Using an external hard drive to edit in premiere with different computers

Is there a way to have multiple editors work with an external hard drive in premiere cs6 so that when the external hard drive is reconnected to a different machine the files do not have to be reconnected. It seems that each time the hard drive is opened on a different computer it loses track of where the files are located and we have to spend a time reconnecting them.

This article might be helpful, when using external HDD's: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4542396#4542396
Good luck,
Hunt

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Use an external hard drive - want to connect to a different computer...

Hi, pardon my ignorance but...
I keep all my ipod music on an external hard drive since I only have my work laptop, but the programs are on the computer. I used to never have a problem accessing itunes through my work laptop once I plugged the hard drive in.
The last time I synched my ipod there were about a dozen songs that I got a message "Some of the items in the itunes library, including..., were not copied to the ipod 'My iPod' because you are not authorized to play them on this computer". Some of the songs were explicit content, some weren't. Some I bought on iTunes, some were loaded from cds.
If I take my external hard drive and plug it into a different computer what will happen? Is there a way to get those songs back on my ipod? Again, sorry for not being too saavy. I have a 30GB video iPod.

+yes, when my external hard drive is plugged in, it lets me play the songs...+
So, were you expecting them to play when the exHD isn't plugged in? Because they won't!
Also, you need to have the exHD plugged in before you even start up iTunes, or your library file will get messed up.

How to i use my external hard drive for editing videos?

I only have 2 GB on my left on my computer. I want to import movies from other software but that takes up 2.6 GB. I have an external hard drive that i want to use for iMovie.

If you are using iMovie version 10, you can drag your librarys to the external drive in the Finder.
If you are using iMovie version 9 or earlier, see this post.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4141

Is it possible to use an external hard drive as the windows partition with boot camp?

I am looking to get a Macbook Pro adn was researchin the different software advantages over PC and found a program called oot Camp that allows you to run Windows on your Mac. I thought that this was interesting as it was sort of the best of both worlds. I wanted to know from people who have used this before: How well does it work? Does it slow down the computer at any noticable rate? Etc.
The last question that Ive been trying to find an answer to, but have no conclusive results, is wether you are able to select the partition as an external hard drive or not. Also how it affects your ability to use an external drive as well. Answers are much apreciated, thank you.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
Boot Camp is an application that emulates a BIOS so you can install Windows on a second volume on your hard drive. It can't be installed on an external disk because Windows can't be installed on an external hard drive. It works well if you need performance

Is it possible to back up an external hard drive to Time Machine from two different computers without creating two different records?

I have an external hard drive that I do my work on. I use it on my office MacPro and on my MacBook Pro. I have Time Machine setup on both computers to back up the external hard drive to a remote backup drive, but when it backs it up, the backup goes into either the MacPro record of it, or the MacBook Pro record. The effect of this is that if I'm at my laptop and I need to access an earlier version of a file that existed when I was working on my MacPro, I can't access it.
Is it at all possible to create a universal record (or Sparse Disk Image Bundle to use Apple lingo) for my external hard drive?

Hi BDAqua,
Thanks for your help as always, sorry I never thanked you earlier, finally got some time to attend this.
I'm in the mail folder in the library of my user name. Just to make sure I get all my mail boxes I'm going to archive simply the whole 'Mail' folder after going in to the library of my unsername.
I notice you mentioned about importing there .... I've seen the .emix files you mention .... i have 30,000+ of them.
What I find helpful in mail is that if I type a client's second name, in this case 'Lopez' I can pull up all the mails relating to him in an instant, around 450. Obviously it would be impossible to pick through 30K .emix files to find the right ones .... so could I easily import them in to my Mail on my new computer?
Could I select the whole lot of them, then drag and drop them in to my new Mail on the new computer, and then use the search function on Mail? ... the normal desktop search function doesn't seem to look through the emix files, or emails for that matter.
Also, just as an extra precaution, could I make a smart folder in Mail with the name of said client for example for, then archive that folder separately?
TY
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Should I use an external hard drive to store the files while editing and how should I do this?

Getting used to FCPX and want help learning how to store my Canon D60 Video files on either my internal Mac book pro or on an external hard drive while editing projects?   Do the files need to be transcoded on the computer drive or can that happen on an external HD?
Thanks,
Greg

