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Xfer media between systems via external HD
I’m trying to move some media and a timeline between Avid Symphony suites, both stand alone systems, connected via our internal network, but always run into the 2GB limit when trying to send things. Might I add an external 200GB hard drive that I can export to and import on the other system? How would I send the media to the drive? I don’t want to have to remove media drives and send them back and forth, forget knowing which drives has which material?
thanks as always
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I don’t quite follow in terms of you running two paralell edits or two editors using the same material etc.
You can easily copy your OMFI folder from one system to an external drive and then plug this into the other suite and use it with the project file. Obviously any amendments you make to one drive you will have to do to the other.
As i said I’m not sure exactly your needs so I’ll explain how I work with 2 suites.Im currently editing a series for ITV in the UK on an Avid Xpress Pro (offline stage). We captured the 20 hours of footage to an external lacie hard drive ( actualy done on an adrenaline). Once this was complete I cloned the drive to my own lacie drive at home to use on my system. I edit at work during the week and take just the project file home at weekends to use on my system with the cloned hard drive. During the week as we add the voice over or music i copy these as aiffs to my laptop to add to my drive at home at the weekends and just import them into the project as the are in the project file but obviously not on the drive at home.
At the end of the weekend, I take the project file to work and swap it for the once i copied on friday then use that version.Basically this means I dont need to do any consolidating or transcoding.
Does that help at all??
Justin
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Thanks Justin, you’ve got the idea, the issue is we’ve got two independant suites, lets say I start a commercial, but have no time to complete it. The second suite is available to add missing gfx or V/O but has none of the material and I have not output anything to tape. I want to send the project to the other room, media and timeline. Maybe my issue is that the media may be on any of my six drives, and trying to find it all to send to an external drive or via the network is difficult to do. I’ve read about media mover but do not have it in house. We’re a Television station, and cram lots of material through, many projects aren’t always ready but with tight deadlines have to get started before they should. As to your suggestion, I could easily clone the material, but only if I’m organized early enough to separate it somewhere specific. Maybe I just don’t have a proper workflow coming from a linear background?
thanks again
Brian
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