Kevin
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Thank you for the Quickeys suggestion too Tom.
Perhaps this is also a good way around making selects from multiple viewers and accidently using the insert key for any viewers other than the main one – I make this mistake constantly and have never understood FCP’s rationale for not allowing you to use the insert or overwrite hotkeys from any active viewer.
Many thanks again.
Kevin
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Just sending a followup so I can get e-mail nofifications!
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…and I’ll change the erroneous heading to close out that post….
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Apologies Ed,
Tired… it is the Canon HD camera XH A1.
Many thanks for posting back.
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Hey Russ, very kind of you to post back with your similar situation. The computer that’s connected to the raid is my main computer so is constantly being used for a myriad of other tasks. I did try the reboot and it fixed it. I had changed the remote networked machines to temporarily save to the desktop and that kept us rolling and now I will manually copy that project file and renders to the central raid and hopefully we’ll be back on track. I hadn’t thought about installing OSX server but I’ll head to my local genious bar and hopefully they can educate me fully on the course.
Again, I really appreciate your sharing your knowlegde.
Many thanks indeed,
Kevin
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Cool. Thanks for posting back Noah. I tested more and they seemed fine but I didn’t want to learn the hard way in the middle of a shoot that there was some technical issue at play. Feel more comfortable now.
Again thanks.
Kevin
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very good suggestions all I appreciate you sharing them. I have learned this from past experiences too that it is very difficult to incorporate hires into an individual creative professional experience.
I have actually written several procedure papers, mostly practical some on aesthetic. The project oganization think is key and I had a pretty good system going, with media, music, still image and misc folders. It was working well.
I have had several people work on projects but this has ended up being not efficient for me. I just ended up shifting my time allotment from doing the work myself to coaching, teaching and supervising.
Once I’m back on track here, my new approach is to have multiple people work on specific functions and break each project down. WIthout that I’ve found people can very quite overwhelmed trying to mimic work samples I’ve shown them and after all there is no right or wrong way when it comes to creative stuff. So my next thing is to just create distinct tasks – ie I need 70 clips, 3 seconds long fom these three hours, looking somethng similar to these screenshots and in this order. That way I can get to a polish situation sooner and also be able to see progress made. Also looking into project management so I can gauge progress.
The second or third raid though I see as essential because no matter how refined you get your operation to become, it doesn’t exist at all if you have the kind of drive failure I experienced. It’s an interesting if tough experience to endure but probably it will have an overall positive effect when all is said and done.
Again thank you for you thoughts,
warmest,
Kevin
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yep, all makes sense. I was migrating towards the DVD archiving structure but I’m sure like many people it was something I was getting to. Off topic, more than anything I’m just realizing that I don’t think it’s possible to keep up the level and amount of editing I’ve been doing in my business and also run the business. Once this period is passed I will focus on either changing the nature of work I take on – more short form and creative projects which have less media and finite finish date or shoot more events and pay an editor fulltime to focus completely on post.
I hear you on the linited edits and charging for re-onlining, but unfortunately I became really busy there a few years ago and hard as I’ve tried I’ve become late in delivering which means clients probably feel they can be late in making changes too. And if I squawk, it’s referal business gone. There is infinite possibility for error in any long foram project so if somethng is noticed months down the road, it seems the onus is back to the editor if the mistake is his. Maybe I’m being too nice but that’s how I’ve built a pretty successful business but then again I haven’t had a day off in three years!!!! Regardless I have a few months of re-editing to think about it all!!!!
peace,
Kevin
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I make high end wedding and event videos which I have to keep on line to accomodate updates for up to a year. And I usually juggle around 35-40 of these on an ongoing basis each being around 10 hours long. I also shoot a lot of VNRs and promos and Chromakey work which again can be ongoing. I used to have all this stuff on FW drives but last count I had about 20 of those working and I would easily lose track of what was where. The raid was a great solution, everything was available at any moment to put in some work andI had a consistent directory structure so all media was arranged consistently and easily accessed.
At the end of the story, I think the raid is really the only way to do what I do somewhat efficiently, but two raids is really the only semi safe way not to wipe out your business in one swoop. Having said that i would definitely have had my second drive attached to mycomputer so both would have been wiped in deleting the volume aliases.
I guess the smart thing would be to have a second raid connected to a differnt machine but the reality is if you want to really be safe you should have third raid offsite in case of fire or theft. I might also look into a taped backup system. but either way this experience has thought me not to be exposed to losing a year’s work of work in one accident.
warmest,
Kevin
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Hi, I inquired to two data recovery services and their prices started were between $12-20K, so as that’s not an option, I’ve started the long haul or recapturing and evening reediting years of editing. I have to decide then if it’s an option to continue an editing business as it might not be feassible to resurrect every thing and have time for new work. It’s a big lesson about backing up, but in this scenario, deleting volum aliases, every drive connected to the machine, including backup would have been wiped. I like many things about the digital age but this experience has been spooky.
Peace,
K.