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Michael Hadley started the discussion Cloud and local backup solutions: advice? Consultant? in the forum Storage & Archiving

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 18:13:26 +0000

Cloud and local backup solutions: advice? Consultant?

Hey Folks:

I’m trying to help an agency partner spec out their video storage and workflow needs for the next few years. If you know of a consultant and/or have any general ideas, please send ’em my way. Specifically, some of the agency’s video post-production happens in 4 edit bays in their offices (which needs local access and then backup) but…

Michael Hadley replied to the discussion Which HDD to compliment a new M1Pro or Max in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:46:03 +0000

Reply to Which HDD to compliment a new M1Pro or Max

Yes, I would be interested in learning more about performance with the forked approach (it’s sounds forked up but who knows?). I’ve always put the library and media on my fastest external drives.

Currently, that would be an 8TB NVME SSD Raid (OWC enclosure, Samsung sticks). That’s gets backed up daily to an 8TB G-drive clone with spinning…

Michael Hadley replied to the discussion Improving quality of over-the-internet video interviews in the forum Creative Community Conversations

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:35:55 +0000

Reply to Improving quality of over-the-internet video interviews

I’ve used many different options and agree: Riverside.fm is the best compromise solution without spending thousands of dollars. That said, we send kits to participants with a Logitech webcam and two Lume cube lights as well–those help too.

Michael Hadley started the discussion Can I update to a recent version? Don't want to switch to 10.4.5 yet... in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:00:17 +0000

Can I update to a recent version? Don't want to switch to 10.4.5 yet...

Hey folks. Quick question. I have 3 machines running FCPX. My main machine has version 10.4.10.

I need to have another editor cut on a machine that is 10.4.8–it can’t open the copied library. Needs to update.

Usually no problem, but FCP just updated to 10.5 and I don’t want to update all machines yet. Where/how can I update the 10.4.8 machine…

Michael Hadley replied to the discussion FCPX Cache Keeps Growing--monstrously in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:43:18 +0000

Reply to FCPX Cache Keeps Growing--monstrously

Thanks for the thorough explanation, Joe.

Interestingly, with this project, a lot of 4K footage. My typical workflow is to transcode everything to Pro Res before I bring it in to the project. But this was a rush project so I did not transcode–they are the original MXF files. I wonder if that had anything to do with it? In other words, would…

Michael Hadley replied to the discussion FCPX Cache Keeps Growing--monstrously in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:34:33 +0000

Reply to FCPX Cache Keeps Growing--monstrously

Yes, that stops the cache creep, thanks. Odd, though, I’ve been editing on X for years–usually with background rendering on–I’ve never experienced a cache growing larger than the total size of the media (which is 1.7 tb) and then keep growing to where it filled up an 8tb drive.

Thanks.

Michael Hadley replied to the discussion FCPX Cache Keeps Growing--monstrously in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:32:30 +0000

Reply to FCPX Cache Keeps Growing--monstrously

Interesting point. Although I wonder how much additional data generating proxies will add to the total size of the project.

Michael Hadley started the discussion FCPX Cache Keeps Growing--monstrously in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:45:50 +0000

FCPX Cache Keeps Growing--monstrously

Hey Folks:

Never had this happen before–my cache keeps growing exponentially. I’ve got a 2.75 TB 4K project on an 8TB drive. The cache keeps growing–to where my drive filled up–5TB of render files. The culprit is the render files. Specifically, the files FCPX is generating the Cache>Render Files>High Quality Media.

I deleted all render files two…