media management

[dan crouch]

Please help!!!!!
My media is all over the place, 3 different low speed drives and is going offline all the time. I had some great feedback from this forum about what to do next, ie get one big drive. I now need to do it ASAP as my edit is being extended.

Can anyone please tell me the best way to do it, whether to use media manager or just copy across? and also what i need when buying a big drive, speed, ports needed etc. And if possible a suggestion of a make and model???

Please help!!! I am an Avid user so any really simplistic help would be much appreciated.

Dan

[Craig Alan]

what external drive to buy? depends on your needs. what type of media/format. how much of it. what mac. what budget. for me i have a macbook pro at the moment. i got a firmtek esata card and an OWC quad interface mercury elite 2TB raid 0. SD or HDV. I put my capture and render folders/files in a final cut pro documents folder on the external drive. my project files are on my system drive–again in a fcp documents folder in my documents folder. After moving stuff around, when you boot FC you’ll get a dialog box asking you where your media is at. navigate to it and you should be good to go. FC manual built in as a pdf under help menu is a great way to get quick answers since you can do a search. try “reconnect.” try “render files.”

OSX 10.5.3; MAC PRO 2 X 2.8 GHZ (EARLY 2008); FCP Suite; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170;Canon xl2; Pana consumer cams; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.

[Zane Barker]

Use media manager to do the job. It’s much easier and cleaner then trying to move it all manualy.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[dan crouch]

Thanks V much for the posts. Re the drives, I currently have 3 1 x terabyte drives pretty full up, plus the internal drive, so need a big one I guess.

Re Medias Manager, I have 4 different projects, using all the drives so would you recommend just selecting each project and doing ‘media move’ ‘copy’ on each one moving media to new drive?

Cheers,
Dan.

[Zane Barker]

[dan crouch] “Medias Manager, I have 4 different projects, using all the drives so would you recommend just selecting each project and doing ‘media move’ ‘copy’ on each one moving media to new drive? “

Have media manager copy NOT move that way if something happens during the process there is still the original one there on your old drives.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[dan crouch]

Good call, thanks Zane 🙂