bringing in a new editor, need some advice

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aalleexx

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hey there guys, need some guidance on bringing a new editor in, right now I have a full edit suite loaded with fcp7 and adobe cs6, connected to a 8tb proavio raid to my mac pro, I do all the editing from there, I Was very fortunate to land a deal that is going to require a lot of editing, i cant do this myself anymore, I want to bring a local kid to edi, here is my question, how can we both work on projects from say my studio and his home, media files are huge, how is this usally handeled, im open to using fcpx or cs6
i thought about dropbox but imagine waiting hours to upload gigabites of footage
any ideas? I dont mind investing some money, im gonna buy the kid a new imac and macbook pro so that he works from home after he leaves the studio, i justndont know how we can both work from different places with access to media files

thankmyou guys and sorry about the spelling, im on my iphone
 
how much storage would you anticipate, and in which format?is he just going to organize, subclip, label and log the footage?use the same version of the software, and make proxy files of all source material needed, organize and format date into all software project files. you don't need to work on the same project file or sequence, as long as all the project settings match, depending on the software.
 
well the idea is for him to edit from home and i can step in and make edits if i need to back in the studio, we shoot everything p2 red and xdcam footage, im guessing he would just have to sync the project files and footage, or can we put the footage on an online server kind of what the xan did?
 
I'm currently working on a project with 2 other editors, and given that it's a personal project (not a client paid project) we're finding very lo-fi ways to make it work.

We have roughly 2TB of footage.
I organized all the footage, put it all on a master drive, then made 3 duplicates.
Each of us have an exact copy of all raw footage, and then we use Dropbox to store our project files (so we all have access to all the project files and any given time).

Anytime one of the editors has a new cut or sequence, all I have to do is open their project file and everything syncs up perfectly because our drives are all clones.

Definitely not the most elegant solution, and it might not work in your situation - but it's worked for us so far.
 
thats actually a pretty good idea
only problem i see if me or him start adding big media files in the middle of a project then he would have to come here and copy those big files so that we both have the same again



Luis Caffesse said:
I'm currently working on a project with 2 other editors, and given that it's a personal project (not a client paid project) we're finding very lo-fi ways to make it work.

We have roughly 2TB of footage.
I organized all the footage, put it all on a master drive, then made 3 duplicates.
Each of us have an exact copy of all raw footage, and then we use Dropbox to store our project files (so we all have access to all the project files and any given time).

Anytime one of the editors has a new cut or sequence, all I have to do is open their project file and everything syncs up perfectly because our drives are all clones.

Definitely not the most elegant solution, and it might not work in your situation - but it's worked for us so far.
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you won't have to copy the footage every time an edit is made, only the project file would be shared, which is very small.you just have to make a proxy of the original footage, to prores proxy or dnxhd 36 for example(720p or 1080p), work with that and online with the original files at the end for the final render.a simple external harddrive or harddrive and enclosure would be enough to store days of proxy footage. and it's a one time deal, then all would be needed is the project files which can be shared online or on thumb-drives or any usb harddrive.
 
When I do proxy editing I usually bounce the .mxf or .mts data to very small 480 .mp4's. With about 2 Terabytes of footage you can significantly reduce the amount of files space needed down to a thumb drive, if necessary. Then when you edit you just use the native setting for the proxy file type for your sequence settings. it drastically reduces the pre-rendering time needed while working on things like zooms, color corrections, and motion settings, transitions, it takes the full pre-render time down to about 1 to 2 minutes for each 15 minutes of footage on an i5 with 8gb RAM, after adding effects or new layer, and it improves the comfort of the workflow as well. A full project file with footage can be drop boxed quite quickly. If you have a guy in the field who is currently capturing footage you can have him hold on to the source files and transmit the proxy files instead, to multiple editors at the same time. This also reduces the *final render time to about 2:00 so if you get an idea to present to the group you can quickly render that chunk of the film and then pass it around for ideas or approval.

I am still trying to figure out if effects like stabilization need to be added on only the main 1080 editing file and not the proxies because the background analysis would be quite different for a much larger, clearer file. Not sure yet.
 
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