CS4 Dynamic link and external drive.

[Alex Udell]

What’s the file system of the external drive?

Maybe a partition you share between windows and Mac machines?

just a guess….

Alex

[Joel Morrison]

Thanks for the response Alex. I have nothing but Mac. I guess that’s HFS file system. No windows in the mix.

So much learning.

[Alex Udell]

hmmmmm…..

scratching head….

can you you import assets into ae from that drive manually?

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Alex Udell]

Joel…

curious….

when you are in the AE Project….

are the assets for the project also in the project panel? (they should be)

if so….

can you right click them and manually relink the footage.

I’m not suggesting you should have to do this….I’m just wondering if you can and if it’s a work around for now…

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Ann Bens]

It’s better to work from internal drives then external drives.
As ts already experienced

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[Joel Morrison]

I can import assets manually. FYI if it matters, the external is an iomega 4 TB raid 1.

So much learning.

[Joel Morrison]

I can right click the color bar place holder an replace the footage. Audio too.

So much learning.

[Joel Morrison]

Ann
I too find it better to work off the internal drive, but it’s to full of everything. I just think it should work though?
Thanks

So much learning.

[Alex Udell]

How is the Raid connected to you machine?

as local storage (SATA, USB, Firewire, etc)

or a NAS (Ethernet) ?

How do you format it? Disk Utility or Web Based interface?

thanks…

Alex

[Joel Morrison]

It’s connected with firewire 800 and it was formatted with disk utility. The drive has 2 plugins for the firewire and I tried both.

With this in mind I just now put some assets and started a Premiere Pro project on a little iomega USB powered drive, again formatted with disk utility. Guess what? It works. I can “replace with after effects composition”, and the clips appear.

So then…the problem with my main storage and back up?

Thanks
Joel

So much learning.