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# Sharing Clips Between Users

Clips placed in a special folder, called Shared Folder, becomes accessible to remote workstations that connect to the project. Shared folders enable different Creative Finishing workstations to quickly and conveniently share media.

Placing media in a shared folder 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 folder. To do this he must acquire write 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 write access and modify the content.

NoteClips stored in Shared Folders are archived when you archive a project.

To acquire write access:

1. Select the top level shared folder you want to acquire write access to in the Media panel.
2. From the contextual menu, select Acquire Write Access.

To disable write access:

1. Select the top level shared folder you want to acquire write access to in the Media panel.
2. From the contextual menu, select Release Write Access.

To enable or disable shared folders:

1. Select the top level shared folder you want to enable or disable in the Media panel.
2. From the contextual menu, select Enable or Disable.

To manually refresh the content of shared folders:

1. Select the top level shared folder you want to refresh in the Media panel.
2. From the contextual menu, select Refresh.

   The content of the shared folders is updated.