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Reconnect Problems in Convoluted Workflow
I work in a multiple edit bay environment. Though we have a sizeable XSAN, there is currently no space on it for the show that I am in charge of posting. As a result, we have to digitize, log, and work from multiple drives. In a perfect world, we would simply have duplicate copies of digitized media and be able to open projects and reconnect the media to whatever the local drive is. This is not the case.
FCP seems to have lost track of the original path and file name of the media to which my clips should connect. In stead of a path and file name in the reconnect window, I get just empty quotes.
Note that this happens only sometimes.
1. What causes this to happen?
2. Given my convoluted workflow requirements, how can I prevent it from happening.
3. Aside from manually reconnecting each clip (hundreds at this point) how can I get my clips back online.All drives are FW800, though I will be adding a couple of eSATA RAIDs into the mix soon.
All computers are MacPro with dual quad cores over 3GHz.
Thanks for your help.
Hans
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2 Replies
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[Hans Hoffman] “Though we have a sizeable XSAN, there is currently no space on it for the show that I am in charge of posting”
Couple of questions: Does the person running your shop know that you’re doing this? Are you the person managing the SAN?
If you’ve answered “NO” to both of these, then go to that person and tell them to spend a couple of hundred bucks on two 1.5 terrabyte “bare” drives and install them in a local client system. Then you should off-load the least current media from the SAN and put YOUR STUFF on the SAN.
If you have a working SAN and you’re still struggling with this kind of convoluted workflow, you’re wasting time… yours and everyone else’s.
Mark
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Why don’t we assume that we are not total idiots and that we already considered the possibility of making space on the SAN. We are a busy post department with nine series in edit. There is not space to be made. I am having to deal with the decision made not by the person who runs our SAN or my post supervisor, but by some corporate somebody who does not know the trouble that arises when you move media frequently. I am left to assume that they made their decision based solely on the fact that for $100k they could expand the SAN, for $2500 per week they could rent a SAN expansion, and for $2500 flat they could buy a few drives for my show to work from temporarily (2x8TB to be specific). Short-sighted though the decision may have been, and not taking into account the time wasted in reconnecting media repeatedly, it is the decision that was made.
Now that we have that cleared up, does anyone have a constructive answer to my actual questions?
Hans
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