Robin S. kurz
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Yes, this needs to be checked in the GLOBAL prefs, which applies to any imports that are NOT done through the import window. No check, no keyword.
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[Craig Alan] “a sparse bundle can be unmounted like any drive and cannot be mounted from a simple finder. Thus students cannot open other student’s projects and do any harm.”
Ah, okay. Well that’s a rather unique requirement, yes. So really what you’re doing is less media management, but rather more of a type of Xsan mock-up. 😉
[Craig Alan] “I had read that a library that gets too full is more likely to slow down and have other problems. “
That has nothing to do with the explicit size of the actual library. If anything that has to do with the amount of material in any one library/event/project. Regardless of where that material is located. It also has to do with memory issues (as in RAM/VRAM). FCP can simply get choked up after a period of time (as will any NLE I’ve ever worked with) and needs to be “flushed” via a restart. Again, regardless of where the footage is located.
But ironically, if anything, then working off a sparse bundle is in fact SLOWER due to the nature of what is happening under the hood. So to use it for the sake of improved performance would in fact be rather paradox.
[Craig Alan] “The only downside I see to the sparse bundle is if everything is inside it and it got corrupted then all would be lost.”
Not actually true. It’s a sparse BUNDLE. Meaning it consists of hundreds if not thousands of roughly 8MB sized “bands” and the likelihood that more than one should corrupt at a time is highly unlikely. The rest would still be usable/accessible. Much like e.g. an image sequence. If just one images becomes corrupt, that doesn’t mean you have to trash the entire animation. Also the reason why bundles allow for incremental backups and don’t need to be recopied entirely each time, as do regular images. Only the new/different bands need to be backed up. That’s also the main reasons why you want to be using a bundle and not just a regular image, IF in fact you feel you need to use images at all.
[Craig Alan] “this is true of a library that contained everything as well.”
Wrong again. Pretty much for the same reason. Only a library is a PACKAGE not a bundle. Same reasoning applies. 😉 If say a single clip were corrupted, that wouldn’t make for an unusable library as a whole. Aside from FCP (hopefully) making backups to another location.
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[Bret Williams] “Charlie never said that. “
Since you did not use any sort of QUOTE, which is always useful for avoiding misunderstandings, I could only assume you were addressing the OP.
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Which is precisely why he wrote “(you’ll have to watch in on the youtube page to see the artefacts)” because you (and he) can’t see the artefacts in that (full res) version.
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[Bret Williams] “Did you look at the video? Nice smooth grads. I didn’t see any problems either.”
I can only assume he means in the lower res/quality versions directly on YouTube. In which case, as I said, that’s not an FCP issue.
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I don’t see how, if the master file doesn’t show the artefacts, it could be an FCP issue.
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[Andrei Popa] “(you’ll have to watch in on the youtube page to see the artefacts)”
Hmmm… what does that fact tell you?
Exactly. It’s an error on the part of the YOUTUBE encoder. It has nothing to do with FCP. I for one saw no artefacts of any kind.
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[Craig Alan] “I know with the latest changes to FC that sparse bundles are a bit redundant”
Completely, yes. I don’t see what possible advantage or function they could possibly offer that isn’t in fact redundant to what you can already do with just a simple library, no.
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[David Mathis] “though it comes with destructive editing.”
If saved in its own file format, then it is no more or less destructive than PS.
I personally rarely use PDF as the I/O format, since it makes for an uneditable file. Not the thing I want when working with curves/shapes. I run it through “Motionize” (https://scottash.com/motionize/) and get Motion SHAPES from it. It’s a tad fiddly, more work and not always 100% in translation (in which case you can always opt for PDF after all), but very much worth it IMHO.
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[Craig Alan] “if there is a compound clip saved in an event of one library and used in another library event as a child, what happens if u make changes to the parent or child if the other library is offline?”
Clips can only be MOVED or COPIED from library to library. Therefore there is no possible connection between the two instances (assuming it was copied). If the media within goes offline it will obviously go offline in the library also, should you not have CONSOLIDATED after the move/copy, which creates new instances of the footage in the second library.