[STN-Affiliates] Offline Clips?

[Jo Colay Ray]

Here's what I've started having my kids do:  When starting a new project in 
Final Cut, do the following:  1.. Create a new project inside a new folder.  
Your name goes on the folder, the "slug" name of the project is what you 
save your final cut document as.  2.  Go to Final Cut---System 
Settings.Click the top "Set" and set it to the same folder with your name on 
it.  3.  Go to the bottom three "sets" and change them to your same folder 
with your name on it.  You'll have to do these three "sets" every time you 
open your project, but this way your files will be in one place and not 
lost.
 
Thank you, 
Jo 

Jo Ray Ed.S. 
Bulldog Television 
Springdale High School 
1103 W. Emma Ave. 
Springdale, AR  72764 
479.750.8709 
jray at sdale.org 
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Turner, Brian" <bturner at muhs.com>
To: "'Chuck Massey'" <Chuck.Massey at cps.k12.ar.us>, Sandy Beeson 
<sbeeson.hhs at gmail.com>, "affiliates at studenttelevision.com" 
<affiliates at studenttelevision.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:09:39 -0700
Subject: Re: [STN-Affiliates] Offline Clips?


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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Thanks,
Jo

Jo C. Ray, Sp.Ed.
Bulldog Television
Springdale High School
1103 W. Emma Ave.
Springdale, AR 72764
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