Hi Paul, Thanks for the reply. I am at v3.4.2.0.
Challenge #1: I do have a smart playlist defined similar to your suggestion --
[filepath][starts with][\\DNS321\Volume_1\Media\Home Movies Source\] AND [Year][is greater than][2012],
then sorting by file name (which starts with the date & time, 20131030145913) in descending order and
then limiting the results to 50 items.
This way I always get the most recent clips. In general, not a bad approximation of what I was trying to achieve except that when the clips are displayed / played on my devices they are in reverse order. E.g. lets say we have 10 clips from a birthday party that are in this playlist.... the last clip (#10) is the first displayed in the list, the next clip (#9) is the 2nd last, etc... So when played by Mezzmo that day is out of sequence - first clip played is #10 and shows everyone leaving the party and last clip (for that day) is #1 and shows everyone arriving. If I were to sort the playlist in ascending order to put the clips in proper chronological order, I won't get the 50 newest clips... I'd get the 50 oldest.
If there was a way to combine smart playlist and active playlist capabilities, I think I could do exactly what I wanted. Use smart playlist to define the subset of files I'm interested in and then use active playlist to categorize the files.
Challenge #2: I don't think I explained this properly. This question is if there is a way to dynamically limit what files are included in the Mezzmo library. My assumption is that the larger the library, the longer it will take Mezzmo to do the things it does (maintenance, creating new playlists, etc). So including files in the library that I know I'll never watch is something to be avoided. Here's my file structure:
\\DNS321\Volume_1\Media\ --> has folders with all media (music, pictures, video)... some that we want Mezzmo to manage and some that I don't want Mezzmo to manage
\\DNS321\Volume_1\Media\Home Movies --> has edited Home Movies that we watch and want available in Mezzmo library
\\DNS321\Volume_1\Media\Home Movies Source\IMx3SEVer6\IMx_AVCHD --> has raw files from video camera organized in folders. Each day has its own folder. Currently there are 79 folders with at least a 1000 clips... and this grows over time as we take more videos. I really only want the files from the last rolling 6 months included in the Mezzmo library.
\\DNS321\Volume_1\Media\Home Movies Source\IMx3SEVer6\IMx_AVCHD\20131016 --> this is the path for the newest raw video folder
\\DNS321\Volume_1\Media\Home Movies Source\IMx3SEVer6\IMx_AVCHD\20101204 --> this is the path for the oldest raw video folder
I wasn't aware of an easy way to add just the folders I wanted (as of today, without worrying about the rolling six months). So I added the \\DNS321\Volume_1\Media\Home Movies Source\IMx3SEVer6\IMx_AVCHD\ folder to my library which pulls in every raw clip I have, of which I then only access the newest 50 clips (using the method in Challenge #1 above)
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