can two editors work on same project – simply?

[Shane Ross]

The hard drives need to have the exact same name and directory structure. I mean like MIRRORED. Exact. This way the file directory path is the same. The only thing that you cannot reconnect are renders…you will have to click FORGET and then rerender.

But then swapping the files still will have to be done.

Or you can look into getting shared storage…but that starts getting expensive starting at about $10,000.

Shane

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Shane Ross] “Or you can look into getting shared storage…but that starts getting expensive starting at about $10,000. “

it’s getting so much cheaper now it’s unbelieveable and for this setup it would be perfect. More soon in an article.

But yes, for this purpose EXACTLY mirrored drives in every way.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Caleb Crosby]

Thanks guys!

Walter I’ll look for that article. may upgrade.. if we stay on the air!

I’m going to buy the drives right away. I am looking at a sans digital hot swap, two enclosure Esata unit. Make sense? I figure I can mirror them and then remove when filled and keep just buying low cost sata drives.

Also “mirror” you mean that in a manual sense, right? I set them up with same name and directory path, I don’t need any special controller or what all eh?

appreciate it, Caleb

[Caleb Crosby]

Shane,

Thanks for the steer. Can you advise on the project naming convention for shuttling to and fro between the two edit stations…?

Having a distinct names for each send is all that comes to my mind.

if you’ve done this in the past were there any gotchas or sleight of hand
tricks?

again,
caleb crosby

[Peter Wiggins]

The simplest way to do shared storage is to make one computer a file server and share out the media.
This depends on the data rate as the cheapest way to share is through a GigE ethernet switch which means forget uncompressed.

I finished a job this year where we had a main MacPro connected to a XServeRAID that was used as a digitsing/edit station, a separate main edit MacPro and a playback Mac. We were also streaming EVS files onto the RAID via the MacPro. Quite a lot of traffic without a hiccup.

Granted, you guys have MacBookPro’s so no guarantee if it will work, but computers are getting so fast these days they can do a lot in the background.

Hope that helps

Peter

[Walter Biscardi]

[caleb crosby] “I’m going to buy the drives right away. I am looking at a sans digital hot swap, two enclosure Esata unit. Make sense? I figure I can mirror them and then remove when filled and keep just buying low cost sata drives.
“

Maxx Digital makes a really nice little 2 bay job that I use here for archiving. It’s NOT hot swappable, but I really don’t find it a big deal to eject the unit, shut down and swap the drives out.

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Biscardi Creative Media
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[Shane Ross]

[caleb crosby] “Can you advise on the project naming convention for shuttling to and fro between the two edit stations…?”

I always put the date any my initials on the project or cut, so that others know when it was edited by, and by whom.

Shane

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[Andreas Kiel]

If you want to go the XML way and use idle times to copy files you can use my free xmlReconnect.
There is no website for this software but the app is pretty much self-explaining.

There is a small movie at https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/xmlReconnect/reconnect.mov
There app can be found here https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/xmlReconnect/xmlReconnect.zip

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Caleb Crosby]

Andreas,

Many thanks. I looked at the movie and will DL and try this out.
Will I need two mirrored drives for this to work? Or can I manually locate the scratch directory and connect the project files to media?

Generally speaking, what I can’t understand is that even w/o mirrored drives FCP will not connect the files that I manually locate during the “reconnect” process.

I mean what the hell? I grab the software and stick it’s face right into the candy jar and it’s too stupid to open it’s mouth!!

It seems to me that FCP version 1 or 2 would relink files manually!

Caleb

[Caleb Crosby]

Walter,

yes I’ve been using a similar set up from OWC – an Elite Mercury pro (esata RAID 0).
but I’m cranking thru 500G so fast that I keep archiving or dumping to cheap FW drives
-but they are over a $100 a pop and tend to go down (as in last week, usb maxtor drive crash). I figure with a good hitachi 500G 7200 at $59… I need to start just cycling thru the sata drives. cheaper, more reliable and I won’t have to dump from drive to drive.
Just fill it, eject it and pop in a fresh one.

It’s a beautiful world ain’t it!!

caleb ‘in theory yes’ crosby