Enabling Library Storage Directly on a Synology NAS Using Final Cut Pro 10

To enable library storage directly on a Synology NAS using Final Cut Pro 10, start by opening the Disk Utility application on your Mac. Click on "Network" and select your Synology NAS from the list of available disks. If you don't see your NAS listed, click on the "+" button at the top left corner of the window to add it. Then, click on the "New Volume" button and select "SMB" as the file system type. Click "Apply" and then click "Yes" to confirm.

Next, click on the "Advanced" tab and select "Disable AFP" and "Disable NFS" if they are enabled. This will prevent other protocols from interfering with SMB. Click "Apply" again and you should now see your NAS listed as a single disk. Connect to your NAS using SSH, and type `ssh 169.254.125.55 -p4 port22` (replace the IP address with that of your NAS) to establish a connection.

Once connected, type `sudo vim cd /etc/samba/smb.conf` to open the SMB configuration file in the vi editor. Navigate to the line that starts with "past DB" and press the "i" key to insert a new line break above it. Type the command `objects = c:ata#,streams=_,XATTORM:` (including commas) and press Enter.

Press the Escape key, then type `:wq!` and press Enter to save and quit from the vi editor. You can now restart the SMB daemon by typing `smbd` in the terminal window and pressing Return. This will restart the SMB daemon, allowing you to access your NAS's storage from Final Cut Pro.

To test your configuration, create a new project in Final Cut Pro 10 and select the shared folder as the location for your library. Name the library "Test Library" and click Save. If everything is set up correctly, you should be able to save files directly to your NAS without encountering any issues.

Performing Final Testing

To confirm that your configuration is working, create a new project in Final Cut Pro 10 and select the shared folder as the location for your library. Name the library "Test Library" and click Save. Then, drag a file from your desktop into the project, and watch as it is automatically copied to your NAS. You can also observe local network activity as the files are being transferred.

Conclusion

Enabling library storage directly on a Synology NAS using Final Cut Pro 10 requires some technical expertise, but it can be done with the right steps. By following this tutorial, you should be able to set up your NAS for seamless file sharing with Final Cut Pro. However, it's worth noting that a Synology NAS may not be the best option for editing videos due to potential performance issues and limited storage capacity.

Alternatives to Consider

There are other solutions available for editing videos in Final Cut Pro 10, including using external SSDs or Thunderbolt 3-enabled storage devices like the Pegasus R6. These options offer better performance and more storage capacity than a Synology NAS, making them ideal for demanding video editing projects. Ultimately, the best solution for you will depend on your specific needs and preferences.

