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Media Organisation – Hierachical vs Flat
Hi Everyone,
I’m hoping to get people’s opinions on optimal organization of media files with regards to a big production we have coming up.
Basically, we are going to be shooting P2 and could have up to 500 hours of media (5×60 min, 100:1 shooting ratio), because it is P2 it will naturally be broken down into quite a few small clips per hour of footage. We’re a bit concerned about performance with this volume of media files, my question is :
Assuming you have all your media imported into the project, do people think performance is improved or hampered by organising your media files into folders (e.g. by shoot day) as opposed to having them all within a single media folder? I’m talking about organisation of the actual media files rather than the clips within your FCP project, but would be interested to hear if anyone has opinions on that one too.
We normally split the media into 5 folders (one for each episode), but editors invariably end up using media from other episodes in their edits (often because of execs re-formatting the series).
It would be great to hear opinions from people who have tried both … particularly if they have switched from one method to another mid-edit. I’d love to be able to just keep all the rushes in one project and all the cuts in another … but unfortunately the ability to “reveal master clip” is essential for the editors on this production, and does not work if your master clip is in a different project from your sequence.
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[Saul Budd] “Assuming you have all your media imported into the project, do people think performance is improved or hampered by organising your media files into folders (e.g. by shoot day) as opposed to having them all within a single media folder?”
NO noticable difference. Doesn’t matter how they are organized, just as long as the drives are fast enough. The larger the project file the longer it will take FCP to open, but that’s it. I organize media mainly in the project. But when we had multiple shows, we had multiple show folders. But then we shared project files. No biggie, other than that match frame issue.
Shane
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Thanks Shane,
I probably should have mentioned (D’oh!) we are on an OD & SAN … so the drives are fast, the fibre connections are fast, but there’s always that mysterious ‘metadata’ going over the ethernet connections which may be a bottle-neck.
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