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Editing video over a regular network
Hi,
I’ve networked my two Macs via, what looks like a small router box connected by an ethernet cable.
It seems quite fast. Fast enough, in fact, for me to edit with DV footage coming from the other computers hard drive.
Granted, I’ve only done a very brief and cursory test that seems to work, but can anyone tell me if this is a viable way to work?
What are the drawback [ie, less realtime fx, etc].Thanks – please excuse my ignorance on the subject of networking.
Thanks,
Wayne
osx 10.4.8 G5 2.0DP, 3.5GB RAM, FCP 5.1.2
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“Small router box”? If you’re only going Mac to Mac, you don’t need that router. If you’re connected to the WWW, then yes, you do need that box.
Here’s the deal. DV quality over ethernet is iffy at best. Depends on alot of other things. How many streams. How fast are your drives? Is it connected to the outside world. What kind of internet traffic/e mail do you have.
We work at “Off-line RT” quality and have more than twenty people connected to our X-SAN Only via gig e. It does work at that resolution, but you have to be aware of your bandwidth limitations.
Machine to machine is OK… but when you start adding more than that, you’re now in a “networked environment” and different rules apply.
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