Does Every Project Really Have To Load Before I Can View The Project List?

[Steve Connor]

https://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/EventManagerX/

This is what I use, it works perfectly.

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Philip Davies]

Brilliant Steve, thank you.

[Kevin Patrick]

It appears that this application moves Events and Projects in and out of the FCP X Event/Project folders. As opposed to you doing it yourself at the Finder level. Or am I missing some additional capabilities?

Steve, I was wondering if you tried, or looked at Steve Martin’s suggestion of managing FCP X Events/Projects with Disk Images?

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_managing_disk_image_martin.html

Seemed like an interesting idea when I first read about it. But I have yet to try it. Outside of guessing (correctly) how much disk space you will need, I’m not sure what other downsides would be. Mounting and Unmounting seems simply enough. Quicker than copying, if you don’t have media inside your Event folders.

[Steve Connor]

[Kevin Patrick] “It appears that this application moves Events and Projects in and out of the FCP X Event/Project folders. As opposed to you doing it yourself at the Finder level. Or am I missing some additional capabilities?

Steve, I was wondering if you tried, or looked at Steve Martin’s suggestion of managing FCP X Events/Projects with Disk Images?

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_managing_disk_image_martin.html

Seemed like an interesting idea when I first read about it. But I have yet to try it. Outside of guessing (correctly) how much disk space you will need, I’m not sure what other downsides would be. Mounting and Unmounting seems simply enough. Quicker than copying, if you don’t have media inside your Event folders.
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It does simply give you a quick graphic UI that results in your folders being moved, it’s a bit of functionality that should be in FCPX. You can move manually but IMHO the app makes it easier to keep track of what is where.

Haven’t tried the disk image idea yet.

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Mark Morache]

This really annoys the crap out of me as well. I can’t believe Apple would make this “all the media and projects all the time” the paradigm if our wait time keeps getting longer as the projects start piling up. Hiding things in finder is an easy enough workaround, but why not design it correctly to begin with?

$5 for an app to help with this seems like money well spent. But it’s still a workaround. Yikes.

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Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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[Dave Brandt]

Hi,

I use sparse images for all my clients. you can specify the size to be as big as the hard drive they reside on, but the great thing about sparse images is that they only use up as much space as the data inside them. I have around 20 disk images on my 2TB raid and there is plenty of space for more.
The great thing about images is that I have everything belonging to that client on this image. Graphics, text files, review notes etc etc. It is a very tidy way of working, and makes backup and sharing a breeze.
just try it out, create sparse image in disk utility, specify the size as big as you want. if you specify larger than the hard drive capacity it will be ok until the image grows too large in which case you will be asked to move it to a larger disk.

db

[Jason Jenkins]

[Dave Brandt] “I use sparse images for all my clients. you can specify the size to be as big as the hard drive they reside on, but the great thing about sparse images is that they only use up as much space as the data inside them. I have around 20 disk images on my 2TB raid and there is plenty of space for more.
The great thing about images is that I have everything belonging to that client on this image. Graphics, text files, review notes etc etc. It is a very tidy way of working, and makes backup and sharing a breeze.
just try it out, create sparse image in disk utility, specify the size as big as you want. if you specify larger than the hard drive capacity it will be ok until the image grows too large in which case you will be asked to move it to a larger disk.”

Dave, thanks for sharing. This sounds like a great way of working! Do the disk images mount automatically or do you manually mount the one you want to work from?

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!

[Dave Brandt]

Hi,
I manually mount. It’s just a double click away

db

[Jason Jenkins]

[Dave Brandt] “I manually mount. It’s just a double click away”

That’s good to know. I’m using separate drives for clients right now, but I’m looking at getting a Thunderbolt RAID and this looks like the perfect system to “control” the projects.

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!

[Kevin Patrick]

Dave,

I understand that it grows in size as you add to it, but it won’t shrink if you delete files. But, I was wondering how you back it up. Do you create a new DI on an archive drive and them copy? Allowing you to shrink the DI, if you’ve removed a significant amount of files?

How do you mount and unmout? With Disk Utilities?

Thanks for the feedback. Steve Martin’s idea of using DI seemed like a pretty nice work flow. But I’ve never used DIs before, so it good to hear it’s working for someone.