[Mark Verkerk]

I guess the issue here is how complex is the project – how much media do you have and is that media still growing and how many editors are working on that same media.

With a (relatively) small project, with all the media available, then your method of keeping all the proxies in the Library works fine. With a larger project, shared between more than one editor, and in which additional footage is coming in on a weekly basis, then the option to store proxies externally is very welcome.

You end up both with a small ‘trimmed’ Library which is easy to share with other editors and assistants over a network (copying hundreds of GBs is not an option) and an external proxy folder which can grow as more footage is imported into the master Library.

Up until 10.1.2 this worked by using a remote disk with the same name as the main storage disk and then updating the proxies on the remote disk as they came in. The updated remote Library would then be ‘fooled’ into thinking nothing had changed and relink correctly with the proxies. For some reason this no longer appears to work in 10.1.3. (anyone else noticed this???)

Proxy workflow has been greatly improved in recent updates, now all that’s needed is a way to directly relink proxies in the same way as original media – and a whole new range of extended workflows would be supported.

[Mark Verkerk]

Adam, have the same problem as you – wanting to keep a work and home copy of the project in sync, and only having proxies available at home. Not being able to relink proxies is shame.

My workaround has been to name my external disk that I use at home the same as the one at work and make sure that the proxies sit in the same folder structure as on the Raid at work. You’re actually then fooling the project into thinking it’s still connected to its original proxy folder and all’s well.

Not ideal but it works. Hope this helps.

Mark

[Mark Verkerk]

Jeremy, interesting discussion but as I understand it you can search for keywords at the Library level across multiple Events but you need, in your example to type Tony or West in a Keyword field in the Search Box.

Click on the magnifying glass icon in the Search Field or type Cmd-F with the Browser selected, then with the ‘plus’ button top right create a Keyword field. Just typing directly into the Search Field gives by default a Text search, which searches only text in the Name, Notes, Markers or Favorites fields – so not keywords.

What would be nice is at the Library level to then be able to save that search as a Smart Collection – only possible at Event level so far…

btw i still see a use in having multiple events when working with large libraries, especially with heavy files like r3d. By only having to load the clips from a single event at one time the software works much more smoothly (at least on my 2011 MacPro). Having to load all the clips in the library in one go slows things down significantly.

Mark