Collaboration between remote video editors

“No man is an island,” so the saying goes, and this is no truer than when you consider the need to collaborate on a Final Cut Pro project.

The number one rule of working with two computers or more in a collaboration environment is that they must all have the same plug-ins, which includes any presets you have created for effects. Refer to the Save effects preset section in Chapter 10, The Inspector Controls. To a lesser degree, you need to have the same fonts on each computer; other fonts can be substituted without the red warning filling the viewer, as shown in Figure 16.1.

Figure 16.1 – A red warning in the viewer notifying about a missing effect

Note

Don’t forget, if you use them, you need to have the same camera lookup tables (LUTs) on all computers.

In whatever way you decide to collaborate on your Final Cut Pro projects, you will need shared storage devices, whether they...