[STN-Affiliates] Offline Clips?

[Turner, Brian]

Another way to think of it is like this:

A student's computer is named Mario.  The log in name is tv.  The video files for Final Cut are stored in the scratch folder.  So all stuff that is rendered on that computer is located in Mario>TV>Documents>Scratch.

You move the final cut project to a computer named Pacman.  The Final Cut project will look for all the video files in the location Mario>TV>Documents>Scratch.  However, you are no longer on Mario, you are on PacMan.  Even if you have the same file structure, you are on a different hard drive.  Thus the files will not be found.

If you want to move stuff from machine to machine and don't have final cut server or another server way to do it, you can put all your clips on the timeline, then go to File>Export>Using Quicktime Conversion.  It will export out a fully packaged Quicktime file of what is on the timeline.

BT

-----Original Message-----
From: affiliates-bounces at studenttelevision.com [mailto:affiliates-bounces at studenttelevision.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Massey
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:50 AM
To: Sandy Beeson; affiliates at studenttelevision.com
Subject: Re: [STN-Affiliates] Offline Clips?

Sandy,

Final Cut Pro requires a local scratch drive unless you are using XSAN.  In other words, students have to stay on the same computer for the FCP project.  The data files go off-line because
they are stored on a local drive such as the system drive or an external drive attached to the computer that contains the original footage, etc.

Chuck Massey
Apple Certified Trainer Final Cut Pro 6
Cabot High TV
Cabot, Arkansas 

>>> Sandy Beeson <sbeeson.hhs at gmail.com> 2/18/2009 8:33 AM >>>
I have my Macs networked and I have a kid who did a stop motion project on
one Mac and he's trying to open it on a different Mac.  A lot of the clips
on the 2nd Mac say offline but on the original Mac they are there, rendered,
and fine.  Any ideas why this is happening?

-- 
Sandy Beeson
War Eagle Television
Rogers Heritage High School
Rogers, AR


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