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Media Sharing
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[James Ewart] “This must be the Media Management to which all my Avid editor friends refer when they are trying to explain their preference (apart from that’s the tool they prefer anyway which is cool with me).”
Not really. Even a standalone seat of Media Composer has very good media management. Some of it is a bit restrictive, particularly when it comes to relinking. MC works best when everything is internal to its MXF folders and then MC has maximum control. This philosophy is essentially what Apple copied with FCP X.
The way Avid does it, allows you to move drives around quite freely and the local MC project has no problems finding that media. When MC is launched, it scans all drives automatically that have an Avid MediaFiles folder at the root level of the drive. There is a database file within each folder.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[James Ewart] “I am interested in the land of the Hollywood blockbuster why so may working on the exact same cut?”
I presume you mean when many editors work on one project. Typically there’s only one editor and then a number of assistants. They handle the ingest, logging and output of cuts for the editor and can do it from other attached systems. On some films there may be others, like music editors and VFX editors who also tap into the same project to do their thing.
Some films have more than one picture editor and in those cases, they would usually work separately on different scenes. Often this allows the director to bounce between rooms, work with one editor and give him or her notes. Then while that editor is doing the changes, the director can work with the other editor and review the cuts of his or her scenes. And so back and forth in that manner.
On larger installations where everything is under one roof, you might also have the sound team connected to the same shared storage. Typically this would mean Pro Tools systems that can then tap into the same media for sound post.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Thanks for that.
So is there really any advantage to that over and above the “Transfer Library’ system with different people using their own Library as only one person is very going to be actually cutting a particular sequence/project at once?
I understand the production line workflow (that’s how I work). I will block out an hour long film into more manageable chunks and send them off to others at various intervals.
I suppose I’m saying is it better of just different to the FCPX solution?
Thanks again.
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[James Ewart] “So is there really any advantage to that over and above the “Transfer Library’ system with different people using their own Library as only one person is very going to be actually cutting a particular sequence/project at once? “
I’m not sure what you are asking. Do you mean compared to shared storage environments or to several editors working in parallel on standalone systems? If the former, then for complex projects, the Avid approach blows the doors off of everything else that’s out there. If you mean the latter, then it’s more or less the same, just a slightly different approach.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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All I would say (without any knowledge at all) is that in a very short time, from V10.9 upwards (I think), Apple have changed/tweaked the library structure at every update.
It looks to me that whatever they are up to – they an’t finished yet 🙂
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… what’s taking them so long? Is this a game?
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[James Ewart] “… what’s taking them so long? Is this a game?”
Software development takes longer than most folks think. 10.0.0 was little more than a beta and adding libraries was a bit of a mid-course correction. I think the clock really started at 10.0.6 or 10.0.8. Unfortunately, ProApps is also at the mercy of the OS engineers, which would include the group developing AV Foundation (the underlying media architecture). That gives them some pros compared to other NLEs, because of the tight iteration with the OS. It also gives them some cons, because they can’t build their own, independent media architecture.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Please don’t get me wrong but I did read something somebody wrote here (Bret maybe) about how, with the resources they have, it’s taken so long. But of course I do kind of grasp (kind of because it’s so far away from anything I could ever think about doing) that creating something like this is gargantuan. Just occasionally I can’t help wondering where it is in their list of priorities.
Any thoughts on the change of course?
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I don’t have any particular thoughts on their future development, but I would suspect that actual network-based collaboration is very low on their priorities. That’s because it really isn’t in sync with Apple’s general philosophy of empowering the individual. IMHO.
I have been involved in a number of software development efforts and at any given time, things that are discussed are at least a year or more before they would become an actual feature.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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