Let us know what you guys think down below in the comments section if you have any questions or suggestions.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow's it going ladies and gents boys and girls in this episode of final cut Friday I'm going to show you how you can save your Final Cut Pro tin libraries directly to a Synology Nass so here's a question before we even get started why would you choose to edit videos off of a Synology nas instead of editing off your internal drive on your Mac or an external SSD or something like that well I've really come to the conclusion that there are two strong reasons one not as strong reason a total of three different reasons why you want to do this the biggest reason is that tons of people already have these things lying around the house because maybe they're running a Plex server or whatever the case may be and they want to reuse it for other things they want to be able to use these in ass boxes for other things so that's the strongest reason you already own one the second big reason is storage space now look at this right here this is the Synology ds1 6 1 8 plus notice how many drive bays it has this is one of the smaller nass boxes it has six drive base so think about this if you had 6 10 terabyte drives in this that's 60 terabytes of storage space now obviously you have to configure DSM and whether or not using some sort of raid level things of that nature obviously you're gonna have less working storage but as you can see that's still way more storage than you would have on your internal storage drive on your Mac so that's the second big reason the third one is the proliferation of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and that's a little bit less so than the other two reasons because not everyone has 10 Gigabit Ethernet available not everyone owns an iMac pro or the new Mac Mini configuration with 10 Gigabit Ethernet not everyone owns a a Mac with Thunderbolt 3 because there's a little Thunderbolt 3 dongles that you can buy to get 10 Gigabit Ethernet so that is a reason but it's less of a reason for the majority of customers but it still opens up the ability to edit higher quality videos higher than 1080p comfortably ok enough talk let's head over to the Mac and get started so the very first thing you want to do is just make sure you're running the latest version of the sym so you can go to control panel go to update and restore and just make sure you are running the latest version it should say your dsm version is up-to-date which mine is now I have done a completely fresh and clean dsm install so I need to go to storage manager and create a new volume here because I don't have any so just gonna click on create and select quick and keep everything set to default I have four drives here click ok btrfs click Next and click apply and that will create my new volume now you may already have your volumes and shared folders set up and that's ok I just wanted to start with a fresh and clean set up for the sake of this tutorial alright so it's the initializing that new volume and then it's just a matter of waiting for the initialization process to complete and it looks like we're good now so now we want to open up file station click OK and now we're gonna create a new shared folder so I'm just gonna call it FCPX and then click Next the next and next all the way through and apply and then click OK alright so there is our FCPX shared folder alright so now if I go and select new in Final Cut Pro 10 select library I select the FCPX shared folder and I try to save a new library there guess what Final Cut Pro 10 is gonna tell us you've probably seen this before unsupported volume type choose a local San or supported SMB location so in other words yeah you can't save a library there on that Synology mask at least not yet until you configure your nas right now Apple actually produced a support document about shared storage support with Final Cut Pro 10 and they really outline how to configure a Linux network attached storage system for Final Cut Pro 10 which the Synology nas is and they actually provide us with the configuration string necessary to an able library support on that nest so now it's just a matter of going in and adding that string to your SMB configuration so to do so we need to go into control panel select advanced mode go to terminal and SNMP and then choose where it says enable SSH service you can keep the port on 22 for now at least and then click apply alright then go up to file services make sure SMB is enabled it should be by default click advanced settings and then for maximum SMB protocol choose SM v3 and click apply and click yes all right and then you can go in and disable the other protocols so that means disabling AFP and NFS if enabled and click apply alright so now it's just a matter of opening up the terminal connecting to our nas and editing the SMB configuration but to do that we need our IP address for our Nass you can see mine there so you want to open your terminal window type in ssh space and then the IP address of your Nass in my case it's gonna be 169.254 dot 125 dot 55 then space and then - p4 port and then the port number 22 and then press return on your keyboard when you see this you want to just type in yes and then you want to put your password for DSM I've done that so there we go now we're logged in to our NASA now what you want to do is type sudo space - I and then type your password and again this is going to give you root access so they were able to change the configuration file they want to put in CD / Etsy / Samba and then press return alright so now we're in the right directory now you want to type vim space sm v kampf and then press return and this opens up the SMB configuration file in the VM text editor so now we want to page down or use your arrow key to go all the way down to the line that starts with past DB space back in alright then you want to press the i key on your keyboard and press return and that will insert a line break above move your arrow key up 1 and now you can type the