[Georg P. mueller]

Hi Eugeny,
Glad I found this post. Bob mentioned your Avid workflow with the NFS manager. I know this is a FCX forum (and that’s what I usually work with) but I was asked to troubleshoot an Avid shared storage system we setup in Northern Thailand for the production of a Hollywood feature. Right now we are using a mac mini running linux and indiestor – which gives us all kinds of problems when using a mirrored raid drives. The editor is freaking out and we need a fast and solid solution.

Google did not come up with anything usable. Would you mind sharing your Media Composer/NFS Manager experience with me? If this is not the right place to do so you could send me a mail at georg at livingfilms.com

Thanks a lot!

Georg

[Georg P. mueller]

Hey Ronny,

Thanks! Good news. Copying is certainly faster than transforming them. Learned a new trick!

Cheers

Georg

[Georg P. mueller]

Thanks Andy. Cool! That does indeed work! But I need to play the entire selection before moving on.. I take it that this is the best known workaround (clicking is definitely worse). In the meantime I have followed your suggestion and submitted a bug report.

[Georg P. mueller]

Thanks Ronny, for your quick answer. This is great, but it still does not quiet behave like I would like it to. I can now continue playing (yeah!) but as soon as I hit the spacebar I find the curser locked back into that yellow box again…

I also tried to hit “I” to set a new in point on the fly while it is “playing to end” but it does not set it. Instead this deletes the old selection. If I now hit the spacebar again it will start playing where the just deleted selection started… And only then I can set a new in and out. I think there may be a better way…

[Georg P. mueller]

Great! “Publish to the world” – I like that!

[Georg P. mueller]

Update: A shut down, waiting a few minutes and restart fixed the issue. I can now write and save into the sparse bundle. Fingers crossed the problem will not come back – if this happens with a client sitting next to me it would be annoying.

[Georg P. mueller]

Hi Andreas,

Now I am able to open the project but final cut cannot save to the sparse bundle. In finder I can write to it though.

I think I might have confused final cut with 2 projects having the same name. I now have moved the project and event on the root drive to a hidden folder. I think the project file on the sparse bundle possibly got corrupted.

Funny thing is that I can open, render and save when I load the project from the sparse bundle on my macbook pro, just not on the IMac at the office…

Ideas?

Thanks in advance

Georg

[Georg P. mueller]

Hi Andreas,

Great – thanks for the info. I will try this out tomorrow when I am back at my editing table. I did check the “ignore ownership on this drive” in the mounted sparse bundle but didn’t think of checking the permissions of the unmounted file. But it does make sense!

Looking forward to the new version of X-Files Pro. I really do appreciate the work you are doing for us.

Georg

[Georg P. mueller]

I, too am looking for a new home after FCP 7 was EOLed. This has happened to me once before, when Discreet Edit was discontinued. My switch to FCP then was successful and I felt I gained something. Sure I was missing some of edit’s incredible features, but the move from Windows NT to OSX more than compensated for it.

I jumped onto FCPX when it came out a year ago but even though I found it was a beautifully thought out and designed software I was put off by its sluggishness in its first incarnation. I could get around the concept and even work with the magnetic timeline, but it was too slow for long form.

So I moved over to premiere. I just cut a long and complex documentary on premiere CS6. In my humble opinion it is just not ready for prime time yet. Just open a project with thousands of clips. It takes forever to load. Why does it have to load each and every clip and what is that conform thing doing on first import, can’t that be switched off? Auto save is constantly in my face, and it saves very slowly. These two things alone are driving me nuts.

I took a lot of effort customizing the keyboard to resemble final cut as good as I could, but still, I find the interface clumsy and cumbersome. Copy and paste always results with the clip in the wrong track, overwrite edit wants me to not only select the track I wish to write into but also to de-select the ones I don’t want to be affected. Export is super slow, mercury playback buggy in 6.0.2 (had to turn that off on my mac pro with GTX 285), etc., etc. I know many people are very happy with premiere, I am just not, but I keep my eye on updates.

Simultaneously I have been working on another 52-minutes documentary on another machine in good old final cut. I enjoy that so much more, it reminds me how thought out and good it was and how hard it will be to find adequate replacement. Still sad it has been killed. For now I will stick with it and play some more with FCPX – maybe this is the direction I will go. Not sure about Avid, sounds like the logical choice, but I don’t know why, I never really got into it.

Looking forward to the updates while still clinging to FCP 7 for critical work…

[Georg P. mueller]

Same issue on iMac i7 with Premiere CS6 and intensity extreme (thunderbolt). FCP X syncs just fine – but not Premiere; it lags at least 5 or more frames… Did anyone find a way to offset Premiere? Can’t work with it otherwise.