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Mac – Windows Project Sharing: Media Linking issues
I just got a Windows 7 machine to experiment with using both my old Mac Pro and Windows 7 CS 5.5 to work on the same project.
I am using the Mac Pro as a server, a bunch of fast drives are hooked up to it. Right now I’m using Mac 10.7.3 and sharing those drives via the SMB protocol. This has some issues, like sometimes Windows can’t connect to the Mac, but if I reset the Mac’s SMB sharing and reboot it seems to fix this (fingers crossed.)
The main issue is that Premiere Pro cannot find some files on the Mac Pro’s SMB shares. I’m not sure how many it finds or doesn’t or why it finds some and not others, but it first asks me to locate a file, which I tediously do, and then PPro churns a bit and then asks me for another one. I’m using a lot of AVCHD material, so in some cases the media files have the same name, such as “00000.MTS”. Premiere Pro doesn’t seem to be able to provide any information on the original path of the file it wants to find, though I am sure that path info is somewhere in the Project file. It just doesn’t present it to me when it asks me to locate it.
This makes finding non-unique files pretty hard.
Have others encountered this issue and what was your solution? Is there a utility I can use on Windows 7 to allow it to see the Mac SMB shares in a way that it can interpret the paths seamlessly?
The good thing is that PPro Windows is finding most of the files after I point it to one or 2 files it can’t find, so sometimes this is working, though mysteriously.
Thanks much for any advice!
-Keith
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