[Christian Fitzpatrick]

Hey Keith,

Thanks for the informative reply. Maybe us using MetaSAN and not an official XSAN setup is cause for the problem. Perhaps MetaSAN support for FCPX is lacking. . .I’m not sure, but either way it’s a real pain for us. I am trying to have one central Event and Project directory to archive content in – i was of the misunderstanding that adding a SAN location would allow you to pull just one event or project out of that location at a time. Dickhead me *rollseyes*.

I have setup the MetaSAN ProjectStore, but the only way I see this working is mounting our other main SAN location with all our events and projects in it, moving the Project (and referenced event) from there to the Project store, working on it, then moving it back. At least if it’s all moved within FCPX, then the unique identifiers for the project database etc. are kept intact. However I have no idea whether this will yet work. . .still testing that one.

Very Interested to see what happens if two users try and mount the same SAN location on your system Keith. Please do let me know if you can. Thanks.

Jeremy, how exactly are you utilising ProjectStore in your workflow and are you handing off projects to other editors to make changes on other machines?

Thanks so much guys, your experience and assistance with this really is invaluable. I do love FCPX, but there is only person in Australia who is a so called Apple Certified FCPX Professional and when I mentioned the word SAN, he really had no idea. . .

Thanks again.

Christian

[Christian Fitzpatrick]

Hey Keith,

We have just started testing MetaSAN with FCPX and we are definitely not getting any kind of result where FCPX tells us that another user is currently using the SAN location – at this time it would appear that we are very easily we are able to corrupt projects, obviously when they are simultaneously mounted on different machines – but worryingly, even when adding and removing the san location, exiting FCPX and then adding, editing and removing again on another machine.

Sometimes changes appear when made on the second machine, sometimes they don’t.

What sort of SAN system are you using? and would you be willing to share your exact workflow for this here – we really need to get this sorted as project sharing is a complete disaster here at the moment. 🙂

Hope you can help mate,

Christian

[Christian Fitzpatrick]

Hey Rohit. Thanks for getting back…

No grades on the track… :S everything is applied at a clip level.

[Christian Fitzpatrick]

Hey Ola,

Thanks for the reply mate.

No, each file was an individual source clip, no shared or linked grades are the culprit.