Shared Project Files
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Filed in: Weekly Tip
Maybe you’re lucky
and you have a huge 42TB Xsan set up for central
storage in your facility—besides being technically
really cool, we’re super jealous! Xsan and other
Storage Area Networks (SANs) are a perfect way to
share media files and project files.
One area that can quickly get people into trouble is opening a single project file at the same time on different machines. Perhaps no other Final Cut Pro-related Xsan issue causes more corruptions, headaches and lost work.
The fix is simple. DO NOT open the same project file on multiple machines at the same time. Of course there are times you will want to open the project file at the same time, so here are a couple of ways to get around the issue.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.
One area that can quickly get people into trouble is opening a single project file at the same time on different machines. Perhaps no other Final Cut Pro-related Xsan issue causes more corruptions, headaches and lost work.
The fix is simple. DO NOT open the same project file on multiple machines at the same time. Of course there are times you will want to open the project file at the same time, so here are a couple of ways to get around the issue.
- Duplicate the project file and label it with a suffix like for _bob_72207 where Bob is the person getting the file and the numbers are the date.
- If you don’t like duplicating project files (to prevent clutter) make sure that you ask others on the SAN before opening. An easy way to do this is by using iChat and enabling Bonjour messaging. That way everyone can talk without having to leave their edit suite/office and it doesn’t require they have an AIM or .Mac account.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.