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You can use an app called “A better finder renamer” and set up a droplet so that after you capture the footage in FCPX, you dump the whole folder on the droplet and it will rename the footage much the same as FCPX used to. Works really well, the one downside is that you need to buy the app but for my workflow, I prefer to organize in finder and need the date, not clip #1 etc.

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For the work I do it works well organizing all media by date as it mostly end up being sequential type movies, as in most of the clips end up in the order that they happened, and so if a second camera was covering the same subject I can dump all media in together in finder and as long as both camera’s were set to correct time clips should mostly all end up in the correct order.
It also me to remember what came from where so if I have 20 different clients footage and I need to use clips out of various ones I am not ending up with lots of files named the same on the timeline.
Hope I explained myself clearly enough.

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Probably not, but it worked well for me. Way better than FCP7.

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But that only changes the name within X, I want to be changed in finder.

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Does anybody know if it is possible to keep the old clip naming system of date and time?
I find that so much better than clip #1 or whatever the clip’s original name was and I am hoping there is a way to change it back, but I have not found it yet.
I organize clips in finder after capturing and then bring them back into FCPX which works well for my workflow and I don’t want to have to change it if possible.
For now I’ll keep a copy of 10.1.1 on the mac just to capture with.

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You may want to check out the Netstor NA211TB Thunderbolt 2 external enclosure.
I have ordered one but have not received it yet, but if it performs as well as their Thunderbolt raid enclosure I think I will be happy with it as I have two of them.

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I thought that the enclosures were quite good value for the price. We needed the raid cards to, so that nearly doubles the price. I needed to use old drives I already had in one unit which were WD Green 2tb ones, which I know is asking for trouble but it works fine in raid 6. (After failing 3 of the drives trying to set up the array). I used 3tb WD Red Nas drives in the other unit and that worked first time.
With the lights on the front of the Netstor to display drive status it really simple to swap out a drive if you get a red light and let it rebuild, assuming you have raid6 or similar.
Hopefully soon we will get a 4 port ethernet card to install in one, but overall I am quite happy with the units.

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Hi Rainer

We recently purchased 2 of the 16 bay Netstore thunderbolt enclosure with the areca card and they are working quite well.
We used a MacMini with server installed to manage the sharing.
From memory I was getting around 650 read/write.

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