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Wait – I misread. Not sure if it’ll continue to lock out others if you quit. I gotta go home – but I’ll test that tomorrow :).
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Already tried that. The SAN location will stay mounted – you have to ‘remove san location’ from within FCPX or Finder to unmount it.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Yep. First you auto mount the NAS via Finder like this:
Finder / Go / Connect to server, then I put in:
nfs://192.168.2.3/volumes/BASESTAR
From that point, ANY FOLDER that has project and event folder structures as subfolders can be mounted as an independent SAN within FCPX.
I am going to get absolutely NO sleep tonight thinking about this and tomorrow’s event.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Sort of. I just drag/dropped a file to the ‘original media’ folder within the event folder via Finder. It didn’t instantly show up in FCPX. I removed san, then re-added san, and the file was in FCPX without having to directly import it via the program.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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So this is awesome – it won’t let you mount it if someone else has it.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What is to prevent you from any user mounting an already mounted Location on another machine?”
Honor system? Perhaps each editor will have to pick a switch that I’ll spank them with should they violate the rules? Maybe it won’t let you mount one if it’s already mounted? I’ll have to check that…
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I should elaborate that he didn’t enable folders for it – it’s the whole dang NAS. ANY folder you mount that has the FINAL CUT PROJECTS and FINAL CUT EVENTS folders inside of it can be mounted.
I wonder if there’s some copyright or patent issue for why Apple doesn’t have this on by default?
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I’m still wrapping my mind around how this is going to affect our workflow. Immediate benefits are no more quitting FCPX to unmount projects and events. Also, we can sleep a little more soundly knowing that our sparse disk image will never corrupt – not that we ever had that happen before.
Oh and that software was what Bob used to enable it. This is really interesting stuff!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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This is a finder screen grab of the folders he enabled for it.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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[Charlie Austin] “Head to the feedback page! ;-)”
I might hold off until oh, say, tomorrow about 1pm. 🙂
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
