Install FCStudio on an external drive.

[Frank Pledge]

clone your system drive to an external and run the g5 abroad off the firewire.

problem:

IF you are running media off an additional FW drive, you would need/want that media drive on a seperate bus – meaning the g5 abroad would need an additional FW card installed. which is not a huge deal as the cards are cheap cheap.

fp

[David Roth weiss]

[frankpledge] “you would need/want that media drive on a seperate bus – meaning the g5 abroad would need an additional FW card installed.”

Frank,

You would think that would be the case, but in reality its not. In thge situation I mentioned we had no problems whatsoever.

DRW

[Frank Pledge]

nice. i had some jobs a while back that forced me to go back to FCP4 and running the system off the cloned fw drive (with fcp4 installed) also worked like gangbusters. i saw no loss in performace. although i was in dv.

when fcp6 arrives, i will absolutley clone my now system drive as a precaution for legacy edits. it’s so simple it’s insane.

fp

[Ben Holmes]

That’s such a simple and interesting solution – we will make this standard practice now in the office. Thanks to all concerned – I guess I was a little too hasty…

Ben

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