[Craig Ennis]

much obliged, this info is invaluable

[Craig Ennis]

I haven’t had much time to really look at FCPX, I have kinda knee-jerk hated it but i’m noticing little features like the ones you mentioned that I really quite like.

[Craig Ennis]

Thanks for all the advice.

we are running two pools of 19 macs in two teaching rooms running both open and active directory. The mac server is connected to the main college server which runs the network accounts of all the staff and students across the college. We have roughly 100 media production students in the department. the students use their college network profiles to log into the machines. we have no SAN so all scratch has to be stored locally on the individual machines

The infrastructure is completely new and was only completed a day or two before the start of term. Previously the students worked on stand alone machines that weren’t even connected to the internet. I’m completely green when it comes to networking. Support is on its way but at the moment i’m learning fast and struggling to keep pace

the initial problem that we are having is that when a student creates a new event the event folder and all the scratch is designated read only to al other users. sometimes during group work other group members my try to log in and access the project and are not able to. At the moment we are resolving all these permissions issues manually on individual files and folders which is a lengthy process.

Admittedly i havent had time to look at FCPX extensively but i have had difficulty finding out how to re-designate scratch disks. although after taking another look the default filing system may well be a good ay to separate the work of different tutor groups. I thought that a second app for capturing to the HD shared folder might be an inelegant but effective solution. any advice would be more than welcome

[Craig Ennis]

Thanks for the HDv to prores tip. Thats going to save a lot of time.

craig