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Shot Naming
SynthEyes uses the file name of the shot, with a .baff extension, as the name of its file in the disk cache folder. For example, Shot15.mov becomes Shot15.baff. For an image sequence, the name of the image-file-list (IFL) file is used—which is the name of the first image in the sequence by default.
SynthEyes keeps track of the last-modified date of the original file, so that if you change the original footage, the disk cache will be flushed and rebuilt, and it stays synchronized with the footage.
Tip : If you open an image sequence (creating a .IFL file) that has loaded into the disk cache, and you want to create another SNI file based on the same image sequence without causing the disk cache to reload , be sure to (re-
)open the .IFL file directly, rather than the first image in the sequence, which would cause the IFL to be re-written, in turn causing the disk cache to be invalidated and have to reload.
You may need to pay some attention to make sure that different shots don't have the same BAFF file name. If they do, either one shot will not be cached (if they are both open simultaneously), or each time you open one shot, the cache for the other will be replaced. If you won't be working on the other shot any more, that is fine. But if you want both caches to be persistent, you need to name them separately.
This is especially relevant for stereo work: you should name each eye's images separately. If you have a LeftEye and RightEye folder with Shot37.mp4 in each, they will conflict. Name them Shot37L.mp4 and Shot37R.mp4, for example. This will probably help avoid mistakes as well.
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