Autodesk workflows employ "soft import" functionality to ensure high resolution images are not duplicated on the local workstation. The "soft import" creates a low resolution proxy on the local workstation with a symbolic link back to the original high resolution image on the shared SAN. The use of "soft imports" restricts the ability to physically move the original high resolution source images should changes in production schedules and priorities arise. If project data needs to be physically moved due to production and scheduling constraints, the Autodesk soft import links must be updated to reflect the new physical locations. Updating the “soft import” reference can be rather complex, as it is not uncommon for the links to reference 1000 clips, where the links are not all in the same directory but spread out through directories. Furthermore, operational complexity is increased as the actual links are not human readable and hexadecimal in nature.
Operational data management complexities associated with Autodesk soft links are eliminated via the data abstraction functionality provided by DataFrameworks.
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