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Shared Drive for Multiple Editors
I have 2 day event shoot coming up. The project requires quick turnarounds on the edits so I’m looking for solution where 2-4 editors can share one drive.
What are some possible solutions for this? I’m aware that you can’t have the same PPro project open at once, but it would be great if everyone could access the same media on one drive.
Is it possible to “daisy chain” everybody via Thunderbolt to a Promise RAID drive or something similar?
Thanks for the advice.
Ross Haines
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[Ross Haines] Is it possible to “daisy chain” everybody via Thunderbolt to a Promise RAID drive?
Not at all. I need to find some good links to a primer on shared workflows in some magazine, because it’s a topic that gets asked about thousands of times on CreativeCow (and elsewhere) and a full answer does not, ever, fit in a single post response. It also makes steam shoot out of Bob Zelin’s ears, and I’m starting to see why.
It begins with details, many of them, none of which you’ve supplied. How many editors? Using what computers? How close or far away are they from each other (same room? same building?)? How much media, and what codec(s)?
The basic approach would be sharing the media with a NAS or a SAN, and ensuring read-only access to the media. The solution can cost between $10 and several million dollars, depending on your answers to the questions above (I’m not kidding).
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