Whats the best server solution for Adobe Premiere Pro?

[David Mcgavran]

Some random thoughts, corrections and additions to what Alex said..

Bin Locking isn’t a feature in Premiere. However you can open multiple projects in the MediaBrowser and have multiple MediaBrowsers open to access as many projects as you want at a time. Correction is that when you import sequences from other projects if there is matching media in your project we will connect to that and not cause any project bloat.

Anywhere is not a technology demo. It is real, shipping and in use at major broadcasters around the world. Currently it is avail from system integrators. It is currently not targeted at a 10 editor shop though.

For MAM’s there are a ton that offer project sharing and bin locking. Take a look here:
https://www.adobe.com/solutions/broadcasting/partners.html

But in general there are many many options for great collaboration and tons of shops all over the world are using various methods.

Enjoy
Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Director of Engineering, Professional Audio and Video
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[Michael Hoefler]

I don’t know if it is a value information for your plans, but I want to share our setup. We are not using a centralized server for data delivery.

We have 4 edit stations. Two Macs and two PCs. Our central server is a super micro workstation with a RAID 6, 16TB. All is connected with Gigabit Ethernet. Our server does not act as an central delivery station. It is only used for LTO Backup, all 2h, and redundant RAID 6 BackUp. All Workstations have a cheap RAID 0 attached. The syncing is done by BitTorrent Sync. The advantages are that all data is synced immediately to all workstations and to the server and we can use local RAID 0 performance for the editing. This way all workstations have all the data available at all time with RAID 0 speed. So, we have in total a backup on 5 workstations (included is RAID 6 on server) and a LTO incremental backup all 2h. Very safe.
BitTorrent sync is very reliable. We have small problems one or two times a year, with fast fix. Nothing got lost yet or corrupted. It is not expensive, fast and safe.

Michael