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Laptop and FCP
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[Drizzt_G] “Can u digitize on your FW drive on a G5 Tower, put that drive on a PB, rough edit, put back the drive on the tower for finishing and render/output to tape?”
Absolutely. Just move the project new project file back and forth and FCP will automatically go directly to that drive. That’s a sure fire way to work with FCP on both a laptop and Tower, just have a dedicated external drive, preferrably a FW800 to get the maximum data throughput.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com“The Rough Cut,” an original short film premiering December 7th in full High Definition in Atlanta.
rsvp@biscardicreative.com to reserve seats.
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[debe] “You have to spend the time having FCP copy the footage, but for my short projects, Media Managing didn’t turn into a huge amount of additional time. In your case, it may. Especially if you plan move between systems several times and if it’s a large project.”
Much easier to have a dedicated external drive for your projects. Simply move the project file back and forth between your Tower and laptop along with the drive. When you start the project on either machine, it will open up normally since the drive will also be there.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com“The Rough Cut,” an original short film premiering December 7th in full High Definition in Atlanta.
rsvp@biscardicreative.com to reserve seats.
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[Walter Biscardi] “Much easier to have a dedicated external drive for your projects. Simply move the project file back and forth between your Tower and laptop along with the drive. When you start the project on either machine, it will open up normally since the drive will also be there.”
I’ve had trouble with that in the past, Walter. I captured to the tower’s internal drive and then copied the files to the FW drive. ( I did not have a second FW bus at the time, so I couldn’t capture directly to the FW drive). I moved the drive from the tower to the laptop, put the project file on the internal drive of the PB, and when I opened up the file, I needed to reconnect media. When I reconnected media, FCP couldn’t find any of the files. I had to reconnect them all by hand, even with the “Reconnect All Files in Relative Path” box checked. Every time I quit, FCP lost the connection and I had to re-connect every time I opened the project.
Out of frustration, I wiped the drive and media managed the files from their original location on my internal media drive on the tower, and FCP had no issues after that.
Now, it is possible that my FW drive was suffering from a directory problem, and wiping it is really what solved the problem. After that, I’ve Media Managed half a dozen 5 minute or shorter pieces back and forth, and have had absolutely no problems.
So, perhaps if the original poster starts having problems with reconnecting, maybe he should copy the files to another location, re-initialize the drive and copy the files back.
debe
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How about this card: https://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1109
That way you could use SATA drives on both systems.
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Well, shave my head and call me baldie!
That’s REALLY new, and sure could solve you’re issues!
Of course, now you need a SATA card for the tower so you can move between the systems.
debe
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I’ve seen some numbers for the performance of SATA on PB and they are very similar to the FW drives, but you have the increase of speed when you put it on a G5 tower.
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[Drizzt_G] “I’ve seen some numbers for the performance of SATA on PB and they are very similar to the FW drives, but you have the increase of speed when you put it on a G5 tower.”
I don’t run any SATA here so I can’t comment on that. Haven’t seen any SATA arrays that I would trust for my work yet.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com“The Rough Cut,” an original short film premiering December 7th in full High Definition in Atlanta.
rsvp@biscardicreative.com to reserve seats.
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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I was thinking about the G-SATA or a Firmtek enclosure.
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That sounds very promising 10 bit 4:2:2 is better than what I have had in the past. You say you run a 320GB drive… that is an array… of how many drives? I would assume it would be too risky to run all this data on a single drive.
I am also amazed that the PB processor is capable of playing 10bit 4:2:2 material in real time without dropping frames.I looked at the Sata card, I am a bit confused, it looks like it has firewire connectors, is it just a superfast firewire port on that card or is it like a Ultrawide SCSI ?
Thanks,
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I looked wrong, its obviously not a firewire connector on that card…
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