I recently ran a couple jobs using LucidLink Classic on Linux. Some aspects of it were great and others not so much.
My mountpoint was set to my local RAID, but I also tested the default mount point (media>filespace) and it wasn’t great. I tried pinning folders from here but it said the path was invalid. Anyway, is there a preferred mountpoint? What about when working with LogikProjekt?
Resolve Linux behavior is very odd with Lucid. The LucidLink media is viewable, but the software treats the clips as offline and refuses to show thumbnails. Playback and rendering are fine, so it’s just a cosmetic issue. I tried to figure out why by using ChatGPT, but it took me in circles. And then I also tried it on Mac, and it worked fine. What’s the deal?
Pinning and caching work well, and playback is great. However, after a system restart, Lucid breaks. I have to kill all instances and rm -rf ~/.lucid, but then I have to re-cache. Is that normal?
Wondering if this is just me, or is there a better way to make Lucid run on Linux.
The mount point is where the Lucid filespace appears on your machine. It’s not the cache location.
So, for me, I use Logik Projekt, with a symlink at /PROJEKTS to /Volumes/saint/goose/PROJEKTS.
The cache for me is something NVME…usually 2-4TB. Thats usually an extra NVME stick somewhere on the motherboard or sometimes a stick or two on a highpoint.
Where your cache is drives performance. If you are using networked home directories, which I am, the default cache location is at ~/.lucid/. So, make sure to set aside somewhere else fast to cache, cuz unless you are workin hella iops, you’re gonna have a bad time.
I have 7 boxes hammering Lucid and it’s been super solid. Transitioning to Shade for pricing and future world domination plans. Just waiting for lawyers to lawyer.
Yep, it’s me! Because the re-install seems to help. Restaring doesn’t break things now.
Cache seemed to be fine before, and no performance issues at all with Flame. The main weirdness is with Resolve. Which come to think of it, probably comes down to how Resolve handles files on Linux. And this being a Flame forum, maybe not the best place to troubleshoot it. Still seeing the ‘offline’ status, still able to play down clips inside of it. So that’s weird.
FWIW – Lucid support confirmed that there is indeed a bug in Linux Resolve showing clips as offline w/ no thumbnails. Clips play and render fine otherwise.
Lucid seems to be great for Flame shares. Curious – what’s the draw with Shade? More services being offered?
How are you finding the stability? My previous experience wasn’t great. Everything worked perfect for a couple of weeks but then suddenly went downhill from there. Pinning no longer working, upload/download speeds were miserable. They blamed a bad connection but Lucid worked fine.
I hope to hear it’s better now. Their offering is great as it’s Lucid, Frame and Dropbox all in one.