Well, in my opinion, it all comes down to speed. There are a lot of editors that swear that working with footage on your system drive will do all sorts of horrible things, cause crashes, etc. Really its a bunch a malarkey. The most it will do is slow you down when your system needs access to the drive. Bandwidth is bandwidth is bandwidth - its all the same. If working with video on your system drive caused crashes, so would doing thousands of other things and we would all have dumped apple long ago for Microsoft or linux.
Here's what I tend to get for sustained read speed on various drives (ie reading a few large files like video files):
USB 2.0: 25 - 30 MB/sec. Drive RPM doesn't matter much since USB is limiting factor, unless you're running a system.
Firewire 400: 28 - 34 MB/sec. Drive RPM doesn't matter much since FW is limiting factor
Firewire 800: 55 - 60 MB/sec. Drive RPM doesn't matter much since FW is limiting factor
internal drive on SATA II or III connection, or USB 3.0 external drive:
    7200 RPM: ~100 MB/sec
    5400 RPM (most laptop drives): probably ~70-80 MB/sec
SSD: 250-500 MB/sec if installed internally or over USB 3. USB 2 or firewire connection for an SSD is a waste of SSD speed *except* that they have fantasticly fast random access for reading many small files, so I got a really fast launching system in an experiment installing a system on an SSD and connecting it via FW 800 - but that's not relevant here
so - to make a short story long - do whatever works for you. avoid using USB 2.0 or firewire 400 drives if you're editing HD - you can't play transcoded ProRes 1080p footage from them reliably. And once you have more than one clip overlapping, like at cross dissolves, you're sunk. You're internal drive is likely much faster, even with the overhead of the system using it too.
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on the app store is a good HD speed tester. Ignore all the video specific stuff at the bottom - its mostly for uncompressed video, which I doubt you're working with.
Since i have a recent macbook pro (late 2011) and my edits are usually not more dense than 3 layers of video at a time (mostly concert video rather than narrative film), I actually almost never transcode, or even render - and this is for 1080p HD video - because FCP X is so good at playing the imported original h.264 files. I store my media I'm working with on my internal laptop drive (which i upgraded to a 7200 RPM) or a FW 800 7200 RPM external drive.
h.264 files from the camera are much smaller than transcoded ProRes files, so they will play back from USB 2 or firewire 400 drives, but I would only do it in a pinch.
enjoy your editing.

Using an external hard drive with FCPX?

I plan on using Final Cut Pro X with an external hard drive to edit dv footage captured from my camcorder. Is there a "best choice" for the external drive? And what about formatting the drive?

Sorry, Tom. I am sure I'm not being precise enough in my language. Let me put it this way.
Can I use a USB drive to import AVCHD video from a tapeless camera? I mean, I know I CAN, but is it okay to do so? Understand, I am a newbie over here, but you've probably already figured that out.
The situation is, I will be on the road for a week with my 4 tapeless cameras and my MacBook Air. Going to shoot all day, then go back to the hotel and pull the video off the cameras so I can continue shooting the next day. I was planning importing the video onto one external hard disk (file>import from camera) and also making an archive onto another external disk. That way I have a backup. Thunderbolt drives are still a bit too expensive for me, so I was going to bring one USB drive for the archive and one USB/firewire 800 drive for the "import from camera." Then when I get back home, I can hook that USB/firewire 800 up to my thunderbolt display connected to my MacBook Air. Or maybe by then I can get my school to get me a new iMac, which would be a better editing machine than the MacBook Air. Sound workable?

When I installed iTunes 11 on a windows 8 system I get the music, but the screen dosn't have te library on the left. The left side of iTunes is the name. I got the songs by using a external hard drive. What have I done wrong?

When I installed iTunes 11 on a Windows 8 system the installation did not seem to work correctly. There is no sidebar and no ribbon w/ File, Edit, etc. I tried to use an external hard drive to move from an older computer using XP to the new one w/ Wdw 8. I thought if I deleted iTunes from the Wdw 8, I could reload it. Apparently I did not delete the music files because they appeared in the format I complained about, no side bar or ribbon. Can anyone walk me through the process of deleting everything and reinstalling? I am not very computer savy so a step by step would really be appreciated.
Thank you,

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HT1766 Can you use an external hard drive to back up my movies in iTunes but still be able to access them or is there a device so I don't have to use a pc ??

Can you use an external hard drive to back up my movies in iTunes but still be able to access them or is there a device so I don't have to use a pc ??

You can store them on a separate hard drive, you don't need to keep them on your laptop's hard drive. On your computer's iTunes on the Advanced tab in Edit > Preferences there is a 'copy files to iTunes media file when adding to library' tickbox - if you untick that, you should be able to copy the films to a separate drive and add them back to your iTunes library (File > Add To Library) and it should then point to them on that separate drive and not copy them to your hard drive. When you are happy that it is what is happening and that they are safely on your external drive you can delete the films from your laptop's hard drive.
If you plug the external drive into a different USB port next time (assuming that your laptop has more than one) then it might get a different drive letter, so you might need to always use it with the same port.

Using an exteral hard drive to edit movies

Hello,
I need some help. I have a iBook G4 and am running OS X 10.3.9. I have a lot of footage that I want to import and edit in imovie. I do not have enough hard drive space on my laptop to do that. I would like to buy and external hard drive to edit on, but I don't know which to purchase. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My camera is fire wire and I don't mind downloading and then moving the projects to an external hard drive but I need to be able to edit from there. I have firewire 400 and USB 2.0 plugs so I could use either to plug into my machine. Any help on choosing a modle of hard drive would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance.

