Sharing Motion Templates
by Mark Pinder
on
May 7, 2009 at 5:14:42 pm
Hi:
We have numerous edit suites, and we need to share motion templates between the suites. We have been doing this by placing a copy of the templates into the local motion templates folders on each computer. However, we were hoping to find a way to keep all the templates on our XSAN so that each room could just access the templates from the same location. That way, if a template is updated, it doesn't have to be copied to each individual station. I did some tests using aliases in the templates folders, and it seemed to work partially. If I used an alias, the template appeared in Motion's list of templates and worked. However, the template does not appear in FCP in the 'Master Templates' list. (This is where we'd really like the template to appear!). It can not be added to FCP's Master Template list if it's only an alias.
Basically, I'm wondering if anyone has found a way to share motion templates without placing a copy of the template in each individual computer's motion templates folder.
Any help would be much appreciated... or even just a confirmation that what I'm trying to do is impossible.
Thanks!
Mark M. Pinder
Chief Technical Engineer
Paperny Films
Vancouver, Canada
Re: Sharing Motion Templates by David Wakeling on Oct 15, 2009 at 12:43:53 am
Did you ever find a way to put your templates on your XSAN? I've been trying to do the same thing unsuccessfully.
I'd be very interested in hearing about how you work around this issue - and if you ever have template data go offline when transferring the project btwn workstations.
Thank you,
David Wakeling
Sr. Editor
Full Tilt Poker Academy
Las Vegas, NV
Re: Sharing Motion Templates by Philip Ohler on Oct 29, 2009 at 2:49:45 am
So far the only solution I've found is to create a sync folders automator workflow that looks at your local templates folder and syncs it to a shared folder on the XSAN. I've made this an automator application that I have iCal run every couple of hours. When another editor opens a project with one of my templates they will initially have to reconnect to the shared template but once that is done it forever connects with the shared version. Still early on our testing but so far it does what it needs to do. You'll need to download the sync folders action from.
