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links to files getting broken
this seems more of an IT question but if anyone has experienced the same let me know. we work off of a server and every so often the link to the files in after effect projects get broken and AE gives a missing file error. This generally happens in the middle of a ram preview or render. This only happens to files on server files on my local hd never have issues.
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Not sure how much help this will be, but it seems it is a throughput issue with your server so your AE machine is momentarily losing connection with that server. Personally, I avoid at all cost working in AE with files that are anywhere except the local AE machine … or at least a directly connected RAID or other external drive. I know it can be done, but is generally much slower and introduces more IT issues/support. Hope this is some help.
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Hey thanks for the response david. unfortunately we cannot work locally. our IT guy will have to find some solution to this. thanks.
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If you’re talking about a normal office type network, it may just be that the throughput requirements (read/write speeds, consistency, etc.) for video and graphics work are much more demanding than most networked computer functions so multiple video/graphics computers need a shared storage solution designed specifically for video/graphics work … i.e., fibre channel or one of the other solutions that can handle networked video/graphics work, which a video engineer or video savvy IT technician can speak far more proficiently about than I.
FYI, COW member Bob Zelin is a guru in that area, but I don’t recall which forum he frequents most (AJA, Kona, Maxx Digital?).
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