sharing rendered files in FCP between ediing rooms

[Shane Ross]

Just the rendered files, or all the media when you edit? Why just the rendered files?

If you want to share footage/renders between two or more edit stations, you need to look into a SAN setup of some sort.

Shane

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[Vladimir Uschintsky]

We have a SAN and frequently share rendered files between rooms. You may occasionally have to relink the renders when you open the same project in a different suite, but otherwise it generally works OK.

WHERE IT DOES NOT WORK OK is if one editor begins a project, then makes a copy of that project for another editor to create an alternate version from. For instance, the first project is in English and then the copy is used by a second editor to create a Spanish version. As the second editor begins replacing, say, an English bug with the Spanish equivalent Final Cut assumes that the original renders are now useless and deletes them, hosing the first editor on the original project.