Andreas Kiel
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A bit late here,
I discovered some time ago that changed paths are not saved in the SQL databases and FCPX tries to do it’s own “repair”. So this might work or not.
Using the XML route will use the “internal” repair but will loose most if not all of the filter settings.Another thing I found by chance is to make everything offline using Finder, detach disks etc.
Then launch FCPX and every missing media will be listed and saved in the SQL files together with a reason why it is not found.
Quit FCP and make the media available again.
Next time you start FCPX it will analyze those database entries and will try to repair, but in this case it will update and save all media paths within the SQL files.-Andreas
-Andreas
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Hi Simon,
Would you mind to send me a Thai SRT just to check it.
Maybe it’s just the title effect which doesn’t work.email: kiel at spherico dot com
-Andreas
Spherico
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This is a known problem, even with special characters in roman languages FCPX will crash.
Try to paste the text directly into the text field(s) in the canvas. They normally (depending on type of title) behave like rtf text documents. Don’t use the Inspector window for text entries at all.
You may try my XTI or TitleExchange to convert your SRT to FCPXML. I know from several users and my tests that it works fine with non roman fonts.
https://www.spherico.de/filmtools/TitleExchange/index.html
-Andreas
Spherico
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To make it clear: it’s NOT a bug of 7ToX, it’s the way FCPX can read or handle XMLs.
So you have to use additional apps to “mimic” keyboard strokes to get this kind of work done in a time which is acceptable.-Andreas
Spherico
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I’ve updated the X-Files Pro Beta.
I now works till October 12th.
There are several little things updated under the hood.
One of the more obvious is that the user now can convert a sparse image to a sparse bundle, leaving the sparse image in tact to double check before removing it.
As mentioned all the sparse bundle stuff is free and doesn’t have a time limitation.Andreas
Spherico
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Craig,
I just gave it a try with “Simple Finder”.
One thing you should take care of is to have the “master system” as simple and clean as possible. One machine I tried had a lot of apps installed which are doing stuff in the background. That caused an endless loop of error messages at log in.Anyway – It somehow works and probably meets your needs best.
But as you said there is the need for a lot of discipline from the students.
An option could be to create a “public” app with allows to create sparse bundles with limited size, a fixed path to the Documents folder and password protection – this bundle also could have a default folder/file setup**.
This way every student can have a “personal virtual disk” for even several projects (in the old sense of word). But it still needs a lot of discipline from the students since they all use the same account.-Andreas
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P.S.About this non existing app: it would create a sparse bundle with name and password, it won’t allow to overwrite existing ones (that’s good and a problem same time). When the bundle is created it will create a base folder structure once the user have entered an Event/Project name. A new empty Event with a unique ID will be created and a Project with unique ID linked to this Event as well (as said earlier you can have thousands of projects with the same name — but they need a different ID).
Again — it still needs a lot of discipline from the students since they all use the same account.Spherico
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Craig,
I think I understand better now.
Tell me if I’m wrong with my thoughts.You want to have several computers with finally two users (there is always the admin).
The “student account” will have limited access.
With FCPX (and other apps) you will run into some kind of problems. The “whatever student” will always have access to his account and can change things there, so many students can change many things in the “student account” since the is only one “student account”.The way FCPX works you can create events/projects in this “student account” and you can create “private” password protected sparse bundles. BUT that won’t prevent those users to mess up the ~/Movies folder.
I haven’t tried to set parental controls to that folder — so I’m not really sure.The way FCPX works will make things really complicated if you want to have a “unified user” in a kind of classroom network and leaving both freedom and privacy to all of them.
Look at the ~/Library everybody can change the settings with his account. The action to prevent that will be complicated. Same with the material and templates which might be used.Finally you need a user organization — which obviously is not that thing you want.
– Andreas
Spherico
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Craig,
I’m still not sure what you are trying to do.
Sound like collaborative but not too collaborative.Some things upfront.
You can have any amount of projects with the same name, but they need to have a different ID when some or all should be visible.
While projects keep their base name events don’t have a base name.So having a class room situation is a bit complicated.
You may start with a sparse bundle or volume which only contains the media and is read only.
Next create a “personal” sparse bundle or better a script to create a sparse bundle which contains an XML to open in FCPX. The script should supply a UID for the project.
Then every student will have his/her own Event/Project sparse bundle.
From there they can work with that without touching the original media, always having the same project name but a different ID. The project file even can be renamed but as said above the original name is always stored in the project file. So it’s trackable.
Once a student wants to take the project home he/she can use this sparse bundle as long he/she has access to the personal sparse bundle on the server and the media.Just some thoughts
-Andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
The most important thing is that you use sparsebundles — not sparseimages.
Sparsebundles in most cases even can be repaired with Disk Utility.
But I do really recommend to have Disk Warrior in your toolset — it’s a must have!A corrupted “CurrentVersion.xxxx” in most cases has nothing to do with the location where it is saved. But a disk might be bad and on a bad disk a sparsebundle (remember it’s a folder) will work as bad as any other folder.
So finally you should have a backup strategy like having your projects or events saved quite often to a different file — a different file on a different disk is even better. You can do that within FCPX by duplicating the project and collecting used things into a new event or you can do that by using ProVersioner or my X-Files Pro which both will only save events/project without anything around like render files etc.
Next thing is to keep media at a safe place and organize them upfront before using them. If media need to be transcoded put the transcoded media in a new folder at a safe place and start from there.
Having a strict organization will allow a good backup strategy using backup apps which allow additional scripts.
Another (not cheap) recommendation is to have a disk/raid for each of the disks/volumes. If you let your machine 24/7 running the OS will try to repair and defragment things (means also you should have at least 20% free space on the disk/volumes). Fragmentation will happen anyway as really big files won’t be touched. So a safe copy to a wiped disk is the only safe way and will make your system more responsive — take the weekend off, have some fun with your family or friends.Just some notes.
-Andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
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@ Jason
That’s a pretty poor result.I never got results that had been less than 15% off the volume speed.
Since sparsebundles are only directories (with a little overhead) there is no reason why the should be way slower than the volume itself.@ Jeff
I personally never got a corrupted sparsebundle and I’m using them for many things since many years (even before X).
I don’t know about Chronosync as I a use CCC since the day it was released. But there can’t a big difference between those apps cause both (and all backup apps) just use the system Unix calls.
Normally during the backup the checksum of files are compared so nothing can happen (in most cases) if the source file is okay.A good idea though is to unmount sparsebundles during backup times, they might be busy for whatever reason and this might influence the way they are “backuped”.
-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil