• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Final Cut, Compressor in a multi user environment.

  Posted by Mike Libby on March 5, 2010 at 5:24 pm

  In our studio, we share 2 FCP systems (will be 3 in the near future) among about 10 people. We are newish to FCP and would like to manage our systems better.

  We have found it quite difficult (i.e. can’t figure out how) to share settings among users and deploy “standards”. Each user has their own network login and it seems like every user starts from square one.

  This is particularly difficult with Compressor settings–ideally, If I make a setting under my account for uploading Vimeo, for example. I want that setting to be available to others, but have found no way to have shared settings in Comporessor.

  Are there any tutorials, examples, experiences with using FCP and compressor in a multi user environment that would help us?

  Thanks
  Mike

  Paul Hawke-williams replied 16 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Alan Smith

  March 5, 2010 at 6:14 pm

  [Mike Libby] “Each user has their own network login and it seems like every user starts from square one.”

  Once you create your settings in Compressor you can save those to a custom folder. You can navigate to Local Workstation/Library/Application Support/Compressor where you will find the new Vimeo setting folder. Email or copy those to a thumb drive or a shared network drive and have the other editors put those files in their Compressor folder. When they launch Compressor the new settings will appear in the Custom folder.

  Alan Smith
  Media317

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  Paul Hawke-williams

  March 9, 2010 at 5:57 pm

  Another option is to use the “shared” folder on each machine as your storage for export settings (located at HD>users>shared) but each person will have to copy the preferences to the compressor folder as Alan suggested.

  OR

  If all the machines have the same software, you could set a “droplet” for the compression settings and each person could get a copy of that self executing file – they then drop an exported copy of their timeline to the droplet and it compresses with compressor to the format the droplet is set to.

  OR

  There is a “master user” template in the System directory of the Mac OSX which you could use to store preferences that will be automatically installed into any new users home directory when they first log in. This only helps with new login profiles though as the people who have already logged in will already have their home directories made from the default settings without the new preferences. This also assumes you’re comfortable with screwing around in the OSX System folder as a ROOT user!

  There are lots of alternatives, whether they’re stand alone machines, server based accounts, active directory etc. etc. but I’m sure there is a perfect set-up for you somewhere, email me if you have any more questions or post a reply!

  Cheers
  Paul

  Paul Hawke-Williams
  http://www.macguruwales.co.uk
  Media Trainer – Mac Support – Video Production

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