[Marco Stahl]

Hi folks, FCPX is not an officially certified Strawberry application but a lot of our customers are using it with Strawberry. Currently we don’t have any metadata integration with FCPx but as we’ll see a growing demand we will come up with something. Strawberry 4 Beta was finished in April and is now released as a stable version. With that said, Strawberry works will with FCPx project and file handling on the storage.

[Marco Stahl]

And hwo about a webinar by the end of next week?

[Marco Stahl]

Hi Walter,

thanks for pointing out Mint. We had a lot of great feedback at the NAB show and will roll it out as soon as we can! The product is so new, that we haven’t anything on our website yet but we are working on it. However, here is a flyer that we gave away at the NAB show.https://piturtle.com/load/mint_flyer_web.pdf
Mint will be available as a 4 seat and 8 seat package and provides project sharing for the major editing tools. It is a software-only product and can be installed onto existing NAS (Linux based) or SAN storage devices (StorNext, HyperFS & (soon) XSan). In the US it is distributed via Avnet.

Best regards – Marco

[Marco Stahl]

Hey Andrew

it’s more than just the storage, performance, type of connection or raid that makes a system suitable for media & entertainment workflows.

Some of these systems are using the so called “shared file system” which make Avid workflows very smooth compared to standard san/nas file systems. They offer features like a basic user management and avid bin sharing allowing multiple editors to work in the same project at the same time.

such solutions are:

Editshare
Avid ISIS
Facilis Terrablock
Dynamic Drive Pool

Most m&e companies require these features in Avid workflow in order to make s shared environments even possible. Some of these solutions can be extended by a media asset management system. For Avid ISIS this would be Interplay and for Editshare it would be flow.

Working with FCP is less of an issue because FCP does not require a strict folder structure for media files as Avid does. The problem here mostly starts if multiple editors work with duplicated projects on the same source material. There is allways a chance that material gets lost or that material gets overwritten by accident. as far as i know editshare supports a project locking also for FCP.

So what you are buying is not only a storage but a storage designed for m&e workflows. Companies like Editshare & Avid are putting in a lot of know-how and development to make bin/project sharing as easy as possible. If you don’t require or can’t afford a Unity/Editshare storage you can also take a look at FlavourSys Strawberry. It is a software that allows multi-app, multi-plattform bin/project sharing/locking for m&e workflows. The sofwtare is storage agnostic.

Hope that helped a bit.

Marco

[Marco Stahl]

Hi Mark,

what you are trying to do does not necessarily require an automated project or media asset management. It can be done with some discipline in a manual way. If you are looking for a tool that enables FCP7 project sharing, media management and storage maintenance i recommend you to take a look into FlavourSys Strawberry. My company offers a SAN agnostic affordable solution that organizes FCP projects, makes projects, media files and meta data available for search and gives you some nice extra features when it comes to user/storage and team management. I don’t know any other solution that can do this with an existing storage infrastructure. If you are interested take a look at: https://flavoursys.com/strawberry-is-collaborative-editing.html

[Marco Stahl]

You forgot to mention that FlavourSys Strawberry does this too. We come with support for SAN file systems such as StorNext, HyperFS and XSAN along with multi application support for Avid, FCP, Premiere and more .We do 1GB and 10Gbit ethernet as well – even in mixed environments. Each Strawberry Client provides a google style instant search for projects, meta data, media files and avid bin content. We work on the project (not volume) level and have a build in user and team management.

Have a look at this page and watch our video:
https://flavoursys.com/strawberry-is-collaborative-editing.html

Kind Regards – Marco