Pete Collins
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Q: SMB & FCPX

So with Sierra now supporting SMB for Time Machine backups (https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/20/macos-sierra-review/), is there any hope that this functionality will be extended into FCPX?

 

I'd truly like to be able to create and work from a FCPX library stored on my corporate Windows network.

 

Ideas?

 

Thanks!

Final Cut Pro X, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 26, 2016 9:11 AM

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Q: SMB & FCPX

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  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Sep 26, 2016 9:13 AM in response to Pete Collins
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    Sep 26, 2016 9:13 AM in response to Pete Collins

    SMB has to be Windows? I have idea, just asking. Can you have a Mac SMB?

  • by Pete Collins,

    Pete Collins Pete Collins Sep 26, 2016 9:22 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Sep 26, 2016 9:22 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Tom:

     

    Yes. I believe so.

     

    I have one of the few macs on a large Windows network.  I can access those windows servers and their shares, but have no ability to create a FCPX library there.  I'd just like to not have to go through a "time machine backup/copy backup to Windows server" blah...blah... so that all of my work is available across our Windows network.

     

    I'm open to ideas.

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Sep 26, 2016 9:33 AM in response to Pete Collins
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    Sep 26, 2016 9:33 AM in response to Pete Collins

    Any way you could test TM on the SMB network? See if it works. As for the future, no way to tell you what's coming down the road, but if it's in Sierra, who knows.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Sep 26, 2016 1:06 PM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Sep 26, 2016 1:06 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Tom Wolsky wrote:

     

    SMB has to be Windows? I have idea, just asking. Can you have a Mac SMB?

     

    Not sure what you are asking exactly.

    You can use smb to connect to a mac, that has been available in System Preferences->Sharing for some years.

     

    I would not use smb (nor afp, for that matter) with FCP X, though.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Sep 26, 2016 1:08 PM in response to Pete Collins
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    Sep 26, 2016 1:08 PM in response to Pete Collins

    Pete Collins wrote:

     

    I'd truly like to be able to create and work from a FCPX library stored on my corporate Windows network.

     

     

    Why?

    Storing libraries over a common network infrastructure is a bad idea. Data throughput is inadequate for video.

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Sep 26, 2016 1:14 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Sep 26, 2016 1:14 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    NNetworks are very fast now with supporting hardware over 10gig Ethernet. Lots of companies using it for collaborative workflows.

  • by David Bogie Chq-1,

    David Bogie Chq-1 David Bogie Chq-1 Sep 26, 2016 1:40 PM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Sep 26, 2016 1:40 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

    I'd say "netwroks can be very fast these days if you have the hardware and the support staff." Our fiber channel NFS only works on the Windows servers because we have people. We'd never have been able to figure it out ourselves nor, frankly, would we care to tackle that particular project; we're photographers.

  • by Pete Collins,

    Pete Collins Pete Collins Sep 26, 2016 2:30 PM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Sep 26, 2016 2:30 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Perhaps I have to go through something like this to make Time Machine see a Windows SMB?

     

    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-machine-backup/

     

    As it is now, Time Machine doesn't see my connected windows SMB location in its list of "available disks" even though I can see it when I click on my machine in the finder sidebar. It doesn't show up as a standalone device, but it does show as a sub device (like all the other apple drives) if I click on my machine.

     

    My windows networks fly, and I'm not looking to run a networked FCPX.  I just want to be able to load from a network share, process locally, and save finished projects back to the network share without having to spring for an "Apple blessed" storage device when I've got tons of usable Windows server space.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Sep 27, 2016 2:38 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Sep 27, 2016 2:38 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Tom Wolsky wrote:

     

    NNetworks are very fast now with supporting hardware over 10gig Ethernet. Lots of companies using it for collaborative workflows.

     

    Of course. But when you think of that, do you think of SMB and Windows networking?

    No, you think of NFS, and as David pointed out, dedicated hardware and support staff.

    I don't think windows networking in most corporate environments use 10gig Ethernet.