• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  working on two computers using media manager

  Posted by Arturo Celleri on March 4, 2009 at 2:36 pm

  I have a project to create an educational course video that spans 30 hours. I have captured the video to a bin in FCPro (all 30 hours).
  I am adding clips from this source material to the timeline as I go.

  In order to have all of my video available to me on the other computer, I was told to bring all the video into the timeline (sequence) so that when I create a Media Manager copy on an external drive.

  I did this successfully and now I have a working copy on an external drive that I can use to work on a second computer.

  Here’s my problem.

  The first computer is set up (MacPro) with a G-Raid system that I am using to always have a back up of the video that I captured.

  When I make changes on the second computer set up, how do I update the changes that I made on the second computer file system (on the G-Raid).

  If I create an Offlne copy, the copy looks for files from the ext. hard drive to reconnect to…not the GRaid original files.

  How do I do this properly?

  Rafael Amador replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  March 4, 2009 at 4:25 pm

  Hi Arturo,
  I really see unnecessary the using of the MM.
  You should just had copied the capture folder from computer to computer.
  Same files and same structure folder.
  The two projects won’t have problem to retrive the files as long as all the path is exactly the same in both drives. So you would need to have to storage system with the same name.
  This may be difficult, so at least make sure that the rest of the folder structure don’t change.
  Whenever you will open the project to be update with the other hard drive, the media will show up off-line.
  Check “Search Single Location”. Select the new HD and click Search. All the media will reconnect without problem.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Arturo Celleri

  March 4, 2009 at 9:33 pm

  Thanks for your help Rafael.

  OK..So now I have 2 sets of files. The files that I created using my media manager compressed the videos down to 2GB from about 13GB.

  I am going to do what you said, but I’m not sure which folder to keep as the main folder. I prefer to use the smaller of the two (the one created by media manager).

  Am I jeaopordizing any possible need for other information that may have been left out of the media transfer?

  Thanks,

  Arturo
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  Rafael Amador

  March 5, 2009 at 1:40 am

  You put 30 hours video in 2 GBs?
  Rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com

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