How Can I Online If I Can’t Mount All My Media?

[Shane Ross]

Then you need to get an external enclosure that will allow you to mount all 5 drives. They are all bare SATA drives? Something like this:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816111139&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Server+-+RAID+Sub-Systems-_-SANS+DIGITAL-_-16111139

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

File > Export > QuickTime Movie.

Check self contained and choose a destination.

[Justin Ford]

Thanks for the responses.

I don’t really want to buy a RAID. I don’t need the speed and don’t have it in the budget. There has to be another way to do this. What about “Planet Earth”? They probably have DAYS worth of footage.

I guess I could just export what I can of the sequence and then sync that file with other exported sections of the sequence. That must be what you mean Jeremy.

Justin Ford
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[Shane Ross]

[Justin Ford] “There has to be another way to do this. What about “Planet Earth”? They probably have DAYS worth of footage.”

They no doubt had a HUGE RAID. That was a big budget project.

That item I linked only costs $129. That way you can get all the drives to mount. Otherwise, export the doc in sections to a single drive using the tip Jeremy gave you, then join them all for the final export.

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

I’m cornfused, Justin.

You need to export your sequence or online your sequence?

[Justin Ford] “What if a program was hours long and spread across numerous media drives? How would you get the full sequence exported?”

How do you edit without all the media?

[Justin Ford]

Both. I don’t really mean online in the sense of online/offline production. We work with our native full quality footage. I need it all to be “online” aka mounted in order to export the whole thing.

I just need more drive connections I guess, but I don’t want to have to set up a RAID. Will one of the enclosures like the one that Shane linked to simply act as a drive multiplier instead of a RAID?

Justin Ford
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[Ben Holmes]

Forgive me, Justin, but are you suggesting you have been importing media into a project, then disconnecting a drive, connecting another one, and importing more media – and so on?

That’s bonafide crazy. As others have said here, bare RAID enclosures cost very little, and will solve all your problems – or just buy a big, single firewire drive (4Tb, or even 2Tb for around $150) and transfer ALL your media to the single drive and re-link it.

And in answer to your question about ‘Planet Earth’, yes they had a big disk array. And they worked in individual episodes, each with it’s own media. If you can split your own project into sections, maybe you can keep working on your separate drives, but if you’re doing this in any kind of professional capacity, and can’t spring for a cheap RAID, I’d quit now…

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[Justin Ford]

Yes, Dave, I need more connections for the storage I already have (don’t need any more). I have more hard drives than I do connections. Thus the original problem of exporting the entire project. I don’t want a RAID.

I have discovered that these enclosures support something called JBOD.

Problem solved.

I still might just do it in sections to save the money.

Justin Ford
http://www.KnaveProduction.com

[Shane Ross]

[Justin Ford] ” Will one of the enclosures like the one that Shane linked to simply act as a drive multiplier instead of a RAID?”

What I linked to is a simple enclosure to put all the drives in so that you can get them all to mount at the same time.

Shane

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[Rafael Amador]

[Justin Ford] ” How would you get the full sequence exported?”
As Jeremy points: Export a self contained QT movie.

If you wan’t to “consolidate” the media included in your sequences (wherever is located), use Media Manager.
rafael

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