command that Apple told us to put in VF s space objects equals C atia but this time you want to make sure you put the commas freaked comma streams underscore X ATT R and there we go I was trying to do this without the commas and it didn't work I learned that you needed to use commas from a post on reddit watch I'll link in the description which is excellent especially for someone like me who knows very very little about Linux alright so the next thing to do is to press the Escape key on your keyboard and then type : WQ exclamation point and then press return on your keyboard that will save and quit out of them all right so now once we're back at the command line you want to type the following restart smbd for SMB daemon alright then press return on your keyboard and that will restart SMB so now we can just exit out of the terminal we're good to go there we've configured our nast it's ready to go so now let's perform the final test and see if we can actually save some libraries out to our Nast occasion so we go back to Final Cut Pro new library I'm going to choose our shared folder the FCPX and let's name our library once we select our folder we'll call it test library and then click Save and look no error message it actually saved that library directly to Arden as communicating via that SMB protocol so this is great I created a new project now I'm just going to drag this file from my desktop directly to this project and it's going to automatically move that copy that over to the library on mine ass and you can see it doing so right now but here's what really tells you that it's working you can see the local network activity as it's moving that data to the NASS so ladies and gentlemen that's it now we can store our final cut pro 10 libraries directly on our Synology Nass so ladies and gents if you're interested in editing videos off your nads I hope you were able to follow this tutorial and that it was useful for you for enabling library storage directly on that Nass now that all being said I don't think a Synology NAS or any Nass for that matter is necessarily the best way to edit videos for Final Cut Pro 10 there are a lot of great options out there obviously editing directly off your Mac the internal storage is great if you had the storage to work with also editing off an external SSDs or some really great ones out there especially Thunderbolt 3 enable SSDs and there's stuff like this a direct attached storage solution this is the promised Pegasus r6 I believe that's what it's called has six drive bays you can store a ton a video on that drive and the nice thing about it is that it doesn't rely on any sort of network connection it's a direct attached storage solution so it directly connects to your Mac via Thunderbolt three therefore you're gonna get some really great performance from that so lots of different things to consider on your editing journey hopefully you'll find a solution that works for you let me know what you guys think down below in the comments section if you have any comments advice suggestions Corrections please let me know this is Jeff with nine-to-five Machow's it going ladies and gents boys and girls in this episode of final cut Friday I'm going to show you how you can save your Final Cut Pro tin libraries directly to a Synology Nass so here's a question before we even get started why would you choose to edit videos off of a Synology nas instead of editing off your internal drive on your Mac or an external SSD or something like that well I've really come to the conclusion that there are two strong reasons one not as strong reason a total of three different reasons why you want to do this the biggest reason is that tons of people already have these things lying around the house because maybe they're running a Plex server or whatever the case may be and they want to reuse it for other things they want to be able to use these in ass boxes for other things so that's the strongest reason you already own one the second big reason is storage space now look at this right here this is the Synology ds1 6 1 8 plus notice how many drive bays it has this is one of the smaller nass boxes it has six drive base so think about this if you had 6 10 terabyte drives in this that's 60 terabytes of storage space now obviously you have to configure DSM and whether or not using some sort of raid level things of that nature obviously you're gonna have less working storage but as you can see that's still way more storage than you would have on your internal storage drive on your Mac so that's the second big reason the third one is the proliferation of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and that's a little bit less so than the other two reasons because not everyone has 10 Gigabit Ethernet available not everyone owns an iMac pro or the new Mac Mini configuration with 10 Gigabit Ethernet not everyone owns a a Mac with Thunderbolt 3 because there's a little Thunderbolt 3 dongles that you can buy to get 10 Gigabit Ethernet so that is a reason but it's less of a reason for the majority of customers but it still opens up the ability to edit higher quality videos higher than 1080p comfortably ok enough talk let's head over to the Mac and get started so the very first thing you want to do is just make sure you're running the latest version of the sym so you can go to control panel go to update and restore and just make sure you are running the latest version it should say your dsm version is up-to-date which mine is now I have done a completely fresh and clean dsm install so I need to go to storage manager and create a new volume here because I don't have any so just gonna click on create and select quick and keep everything set to default I have four drives here click ok btrfs click Next and click apply and that will create my new volume now you may already have your volumes and shared folders set up and that's ok I just wanted to start with a fresh and clean set up for the sake of this tutorial alright so it's the initializing that new volume and then it's just a matter of waiting for the