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editing film on seperate machines
Hi,
I’m coordinating the tech stuff for an hour long documentary. We have about 50 hours of footage and will be editing in Final Cut.
I’m trying to design a pipeline where we can work on seperate machines (powerrbooks and ibooks) and bring our stuff back to a master project.
Everything is getting captured on a G5 with 250 gigs of HD space. I’m thinking we can just copy the project over onto matching firewire drives and bring back our edited sequences. Capturing would only happen on the G5 and we could add new footage to the firewire hard drives as it is digitized.
I’m just wondering if this is a good way to approach this, or if there is a better way to synchronize multiple machines.
Any input is appreciated.
David Garcia
Hopalong Media -
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I cut a film in exactly the same way a few projects back. Worked fine. Is the 250GB G5 drive internal? For reasons unknown to me, it’s generally advisable to play your media from an external drive.
One piece of advice: you’ll simplify the relinking (ie you won’t need to) on the other machines if you use identical firewire drives and name them all the same (so that FCP is looking for the media in the same directory). You might want to label them differently externally so you don’t mix them up.
The only thing to watch for is any files (gfx/sfx) that get created on any one of the systems – these will need to be copied to the other drives so that each system has all the media. The other thing is that each system will be creating it’s own render files – I’ve not had a great deal of success relinking these (though you can import them as seperate QTS). Most likely simpler to re-render the files.
If you’ve got the budget, there is most likely a shared-storage solution that would be more efficient, but the seperate systems playing from mirrored firewires worked fine for me.
Rob
Rob Tinworth
http://www.1021.tv
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