Matt Geier
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Hi Dustin,
When it comes to specialized applications and platforms like what Avid (and real time media and video solutions in general), you’ve got to pick the “just right” solution for it to work with your workflow.
I know that Small Tree has a new real time video shared storage solution launched this year that supports FCP 7, FCPX, Avid, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, just to name some.
All in all you’ll find some great solutions that are feature rich, and some that are not so much but still work and are reliable to accomplish your needs.
Regarding your question on LTO —
When I was at SGI I sold a lot of LTO Tape solutions. Mostly those from Storage Tek at the time….now owned by Oracle. You have options of tape solutions from Single Tape drives like those which are common among us now, or larger enterprise type of tape libraries and autoloader products that have massive amounts of storage space.LTO is a great way to put something away safely for a very long period of time. It’s long lasting and dependable.
You’re budget probably only allows you to do something small….but take a look around and see what you can find. Again, lots of options for you that utilize LTO.
I wish you luck!
Happy Hunting!
Matt Geier
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HI Paul,
NAB will certainly prove to be a good time to see what vendors and other folks in the industry are doing.
I read this and wanted to ask…
Are you opposed to using RJ45 Copper (CAT6a) instead of SFP+ based adapters?
If you are leaning toward SFP+, perhaps you should equally consider RJ45 as an option since there are a few immediate advantages to running with CAT6a RJ45 connections now…if nothing else, just do so for anticipation of what will happen down the industry road later.
Connecting the two Mac Pro’s with any Ethernet is the easiest part.
Getting them to work a certain way depending on what kind of environment you are trying to build long term will be the tricky part for you. I’m referring to building a Shared Video Editing (Real Time) Network vs just a more data center Copying / Sending Files Back and Forth (Push / Pull) Network.
— Whichever one you choose, set up and the way it works after it’s configured will vary depending on what was decided, but either one of them can be done very successfully with Ethernet 1Gb and / or 10Gb only environments, or along side an existing solution environment, like Fiber Channel for example.So why 10GbE RJ45 copper vs SFP+ optical?
1: — It’s Twisted Pair copper, it’s RJ45, it’s what you have right now for your 1Gb ports on the Mac Pro’s —
This card option offers you 2 x 10GbE RJ45 ports for the ability to have a faster transfer take place to more then one 10GbE network, or link aggregate into a switch to serve multiple 1GbE clients, or some other low bandwidth needs on the network.You may already have wired up copper in the facility anyway, and this would allow you to utilize the adapters you choose.
2: — There’s no performance gain or loss to running fiber light/glass vs copper twisted pair —
In most of the cases, when it comes to choosing one or the other in terms of cost, copper runs save on money, are common in building directly to the desktop, and are usually whatever is between your desk and the wall and server room anyway.3: — Limitation of 1 port vs 2 —
Imagine if you do so well with your networking of this, and now you need to add another Mac Pro with 10GbE, or some other 10Gb capable system…..great, but you don’t have anything with another 10GbE port on it to use…..ho hum…..Now you may be forced to buy a very expensive $12K-15K ALL 10GbE based switch just to support the three of you on the same network….at minimum, if you decide to opt out of the switch, your 3rd system still needs a 10GbE connection, so you’ll need to consider buying an additional, dedicated server, and an additional QUAD or SIX port 10GbE adapter just to get the three systems connected to the same network point to see one another…..
(now your savings up front…..just became an expense later in the future)Final thoughts to consider….
I personally expect to see a higher port count Copper RJ45 10GbE Card come out and one that will be supported under Mac OS X….it would only be sensible since there are equally port count qualified 1GbE versions now.
The idea of being able to share and move data easily on a network is that you will in turn spend less time trying to get each other access to the data, and hence be more productive….in turn the increase productivity will institute new growth, and the new growth means the need for more connections as new people come in, more networking bandwidth, greater expandability, etc etc etc…….
Why limit yourself now with and upgrade of a single port / fiber Ethernet adapter, and instead upgrade now using a Dual Port RJ45 adapter and keep in mind your plan of growth later because you will use the extra port / or find a use for it….
Ultimately your growth depends on your dreams coming true in the future of your business? Why limit that if you don’t have to?
Just my $00.02
Matt G
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Hi Jay,
Google (as well as others) are very agnostic to the domain name – .com .net .org .us, etc….
Google in fact, is extremely keen to rank a site based on a lot of factors. Among them are, relevant content, regular and frequent content updates, external links, internal links, and more recently they are even ranking based on the Social Media engagement that websites are having. (Google +) is an example of this.
When did you start the project?
How long as the domain existed?
What SEO specifics are you doing for the overall ranking?SEO work can take up to four weeks to become indexed on the web! And that’s if you’re doing it very often. (People should never stop optimizing….) If you only optimize every now and then, it will sometimes take longer because of the lack of “frequent updates”
WordPress is a very nice SEO friendly CMS to use.
I rely on it for all of my own sites and I encourage it for the clients I work with as well!What WordPress Plugins are you using for SEO and Google?
Those will make a difference in effectiveness as well.Are you utilizing the Google Webmaster tools in addition?
All of these things can help make the SEO work you’re doing have better results if applied appropriately.
Matt G.
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I think this is one of the biggest problems that freelancers in common face on many sides of the circle. I know this happens time and time again in the web design business.
