[Marty Mulholland]

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to Andy for nailing this issue. Never lost a single file, event, or shot since final cut 10 came out then was left scratching my head when a project a colleague was working on just vanished.

Was about to give up and found this post, and for some weird reason an edit had been compiled inside another clip.

listing the clips by duration, and we spotted it. Woohoo!

[Marty Mulholland]

Not insult taken Bob, i’d had a good read through these forums already and was prepared what you might come out with.

I only just signed up and haven’t found the private message function and can’t see any emails from you so not sure what happened there. I’ve just got the notification emails from the forum itself.I’ll have a closer look.

I also can’t see anywhere where i gave the impression a wallet wasn’t going to be cracked, i’m very happy to, i just like to throw the question out there and see what comes back. None of our sponsors make wallets, they make car parts and we use them on the show.

As a bit of background, I learned a lot from forums in the early years. Before you could look up a youtube video and be shown how to do something you had to read it. I think forums are wonderful things and seeing them be replaced by fast food on social media is a shame. So I thought I might go old school and try a forum post to see if there’s a popular solution or at least a bit of a shove in the right direction.

I made a few enquiries at some specialist shops before posting here to see what kind of help would be available, and rather than dig deeper like i saw instanly from replies here, i mostly got “here look at this website”, i think we may fall into a bit of an in-between big pro setups with 10+ staff and a 1 man show who uses time machine. There is just two of us producing, presenting, shooting, audio post, music composition – the lot. So the same guy who i supposed to research the energy content of ethanol vs gasoline and then shoot and present it has to figure out a storage solution (or at least who to call… and err.. “show the money” to)

So while i didn’t expect an analysis of the about us of our website and (assumed) business model, i appreciate you’ve taken the time to let me know the others who posted in this thread are worthy of a closer look.

Show me the forum spirit!

[Marty Mulholland]

Great help so far, thank you for taking the time to reply.

Bob, MCM is part time, media is full time. I’m an audio engineer technically but it’s usually environments that don’t require shared storage, just good backups, to which i can proudly say i’ve never lost a single file over the years with multiple hardware failures and clumsy co-workers breaking stuff.

I could be a full time dolphin wrangler and still want a good storage setup.

Workflow is basically just footage of 5D/70D/HM100, mostly h264 and we just edit straight as is, and then export masters are pro-res.

Material can be anywhere from 5 mins to 120mins but averages around 20mins. There are usually a LOT of shots, it might take 200 different shots to make that few minutes as a lot of it is technical stuff close then wide then close again with voice over to explain whats going on.

There’s no central NAS, just a huge PC with 10 sata ports and thunderbolt that i’ve got running macos 10.9. I’ve done this because i trust good quality PC power supplies more than external wall warts and power bricks. I can edit directly on that machine and currently we’ll just copy a FCPX library and the associated footage over to another machine, and then copy it back.

I know it’s wishful thinking but if there’s a way to retain a mac os x file system that would be great, not keen on having a windows server.