Check out question

[Christobella]

I'm working on a project which moves regularly from edit suite to laptop via Check In / Check Out. This can be somewhat time-consuming.

Having checked back in to the edit suite, and spent a day cutting (but no new media has been created), could I just copy the project file from the edit suite to the previously checked-out folder on my laptop, therefore bypassing the need to check out and copy all the proxy files again? Could I then just edit on the laptop, and copy the project file back to the edit suite?

Ta!

[antonsvideo]

can you try it and let us know if it works?

[David Clarke]

You can't link project files with missing media to proxies. So if all you have is proxies on the laptop it is very unlikely to relink to them (unless something has changed recently - it was this way with EDIUS 6 & 6.5.

If you have the original files on the laptop and not proxies it is not a problem, it is just the same as moving any project around. That's how I work these days (my laptop can have 3 1TB drives installed which helps for big projects).

[Christobella]

You can't link project files with missing media to proxies. So if all you have is proxies on the laptop it is very unlikely to relink to them (unless something has changed recently - it was this way with EDIUS 6 & 6.5.

If you have the original files on the laptop and not proxies it is not a problem, it is just the same as moving any project around. That's how I work these days (my laptop can have 3 1TB drives installed which helps for big projects).

Thanks for replying David. Out of interest, what's your basic laptop spec, and how do you find it runs with the full res files?

[David Clarke]

I am a reseller of PCs and software and I better not plug my stuff directly on a public forum but all the laptops use Haswell i7 processors and have decent NVidia cards as well. Most can also take mSATA (card based SSD drives) as well as two other drives and a Blu-ray writer. You can even replace the Blu-ray with another drive in a bay, so you can get 3x1TB drives plus a Windows drive in a machine.

I generally edit AVCHD files which work well and I can get a couple of layers of clips flying around. Recently I did some shooting on a Blackmagic Cinema Camera, and made some 2400x1350 H264 quicktime files which I edited in EDIUS at that resolution, and I was quite surprised how well they worked. Apart from the occasional hesitation I was thinking I was just editing "regular" HD footage.