MediaReactor Support

Drastic Technology MediaReactor is an import plugin for Wiretap Gateway, that allows the ingest of multiple file formats not currently supported by Autodesk products. Among others, the following formats are available:
  • Vision Research Phantom CineRAW (.cine)
  • Cinema DNG (AJA CION, Blackmagic cameras, etc) (.dng)
  • Canon C500 RAW (.rmf)
  • Panasonic Varicam RAW (.vraw)
  • Jpeg2000 (MXF)
The Format Specific options for MediaReactor are as follows:
  • Metadata (Tape Name, Timecode and Frame Rate options).
  • Clip Options (Clip name and Sequence Detection options).
  • Debayering (RAW formats options) Various Colour settings for RAW media decoding. The default option is set to use the File Header information.

MediaReactor supports many more file formats than those listed above; including Cineform DPX, Flash Video, HDV, Matroska (MKV), Mpeg 1/2/4, Avid DV25, DV50, HDV, Uncompressed (MXF), Windows Media, WebM and many more. However, only the formats listed above have been validated and are officially supported.

You must download and install the Drastic plugin, available here. Once installed, you can select MediaReactor from the File Format box in the MediaHub and browse to, and import the above file formats.

Note: After installing the MediaReactor plugin, you must restart the Wiretap Gateway, Stone&Wire and Smoke.

For more information on Drastic, visit: www.drastic.tv.

Mac Installation

Installation on Mac OSX

  1. Exit Smoke.
  2. Download the MediaReactor setup file, and unzip it.
  3. Launch the setup.
  4. Restart Wiretap Gateway, Wiretap Server, and Stone+Wire using the Service Monitor. It is found in Applications / Autodesk / [your_application] / Utilities.
  5. Restart Smoke.

Uninstallation on Mac OSX

  1. Exit Smoke.
  2. In the Finder, open Applications / MediaReactor.
  3. Launch "uninstall".
  4. Once the uninstall is done, you must Restart Wiretap Gateway, Wiretap Server, and Stone+Wire using the Service Monitor. It is found in Applications / Autodesk / [application] / Utilities.
  5. Restart Smoke.
Note: You can install a new MediaReactor over an older version: you do not need to uninstall the older version beforehand.
Parent topic: Supported File Formats