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Best workflow for two computers
I’m working in a feature film project and I need to find out the best way to share information between two computers.
I’m working in a laptop and my editor on the studio on a MacPro, both using FCP 6.0.4. We need to find a way to share the project file, but without the nightmare of relinking. I’m working on the laptop with an external hard drive (1Tb) with all the media, and in my laptop I can open it all right. But if I connect the hard drive to the MacPro at the studio I need to relink everything. In the same way, if I try to open my editor’s project in my laptop, I need to relink everything, and viceversa.
The external hard drive has the same name and has the exact same media as the internal hard drive on the Mac (at the beginning was an exact copy, now there are differences in renders and projects, of course), and they also share the scratch disk name, so when I’m working on my laptop all the renders go to the external hard drive. But still, on the macPro I need to relink.
What should we do? Is that amount of relinking normal or not, so it’s worth to try to recopy the media to the external drive and start all over?
saludos
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3 Replies
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Keep the exact same file structure, and name both drives the same name. Essentially making a CLONE of the media drive. I do this often and it works like a charm…no relinking.
Shane
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I concur with Shane’s idea as the best solution.
What might not relink are render files, as they will often be different on the systems (especially as you said they go to a different locations on the different machines).
Just don’t relink renders, and if everything else is in the same path you’ll be okay.
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Hi Shane
We did what you suggested. Make an exact copy of the macpro hard drive onto the external hard drive, named it the same, and try opening the project in the laptop, but again it asks to relink everything. We even try creating a project onto the drive (same location in both hard drives) and opening in both computers, but still asks for relinking everything.
Is there a difference between copying everything and creating a clone?? and how you create a clone??
Also, another problem we found is that FCP keep on crashing when we return to FCP after using any other program, even finder. Maybe there’s something wrong with the project, or the media.
salu2
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