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Unity, FCP 7, Snow Leopard?
I posted this in the SAN message board but haven’t had many responses. Maybe I’ll have better luck here.
I work in a facility in which we mostly have Avid clients. Now we have a FCP Client with 3 seats cutting XDCAM EX and Prores422 and they want to go from local storage to shared storage. We have a Unity that we can put them on and I know that Avid Unity now supports FCP.
My question is have there been any problems going to Unity within Snow Leopard and FCP 7?
We will set the clients up to use the unity through fibre channel and I believe everything will work out fine, but just have not done this before and wanted to check with the experts first.
Thanks,
Mike
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5 Replies
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It sounds like you’re in an excellent position to test this out.
Go ahead and try it, and let us know how it went.
Mark
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Anyone have any luck?
Trying to get 10.6 to work with our unity via ethernet. (no avid editor, just for access to drives)
Feedback would be awesome
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Based on the fact that Avid does not support Snow Leopard yet, we downgraded all of our systems back to 10.5.8 and put the Avid Unity client on each machine. Have not had many problems with using the unity, however, renders have to be done locally. For us that’s not a huge deal since there is not much rendering happening.
Let us know if you get Snow Leopard working with unity.
Mike
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Why do you have to put the render locally if you don’t mind me asking?
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Follow up:
Later that afternoon (16-11) of our issue, avid released client 5.2 which supports SL.
5.2 requires 4.2.4 on the server/LANshare side.
Had a few problems getting 4.2.4 installed, but finally got it working.
PC’s work without any problem.
Mac with 5.2 installed, still has problems:From time to time after asking for unity PW, it asks for system admin PW, and upon hitting ok, it freezes.
Still will not connect to the workspaces after selecting which pool/domain I want.One time, I was able to hit apple+K and type smb://192.168.10.244 and use one of the avid PWs to login via finder to reveal each of the workspaces. This however after mounting did not allow me to see content within the workspace.
I am in no rush to get things working, but having within 2 weeks would be VERY helpful.
Any advice/user stories? on 10.6.2 with Connection Manager 5.2 and no AVID or FCP editor installed.
matthew
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