Managed Media or External Media for working with music videos?

[Bill Davis]

My 2cents is that the decision has nothing at all to do with the form of the work you’re doing.

Managed vs external is about two things. The nature of the primary storage architecture you will actually be working with – (iso drives, NAS, SAN, etc – And the number of brains that need to be involved in the creative work as you move from concept to completion.

My advice is to strive for as much simplicity as you possibly can.

Interesting to see that after years of moving primary asset storage away from the host box – I’m starting to read more and more about the advantages of moving it closer to the box now that SSD’s are common and our pipes are getting bigger.

Go figure.

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[Moira Elefson]

Whatever method you choose make sure that you backup your media files in case the media files you’re using become compromised.

[Walter Soyka]

[Bill Davis] “Interesting to see that after years of moving primary asset storage away from the host box – I’m starting to read more and more about the advantages of moving it closer to the box now that SSD’s are common and our pipes are getting bigger.”

Media? On the system drive?

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[Jim Kehoe]

Great job! I am thinking I am going to go with external media. As I organized that way previously. It would be awesome if you did a tutorial on cutting a music video in fcpx 10.1, like syncing audio with the shots, stutter effects etc, that’d be awesome!