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  • syncing one project on two computers

    Posted by Kent Clark on April 28, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    What’s the best way to sync a project being done on two different computers?

    If I have the original video files on an external hard drive and I save the vegas files to that hard drive can I just carry the drive back and forth between the computers?

    The external drive is USB and I’m guessing that any rendering operations would overtake the transfer speed, but if I just do the editing from the external and then do final rendering from an internal drive on the fastest computer will that work?

    Mark Scarratt replied 18 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Edward Troxel

    April 28, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    [Kent Clark] “If I have the original video files on an external hard drive and I save the vegas files to that hard drive can I just carry the drive back and forth between the computers?”

    Yes you can. It would be helpful if both computers see it as the same drive letter.

    Edward Troxel
    JETDV Scripts

  • Mark Scarratt

    April 28, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    Hi

    i do this all the time – using a desktop with a RAID NAS as the master storage and render machine, and a laptop and USB drive as the mobile workstation.

    i find it helps to keep all the files relating to a project within a top-level folder on both drives, and replicate the folder setup – then if you do need to move stuff around later on when a project drags on, you can.

    i use filesync https://www.fileware.com/ to manage versions – dead easy and 100% reliable in my experience.
    combined with logmein https://www.logmein.com or any other VPN i can even take work home, edit stuff, send the updated .veg file back to the desktop and set up batch renders, ftp beta edits to clients etc from the desktop in my absence which is great.

    now if anyone has any advice on how to extend this workflow to use the sony media manager i’d be most grateful – it doesnt have vegas’s excellent file-finding/path-changing functionality ;-(

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