FCP-X and 20 bays..question

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “Understood, but I want to keep the original session in tact, so deleting compound clips from the original event is not desirable.”

No, it’s not. I usually Dupe + Used Clips, copy/paste the compound content in their own Projects, delete the compound contents (not the actual compound clip), dupe + Used Clips AGAIN, and then copy and paste the clips back in to the compounds.

Pain in the rear, but it does work until it (hopefully) gets fixed.

[Oliver Peters] “In general, my feeling with X is that transportability is very problematic. Worse than 7 in fact. “

I guess I mostly see it the other way. There are times when it is so much easier than FCP7 as you can do a lot more BEFORE moving it, and file paths aren’t as crucial as they are in FCP7. I can check if everything is there before I send it away, and I don’t have to worry about the relink on the other machine as the file structure stays the same. If I do move it, though, I tend to organize the media in to the Event that is moved. And motion templates aren’t exactly super simple to move.

I do wonder, of the FCPX file system will be “packaged” one day similar to how AVCHD is now on Mountain Lion.

As far as the alias files, our SAN had an issue way back when with them, as in they didn’t work and were “ignored”. I wonder if your LTO is doing the same. They aren’t regular alias files, there are something different. You should be able to drag the media back in to the Event and FCPX will rebuild all the links.

I haven’t had an issue yet with our Cache-A system, but I tend to organize the media before archiving as it makes the restore a lot easier.

[Oliver Peters]

[Jeremy Garchow] ” and file paths aren’t as crucial as they are in FCP7″

Actually that’s one of the things I’m finding NOT to be true. The complication is that now X has to worry about 2 sets of paths if you link rather than copy media. The path to the alias and the path from the alias to the media. This seems to work better in a networked situation than a sneakernet situation. FCP 7 simply says ‘point me in the right direction’ and it works pretty well. Especially since you can override it when it baulks.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

I guess I haven’t run in to many issues sneakernet or networked. I guess I am just lucky.

I can reconnect to everything so far, and if an alias gets bumped, I drag it back in and the link is reestablished very easily.

[Oliver Peters]

[Jeremy Garchow] “and if an alias gets bumped, I drag it back in and the link is reestablished very easily”

Haven’t had that work successfully here. In fact, I’ve had it completely munge master clips by doing that.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Helge Tjelta]

Hi Don Smith, you are discribing the systems we use!!!! Thanks.

I think FCPX works really well in setup like this…

/Helge

Helge

[John Davidson]

Remember that network user account thing I mentioned? Yeah….never do that.

OS X Server is good for lots of stuff but not so much with the network user accounts – we had problems getting Profile Manager to work. Ended up just keeping users local and using OS X Server for services and intranet hosting.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.