[Francois Xavier]

thank you all for all those infos

(I found out that I couldn’t test the distant volume because it’s first level is protected against any writing)

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[Francois Xavier]

yes the Exanet people are reading us, good reactivity

I am not saying I have problems to pass video across the networtk because this is not my subject, for now. I am just talking about transfer finished rendered QuickTime files, because that’s the workflow I am confronted now.

Anyway if that network seemed slow to me I don’t see Exanet itself as a ” culprit”, maybe not enough ports…

now that you people have give some clearance, I am gonna talk to the central engineers …

as for the Aja test, even with Distant Volumes enabled in preferences it doesn’t see the dpshare volume on the desk. Even if I toss the test app on that volume and launch it from there… Maybe it doesn’t work on that configuration, maybe it’s an authorization problem? I shall try again

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[Francois Xavier]

thanks Mike this is exactly what I needed, could’nt be clearer

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[Francois Xavier]

thank you Mike for clearing I was starting to feel a little confuse, (I am a video guy, not a network guy, but I need some basic info… so I can act )

and I still don’t have my answers, so let’s reformulate, (I am ONLY talking about transfer of rendered files)

1 – What decent TRANSFER speed can I expect to be delivered to me over ethernet ? Like… under that it’s a joke. 70 Mb/sec ? is that right ? I guess in the case of ethernet it is divided by the number of seats transferring at the present time ? so how long should take a 30 GB file to be transfered in that perfect world ? Those Megabits and MegaBytes arn’t decimal.. are they ? I am sure I would do the maths wrong

2 – I still can’t measure the network I suspect to be lazy. The Aja test won’t see that “dpshare” volume on the desk although I have enabled ” distant volumes ” on it’s preferences. ( It’s a shared volume on an exanet server. So, is there an other tool ?

thank you all

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[Francois Xavier]

thank you great infos

– YOUR Reply – what is the nightmare ?

The Nigthmare is that Long Gop renders and exports do more than double the process.
For a Two Hours program that’s two hours… more waiting, several times a day.

-Your Reply – there is an old joke – what weighs more – 100 pounds of feathers, or 100 pounds of gold ? they both weigh 100 pounds. What is faster – DVCProHD across Fibre, or DVCProHD across ethernet – they are both 13.9 Mb/sec – so they will travel as fast on either format.

So far I am talking about transfering… rendered finished FILES. Absolutly not about video to play back reliably.

and that other subject, (shared central storage) having being reading you or Walter Biscardi on this very site, one could thing Ethernet Final Share is a great solution but for 4 or 5 work stations. Maybe I should read more…

Reply – If you thing that spending $200,000 for a Fibre XSAN system will be a seemless, simple, unmanaged system, that everyone can render to, write to and share from, with no issues, you are in for a big surprise.

Gosh … What makes you think that’s my believe ? hum… no that’s ok, thank you for your expert time and affability

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[Francois Xavier]

although … (can not edit my post anymore)

those guys are not editing shared storage they work LOCAL and transfer… (don’t ask)

ok I might as well spit it. it’s a broadcast facility, ok ? for cable Tv (sort of)

they have a very slow ethernet network, shared by anybody who goes on line, download …

so they work on local storage for each station, do all rendering, export and transfer finished file to central storage and then omneon for broadcast.

So… – hold on to your seat – they work XdCam Hd to have lighter files , oui Monsieur ! Long Gop ! with all the rendering and re-conforming hassle. ( Although they do actually shoot in DvcPro HD on P2 ! even more rendering time ) so the whole thing is a nightmare.

so I am telling them… at least go fiber. your FILES transfer rate will go up. My question is about how many times higher ?

and them I will lead them to central shared storage.

[Francois Xavier]

thank you for the fast ” Zelin answer”

much appreciated

Aja system test was my first attempt but I missed “Network drive” option. (duh !)
so know I will get back to it.

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[Francois Xavier]

Well David;

Do Share ! 🙂

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[Francois Xavier]

thanx (my avid days are waaaay back)

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[Francois Xavier]

hope it is still usefull to you,…)

there is a way to do it and I Iearnt it from Philip Hodgetts (yes THE “Philip Hodgetts” ) I am happy to share it with you

The basics are to use Title 3D from Calligraphy and to put a right justified and a left justified tab so they form a center gutter. Note that you have to put a tab as the first character in the line for this to work.

the tip in essence, is to use the Tabs in Title Crawl (Part of the Calligraphy package) and set justify right for the left column and justify left for the right colum to two tabs that are just either side of the center.

In Title Crawl you click on the tab marker in the top ruler bar to change from the default of center, to Justify right/justfiy left.

Remenber that the first character on the line must also be a tab.

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