Bob Flood
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Alex
I’ve often wondered whether or not you should keep your project files etc on the same drive as the media. Is that generally considered a bad idea? If so, why
I am not sure if it matters anymore as far as throughput goes, but one thing for certain, if your media drives go down, and your project is on there too, you are Hosed.
that being said, i do some work for a company that gives every project its own half Tb or 1 Tb drive, and they keep everything on it, project, media, renders.
What does ghosting a system drive mean? Why does not doing it mean you’re up and running more slowly?Ghosting refers to a program by norton/symantec called, appropriately enough, Ghost. it makes a true, bootable clone of the system drive that you can simply slide in, or restart with, and you are up
and running. However, i think thats all you can do ie you can only clone your system drive, and cant back up any other drive on there, but as i am doing research on this, i caould be mistaken“I like video because its so fast!”
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Shane
Thanx! I reckon we shud looky round these heah parts fer one o them compooter geek-os, an chaw em up a bit on that there raid con-fig-eration!
🙂
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Alex
I would add a third internal drive and use it as a “mirror” of your system drive, and any valuable data on the second drive.
this is waht i do
My system drive, Macintosh HD, Has the OS, all the programs, and their prefernces and so on
My second drive, which i affectionatly call “Internal Secondary Drive”
holds all my project data, like FCP projects, DVD projects, autosave vault, waveforms and thumbnails, etc. I also use it for exports, dvd media, some sound files like music and sfx, and the like.I have a third drive which i call “backup”. I use Retrospect to copy ALL the system drive over to it once a day, as well as the Project info off my secondary drive. If either my primary or secondary quit, i am kinda covered. (i am working on “Ghosting” my system drive so i can get up and running faster)
BTW all of this is in addition to, but independent of, an e-sata raid that holds all the video.
hope this helps
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Bob Flood
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Shane
you said “And since that would be a SOFTWARE Raid, if your OS crashes in a bad way, then the information is lost as well”
My understanding was that, unlike PC’s. the Mac OS actually wrote the stripe information to the raid 0 drives, such that if you did lose your system drive, or had to wipe it, or had to reinstall system from scratch, you would retain the stripe info, and once you got your system back, the drives would show up as a raid o stripeset with all the data intact.
BUT, you still cant do raid 5, and as its raid 0, you still run a risk of losing all the data if one drive fails.
am i wrong? please lemme know
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leah
spose you get some grief about pricess leah, huh?
to conform a sequence in FCP ie to recapture select material used in a specific timeline from tape, one needs to use media manager in a specific way.
in a nut shell, it sounds like the project you have was Not media managed correctly. In this case, i would consider the project you have been given the Original/offline/unconformed version, and use media manager to make a new project with independent clips you can recap.
here is a link to the process as i have done it:
https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_on_line.html
I would definitly keep an eye out for shots not lining up. Whenever you get the “TIme Code Break” message, you run a risk of having the code on some shots be off.
hope this helps
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David
yeah, but can you see russia from your house??
huh??
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David
i got started in this business cuz someone told me “hey, you get to sleep all day and screw at night!”
but what i should have done was gone to law school, so then i could sleep all night, and screw people all day!
ya know?
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Walter
I see it now. its the one at top that sez FAQ.
seeing as how its in row with other links for adding and replying to posts, i Assumed it was an FAQ on how to use the forums. It would be good to change the wording to say FCP FAQ and or put it in with the other links that deal with forums and such.
I mean, i thought I was a pretty samrt guy, but i missed it all this time, maybe others are missing it too?
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DRW et al
whatever happened to the FAQ that was being put together? If its out there we should put a link on this forum.
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Duh!
here is the link:
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.