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Final Cut in a school Setting
I have a mac lab consisting of 24 iMacs all with with final cut studio. What equipment should I have so that I can have one student capture and edit the footage and then have another at a different mac use motion or soundtrack to finish the video? I have a time capsule and I tried to set the capture settings on final cut to capture directly to the time capsule, but it gave me a permissions error after any student captured footage on it. I’m trying to avoid having to render out the .mov’s any time I want a student to work on a section at another computer.
Thanks,
Kurt
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What’s your budget? Because to get all the machines onto a shared storage solution…ones that an iMAC can join…that will cost some money. You need to get a machine to be the server, then a high capacity RAID, then an ethernet switch. There is a solution that Bob Zelin made with Maxx Digital that would be perfect, but runs between $10k and $20k.
Shane
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Most places I have taught at have been on XSAN. It’s by far the best way to maintain and supervise multiple systems. I also use Remote Desktop to “drive” for students if they need help.
Kevin Monahan
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Another option would be to purchase a number of external hard drives (they are really cheap these days) or even flash drives and have each student keep all of their project materials on their own drive. If you are really paranoid (and you should be with students), you could have them back-up to a group storage system each day. You can get 1TB drives these days for less than $100.00. It is never to early to teach them the value of multiple back-ups.
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Thanks for the input. I checked out Maxx Digital and I might be able to get them to go for it next year. We are using miniDV tapes and although they are HD cameras we don’t have any HD tvs in the school so is this system overkill, or is this the way it should be done?
Kurt
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XSAN is better because you can remotely upgrade and install multiple systems from one workstation. Upgrading systems is the main hardship when maintaining a classroom.
Kevin Monahan
60 Blu-ray Templates for Final Cut Studio 2009
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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