Linked or reference movies

Been doing some experiments...I am trying to keep video files on a separate disk and only have a media link or reference link in the video files that are in iTunes and/or ATV.
First, I have videos on a USB drive attached to my AEBS-N. I created linked movies in QT which I then put in iTunes. iTunes has no problem playing these movies on my Mac. When either synced or streamed, the movies do not play in ATV. No error message, just the progress bar at the bottom of the screen when it first start and a then a black screen.
So, thinking maybe the issue is with the linked videos being on the AEBS, I created some linked movies on my Mac instead. Again, no issue when playing in iTunes but same result when viewing on ATV.
Anyone else tried this? Anyone have any success with linked movie files? BTW, all the videos are M4V files, not dvix or other non-compatible formats. It would be nice to keep all of the large video files off the ATV and just fill it with music and photos.

Ditto to the excellent advice already posted above.
the idvd project i did is in best performance but i want to change it to best quality for burning - i take it you can do this at any time by changing the project prefs??
If i'm not mistaken, the iDVD project will have to re encode if you opt to switch between these compression modes which is time consuming.
If I were doing this I'd take Fred's advice and out source the burning. If it were under 50 copies I'd use at least 2 burners from a disc image and lower the burn speed to 2x in Toast / Apple's Disc Utilities.

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Can not play linked/reference Movies on ATV!?

Hi !
I have a problem to copy referense/linked Movies to ATV.
I have some Movies in my movies directory on iTunes which are not placed for real in the iTunes library there are on external HDs (more storage on 3,5 Zoll HDs) and just linked (creataet with a function in QuickTime).
I can watch this movies without any problems on my mac in iTunes.
Is it general impossible to watch linked/referens movie on AppleTV or did i same thing wrong?
thx
dirk

mmh in iTunes on my Mac QT ref files working verry well on not local volumes.
I thought you said they were on an external drive.
I think you'll probably find the same thing with itunes sharing across a LAN, although I do recall there is a way to reference movies in the way you want, but I can't remember it being in QT after v4.
I'd take a visit to the QT forum and explain what you want to do there, they may be able to help.

Reference movement type for transfer in warehouse mgmt

Hi ,
In the warehause management system, IM movement type is link to WM movement type.
Maintenace veiw V_156S_WM ( Table 156SC ). IM movement type 321 has three reference movement type in WM.
396 , 397 , 321 .
Again through table T321 ( veiw V_T321 ) reference Mvt 396 is link to 311 in WM , 397 link to 312 in WM and 321 to 321 In WM.
If i perform 321 movement in IM , then how the system will determine unique reference movement from table
V_156S_WM ( Table 156SC ) .
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Hi,
The stock tsf ref mvnt type in V_156S_WM(-UMRBL) is:
Reference movement type for transfer in warehouse mgmt
Reference movement type for the second transfer in the Warehouse Management system.
Use
This reference movement type is necessary when a goods movement (stock transfer) in Inventory Management causes two transfers in the Warehouse Management system (stock removal from one storage type and stock placement in another).
Inventory Management movement types that do not initiate any activity in the Warehouse Management System have the reference movement type 999.
The ref mvnt type in V_156S_WM(-RBLVS) is:
Reference movement type for WM from material movements
Reference key for determining the movement type in the Warehouse ManagementSystem.
Use
Each Inventory Management movement type that is relevant to the WM system is allocated to a reference movement type, with which the system determines the corresponding movement type in the WM system.
Using the reference movement type, you can group together Inventory Management movement types that result in the same movement in the WM system.
Inventory Management movement types that do not initiate any activity in the Warehouse Management System have the reference movement type 999.
...sorry, basic help text.
Cheers,
Hein

