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NEED INFO! for Soft & Hardware solution that will work with FCP!!
Hi!
since Apple just recently killed there xserve line since Apple has more interest in iPhones, iPads and the Beetles! 🙂
We are now needing for a hardware and even software solution (Linux based if possible) that will work with Apples editing software (if it still lasts doh!) Final Cut Pro and Express.
We need to capture or record HD video to a format that Final Cut Pro can natively handle.
ProRes would have been the choice but since there are no more xserve in the near future we need a other hardware based solution.Editshare would have been a choice (no ProRes support) but we would be locked into there hardware unless there is no other solution. 🙁
Thank you!!!
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KiPro?
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I don’t think KiPro is very useful as a video capture and storage solution.
We are looking for a capture solution that will also store and convert the footage to a format that Final Cut can natively handle. -
MacPro with Kona card/Raid and ToolsOnAir?
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Stacking Mac Pro (compared to xserve in racks) would need allot of room. Rack Server based solution is what we are looking for.
Something like Editshare but a solution where we can use the RAIDS that we have now. -
[Andree Franks] “Stacking Mac Pro (compared to xserve in racks) would need allot of room. Rack Server based solution is what we are looking for.
Something like Editshare but a solution where we can use the RAIDS that we have now.”How many machines do you need? We’ll have 9 machines in racks here since the racks are so cheap. We use the Mac Pros.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” Winner, Best Documentary, LA Reel Film Festival.
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Apple stopped MAKING Xserves…but they are still out there. Perhaps someone will sell one used..or more than one. THere might be a few new ones still out there waiting to be sold. Or, if you already have them, why not continue to use them? Just because a company isn’t going to make them anymore, doesn’t mean the ones already out there suddenly stop working.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
[Andree Franks] “We are looking for a capture solution”
[Andree Franks] “Rack Server based solution is what we are looking for”
You want a rack server capture solution?
Thats really not going to work well.
Unless you capture only via FW you need a capture card like a Kona Card, or some sort of IO device, the problem you are going to run into there is the drivers for those devices are written for the regular MacOS and therefore will probably have issues running on a ServerOS.
Besides you don’t want to be capturing with the server hardware itself anyway.
The normal way to set something like this up would be to have a MacPro with your capture card for a capture station, this MacPro would be connected to a to a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. Then other edit stations can also connect to the NAS to access and edit the captured footage.
If you really want a rack mounted server to host this NAS, the xSan is still available and will be for a little over 2 more months.
**Hindsight is always 1080p**
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Read Walters article on shared network storage.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/media_san.php
**Hindsight is always 1080p**
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gvs9000 was mentioned in a similar thread
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How about this from Telestream? https://www.telestream.net/pipeline/overview.htm
don walker
Texarkana, TexasJohn 3:16
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