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Question re: running 2 separate projects on duplicate media
Hi all,
I am currently prepping a work flow that will involve myself in LA and a director in Ireland.
We will each have the same media (on a slightly different FW drive setup – me on 2 drives – she on 3) and the plan is to just email fcp projects back and forth to share our work…
We are going to run FCP 6 as we have HDV and DV footage and want to work natively in the same sequence without downconverting.
Unfortunately I’ve heard that FCP 6 may have serious reconnecting bugs (some folks wind up having to hit reconnect for EVERY file – rather than the “relative path” option doing an entire folder at a time…)
(see the middle to late part of this thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_thread.cgi?forumid=8&postid=940780&univpostid=940780)
Any thoughts on the best way to ensure a simple reconnecting process?
Is it better to create the duplicate media through media manager or simply a finder level drag and drop?
Is it worthwhile to partition my 2 drives to “match” her 3?
Is that even helpful?
Anyone found any secrets regarding reconnecting in FCP 6?
Any and all advice appreciated.
Cheers,
Jim
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I haven’t run into any reconnecting troubles in FCP 6, but I work solo.
Here’s a thought, its very logical that in your situation you would need to reconnect media since the project (that you email) will be looking for media on the drives from (lets say) your computer, when it doesn’t see drives named as you have them, it thinks there gone.
So I was thinking if you could name the drives the same name as woman in Ireland, this may help. Project may see the drives and all is well.
I would normally say that it shouldn’t matter if you partitioned to match her, but in this case it might. I could be off here because in the path of the drives might include the username (~) which would be different.In the few times that I’ve had to “share” drives (even though that’s not exactly what your doing) I’ve always had to reconnect media, but I look at it as a neccessary evil, and don’t give it another thought. The larger your project, the more time/effort it will take, but other than syncronizing names, I’m not sure what you can do.
OK, just thought of this as I was proofreading my post…
Make 2 projects one with all your raw footage and effects, the other that contains only the sequences. After your projects are synced on both systems, just send the sequence project back and forth. Since (I assume) the media won’t change, you should only have to reconnect the sequence and not the whole project. So you would just work with both projects open and hopefully that might save time. -
I am working on a project right now in almost the same situation. What we decided is to have two IDENTICAL drives (same name, structure, size and everything) and one identical project file each to begin with.
We’d then use “transportation” project files which would contain only a sequence or two, and nothing else. The only purpose of a transportation project file is to zip and send. The other person would then open this project and copy the sequence into their project and delete (or archive somewhere) the the transportation project.
If any media needs to be added to the project, such as photos, music etc., we consult with one another and put it in the same place on each drive.
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Set up the drives with the same media on the same partition names, and you’ll be okay.
So if one person has 2 drives, and the other has 3, then then one of the 2 drives need to have 2 partitions, so you have 3 partions matching 3 hard drives, with names matching exactly.
As long as the file path is the same for each system, they’ll link up fine each time you transfer a project.
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