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Is FCPX the Othello of NLEs?
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Just have a “live” events folder and another you call “offline” or something and move the events there when they’re done or on hold or whatever
No, I dont want to move files around to stop my NLE seeing them. No ! Naughty !
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[James Mortner] “No, I dont want to move files around to stop my NLE seeing them. No ! Naughty !”
Using disk images has been working well for me:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_managing_disk_image_martin.htmlJason Jenkins
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Interesting ! Still feels like a faff/bodge workaround though ?
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[Bret Williams] “Isn’t it pretty easy to manually take events offline?”
[Tom Wolsky] “Get Event Manager X.”
[Oliver Peters] “You can manage projects through Event Manager or manually …”
[Jeremy Garchow] “I have been trying to pair down the amount of projects as much as possible …”
[Oliver Peters] “I believe it’s a RAM or resources issue, …”
Etc. Etc. Etc.
So, Apple have designed an NLE that will auto-manage tracks, but that requires manual management of memory and the archive on disk.
Franz.
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[Jason Jenkins] “Using disk images has been working well for me:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_managing_disk_image_martin.html
“I mean no offense to anyone (if it’s working that’s great), and I don’t mind the clever research behind this thinking, but this is the weirdest solution that has come out the 2011 NLE “crisis”. There is something that just doesn’t sit right with me here.
Yes, this was a workaround to get FCPX working on a SAN, but there is now official support in FCPX for SAN workflows.
Event Manger X is a much easier solution that mirrors what is explained in the FCPX manual. And it’s only $5.
Again, no offense, but this way is very limiting as you have to set a size right off the bat.
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “So, Apple have designed an NLE that will auto-manage tracks, but that requires manual management of memory and the archive on disk.”
So far.
There are some very strong points to X’s media management as well. It is certainly different than other methods.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Again, no offense, but this way is very limiting as you have to set a size right off the bat.”
From the article:
“One really cool feature of Disk utility is the ability to create what are called “Sparse Disk Images”. By choosing this option, if you created a 20 GB image, and only used 5 GB of media, the Disk image would only take up 5 GB on your drive. As you add media to your Event Library, the Disk Image would “expand” to include the additional files (the resulting DMG file would grow larger in size). This way you are only using the Disk Space you need.”Jason Jenkins
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[Jason Jenkins] “As you add media to your Event Library, the Disk Image would “expand” to include the additional files (the resulting DMG file would grow larger in size). “
But if you go over 20GBs?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “But if you go over 20GBs?”
I haven’t run into that yet, as I make my images with room to spare at the outset. This is what Wikipedia says:
“When the sparseimage file is not mounted, the .sparseimage file may be resized using Disk Utility’s Resize Image function.”I just tested this out and there seems to be a bug with the Resize Image function. It resizes the disk image but not the partition within it, so after resizing, you need to mount the image and go to the Partition tab in Disk Utility and drag the partition out to the full image size. That works, so it’s easy to resize the sparse disk image if needed, but it won’t automatically expand beyond the original size.
I like having a whole project bundled up in one place. It makes it really easy to move it around, backup and archive it.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Different is.. One word for it…
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