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Anyone in this forum using Avid on non-avid SAN?
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Well, I scheduled a webex demo for next monday, and we’ll see how to work the system. I’m a believer so far, but the only disappointment is that I’ll have to upgrade my avids to use it.
We have a few, most actually running Xpress DV (3.5 on the older systems and 4.6 on the laptops), so those systems don’t support MXF media which is necessary to have the system work the way they designed it. They rely somehow on automatically making sub folders for each user, but OMF systems don’t support multiple sub folders.
It’s funny how I can be sad that getting one thing I want means I have to get another thing that I want… of course it all comes down to the “I have to” part. I just have to convince my boss that new avids and shared storage will be more valuable than the Deko that he wants for the remote truck.
Tony Mueller
Senior Editor
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Hey Tony,
How did your WebEx with Apace go?
Dan
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It was a very helpful session. It looks like a well designed system that will fit our needs quite well. I have one other system to look at from Studio Network Solutions sometime the first week of the year, but I’m quite impressed with the vStor from Apace. I like the 3U unit with 12TB, but might have to settle for the 2U unit with less space depending on budget of course.
Tony Mueller
Senior Editor
STL TV -
It was a very helpful session. It looks like a well designed system that will fit our needs quite well. I have one other system to look at from Studio Network Solutions sometime the first week of the year, but I’m quite impressed with the vStor from Apace.
We have a 4TB vStor working with 3 VelocityQ and 1 Blackmagic Decklink HD with Premiere CS3/After Effects and it works great. We do almost all SD work and we get 3 and 4 streams of real-time DVCPro50 video on all 4 systems simultaneously. We’re able to capture uncompressed on two capture stations, and since the day we turned it on (February), the only issue we’ve had is that I couldn’t find the on/off button after we had a power failure! I called, got a live person and had my question answered in 5 minutes.
We’ve been very pleased with it in the nearly 10 months we’ve been using it and it makes you wonder how you ever got anything done before with all the time you save NOT having to transfer files. Not to mention the hundreds of gigs of storage we save by having just one centralized backup that backs up all project, video and audio files. Before, we had a ridiculous amount of duplication on dozens of hard drive backups across 4 edit suites.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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Tony,
That’s great to hear, as I’ve said multiple times “Their the best kept secret out there”. Which ever way you go time and money will be saved.
Have a Happy Holiday!!
Dan
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That’s exactly where we are right now. And I’m the guy who’s doing all that media management… we’re a government access station and we shoot at least 70% of the press conferences, groundbreakings, ribbon cuttings, and whatever else our mayor and other elected officials want us to cover, along with annual events and ongoing series programs and all of those projects have graphics packages spread out among four avid systems. Plus we recently purchased four laptops for the full-time staff, and anyone at anytime could need to edit a particular type of program on any one of those eight workstations, so I have to make sure each system has every graphics package and it’s driving me crazy.
If we weren’t using Avid, I would have felt pretty confident in the system just from your previous glowing reviews. But I had to see for myself.
Sad thing is, when I went to NAB a couple years ago nobody but Editshare had a system on display that was actually hooked up to an Avid workstation (they also gave away some nice coffee mugs). Some just had displays sitting on pedestals and I never even came across Apace Systems. Admittedly, my first priority was a playback server and automation software, and my second was a streaming encoder, but third on my list was shared storage, and I came away disppointed. This was in 2006, luckily it seems things have changed. On a side note, I didn’t find my automation server at NAB either. We’ve decided on a system from Tightrope Media trms.com to control a 360 systems imageserver (which I knew about before NAB).
Tony Mueller
Senior Editor
STL TV -
Thanks Dan, Merry Christmas.
Tony Mueller
Senior Editor
STL TV
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