[Charlie Tear]

Hi,

We’ve been providing EVS support and facilities in the UK for many years.

Providing IPDirector system integration since version 1 and have long been pushing Final Cut Pro for OB work, as well as Avid, Quantel and EVS CleanEdit Integration on the edit side and a variety of other Asset and Archive managements software suites.

If you have simple requirements then it really is a very straightforward system given its capabilities, and the beauty of the system is its flexibility.

On some of the larger projects we work on (50+ IPDirector seats, multiple broadcasters on different edit platforms, integration to third-party data feeds and metadata dictionarys) things can become very complicated.

For example we’ve seen wrangles with XSan file permissions etc when using StorNextFX clients to stream large numbers of high-bandwidth feeds for live editing etc and SMB services on OS X Server won’t help to make things any easier!

I would ask what you would like to achieve with Final Cut Server and what your workflow is?

Are you making sub clips from the EVS and editing from them or using IPDirector/Ingest Scheduler to stream for edit-while-ingest type applications? For long-term or temporary projects (you mentioned OB work so presumably its hosrt rather than fixed-term)

Are these needs likely to change in the future because if so this will definitely change how you should approach designing the system now.