[Bertland Imai]

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!

[Bertland Imai]

Hi Don,

Thank you for your response. I don’t have any markers in there at the moment (I had put some in early on but took them out when things weren’t working). Someone also told me that Motion also doesn’t like it when things start ‘off frame’ so even though not ideal, I even moved the mask well into frame to start … same results: works fine in Motion, previews fine in FCPX thumbnail, but the moment it’s applied to the timeline, nada. It’s really rather frustrating that something that should be so simple would cause so much headache.

Thanks again Don. Hopefully someone else will have some idea.

B

[Bertland Imai]

So I’ve tried various things and everything seems to check out. Even the preview thumbnail shows it to work exactly as it should however, the moment I put it on the timeline, it again completely ignores the first part of the movement. I’ve tried moving the template to another computer as well and it’s the same story.

Anybody else out there having this issue?