James Mortner
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What do you mean? Scale to what?”
Like say if you had 20 seats of FCPX ? How would it work with people checking in and out ? What about mucky freelancers ?
[Jeremy Garchow] “Do you have Xsan now? How do you use it?”
Yes, we have 4 FCP 7, 2 art support, 20+ AFX and a SMAC running off an XSAN. Generally its really good ! Its all fibre and administered by an engineer
hence my silly questions about how FCPX would work with hiding events or moving files around. Permissions would be a problem for us as well i think -
Thanks Jeremy, thats interesting too. Still doesn’t seem to scale very well though, particularly the bit about SAN locations. I suppose its one of those “do it and find out” things.
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Wait a minute, Im confused again:
[Jeremy Garchow] “Just curious, but what is unusable about it (I know it’s not perfect) and what does cs6 offer in comparison?”
Didn’t you say Event manager X wont work at all in a shared environment ? How would you show/hide media and projects you didn’t want to see ? What if there are hundreds of other projects both current and older on the same drive. Would FCPX show them as well ?
[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s not a perfect system and it requires some thought. To keep things organized, maybe every user get their own SAN Location, and then you a create a common Event and Project repository. This way, if you need to work on a project, a user would go to the repository and drag the appropriate folders to their San Location and launch FCPX. After they are done, they quit FCPX and return the folders to the repository. “
The above quotes show how its completely unworkable in a large-scale (say 20+ seats) setup, no ? I could easily see our XSAN dissolving into an incoherent mess if every editor had to clean up after themselves, moving files around manually.
Unless Im being really, really stupid ?
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Its a serious problem, is there any indication they are looking at solving this ? I cant set permissions or move files around every time I
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i dont understand ! Why is it game over ?
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Right ! Cool, that clears that up nicely. Requires a lot of thought on my side to make that one work but interesting none-the-less
Thanks very much for your input Jeremy !
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Interesting, this begs the question
[Jeremy Garchow] “Currently, Event Manager X only expects root level X directories. “
If Im unable to write to the root folder does this mean Event manager X isn’t any good to me ?
I still dont really understand how FCPX could work in my office with lots of people sharing the same storage. Wouldnt it be quite painful to set
SAN locations every time you open a project ?What about the media moving around ? Would this generate a lot of traffic ? What if someone else needs the media too ?
Thank you very much for the understanding and responses !
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wow, so many haters already. That was quick considering there’s no demo just yet
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Definitely a good idea to do that, this could be some tasty software with the right tweaks and changes !
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We often need to confrom for flame, smoke or baselight as there just isnt enough time for them to do it.
But yeah, the 40min example is extreme. It was a nightmare with FCP7 to be frank