QTSS won't recognize reference movie

I have uploaded a reference movie (which contains links to alternate movies) that to a Quicktime Streaming Server directory.
When I open the URL in Quicktime Player 7, I get an 'unsupported media type 415' error. If I upload the reference movie to a folder on my web site instead, the appropriate video will start to stream. However, QT Player 'thinks' it is a live broadcast.
Something still isn't right.
* ALL files in the folder within the QTSS directory have hinted tracks.
* the non-referenced movies on the QTSS all play when the URLs are opened in QT Player7.
* the reference movie, which is supposed to call the appropriate movie for streaming, reports 'unsupported media type 415' error when I try to open the URL in Quicktime Player 7.
* the reference movie, which is supposed to call the appropriate movie for streaming, works fine when I open the file on my hard drive, i.e. it starts playing the appropriate file from the streaming server (I used absolute URLs)
* the reference movie, which is supposed to call the appropriate movie for streaming, works fine if I upload it to a directory on my web site (http) instead of a directory on the streaming server (rtsp).
I used MakeRefMovieX to make the reference movie. To keep things simple, I did not flatten a default movie into the reference movie.
The Apple tuorial for reference movies says:
Save the reference movie and place it and all the alternate movies in the same directory. Upload the directory or folder to the server.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/refmovies.html
Another tutorial says:
http://www.iupui.edu/~nmstream/tutorials/quicktimevideo.php
FTP this file to your streaming server and ideally place it under the same folder that holds the streaming video files.

To get the captioned text to appear BELOW the movie,
do you simply adjust the coordinates for the text box
in the text file before adding it to the reference
movie?
Hi Cris
Well the answer is yes and no, yes you do have to set the coordinates of both the movie and the text, but these are controlled by a third file known as a .smil file.
Here's how you make it all work, (all these documents are located on the http server, in the same directory together, with the exception of the http document, which can be located in a different folder if you choose:
Documents involved are:
http web page, with QT java code embedded in it, http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.html
.smil file, which contains the window size, movie and captioning text file.
.mov or text file, containing the captioning text only, with timecode reference as part of the file.
MSTR.mov, also know as the reference movie, containing the alternate movie locations.
You need to create an http document with the QT java code embedded in it, the window size, which needs to be able to accommodate the movie window, the text window and if you choose the movie control bar, which is controlled via java code, which references the .smil file.
When a patron opens this document, this sends a request to the .smil file, which is located in the same directory as the MSTR.mov, (ref movie) as well as the .txt or .mov text file. The .smil file then contains all of the information that controls over all window size of the displayed parts, MSTR.mov, (ref movie) and text or .mov text file.
You may wonder why the window size is in both the http document as well as the .smil file, this is because the http document is making a hole for the .smil file to be displayed in the http document and the window size in the .smil file is for combining all the independent files or as you put it, coordinates for each part. These appear in the hole, created in the http documents QT java script window size, (think of the http document as the mask for the .smil file.)
When the .smil file is accessed, the reference movie contacts the QT RTSP streaming server, then places the movie and text, (captioning file) together and are sent to the http document where they are viewed as a unified web page.
The .smil file has specific code and can be found here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/quicktime/Conceptual/QTScripting_SMIL/i ndex.html
When I get back to work on Monday, (if you need me to) I can post you both the java scripting we use in our web pages and the .smil coding in our .smil files.

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I rendered a reference movie out of FCP. Then the directory was moved so that the ref can't point to the source.
The source is still in the same directory as the ref, but won't link because it is looking for the absolute link not the relative link.
Is there a way to edit this link to be relative instead of absolute?

I subscribed to this topic, hoping that there was a way to make this work. But I was getting burned by this quite a few years ago, so I almost always export a selfcontained quicktime. Can't tell you how many times I've tried to open something years after they were exported to discover it was just a reference qt. Disk space is so cheap compared to what it used to be, it's just a smarter way to work.

