Bryson Jones
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Definitely contact the distro guys. They’ll get you rolling.
The client is just that. Think of the Worker Node as an automated client, that’s basically what it is.
Keep us posted and enjoy!
bryson
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May I ask, do you currently have a CatDV system deployed?
If you have the Worker Node you can do something like this but it sounds like you may not have CatDV setup yet as this is a very non-standard workflow.
bryson
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Sorry to lag, clients first, of course.
It’s fine for playing proxy files in my experience.
Obviously PowerPC won’t play certain compressed formats well, and indeed some codecs don’t exist for non-Intel machines so that’s what that was based on.
In the end, and the good thing about CatDV, you can just try it and see. But proxy can easily be played on most Macs from this century.
bryson
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I have clients who do this for loggers so they can use their old macs ’til they die. (The macs, not the loggers.)
It works, but please don’t judge the program based on this config. Performance may be compromised.
bryson
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Jeff, thanks for that. Sorry to hear about MediaSilo but I understand, it’s hard to integrate disparate systems sometimes.
Also, and not to hijack the thread but since it’s about cloud and CatDV solutions, NSA also offers a private cloud web solution called Approval-Q that you can purchase and run on a cloud server or your own hardware.
It’s fully integrated with CatDV. It not only receives metadata from CatDV through an automated upload, but writes back metadata changes as well so the databases stay in sync.
So if you have a server (your CatDV server perhaps?) and a decent pipe (10Mb or so), you can easily host your own solution with no monthly fees. (Use that budget to get a faster pipe for your shop?)
It’s fully skin-able, has an ipad interface, and gives you most anything you’d need for cloud sharing of assets.
https://www.northshoreautomation.com/solutions/overview/
Has more info on it. You can contact your CatDV dealer in America and you can get it from Squarebox if you’re outside the US.
I’m trying to get a demo video done and I’ll post when that’s available.
And again, thanks for the tip on Fordela, it sounds like a cool solution.
bryson
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I’d assume that “summary” is a non editable tab in the system.
Try duplicating it with a different name and I’m sure it’ll be fine.
bryson
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Apologies for the misunderstandings here. This was actually aimed at finding some end users, not vendors or resellers, who could speak to this on here.
The original request was from a client who had spoken to tons of manufacturers but no actual end users.
The main concern I see is the use of network shares on FCPX. FCP7 seems fine with this workflow and I suspect Premiere would be happy as well but I’m curious about how people are handling this in the field.
They’ve made their decision now but it’s good to have a public list of the providers if nothing else.
It’s such a small industry, it blows me away. Good to see so many folks I know pipe up. 😉
bryson
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CatDV Betas are like a long Summer afternoon…
They stretch on for a while, but the versions keep coming. 😉
I think that’s good to say here because I’ve had IT guys rail at me for running beta software on deployments. In this product, because of its depth, beta periods are long and no public beta should be feared, in my opinion and experience.
bryson
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Do the files play? If not, there’s your answer.
If so, then we get to look into CatDV but I seldom see a “good” playable file that won’t import.
However, I don’t use avi much so it may be specific to that wrapper.
bryson
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Here are my recommendations.
Worker is easy, drag and drop.
CatDV Pro, also drag and drop.
Here are the gotchas for CatDV Server.
I’d clone the entire drive before upgrading server as that’s a simple restore. Barring that, you can dump the database using the “Export” button in the control panel, or in the MySQL command line or other SQL tools.
Also be careful that you install the same version of CatDV Server on the new box. For instance, if you choose to upgrade your version of server (CatDV Server newer versions generally work with older versions of the client so you can do this) then I’d upgrade the CatDV Server app on the old OS before upgrading the OS. If you still have the old installer then you can keep it all the same on the new box. The reason for this is that the installer often upgrades the schema so you can’t restore an older db dump onto a newer load of CatDV Server in the case of restoring from a backup.
Additionally Lion does not include MySQL in the OS install so you will need to install a current build of MySQL after your clean server OS install and before installing CatDV. The instructions are in the CatDV Server read me so maybe take a look and decide if you need assistance before it’s Friday night before a deadline and you have a server with no db on it and need it to work on Monday am. Those tend to be expensive weekends. 😉
One final note, CatDV is the least of your concerns in upgrading OSX Server from SL to Lion. Make sure to read and follow all of the online docs if you have other services running on that box. Lion has all sorts of “new things” in there.
Hope this helps!
bryson
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