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2 macs to a KVM Swicth
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Is it possible to hook up 2 macs to a KVM Swicth – Editing on one and then when time comes to
Compress/Export a quicktime “Switch it over” to do the work? – This seems a bit confusing for me
because I dont think I’ve seen it done before? –
I want to be able to keep working on other projects while the export process is taking place…and the HDV videos being exported/compressed either from compressor or FCP – is taking up alot valuable time…I think it would speed things up in general if had all my mediaon a seperate drive? –but since I dont have another drive (yet) to store everything – –
This seems to be my works (temporary) solution, I suppose like a dedicated render station…
but I dunno how to even begin to appoach this…
Any Ideas?-Jason
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Keep in mind, a KVM switch allows sharing of monitors, keyboards, and mice, but not hard drives.
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Thanks! Thats what I thought…
I’d still have to move everything to the other machine…
Sounds like a BIG waste of time there.That brings me to my next question…
(and I know there are alot of these questions on here and I have been reading up)
…but heres what I need to know….and excuse me for being long winded…I would like to increase the speed on rendering/export times.
I know I need another drive for media since that seems to be a big “No-No” to have everything on the system drive.
**I’m thinking of asking for either a Firewire 800 G-raid or some sort of eSATA drive.These HDV projects I’m editing/compressing are for the WEB – not BROADCAST – so Im not sure if what I want to get will be overkill…
**But would it help if I got a new card like a Kona3 or BlackMagic to help take some of the load off the CPU during export/render times? –
The thing is…I dont really need all the outputs since this isnt even going to tape (as of now)…I’m running a Dual G5
4GB ramMy other thought would be just to load all this HDV footage in as DV. Would that cut down on export times since its less pixels? (I’m really trying to embrace the HDV format) but if its gonna help me crank out and crunch these down any faster…then I really dont care.
any thoughts?…anyone…anyone…Thanks again…I feel like I’m starting to live in these forums.
-Jason
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I do this exact thing between my G5 anbd Mac Pro. I’ve heard of problems with eth Gefeb models, and an Iogear one I tried was DOA. I currentlly use an Avocent Switchview for both DVI and USB. Works fine.
https://www.avocent.com/web/en.nsf/Content/SwitchViewDVI-2port
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Meant to include that Idon’t have both computers working on the same thing/rendering…just switching and transporting over ethernet. It helps a lot when I have to render somethign out in AE and want to keep editing on the other computer.
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