Exporting Reference Movies with Lion and QT X

Has anybody else had issues exporting Reference Movies from FCP7 under Lion?
When we open a Reference Movie created with FCP7/Lion in QT X 10.1 (the version that ships with Lion), we're only able to see the first frame of the movie, followed by black/blank video, and audio only.
Curiously, QT7 (on Lion) and QT X 10.0 (on Snow Leopard) are able to play these movies without a problem. However, a number of 3rd-party applications and devices that we use in our facility (most notably an Omneon Spectrum) choke on the reference movies in a similar manner to QT X 10.1.
We've got a support ticket open with Omneon, although they claim to have never heard of the problem, and are currently picking their way through the issue as well. However, there are scattered reports of others who are having similar problems.
For the sake of thoroughness, it's worth mentioning that this is a brand-new Mac Pro with Lion 10.7.2, and FCP 7.0.0; both fresh installs (apparently downgrading to SL is unsupported on this machine). We tried patching FCP to 7.0.3 with Pro Application Update 2010-02, which did not resolve the problem. We've since reverted to 7.0.0, to rule out the patch as the culprit. The reference movies in question do not contain any edits that would require a render, and everything's stored on a NAS that's accessible to the whole office (hence the fact that we're able to view the files on our Snow Leopard machines.
Picking apart the reference movie using Apple's Atom Inspector shows one curious detail in the alias data inside 'dref' atom inside of the reference movie (which is how QT figures out where the original media is). Rather than being a simple file pointer, the alias actually contains a whole bunch of information, including the "relative" path to the video data, relative to the original location of the reference movie, as well as the absolute path of that file, starting from the root of the filesystem. Both of these paths are presented in "Mac" and "Unix" formats, ie:
Mac: volume:folder1:folder2:filename
Unix: /volume/folder1/folder2/filename
Key difference is the use of colons, rather than slashes to separate folders in the path. At least, that was the key difference prior to Lion. We've noticed that, while the SL machines export reference movies with paths that resemble the above, our Lion machine generates:
Mac: volume:folder1: folder2: filename
Unix: /volume/folder1/folder2/filename
(Notice the spaces)
When we attempt to play the movies with our Omneon applications or in QT X 10.1, our NAS throws a whole bunch of 'File not Found' errors. Presumably, those spaces are the culprit. Removing the spaces with a hex editor completely mangles the QT movie, and renders it compltetely unplayable.
Unfortunately, the alias data inside the dref atom doesn't appear to be a standard Mac OS alias, and the only documentation of the alias file format (linked above) is hilariously out of date. Presently, the format is undocumented, and it appears that developers are discouraged from interacting with the files directly. In other words, I have no way of knowing whether or not the spaces are actually significant, or are a completely innocuous and documented part of the file format.
Has anybody encountered anything similar, or found a solution? I'm at a bit of a dead-end here, and would welcome any advice.

I totally understand where you're coming from; Apple's support of some of QuickTime's more advanced features has unfortunately been waning for some time now.
Avoiding the buggy parts of the program is always a good strategy, although the ability to quickly export reference movies is something that is absolutely vital to our workflow. Simply put, losing these files is an absolute dealbreaker.
Two things seem to be going on... FCP on Lion appears to be generating slightly malformed reference movies, and QT X 10.2 seems to be freaking out when it tries to play back those movies (while prior versions are seemingly able to work around the problem). I suppose this could have something to do with the introduction/evolution of QTKit and AV Foundation on Lion, although I'm surprised that this would be affecting FCP7, which was built around older APIs.

Using reference movies?

I've been told if I wanted to make a rather large movie, I should build it up from smaller segmented movies.
Well, now I have 5 imovies I would like to incorporate into one movie and then go to iDVD with chapter markers.
Is there any way to use the reference movies from each of the 5 imovies or do I have to export each movie and then import them into the final imovie?
Thanks anyone for any help.

Hi apple..- the BEST way to use your five small movies is to import each one into the one iDVD project, creating a button for each one.
It IS possible to join iMovies together, but what is the real advantage?
Here is the link explaining how to join them, if you really think you must:
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/usage/5004.shtml
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/usage/5023.shtml
Hope this helps.

