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Desktop to Laptop with FW800 HD
If I capture a project on my desktop and hand it off on a firewire 800 enclosure to an assistant editor. Is the mounting of the drive on his MacBook Pro pretty straight forward as well as his saving the project back to the drive for finishing. Should it be a save as… and as a different file name? I just wanted to make sure this is as easy as I invision it in my mind. All software is FCS2. Thanks.
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As long as you have the same version of FCP and make sure the codec you use is availiable on the MacBookPro there shouldn’t be any problems, I do it all the time…
/Stephan
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Envisioning this working is easy. In practice, it’s a bit more difficult.
Everything must be saved to your portable drive. No elements can be left on your system drive or on you other internals. All resources and project files form all related applications. Encourage your AE to use incremental versions and not to overwrite anything.
Strongly urge you to experiment with this workflow first and do not even try to rely on Media Manager for anything.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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[Stephan Walfridsson] “I do it all the time… “
Are you using an assistant or coworker or are you working with your own projects on your own portable?
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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This is an outside editor with a new MacBook Pro. I have a desktop system. Same versions of the software will be used. Thanks for mentioning about the codecs and checking ALL files. I guess if I open the project from the FW HD I can do a save as and copy over the data to internal drives and relink. What would be the easiest way to relink without spending forever doing it? We will definitely be testing. Any other suggestions or pitfalls would be helpful. The AE would rough cut the project and dump back to FW HD and I would finish and color the project from there. More time and cost effective. Thanks.
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[david bogie] ”
Are you using an assistant or coworker or are you working with your own projects on your own portable?”I do it both with my own portable and handing it off to other people. On a feature film I edited the director brought the entire project home (27 hours of footage and audiofiles) on a 500GB drive to work with some scenes on his laptop.
But I do make sure that the project works from the drive before handing it off. And when you get it back there’s always a few mediafiles that they forgot to put on the drive. So I always ask that they bring their computer back to me as well so I can sort everything out.
/Stephan
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[Stephan Walfridsson] “But I do make sure that the project works from the drive before handing it off. And when you get it back there’s always a few mediafiles that they forgot to put on the drive. So I always ask that they bring their computer back to me as well so I can sort everything out. “
Excellent advice. Stuff to check before it leaves the building AND stuff to check when it comes back.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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