Christopher Lowden
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I already have 2 videohubs and I know just how good they are. Looks like I’m shelling out 13k then.
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God knows why. Can’t see what is so secret.
Anyway …
Calling all Davinci owners in Canada and AUstralia, I am interested in contacting you. Please reply.
Yours sincerely
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I have just spoken to Consol concerning their RCE product …
https://www.consol.com/apple-know-how/mac-solutions/mac-media-industry-solutions/rough-cut-editor/
… that adds web browser editing access to FCSvr.
The sales person said to me that the product needs only QT to be installed on the client and that the licence is based on unlimited number of accesses. They have tested it with 50 simultaneous connections, but theoretically, there could be more. There is no need to have an XSAN licence unless you want to connect an FCP directly to the server. The system exports FCP XMLs of the rough cuts.
All this for a 700 euros!! He confessed that the install was rather complex, but they could handle this over the web for a fee.After having had a look around, this strikes me as a remarkable deal.
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Many thanks for this very interesting reply.
Sadly, Media Manager Select was a lanshare product that has been superseded by the Interplay, an extremely expensive server solution.
But this gives me an idea. Lanshares are cheap 2nd hand now and still excellent workhorses …
But my real interest is in your XSAN set up. Am I right in saying that you access the XSAN via an ethernet connection from any computer on the your network. I presume this is like mounting a disk on the desktop and viewing QTs. I need a real interface as I need to protect where people go. FCSvr seems like a good solution except that I can’t work out how many XSAN licences I need for ethernet access via a web browser? -
Many thanks for helping to clarify my thinking.
Yours sincerely
Christopher Lowden -
Thank you very much for this very complete analysis. I understand fully what you are saying. For the moment I oversee 10 Avid unity installations and I have a full appreciation of why Unitys are what they are and why they are the price they are.
My problem is really about prepping edits, not doing them. For the moment, when someone asks for a tape to be made, an edit suite is blocked with an editor who sit with a client, going through hours of material on a server. When you explain this process to a client, he finds it a little absurd that he cannot prep the material all alone and then supply the useful material to the editor. Naturally the client does not want to learn FCP, avid or anything else but he is bright enough to slide elements into a list, imovie style.
Avid Interplay is way too expensive. Final Cut Server sounds like a good solution except that when one counts in the XSAN seats it also becomes very expensive. I have also seen Ark by Editshare, but have little info on it. I notice that you offer a Maxx solution that is interesting, but again, is there a way to turn it more into a video archive with a simple browser based edit app than a classic edit server. GraniteStor also looks very promising but, again, what can the client interface be. I have seen a simple flash based edit system but it has no database possibilties (maybe MYSQL but this is all too dangerous) … (When you buy Avid, you don’t ask yourself all these nasty questions).The other question is how one can integrate these sort of solutions over standard gigabit ethernet installation, which already has a server (here we enter the twilight zone). I also thought of buying an second hand Avid Lanshare which is a very sturdy SAN box and has ethernet. But I cannot see a way to make the lanshare architecture work with web browser editing. Also, Avid is like XSAN, the licence allows only a certain amount of clients and they have to have special software installed etc…
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Well I thought it was all over … but it ain’t
One of the 4 reels that I am conforming will not play ball.
I have erased all the sound tracks. I have eradicated the nested items. When I consolidate, I now get nice short master clips, just as I wished … BUT!
When I go to batch capture, the capture tools tells that it will capture entire 40 mins tapes for each clip.
I have copied the sequence to a new project, I have doubled checked the nested items, so why do the rushes just appear at the capture & not in the master clip info etc? Any other ideas?
Many thanks
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Being an edit asistant is often a badly paid job that is given ‘not very competent’ people. On an avid, bad prep work is not good. In FCP, bad prep is even worse. CMX has a 3 figure reel convention, which is still standard, even after CMX closed for business some 20 years ago. I vote for better paid assistants…
Now for the really dumb answer to my question. I have a feature film, there are hundreds of video cuts plus 16 tracks of audio, therefore thousands of elements. I thought that I had got rid of all the nested elements …. but I was wrong, hidden in the audio tracks were 2 frame nested cuts that had been forgotten by the editor. Just 2 frames is enough to have all the nested sequences reappear in the consolidate. As the colouring convention is not that clear in FCP and I know of no “go find me all the nested elements” button, these pesky 2 frame audio bits were just devils.
It would be nice that FCP has a Decompose button, a find nested elements button & above all, a simple way to bring nested cuts to the surface. For that matter, why not be able to cut between sequences normally, without copy paste or drag & drop…
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I am just finishing up P2 project in AVCINTRA 100. I have so much compression artefacts from the rushes after grading in Color & Filmlight that Pro Res only made it worse, so we kept with 1:1. It was a slight difference but on a big screen it helps.
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I have subsequently been running 2 hubs (the big & the little) for the last year on a live show & I have only needed to rebooted once. On the other hand I continue to have routing problems with my macs. I would recommend this as a punctual router but I would not center a CAR around it.