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Best Way to Proceed: Media Manager, Multiple Editors, New Cut and New Media Files To Add
Hi Group,
For a indi feature, not a promo or trailer– if it was it would be a simple reconnect issue, right?!?!!?.
Have done a successful media manage– copying media files and edited sequence to 2nd Editor’s drive.
Now, Editor 1 has a new cut and we have l/d new media that is not on Editor 2 drive.
Is the best way to handle this is to copy all clips that are not on Editor 2 drive into one bin and media manage them over to Editor 2 drive. Then, copy over new project file with cut onto Editor 2 Drive. Then, open up this project and manually reconnect the whole project? The reason I would do this is because most of the media files are already on Editor 2 drive, so the reconnect should be quite seamless. Then, all I will need to do is set the pathway for the new media files.
I would imagine that there is a media manage function to do this process, but I have not been able to find the answer. This is a process we will need to do again and again.
Thanks for your kind help.
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5 Replies
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The best way which I learned on here from Shane Ross, is to have both systems named the same. So if Editor 1’s media drive is named, “BigOleMediaDrive” so then should editor 2’s media drive. You then need to copy any new media to editor 2. You can then either swap project files, or better yet, swap XMLs. The advantage of swapping XMLs is that you will then never accidentally overwrite each other’s project and you will only add the sequence/bin/whatever that is necessary. The only real gotcha is that sometimes the render files don’t reconnect, but all that takes is a rerender on editor 2’s machine.
Test test test until you get the workflow down.
Jeremy
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Jeremy,
Thanks for your spirited advice. Editor 1 is using 3 drives. Editor 2 is using 1 drive. So, I’m not sure if this will work! In the past, I’ve worked with relinking promos and it is just easier to manage b/c we’re dealing with 5 minutes! This is a project with Reel 1 sequence and Reel 2 sequence. 2 hours long. I will look into XMLs. We have merged audio from dats and so the relinking I”m tthinking of doing could be problematic. Thanks again for any experience in workflow.
Celeste
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Exactly. Copy over the files on the Finder level. Just find the CAPTURE SCRATCH and drag the entire project folder over…or better yet, copy over the AUDIO RENDER, RENDER, CAPTURE SCRATCH folders entirely in the same file structure.
Don’t use the media manager for this purpose. Downconverting for offline, sure (maybe)…but not just copying media. Finder level for that.
Shane
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Thanks, Shane.
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You will have to rerender the render files on the new system regardless so there is no need to xfer them over in my opinion.
Tony Salgado
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