Mike Warmels
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Nope. Bothersome it is.
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My media is on a Thunderbolt external hard drive. The Library is on the SSD internal hard drive of my trashcan MacPro. I don’t really know how to make it faster unless spending a ridiculous amount of money.
My AVID MC8.4 runs faster (a LOT faster) using USB 2.0 drives. I’m not kidding.
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Tell me about it. 😉
My client hopes to make te transition within a few weeks now… Can’t wait.
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I’m not dealing with SAN on my own set either. I am dealing with speed. And FCPX is so often showing beach balls in loading Projects, that I need every bit of speed I can get.
It’s the slowest performing NLE I have ever worked on.
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Frankly, I never had an internal HD crash. I did have a few external crashes… So I’d bet my money on the internal SSD.
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The plan is to have the backups made to the external drive… That way it’s always in two places.
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Yeah, we work the same when it comes to Library and footage storage. Even the folder structure of the project is petty straightforward.
But no, nothing is rewrapped, no MXF either. Everything has been converted to Apple Pro Res.
And yeah, something weird is going on. That’s why I am trying to find out what it might be…
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Point is: I don’t know. There was a complaint the project was ‘very big’. But for a major broadcaster footage for a 4×15 minute show should be peanuts, right?
You move between different computers as well?
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Well, a lot of people here and all FCPX editors I know recommend it. But of course, you don’t include or import any media IN the Library. You can determine where to put your cache as well, even though its’ recommended you put that on the internal drive too.
I followed their advice and it does help with performance quite a bit.
Frankly, all I have is performance issues. I still work on FCPX 10.1.4, because my biggest client still hasn’t upgraded. Putting the library on the internal drive helps this issue a bit. But darn… is it slow! In loading projects in relinking etc etc… Beachball City.
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Ah yes, but that could work, but I’d have to internalise everything.
Everyone here recommends to have the Library on the internal SSD hard drive of my computer. So having all the media IN the Library is a no go area. There is never enough room for that on my SSD hard drive.
Plus there’s another thing. The project is a number of episodes. The editor has to start finalising episodes while I’m still working on later ones. Media may be added (music, SFX, B-roll)… so to do transport through a library would mean, he’d get a lot of footage several times. I don’t think their SAN tech guys will like that. The project will out of the roof…
Still, the relinking does pose a problem for some reason. The project in total is 1,5 TB (15 hours of footage, several hours of B-roll, lots of music, animations etc). And I figure relinking is just data relinking. FCPX makes a hassle out of it, for some reason.