David Nordén
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Hi Mads – I would use the Mac Mini, you should be fine (for some training) – I used it a lot on a Macbook M1, and it worked well.
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Hi Craig! Would love to have you as a tester – currently the transcription app only runs on a PC – but any old PC should work 🙂 The webapp is of course platform-agnostic. Let me know if you would want to try it out (do you have access to a PC?) and I will help you set up an account and give you some transcription hours.
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Hi Neil – did you try it? Let me know if I can help in any way.
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I forgot to mention, that if you would be interested in testing the unlimited version, I can get you a license you can use for free, for a longer period of time.
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Hi, Job. Not sure what the monthly fee is for a Nexis, but our software starts at 19.99USD/month. So, just guessing that a Nexis is a bit more 🙂
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Hi, Glenn. I am the creator of Xatlast, so I would be happy to hear your views about pricing, or anything else that you find relevant. One main difference with our software is that you can run it with just two macs, for example, one editor and one assistant editor. So, the assistant editors Mac would for example have the a RAID connected to it, and the editor connects to that Mac and drives. For things like DNxHD36, regular ethernet works fine. With higher resolutions and more streams, you will need faster drives and eventually a faster network. So, it is a bit different than MIMIQ. Any thoughts you have would be greatly appreciated.
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You are all right 🙂 VidSharX can run on, say a MacBook Pro, wich is also running Media Composer. That MacBook can then connect with ethernet to another Mac (MacBook or other) wich is also running Media Composer. BUT, you will need, as Bob points out, a fast drive for the media and projects.
My test setup for the smallest, most portable configuration is (was, since I poured a Caffe Latte into one of them…) two MacBook Airs with no external drive, just using a separate partition on the internal SSD drive on the MacBook that acted as a server. Then, a thunderbolt to ethernet adaptor in each of the Macbooks and a short ethernet cable (no switch!)
That would handle DV25 media without problem, and also DNXHD36. Obviously, very limited in space, but for a short, fast project, it would suffice.
But, again, these are the limiting factors in any system, in order of how I have experienced it.
Number one: Drives! Ethernet is fine for many resolutions, and you will never get much over 60 MB/s over ethernet and samba (1Gigabit, not 10Gbit). But as you connect more clients (editors) the speed on the drives drops quite fast. So my rule of thumb, used to be – one drive for each client. So in a raid configuration, 5 drives in RAID5 would support 5 editors. This is very unscientific, but worked quite well for us.. But we work mostly in low resolutions, IMX50 or DNXHD36.
The bottomline is, you will probably sooner run out of speed on the raid than on the network…
2. Bandwidth FROM the server TO the switch. The clients are usually fine with 1Gbit from the switch, but you want to link aggregate (AKA trunk or bond) the ports from the server, or run 10Gbit to the switch. This means combining the ports on the MacPro to get 2Gbit or installing a separate ethernet port interface card from for example Small Tree, to get 4 or 6 ports in a bond to the switch, for 4GBit or 6Gbit to the switch.
Then of course a lot of things have effect, using CAT6 instead of CAT5 cables, the RAM on the server, processor speed etc.
VidSharX is for you if you have a bit of knowledge about these things and some time to set it up. If you do, you can save some money. If you have a lot of money, as usual, go shopping!
all the best
David
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So thats all good then, let us know how things work out for you. We all need more info and more choices, so keep posting 🙂
All the best
David
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Hi, and thanks for the referral Bob. I just mailed you William, with a link to the Mountain Lion version, pre-release, but working well so far. The bin-locking is of course important, the text you refer to is a bit old… So that applies to the BETA-version. VidSharX has now protected user folders, with means every user (editor) has his own protected folder in the project. All other editors can open bins in that folder, but only the editor that owns that folder can delete or create bins or sequences etc in the bin, as long as they are in that folder.. A bit hard to explain, but really quite easy.
all the best, and let me know how it works for you.
/David