Final Cut Pro + Dropbox

Mike Matzdorff did a good book on collaborative working a few years ago. I don’t know if there’s a new edition.

https://fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/1938-collaborative-workflow-with-final-cut-pro-x-first-working-steps?fbclid=IwAR3uAVIKFPLjSXcUXpGFxlYWiVi2UyenHMFAn7jRKG_aqssoU8H3xJUpVFk.

This is from a few years ago as well, but it’s still relevant.

ok thanks buddy.. I'll read through it and see what I can figure out from it. It's funny.. He's talking about finding away to collaborate on a FCPX project.. the irony of it.. I've been doing that seamlessly for 3 years.. it has been so reliable and flawless. Like, the solution was there. And now it isn't. And the other issue is that I can't even copy the library bundle from dropbox to a local folder. It gives me an error "The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8062)". Like how am I supposed to work if I can't open it directly in dropbox and I can't even copy it to another location? That's why my workaround involved opening the package and copying the contents to another fresh library on my hard drive.

I just want to be able to import media from dropbox. No, I don't want to download it first. This worked fine up until I upgraded to a stupid new operating system that is ultimately worse than the old one. Why can't I see the dropbox folder? You're not getting along with the folks over at dropbox? You don't seem to have an issue with Adobe doing it. Maybe I should switch to Premiere?

How did you solve this problem? This is a huge PIA. I have had dropbox working great for FCP for years now. Move entire projects off the server to my dropbox, and then I can edit on either my laptop or my home computer and as long as I close the FCP file before I start to edit it's all worked fine. I did have to keep my proxies external to the FCP Library, but once I figured that out it's worked perfectly. As a very mobile user, editing one three different system almost every day, this has been vital to my workflow. Have you tried sync.com?

I saw that Dropbox fired 16% of its staff to make room for staff to work on AI.... sounds like a dying company to me, because AI is not their main business. Echoes of Facebook deciding that VR is their future...

The article is from 2017. Kind of new ground then.

I'm finding a strong negative correlation between the helpfulness of the comment and the level of the poster. We should consider banning Level 10 members from posting to improve content reliability.

What did you update?

Updated DB this morning. Using iCloud for documents and desktop. Using Google Drive for work and DB for media.

Accidentally duplicated my message

Did you try the sparse disk image workaround described above?

At most places I contract at it's box.com and postlab these days. Oh and shared icloud docs. One place's security doesn't permit anything google.

Thanks for this great tip! This can work for me as well. however - I cants seem to find out how to save the disk image I have created to the dropbox?

" I've been doing that seamlessly for 3 years."

No you haven't. DropBox was actually copying that stuff to your local drive. So you were NOT editing from the cloud, but from your local drive.