• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Networking two Powerbooks to share one External hard drive for editing?

  Posted by Thomas on May 19, 2005 at 3:28 pm

  Can I network two laptops to share one external hard drive for capturing and playback?

  I’s going to video assist for an A and B camera shoot and need to capture and edit on the fly.

  Bryce Whiteside replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Gunner Jones

  May 19, 2005 at 9:15 pm

  Wouldn’t that be nice? The only stable solution for sharing FCP media and projects is with Xsan. It’s not cheap but very reliable.

  Gunner

  O&O-Gunner Productions
  FCP-Avid-After Effects
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  Bryce Whiteside

  May 21, 2005 at 10:01 pm

  You could use one of them in Target Disk mode via firewire. It’s not probably the answer to your configuration requirements for your shoot but I wanted to make you aware of it.

  How to use FireWire target disk mode
  https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583

  Please note also that Powerbook drives come in 40, 60 and 100 GB sizes which will probably limit the amount of DV footage you can capture since there are applications and data already on the Powerbook you put in Target Disk mode. A rule of thumb is that you get 7 hours of DV footage per 100 GB of harddrive space.

  HTH,
  Bryce

  PS You could use two external firewire drives and network the 2 Powerbooks together and then sync/copy the files to you main external firewire drive for editing during setups between shots. If the Powerbooks have Gigaethernet it should be an overly burdensome transfer time.

  Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

  PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
  Final Cut Pro HD
  DVD Studio Pro 3
  Motion

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