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Organizing multiple projects, mediamover
Hi! Thanks for any help here, I’m new to the forum and in a bit of a bind.
It’s time to organize some old media drives I have from when I was much newer to FCP than I am now. I’ve since learned that when it comes to organizing media files, prevention is obviously the best medicine. However I was wondering if someone could walk me through how to organize, and then archive each individual project on my drives, which are a mess right now of untitled folders, scratch disks, etc.
I came across a program called mediamover for FCP, which at first glance seemed like an awesome solution. If anyone has any experience with this program I could use your advice. I am somewhat hesitant to use it to archive anything, because from what I understand, once mediamover stores your project, you need mediamover to get it back–and the trial expires in 30 days, and it costs $150 per program (i need one for both avid and FCP).
Anyway. If anyone can walk me through the best method of organizing a messy drive, I’d greatly appreciate any help. Thanks!
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I have an associate who uses MediaMover on his Avid and he swears by it. His Avid dumps all clips in one directory without distinguishing which file goes with which project. MediaMover makes sense of this and can show where all a project’s media resides. Of course, this implies all the media are in locations defined by Avid in a certain way. I don’t know anybody using it on a Mac. Checkout the trial version. Just be sure to back up your media drives before doing anything.
John
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