4678