FCPX can mount SAN locations – on a NAS. No sparse disk required.

[John Davidson]

So this is awesome – it won’t let you mount it if someone else has it.

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

[John Davidson]

Sort of. I just drag/dropped a file to the ‘original media’ folder within the event folder via Finder. It didn’t instantly show up in FCPX. I removed san, then re-added san, and the file was in FCPX without having to directly import it via the program.

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

[Jeremy Garchow]

That’s a good thing.

[Charlie Austin]

[John Davidson] “Sort of. I just drag/dropped a file to the ‘original media’ folder within the event folder via Finder. It didn’t instantly show up in FCPX. I removed san, then re-added san, and the file was in FCPX without having to directly import it via the program.”

That’s pretty cool… So, on one workstation, you have the “master” NAS volume mounted as well as the SAN Location/Folder on that volume?

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~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Jeremy Garchow]

Also to test.

Leave the SAN Location active and then quit fcpx, that is to say, don’t remove the Location before quitting.

Now, can you mount the Location on another machine?

[John Davidson]

Yep. First you auto mount the NAS via Finder like this:

Finder / Go / Connect to server, then I put in:

nfs://192.168.2.3/volumes/BASESTAR

From that point, ANY FOLDER that has project and event folder structures as subfolders can be mounted as an independent SAN within FCPX.

I am going to get absolutely NO sleep tonight thinking about this and tomorrow’s event.

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

[John Davidson]

Already tried that. The SAN location will stay mounted – you have to ‘remove san location’ from within FCPX or Finder to unmount it.

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

[John Davidson]

Wait – I misread. Not sure if it’ll continue to lock out others if you quit. I gotta go home – but I’ll test that tomorrow :).

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

It’ll get even more interesting with OS X Mavericks as I believe the new OS sees your Thunderbolt port(s) as fully fledged network interfaces.

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