Huart,
One thing to consider is how many Firewire ports does your Powerbook have? Since many only have one, people often try to hook their Firewire drive into the Laptop then daisy chain the camcorder off the back of the drive. While this can work, often it does not.
And sometimes it will half work. As an example, in the beginning, I daisy chained my Sony off the back of my drive. For importing this worked great, never had any troubles importing several tapes. However when I got to the point where I was ready to export my first completed project back to tape, I found it wouldn't work right. Turns out exporting through the daisy chain was a no go. I then moved the camera to directly connect to my eMac with the drive also connected directly to the eMac and it worked fine. Since then I have always imported and exported with both tied directly to the Mac. Note, there is no problem going to and from the external hard drive directly.
So with a one Firewire port Laptop, if you have trouble with a daisy chain connection, you basically have two choices.
The first is to simply import to your internal drive, unplug camera, plug in drive, then copy back out to the ext drive. Same thing in reverse when you need to export back to tape.
The second is to invest in a PCMCIA Firewire card. They are not very expensive and now you should be able to run both devices at the same time, one into the Laptop directly and one via the card.
Patrick

Installing Oracle Applications 11i using an external hard drive

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I have a laptop with 60 gigs in it. As per the quick install CD in the Oracle Apps 11i pack I need to have at least 80 gigs space. So I wanted to know if it is possible to install Oracle Apps using a external hard drive and the Quick Install option. If anyone has done this please share it with me.
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Hi Kar,
Thanks for the info. I was waiting for confirmation on this before I went out and bought an external hard drive. My laptop runs a Windows XP Home edition OS and it is the only OS on the machine.
I scoured the market for external hard drives and it turns out that there is a wealth of information out there. Could you give me some pointers on which one of these you would recommend.
Also once the external hard drive is in place do I need to follow a different installation process or I can use Quick Install as is. If I remember correctly the info given in Quick Install stated that in Windows it would need some amount of space on my Temp folder which is why I needed extra space as my hard drive was only 60 gigs.
Now with this external hard drive will it automatically detect this and then try and load the files in this new space or will Quick Install still try to use the space in the Temp folder.
Really appreciate your help on this one.
thanks
cheers
~k

I would like to know if you have to back up a macbook hard drive, can I use a external hard drive that has been previously used to back up several pc 's, or is it best to have a separate external drive for the Mac?

I would like to know if you have to back up a macbook hard drive, can I use a external hard drive that has been previously used to back up several pc 's, or is it best to have a separate external drive for the Mac?

In the Mac side of things, backups usually come in two flavors: clones or incrementals.
A bootable clone is a bit-for-bit copy of all essential files in the startup volume. If using the Lions, clones can be made using CarbonCopyCloner or just plain old Disk Utility. These backups represent the safest protection of your info, but take the longest to do. Recovery is an inverse process: you copy the clone back into the internal drive.
Incremental backups start with a complete backup of the startup volume and only copy whatever changed from the previous run. OS X includes the fully integrated Time Machine backup utility to do this. It is extremely easy to do and takes the least amount of time. Recovery is another matter altogether since you have to start with a freshly installed instance of the OS and have to apply all intervening backups to bring the result to the latest saved version.
As for where the backup takes place, the recommended media is an external dedicated drive or drives connected via the fastest interface available on your Mac: Thunderbolt, USB3, Firewire, or USB2. Network-based backups, wired or wireless, are attractive but may not offer the same performance and hence take longer. Also important to note that the entire drive need not be completely dedicated to a single backup. The Mac's EFI firmware infrastructure allows for an unlimited number of partitions on a hard drive and each can be used for either type of backups.
Holler if you need specifics on how to do each. This was just an executive summary.

How do i use an external hard drive for all my itunes music?

how do i use an external hard drive for all my itunes music?

Hi valleydave,
Here are two good links for you to check out:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1751
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449
The first one goes over, in-depth, what you're looking for in regards to "off site" iTunes.

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Ok so.. ive recnelty received my mac back from apple, after javing the hd replaced. To prevent the loss of all of my stuff i bought an external hd and used this as my time machine backup, so now its all on my external hard drive. The problem ive got is that ive got no idea how to restore my mac using the extermal hard drive so its like it was before it was sent off. ive been told one option is to launch my mac in recovery mode and choose to restore using. my external hard drive there. however i cant access recovery mode because i have a wireless keyboard, and the only wired keyboard i have is a windows one. also, to make matters worse, i cant use any discs because my optical drive is broken, so until i receive my extermal one, discs are also out. of the option.
any other ways to do it?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4889?viewlocale=en_US
Try this, your going to be using a program called Migration Assistant to restore data from a different computer's Time Machine. Your computer is a different computer now because of the new Hard Drive, so instead of entirely recovering the Operating System, this will save time and data by allowing you to choose individually what you want to restore and what you don't want to.
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