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Admin Protecting Capture Scratch Settings
I tried searching for this, maybe you can’t do it. But basically, I’m in charge of maintaining our editing stations, and freelance editors keep changing the capture scratch to random folders over our SAN and it is making it a nightmare for me to find tape pulls to purge. Is there any way to lock out changing the capture scratch settings? Thanks in advance!!!
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Hahaha! Thanks Dave, that made me laugh. If i was in the position to say that, I totally would, I’ll check with my VP ;).
Though if anyone out there knows a way to lock out the settings I’d still like to know 🙂
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Start with installing Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion, it’s good and it’s free.
Make sure it launches automatically when starting up the Mac Pro.
Make basic setup and explain to freelancers how to create their prefs BASED on the basic setup.
Fire up an email every time someone did not follow procedure, with cpies to all editors and a few levels up.
Worked for us.
Patrice
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[Daniel Spagnoli] “Though if anyone out there knows a way to lock out the settings I’d still like to know :)”
You can lock the pref file or set permissions to read only on it. That will not prevent them from changing the Capture Scratch but FCP will not be able to update the changes, any changes, when it quits. Every time they launch FCP the scratch will be set correctly but it won’t prevent changes during that “session”.
I’ve asked for an admin default setting so when the prefs are deleted they go to our default not Apple’s. Apple’s apps are not written for admin management unfortunately. It’s the “One man band” user Apple caters to… aka “The firewire crowd” or my favorite “The underwear Army”.
John Heagy
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