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Sparse Image Workflow
I’ve read all of the info regarding Sparse Disk Images and am going to employ this technique moving forward with a NAS system that I am setting up in our editing lab. The main question that I have is what is the workflow for ingesting media into the NAS and then creating the Sparse Disk Images after. Are editors ingesting media with the camera import method, creating a new event on the NAS. OR are they ingesting the media and converting to ProRes in Compressor, then putting the ProRes files in a folder on the NAS. And lastly creating the Sparse Disk Image that POINTS to those files on the NAS?
Thanks again!
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Hi Ray,
We work off of a RAID Server and created sparse disks regularly for our workflow in our lab. You can save the media into a folder on your NAS and then ingest from there into FCPX once a sparse disk is created and mounted for a specific project. When you mount the sparse disk and open FCPX to ingest, it will treat that image as a separate drive and ingest to it though we do find that sometimes it still likes to reference external files. All of this should happen automatically however without you having to manually make the connections. The only snag may come about when you want to migrate that disk image and data to another drive etc.
Hope that answers some of your questions!
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