FCP on Avid unity

[Mark Raudonis]

so, what’s your question?

mark

[Simen Gengenbach]

We have two FCP workstations running via fiber to a avid unity LanShare system.
Editing in FCP wokrs Fine. But for some reason moving from finder to FCP takes a long time.

The question is:

why does it take so long time to reenter FCP when Jumping form finder or another application.

This does not happen if we work locally on a Firewire disk.

Sorry if my english i a little bit rusty

[Kevin Monahan]

Obviously, because it’s an Avid product and is tuned specifically to Avid systems you are going to run up against speed bumps. Restarts, crashes etc. will be the norm. It may work, but it is not reliable.

My suggestion is to get shared storage that is tuned for Final Cut Pro: XSAN on a Promise RAID.

https://www.apple.com/xsan/deployments/

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Bryan Banks]

Going from Finder to Media Composer on our Adrenaline systems lags a lot too… I would suspect it is the Unity that is the cause of the slow-down, but there isn’t much to do about it.

-Bryan