Playing reference movies on Apple TV

Is it possible to get Apple TV to play reference movies created using Quicktime? I have quite a lot of reference movies which point to sections of larger mp4 files, and would like to be able to play them on my Apple TV. At present the files show up and play in iTunes fine, but don't show up on the Apple TV.
I would be grateful for some help with this
thanks
nick

OK. I read your other post and I think I get the idea, but for the avoidance of doubt I'm assuming you have something like a whole album as a single file and use reference movies so you can play individual tracks.
In respect of reference movies working or not, I know they don't, or at least I have not been able to make them work myself. As to why, a proper explanation is a little out of my depth but I suspect it is simply because they require quicktime to understand them.
Since I now know what you want to do, I don't believe symbolic links will do for you. I'm not sure whether symbolic links would work in the first place but I can't see why not, problem is in your case they would point to the whole file and not a part of it. Basically symbolic links are an absolute filepath and can be resolved by the file system rather than specific applications.
I'm afraid I can't see a solution to your requirement. Is it not rather unusual to store music in this way, is there a reason you do this, seems like a lot of hard work to me.

Link for reference operation set

Dear SAP Guru's
Can anyone provide me the link for Reference Operation Set in SAP Library?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Kalyan

Dear kalyan,
i think ur looking for Rework order, Reference operation set
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Help with QT Reference Movie

Because I moved from using Sony Vegas to FCP, I didn't keep the SD card structure intact. I only kept the .mts files. Because of this, I used ClipWrap to convert to Apple ProRes 422 LT. I imported this footage into FCP and put it on the timeline and used PluralEyes to sync. I wanted to create a QT Reference Movie of V1, but for some reason, FCP wants to render out the entire track completely (over 46 gb) instead of just making a reference movie. Why is this? Here's a screen shot of what I'm doing:
https://skitch.com/everydayjones/gugxb/skitch

>I used ClipWrap to convert to Apple ProRes 422 LT
But does that match your Sequence settings in FCP? Frame rate? Pixel dimensions? If any settings don't match, or when you've applied effects to the clips in the Timeline, FCP will render the Sequence and those renders will become part of the Reference movie.
Render the Sequence fully before you export and the resulting reference file will be much smaller in size.
-DH

Quicktime export still uses reference movie!

I am trying to export a file to deliver to a client. It plays in QT player 7 fine--so I go to Export... and choose my settings, then click OK. Then I burn the resulting file to a DVD.
When I try to play this file on another computer, I get an error saying an audio.aif cannot be found, and without it the movie cannot play properly. This is the same kind of warning you get when you save a reference movie and delete the original file. But I didn't do that...I exported and waited as it recopied every frame!
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HDV QT Reference Movie Exported from FCP5 Freezes

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STUDIO X: I tried rendering the QT Reference Movie to the same disk as the media, but I still get the same video freeze with audio that works just fine. The video freezes 21-minutes into the 42-minute video.
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Aspect ratio, quicktime reference movie

Hi, I'm trying to compress my movie edited in 1080i HDV to the h.264 Sequence iPod video 640x480.
I've done this many many times exporting directly from FCP to compressor and it usually works.. But I have read (here and other places) that it is better to
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3. render (compress) into the correct format
When I do that it messes up the aspect ratio (making it even wider) any suggestions?
J

When converting like you did in the past, (where it changed the aspect of your image) did you go into the geometry controls of compressor and also select the proper aspect, found in the Frame Size controls.
If you fail to do this, you would end up with the wrong aspect being applied. You may also have to pad your video, using the "Output Image Inset (Padding) controls as well to maintain your 16x9 aspect on a 4x3 aspect.

FCP 7 issue with exporting reference movie?

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First, let me correct myself regarding the QT reference movie. My movies show a poster frame rather than a preview as I mentioned in my previous post.
It's important that all of the items from the Sequence menu are checked.

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