A Question for Working Professional Editors Using FCPX.

[Mark Hollander]

“My favorite is to simply store client A’s work on it’s own $140 firewire 800 drive.”
This may work if someone only has a few clients. I have over 230 clients on my system (we make TVC’s) that is a lot of firewire drives, and I work on 8-12 jobs at various points in the week, usually on the same day.
Our client management system works like this: Capture HDD-Client Name-Job Number-files. The next project for the client (might be 6 months later) will be assigned the next job number from a daily spreadsheet. In FCP7 or Premiere we can set up these folders in the finder, put the files where they are needed and start editing. In FCPX there is no way (that I have found) of putting multiple jobs for a client, over several years, in any sort of order. It likes to assume you only have 1 job per client, so alphabetical order works nice in the events list.
The catch is our admin computers and the server have the same file hierahy as the edit suites. So anyone can go to any machine and see the same filing system on an admin computer, server or edit suite.
We have 7 Macs and all have identical filing systems. FCPX stuffs the whole thing up!
Between our 3 edit suites we have over 1000 sequences from the past 5 years. If someone can show me how to organise 230 clients with anywhere from 1 to 40 projects each, and 1 to 12 sequences per client, I’ll jump ship tomorrow.
IT CAN’T BE DONE!
and partitions, external drives is not an answer either.

It’s not personal it’s just how it is. FCPX can’t do what we need.

“It beats working for a living”

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Mark Hollander] “IT CAN’T BE DONE!”

Do you have a SAN? Or what’s your current storage?