Charlie Austin
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[Jeff Markgraf] ” a combination of fear and inertia. I know these people. I work with them. It’s not really about X’s professionalism or suitability. Seriously, let it go.”
Great rant. 🙂 This is exactly the case in the trailer world here in LA as well. FCP X can drive one batsh*t crazy at times like any NLE, but it’s remarkably well suited for this niche, as myself and the 10 other people who use it regularly here can attest. 😉 In my almost 2 decades of doing this, I’ve never seen so many people making software decisions based on what companies they compete with are using. Go figure…
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[shawn convey] “Does that mean that if I bought box it could transfer 4x the speed of a single Gigabit LAN
OR does this mean that it reduces bottlenecking when using multiple machines?”No clue on that… someone posted something about “double ethernet” the other day, but that’s beyond my limited knowledge. 🙂 I was just thinking you could plug the Raid and 2 computers into a switch and both systems could access the Raid without any sharing setup needed. I’m not familiar with the synology box so that may even be how it’s intended to be used… no switch att all, just plug the computers into the Raid… maybe the 4 ports are a switch?
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[shawn convey] “I would assume that if your LAN port is suppling the rest of the edit suites it can’t be transferring any quicker than the gigabit LAN port coming out of my Synlogoy… is that thinking correct or am I missing something?
“Not 100% sure, since Tbolt out of the Raid is faster than Enet. But I guess as long as the Enet can get data out of the synology box fast enough it should work. Get a couple cat 6 cables and give it a shot. 🙂
EDIT: with a little 4 port switch you might not even need to set up sharing on the main system. Just plug main, laptop, and Raid into the switch. I’m venturing off into speculation land, so hopefully a brighter mind can pop in to confirm or deny this.. 😉
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[shawn convey] “Just to be clear you are not using the R8’s Thunderbolt connection at all and just the gigabit LAN port and you have not has issues with 1080p / ProRes 422?
are you using any specific switches or other devices to avoid bottlenecking?”Yes and no. Tbolt 2 from the R8 to the (new) mini running Server app. GB Enet from the Mini to a Netgear switch (ProSafe 24 port GB Enet is the model fwiw) And the edit systems hang off that. All Libraries/projects/cache/scratch discs are local, so we’re mostly just reading. the only time it gets a bit choppy is if all 6 systems are working and someone tries to copy (write) a feature or something large to the server. I don’t think even that would be an issue with fewer systems.
If all you’re doing is running off 1 main system with an occasional need for a laptop to access it, I’d imagine that Tbolt 2 to the main system, and then maybe file sharing over GB Enet to the laptop would work fine. Don’t know if you’d even need the switch.
As we are running a dedicated server I’ve not tried that, but I imagine it would work, just need to set up sharing on the “master” system.
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[Joe Marler] “Actual real-world file transfer speed of gigabit ethernet is often slower than people expect.”
FWIW, we run 6-7 systems with a mix of NLE’s (X, 7, Pr) off a mac mini/pegasus2 R8 NAS over GB Enet and it’s fine. Our sources are all generally 720p or 1080p ProRes 422.
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I’m with ya here… Hate the “tease” before commercial more than anything… A while ago I watched all the seasons of Columbo on Netflix… The pre-show and pre-commercial teases appeared in the 70’s.. Made watching the shows worse…
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[Daniel Frome] “AKA color board chooser. “
Hilarious!. :-/
I see this all the time, by the way.
“No real FCP X jobs!”
“Here’s one!”
“lol! it’s for X! It can’t be real. Here. let me list some stupid reasons why it’s not!”“Nobody in this business uses X!”
“Here’s a company in this business that’s switching to X!”
(pause…) “Meh, that’s not a very big company. Doesn’t matter!FWIW, I know of a couple well paying union gigs for X editors here. And, like all good, well paying gigs, they’re being filled by word of mouth. Just because you don’t hear about jobs for people who use X doesn’t mean there aren’t any.
[Daniel Frome] “[Neil Goodman] field producer.”
This just means they have someone to blame for when it looks bad.”
OK, this I agree with… 🙂
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FWIW, ISIS supports FCP X , Resolve, and Smoke as well… From the product site..
“it now supports 4K and Ultra HD collaborative workflows; more third-party applications, including Premiere Pro, Smoke, Final Cut Pro X, and DaVinci Resolve”
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[Oliver Peters] “Yet, many other Avid editors never use it, even when it’s available to them and often even after they’ve had their assistants set up the bins for it.”
That’s how I feel about Mixers in NLE’s. 😉
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[Oliver Peters] “entirely personal preference”
So… we seem to have established that individual editors work in different ways. Weird. 🙂
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