10.1 and sparse images

[James Cude]

Wouldn’t giving each student his or her own Library make more sense?

[Brett Sherman]

It should work fine with Sparse Bundles. It looks to me like the only limitation is that you can’t use materials on another Sparse Bundle without FCP X copying it into the one where your project resides.

[Jeff Kirkland]

I would think that using a library per student would be the better option although there’s no reason that the sparse bundles won’t work once they’re updated. You’d just have a library in each sparse bundle.

The only advantage to sparse bundles would be if you had them password protected.

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[Bob Zelin]

you don’t need sparse disk images, and you didn’t need them in the version befor FCP X 10.1. You just enable NFS on your server, and now “Add SAN Location” just works (like it does on XSAN) – no need for sparse disk images.

I have not tried 10.1, so I have no opinions on the new release, or how it works.

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[Craig Alan]

I need to have students have no access to other student’s work. This is not an issue of organization.

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[Craig Alan]

I tried password protecting sparse images but it took forever to have the protection apply and file sizes have become too large for that. BUT with a simple finder account students cannot mount an unmounted drive. So as the admin I can control what they have access to. And because of this I only need one other account than mine. A student account with a simple finder.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

In that case you’re probably better working with libraries inside the sparse bundles as the new libraries will be seen as packages rather than hard drives so your system wouldn’t work.

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[Craig Alan]

We do not have our media on central server. Each computer will be connected to its own raid. Each Imac/raid will have multiple users throughout the week. I need each student to only have access to his/her work and no one else’s. I do not want to mange over 200 passwords and accounts. I want to control what media they have access to in an easy flexible way. I’m not saying a properly networked system wouldn’t work better, but I have no experience setting it up.

I did do experiments with the current plan and with 10.7 and FCP X 10.0x I did not find any problems working with the app or any way for the simple finder account to access the unmounted sparse images. It was also a neat container for each project, easy to clone, easy to move, easy to delete.

Again I’m sure a properly networked system would be better. So I am not arguing my way is better. It is just a way I know how to solve the problem of protecting each student’s work.

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[Craig Alan]

What I have now is sets of FCP project and event folders inside each sparse image with all related files for each project. I’m not using the sparse images as just containers for referenced media.

So wouldn’t using the new library system inside images work the same way? Unless FC insists on having access to any image on any connected physical drive.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

What you said is pretty much what I was meaning 🙂

The new library structure is pretty much the oppositie of past functionality. The libraries can exist anywhere on the hard drive and only the libraries you open show up. You can also launch FCPX with a particular library open and ready to go by double clicking on the library.

Libraries can also be closed without having to shut down FCPX.

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