Sharing Clips Between Users

Clips placed in a special area of the Media panel, called Shared Libraries, becomes accessible to remote workstations that connect to the project. Shared libraries enable different Creative Finishing workstations to quickly and conveniently share media.

Note: Shared libraries are part of the project's structure: clips stored within are included when you archive a project.

Placing media in a shared library automatically grants read access to any workstation connected to the project. The remote operator can then access the media and start working immediately after connecting to the project. Once finished, the remote operator needs to save the resulting media back to the shared library. To do this he must acquire exclusive access.

Write access locks the folder so that only the user having acquired write access can modify the folder contents (i.e. write to the folder). Read access is still available to other remote workstations connected to the project. Once the media is saved, the user can disable write access, enabling other remote workstations to obtain exclusive access and modify the contents.

To acquire exclusive access:

1. Select the shared library you want to acquire exclusive access to in the Media panel.
2. From the contextual menu, select Acquire Exclusive Access.
Note: By default, after 600 seconds of inactivity, your exclusive access will be released. You can customize this setting in the user preferences (in the General tab).

To release exclusive access:

1. Select the shared library you want to acquire exclusive access to in the Media panel.
2. From the contextual menu, select Release Exclusive Access.

Important Compatibility Information

Projects and their contents hosted in Creative Finishing applications (versions 2015 and earlier) are read-only from Smoke 2015 Desktop Subscription. That is, you can transfer into Smoke 2015 Desktop Subscription, but you cannot transfer from a Smoke 2015 Desktop Subscription to a Flame or the Flame Premium suite of applications.

You can transfer projects and their contents between Smoke 2015 Desktop Subscription systems.

Open / Close

You can open and close shared libraries. Closing shared libraries turns off access to the media within the shared libraries as well as freeing up your system memory.

To open / close shared libraries:

1. Select the top level shared library you want to open or close in the Media panel.
2. From the contextual menu, select Open Library or Close Library.