FCP and Groupwise?

[Dennis Lisonbee]

I took groupwise off my mac years ago. I don’t like it and I don’t trust it, even if many of my friends and associates work down the street at Novell. I teach in a large multimedia department. We have NEVER had groupwise on our MACs and finally told the administration that we are taking it off several hundred of our PC’s boxes. There was a gasp, grumple, teeth baring, growls and threats but we won out. Multimedia computers are for doing graphics, 3D, video editing, compositing and other high end high paying tasks, not checking spam (Groupwise is terrible when it comes to spam where I am) and email. XP runs much better without it. (When I check Groupwise email it is through the web.)

My 2cents.

[Dennis Lisonbee]

One other comment when communicating with your IT people. Spend some time explaining what bandwidth and processor requirements your editing system needs. Groupwise is a network/server issue that is designed for email and so forth and can jam up bandwidth very fast and spread other bad things very fast.

I think we are going to see a trend in the future where many video editors and multimedia people will be doing the IT part in place of an IT department. I have two recent graduates who were hired to do IT and Media. One in San Diego and one in Salt Lake City. They learned the IT part, not because they took classes, but because we teach troubleshooting and they found it was easier to learn networking and keeping computers running themselves (troubleshooting) than relying on an IT staff that did not know a thing about the bandwidth and processors requirements of video. As corporations have financial difficulities we are going to see a lot of IT people out looking for work.

In one of our meetings when the Professors were trying to explain the needs of gigabytes of storage space and fast fiber networks to IT people one person dared to bring up how easy it was to get MAC’s to communicate over fast networks. One of the professors that taught networking got very mad and said companies like Apple were going to run IT people out of business and that was immoral.

So it is time for all editors and media guru’s to learn the black art of networking because I think that this professor could very well be a prophet; companies like Apple could run a good number of high paied IT people right out of business.

Again, my 2 cents.

[Ben Oliver]

im afraid your right, that it is coming down to it.

where i work at harvard, i am not only in charge of editing, dvd production, etc, i also am learning how to manage our webserver, etc.

lot more than just editing, these days.