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  FCP 6 Access to XSERVE???

  Posted by Micah Fitzkee on December 7, 2007 at 7:10 pm

  FCP 6 Access to XSERVE???

  Here is a my original post from Apple Support followed by a response then my findings: any info would be greatly appreciated!

  FCP 6 Access to XSERVE???
  Posted: Dec 5, 2007 9:45 AM
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  Man I may be just blowing wind… but even if someone could point me in the right direction that would be a great, great help…

  We have a Dual G5 and a XSERVE both running Tiger and we are wondering how it may be possible to use media storage on the XSERVE over Gbit… I am relatively new to the Mac world, all of our other machines and servers are PC based…. I have gotten the XSERVE to mount the G5’s drives but the G5 doesn’t see the XSERVE… I am very confused about how to even set up the XSERVE… let alone make it accessible as storage for the possibility of adding other editing suites.

  Essentially we want to extend our storage for FCP by being able to capture to / move media over to the XSERVE. At this point there would only be one user… but I am stuck without being able to even set up the XSERVE to do anything.

  -Micah

  RESPONSE:

  This sounds like simple file sharing, as long as you’re only intending the XServe for storage and not live capture/editing (the ethernet network is too slow for real-time capture).

  Since it’s a server the XServe is likely running Mac OS X Server (and I’m guessing the G5 is running Mac OS X Client). As a result, setting up sharing is not a one-click option, so that’s probably what’s hanging you up.

  On Mac OS X Server, setting up sharing is two-part process.

  First, you use Workgroup Manager to identify the directories on the server that you want to share. It’s generally a bad idea to share entire disks, so you get to specify which directories should be shared.
  You can also specify which protocol to share each directory through – for a single Mac I’d stick with AFP. If your Windows clients are going to share the space then enable SMB, and enable NFS for Linux/Unix clients.

  Once you’ve configured your sharepoints, you use Server Admin to start up the respective services. If you followed my note above this will just mean starting the AFP service on the server (open Server Admin, connect to the server, select AFP and click the Start button).

  That’s it. Your client (G5) should now be able to connect to the server and access the sharepoint(s) you defined.

  MY NEW RESPONSE:

  Re: FCP 6 Access to XSERVE???
  Posted: Dec 7, 2007 10:58 AM in response to: Camelot
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  Yay! Thank you for that info. I did get it to work with AFP, I am sharing two entire disks so I better change that… It is likely that a windows machine will never have to talk to the server so that is good… also you are correct about the Client/Server software on the two respective machines. Having 1.2 tB more for storage is great!

  But this further sparks a question of possibilities…

  Allow me to add also that I am using a Blackmagic Decklink SP, capturing DigiBeta, BetaSP mostly through a Sony M2000 deck and this is a 3 GHz Dual Core G5 with 4 GB of RAM… ATI Radeon X1900 XT…

  Which brings me to the point of capturing over the Gbit Ethernet… I have heard that it will work for DV but not 8bit or 10bit so I did some testing.

  We are using a dedicated Gbit switch that is connecting the XSERVE to the G5, and also receiving some sort of internet from the server room…

  Both network settings in the server and client are set manually to 1000baseT with jumbo mode… and I have abort capture on dropped frames on in FCP. It works? It works… why does it work?

  One setting to capture via 8bit-Uncompressed SDI to then compresses to DV keeps stopping after a gig or so although the capture still reaches the end of the tape… But as soon as I left the 8bit UC settings alone it worked, over ethernet to the server drive, and also at 10bit. I run black magic’s disk speed test on the mounted volumes and get some crazy results…

  Disk read data rate of 107.5 MB/s

  Disk write data rate of 77.7 MB/s

  What does this mean. Perhaps I should post this in the FCP Video forums…

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