[Brett Sherman]

I use a second free Dropbox account with a synchronized folder between the two. That way they can send a file that ends up in your main Dropbox account. Of course this only works for files that are less than 2 GB.

It would be nice if Dropbox added a feature that would allow this. You could have a separate password that would allow for uploads only to a specific folder.

[Brett Sherman]

[Robin S. Kurz] ”
See the various solutions above.”

You’d have to import clips into a library in FCP X. Close FCP X. Delete the library. Rename the clips in the Finder. Open FCP X. Create a new library. Import the clips with the new filenames. That’s not an elegant solution.

[Robin S. Kurz] “Whereby I don’t get the need for sparse bundles to begin with.”

If you worked off a NAS you would. 🙂

[Robin S. Kurz] ” Hmmm… sounds like the cake and eating thing to me. If that were feasible, I’d say they’d have done it.”

To clarify. What I mean is the import grinds to a halt. I have to stop working for the import to continue. There are times I’d rather live with a performance hit and import at the same time. With a card transfer utility, you’d only lose some disk access speed when working concurrently.

[Brett Sherman]

This is a meh for me. Unless it has rewrapping capabilities I’m not interested. I would love to have a video transfer utility to work outside for FCP X for a few reasons: have my own naming convention, not have to spend time creating a new library and event, have more stringent checksum verification, be able to work in FCP X while importing without grinding it to a halt.

Unfortunately outside of Adobe Prelude I don’t see any offerings that would be able to rewrap the files for use in FCP X. Sorry I’m not paying for CC just to have access to Prelude.

[Brett Sherman]

I do the raw hard drive method as backup. LTO would be nice, but we just generate too much data in a year that it would be a hassle. LTO tape is always lagging pretty far behind hard drives in capacity.

I’d have to juggle 8 tapes a year. We also need fast access to offline material. A 4TB server volume gets 2 4TB drives. A synchronization script is run nightly (or nearly nightly) One drive is always stored offsite. After 5-8 years they are copied onto new drives (which hold more capacity, so I can combine about 5-8 onto 1 drive) So as time goes by, I have fewer drives.

If you go with LTO tape, I’d recommend a second hard drive backup as it is dirt cheap and you’d have fast access.