Work on same project on two computers.

[Marcus Samuel-gaskin]

Might want to give all the posts on this blog a read.

https://fcpxmegatest.blogspot.com/2011/07/using-peakbreak-as-our-first-fcp-x.html

[Thomas Frank]

This is a easy… well check it out how I get around this.
I have the events that is need on a both Workstation or on a mobil drive and I use dropbox to keep my projects in so as soon as I update the project it will already when I get back into the shop.

Dropbpx it baby.

[Jonas Bengtsson]

So if I first copy the Poject and Event folder the two Mashines and
make a symbolik link from Final Cut Projects folder to dropbox from the both Mashins I will accully have a updated project all the time.

I will try tomorrow.

[Bill Davis]

You’re making this too difficult.

Get a Firewire 800 drive. You can get a 750 gig one for about $150 or so.

Whereever your project is currently stored, use the “Move” command in X to put your entire project including all the events and all your media onto that drive.

Then as long as the program (FCP-X) is on both machines, plugging in the drive will “launch” your project and “read in” all the clips – and you can edit on each machine as you need.

There’s no need to duplicate projects or media folders anywhere.

I work on multiple projects and have “reclaimed” more than 100 gigs off my boot drive on my laptop once I figured out that I didn’t need to store much of anything on my laptop drive when using externals for “whole project” backup.

The first time you open the project off the new drive, there might be some housekeeping necessary as X figure out where everything is – but after a bit of linking and internal directory building, all the proper render files and connection locations will be sorted out by the program and as soon as you connect the drive to ANY machine running the same version of X, all your work will just auto-launch and be available in a few seconds.

That’s it.

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[Petter Stahre]

I second what Bill wrote. That’s how I work. FCPX on a Mac Pro at work and on a iMac at home. The projects I’m working on (events+project files) are all on an external FW-drive. Both on work and at home I use TimeMachine so even if I should damage or loose the FW-drive along the way all should be fine.

Even if it’s inconvenient to physically move the FW-drive I prefer this to managing new/updated clips in my event at two places.

The only thing I have to manually duplicate is when I use Motion to create new effects. These have to be copied to both the Mac Pro and iMac. (Or does anyone know of a better way – could Motion effects be stored outside the drive that holds the software?)

Regards,
Petter

[Thomas Frank]

How is having the Project file in your DropBox difficult then caring and not forgetting a mobile drive?
On top of that as mention housekeeping?

Have the Events on the faster internal or Thunderbolt drives, on each Mac and have DropBox targeting the Final Cut Pro X folder.

Not saying your known alternative is bad but it sure is no more difficult.
I can see something like DropBox coming from Apple.. especially since Avid is pushing there online alternative.