initialization process to complete and it looks like we're good now so now we want to open up file station click OK and now we're gonna create a new shared folder so I'm just gonna call it FCPX and then click Next the next and next all the way through and apply and then click OK alright so there is our FCPX shared folder alright so now if I go and select new in Final Cut Pro 10 select library I select the FCPX shared folder and I try to save a new library there guess what Final Cut Pro 10 is gonna tell us you've probably seen this before unsupported volume type choose a local San or supported SMB location so in other words yeah you can't save a library there on that Synology mask at least not yet until you configure your nas right now Apple actually produced a support document about shared storage support with Final Cut Pro 10 and they really outline how to configure a Linux network attached storage system for Final Cut Pro 10 which the Synology nas is and they actually provide us with the configuration string necessary to an able library support on that nest so now it's just a matter of going in and adding that string to your SMB configuration so to do so we need to go into control panel select advanced mode go to terminal and SNMP and then choose where it says enable SSH service you can keep the port on 22 for now at least and then click apply alright then go up to file services make sure SMB is enabled it should be by default click advanced settings and then for maximum SMB protocol choose SM v3 and click apply and click yes all right and then you can go in and disable the other protocols so that means disabling AFP and NFS if enabled and click apply alright so now it's just a matter of opening up the terminal connecting to our nas and editing the SMB configuration but to do that we need our IP address for our Nass you can see mine there so you want to open your terminal window type in ssh space and then the IP address of your Nass in my case it's gonna be 169.254 dot 125 dot 55 then space and then - p4 port and then the port number 22 and then press return on your keyboard when you see this you want to just type in yes and then you want to put your password for DSM I've done that so there we go now we're logged in to our NASA now what you want to do is type sudo space - I and then type your password and again this is going to give you root access so they were able to change the configuration file they want to put in CD / Etsy / Samba and then press return alright so now we're in the right directory now you want to type vim space sm v kampf and then press return and this opens up the SMB configuration file in the VM text editor so now we want to page down or use your arrow key to go all the way down to the line that starts with past DB space back in alright then you want to press the i key on your keyboard and press return and that will insert a line break above move your arrow key up 1 and now you can type the command that Apple told us to put in VF s space objects equals C atia but this time you want to make sure you put the commas freaked comma streams underscore X ATT R and there we go I was trying to do this without the commas and it didn't work I learned that you needed to use commas from a post on reddit watch I'll link in the description which is excellent especially for someone like me who knows very very little about Linux alright so the next thing to do is to press the Escape key on your keyboard and then type : WQ exclamation point and then press return on your keyboard that will save and quit out of them all right so now once we're back at the command line you want to type the following restart smbd for SMB daemon alright then press return on your keyboard and that will restart SMB so now we can just exit out of the terminal we're good to go there we've configured our nast it's ready to go so now let's perform the final test and see if we can actually save some libraries out to our Nast occasion so we go back to Final Cut Pro new library I'm going to choose our shared folder the FCPX and let's name our library once we select our folder we'll call it test library and then click Save and look no error message it actually saved that library directly to Arden as communicating via that SMB protocol so this is great I created a new project now I'm just going to drag this file from my desktop directly to this project and it's going to automatically move that copy that over to the library on mine ass and you can see it doing so right now but here's what really tells you that it's working you can see the local network activity as it's moving that data to the NASS so ladies and gentlemen that's it now we can store our final cut pro 10 libraries directly on our Synology Nass so ladies and gents if you're interested in editing videos off your nads I hope you were able to follow this tutorial and that it was useful for you for enabling library storage directly on that Nass now that all being said I don't think a Synology NAS or any Nass for that matter is necessarily the best way to edit videos for Final Cut Pro 10 there are a lot of great options out there obviously editing directly off your Mac the internal storage is great if you had the storage to work with also editing off an external SSDs or some really great ones out there especially Thunderbolt 3 enable SSDs and there's stuff like this a direct attached storage solution this is the promised Pegasus r6 I believe that's what it's called has six drive bays you can store a ton a video on that drive and the nice thing about it is that it doesn't rely on any sort of network connection it's a direct attached storage solution so it directly connects to your Mac via Thunderbolt three therefore you're gonna get some really great performance from that so lots of different things to consider on your editing journey hopefully you'll find a solution that works for you let me know what you guys think down below in the comments section if you have any comments advice suggestions Corrections please let me know this is Jeff with nine-to-five Mac\n"