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Restoring Material from a File-based Archive

You can restore parts of an archive by selecting only the clips you need.

To restore material from an archive:

  1. In the MediaHub, enable Browse for Archive.
  2. In the Archives list, double-click the archive that contains the material to restore.
  3. Drag clips and folders from the archive to the Media panel.

    Material you drag appears in the Media panel, flagged (Pending), and is not restored until you click Restore.

  4. Click Restore. If the archive spans multiple segments, you might be prompted to locate the required one.

    The length of the restoration process depends on the size of the material being restored. You cannot use the application for anything else while the material is restored. Cancel the process at any time by clicking anywhere in the MediaHub.

About Multi-version Clips

When you restore multi-version clips, Flame does not automatically resync to the original Open Clips to make sure that the material is restored in the state it was archived. If you need updated versions, you need to use the contextual menu's Media Versions > Update Source. This can be done on a single clip, or on containers like reel, folder, Reels groups. Segments that were updated are highlighted in white.

Identifying the Segments Where a Clip is Stored

Usually an archive is made of multiple archive segments (.seg files). In this case, a clip can span multiple segments.

When you restore a clip, you don't need access to the whole archive: Flame needs only access the segments containing the clip. To learn what segments are required to load the clip, use > Update Selection Information. By accessing only the required segments you can restore the whole clip as usual.

Archive segments are named Project-Name_Archive_X.seg, where X is the segment number.

To identify the segments required to restore a clip:

  1. In the archive, select the clips to restore.
  2. Click > Update Selection Information.
  3. The right of the MediaHub status bar displays:
    • The segments required to restore the select clips. In the following example, segments 10 and 11 are required. If you have an archive named ClientProject_Archive, you need access to files ClientProject_Archive_10.seg and ClientProject_Archive_11.seg.
    • The number of frames in the clip
    • The size of the clip once restored

You can also use the archive_selection_archive Python hook to. For details, see the Python file /opt/Autodesk/<version>/python/archive_hook.py.

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