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Spanning Multiple drives with Media Manager
Hi,
I am a second editor on a 120min feature that I have not been able to do any work on yet. Currently we have had A LOT of trouble getting a working version of the edit to me due to a lack of understanding on moving long form projects. My study has led me to believe that media manager is the most reliable way to copy the ENTIRE project (in our case WITHOUT trimming) and after an un-successful drag and drop attempt at copying the media (some media was corrupted in the process) we have pushed forward attempting to use media manager as I have seen finish houses recommend.
The thing is, there is too much media for 1 hard drive.
I have personally only used media manager for on short form projects, never for a feature. My question is, how does media manager handle the copying of media to multiple drives? Surely apple did not limit the use of this utility to whatever the size is of the destination hard drive?
Has anyone had to use media manager twice, copying half the project at a time with individual project files to each drive, then combining later?
thanks so much in advance for any advice anyone can offer on a solid work flow here,
Jed
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3 Replies
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So you’re inheriting a project? And it sounds like they have media scattered all over the damn place and they can’t find it all? ….the classic FCP blunder.
1) do you need a complete clone of the project?
2) how much media do you really have? we’ve had 2 feature films this year that fit snugly on a 1TB firewireMy 1st instinct is MM will make more of a mess than not. I’ve never used it on a long form project, like you, just things under 10 minutes. If there are any speed ramps or lots of imported graphics… seems like a disaster would probably ensue. But I may be wrong, especially with FCP 6. I’m just jaded.
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a couple of questions first:
will you want to swap projects back and forth, and have them seamlessly open on each others system?
(i cant see why you would NOT want that!)the best way to do that is to have tow sets of drives that are identical in the way the files are stored.
exact same folder structure.
and exact same drive names.using Media Manger isn’t the best way to achieve this.
maybe the best way would be to use a cloning app to make duplicates of the drives?
the FCP MM cannot direct Media to 2 separate drives.
if you RAIDED the drives so it saw only one,
you could do it.nick
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i would say break the project up into managable chunks either by project or selecting certain bins, seqs, in/out points etc sand media managing the chunks to several drives. You will then have several projects created by MM, open these new project files and combine the bins etc to a new project that holds all your media linked to several different drives… could be the trick 😉
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