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2 editing stations, one hard drive, discuss
Hey Cow world –
Just wrapped a feature film called THE AUTEUR. We shot with Panasonic HD200; p2 workflow.
I have 2 G5 boxes, and I’m now looking for a hardware solution that will allow myself and another editor the ability to cut the film in tandem, using one drive for both computers. Anyone have experience with this? I need to know what hardware I need to make this happen.
Byrd
Producer/ Editor
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XServe Raid and a SAN network. XSAN, SANmp, MetaSAN. This is not a cheap option. We are talking tens of thousands of dollars. And this is really the only way to share drives.
Your best bet would be to have two sets of drives with exactly the same clips and drive names. So get one drive set all setup, then clone it to another set and edit away. Then you can exchange sequences by sending eachother XML files.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
We’ve set up a system where we have 3 edit bays. Edit1 has a SATA RAID with 2 drive bays, Edit2 has a 4 tray SATA RAID setup and Edit3/Graphics suite is without. The 3 edit suites are connected via a “private” ethernet line. This allows each edit bay to connect to the RAID that has the footage they need. This has worked flawlessly with SD footage. I’ve had a few spots come through that we DVCPRO HD (720p) that worked fine over the ethernet as well. The only trouble I’ve had with this system is that capturing is out of the question. It works OK if you’re just getting one clip, but every time I tried to capture more than one clip (say from a batch capture) I’d get dropped frames. The other problem, is that you can’t have both be editing to the same project. Each person must have they’re own project on they’re own drive. As far as using the same footage in different projects, that’s worked well so far, but we usually don’t have a need for that. In normal operation, each suite is working on a different project. This was the cheapest solution for us; all we needed (other than the drives) was an ethernet hub that the edit suites share. The hub is not connected to anyone else, and not connected to the net. (That’s why we called it private). We aren’t doing enough HD to justify the cost of the XSAN/XRAID/XSERVE yet, so we came up with this solution.
“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Machine Model: Power Mac G5
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 4.5 GB
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