Media Manager Advice

[Max Frank]

PS – I’m running FCP HD, 10.3.7 – QT 6.5 on a G5 2.0 – 3.5GB RAM

Wayne

[Karim Zouak]

Hi, Wayne;

I’ve been working with the latest version of FCP 5 and OS X, on several feature-length projects, and have regularly found media manager to have unexpected problems. The only “fail-safe” that I can imagine would be to export an EDL or XML and hold on to that… any media manager creation could have problems that you won’t discover for some time.

-karim

[Mark Raudonis]

Wayne,

first of all, Media Manger is NOT necessary for this kind of move. You can just do it at the finder level.

You do have all your media in one, clearly marked folder don’t you? (Let’s say yes!) Just copy that folder to your external (firewire) drive. If you want, you can pull the render files as well, but most people do NOT keep or store them since they can be easily redone. Then, next time you want to access this media from this drive, you’ll probably get an “off-line media” notice. If all your media is in a single folder, the reconnect process is just one click.

By the way, we use Media Manager every day to deal with projects. With the exception of certain widely known pitfalls (speed changes & stills) it works JUST FINE!

mark

[David Bogie]

I’d encourage you to use the Copy function in Media Manager and then try to launch the new coy of the project from the external drive. You might be delighted with the results. As Mark points out, MM seems to work fine for lots of folks. MM has never worked for me, not even on even the simplest of projects, but that’s no reason to assume it won’t work for you.

Just don’t do anything drastic or irreversible to your original media until you now for certain that your copy is intact.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Max Frank]

Hi,

Thanks all – I have many, many speed changes and freeze-frames – which is why I’m concerned.

I’ll do some experiments in the meantime.

Thanks,

Wayne