#1 ALWAYS get a contract, even if it’s just an email that explains what each party is agreeing to. Emails hold in court and act as verbal agreements … contracts.
#2 PLEASE LICENSE YOUR WORK. Especially if they are having someone else take your work and revise it in some way….you should still include some Creative Commons license in your work, and perhaps other licenses as well depending on the software or hardware you used to create the negatives. If someone violates your license that you included when you handed over the work, then that’s something you can legally take action on.
#3 Sometimes when you are using an “all inclusive” price, you still don’t have to include EVERYTHING. In other words, you have to gain security in Contracts, Licenses, and Rules to obtain a price.
If you need some other help or conversation. I’d be happy to network with you!
Matt G.
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Hey Grant,
(I’m not a license attorney…..certainly the first word of advice in any situation like this is that you should consult one, for an official answer to your questions regarding the licenses and terms of use laws in your country, state, region, etc….)
However, speaking from personal experience and as a developer myself as well as content creator and user of others content in my own work, I am a supporter of many different types of licensed and also free use rights projects.
Not sure your specific situation, but at least with what I do, when it comes to digital media and content creation or use of content in my own derived works in general, there are certain licenses that have “use rights” or “terms of use” rights which should be provided to you at the time of purchase, or at the time you’ve obtained something from someone else. Perhaps even the “terms and conditions” or “license” link off the website of your source will be able to guide you.
You should always consult the source from which you are concerned. AT MINIMUM if there is one included, make sure you read any license agreements provided to you, don’t assume you have the right to do something, even if you didn’t get one……ask for it if all else fails.
You don’t want to run the risk of being rejected by your clients legal dept, or being sued by your source, because you didn’t take the time to do your due diligence and investigate to get proper documentation.
There are many many many types of licenses as there are developers, companies, and programs.
For example, Creative Commons, GPL, Public Domain, BSD License, MIT License, etc, are all different licenses that may be included with something you have now, use, or utilize in some way today.
Just remember, sometimes licenses will be specific, and sometime they will not….don’t assume. Make sure you research information, such as what you are doing now to get definitive answers specific to what you are giving or selling to someone else, either commercially, or as a person / friend, etc….
Also remember to provide your own license, either in addition to, or in a license for which you have the proper rights of your original license, and your own rights accounted for.
Here is a good example and good resource in general to get you started on understanding more about licensing that you may have available to yourself to utilize…but again, at any rate, the best consultation is with an attorney specializing in Copywriting, Licensing etc…
Just make sure you know and understand what you are able to do with the stuff you already do now. As long as you’re inside the law of the license, and the law of the “terms”, it would be my opinion you could provide such documentation along with your distributed version that would include license information to suffice for your clients legal team.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licenses
(Wikipedia is licensed under a Creative Commons license)Link to license – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License
Link to Wikipedia Foundations Terms of Use Page:
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HI Terek,
The best thing for you do to in order to figure out a data rate for a video format would be to use something like the AJA Data Calculator. You can find it over on AJA’s website under downloads.
Another thing to do is start your streaming, and open the network monitor under your Applications > Utilities folder, and look at what the network is doing while streaming.
Of course these are super simple methods of figuring out “bandwidth” for the video……
I would encourage you to look at other responses here on the forums.
Having that many workstations streaming uncompressed video is going to be a hefty load on the network and on the storage. So make sure you’re looking at real time solutions, and not just “pure bandwidth” solutions. —- Real time is the key….Bandwidth just means you have the means to pass the data size required……not the means to “sustain” it in real time……especially with 10 clients doing it at once.Best of luck!
Matt G.
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Jay,
If you don’t need the flexibility of a full web host, you may consider getting a free blog on WordPress.com.
There is a good comparison about .org vs .com here; (https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/)
I would suggest that you decide what your needs are for a website / blog, and decide how much you can do on your own, or how much you can afford to pay someone else to do it, and get your own hosting account some place with the proper application abilities you will need to do whatever you intend to do.
Before you decide on a host you need to make sure you’re going to get a hosting account that gives you the access, or your web designer the access and application abilities that wordpress will need to really work well.
Matt G.
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Hiya David and Erik,
Here’s an article from Walter Biscardi. – It’s a nice post he did on the 7th that discusses (in part) some of this
https://library.creativecow.net/biscardi_walter/Avid-Media-Composer-6/1
Not sure if you are having the need to work on the same project at the same time as someone else. A lot of folks can break one project into smaller projects and each work on their own piece.
You may find some insight there.
Good luck!
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Nigel,
Why spend money on Fiber Channel? You’ll still need all the same things you would with a non TB system……software, management, required redundancy, meta data, etc……
I still think Ethernet prevails in this regard and we all will continue to see the Ethernet market continue to grow when it comes to 10Gb and “SANS” that are simply really good Ethernet networks with really good fast hardware to support their sharing and real time needs…..
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Guys,
In terms of TB Transfer Rates, I think the key here is that it’s offering 10Gbit to the device it’s connecting to, over a PCI-E bus.
This really is no different then having local attached storage now, other then price really. (This is an opinion of myself…..)
There’s an analogy that I like to use here. Just because you have a wire that’s able to go 280MB/sec (10Gb Link under AFP), doesn’t mean because you are doing a video stream, or two video streams that it will actually be moving that fast….
It’s just like our cars and trucks…they are all able to go over 100 miles per hour because the speedometer tells us they can, but do we ever drive them that fast on the highway? No. There are always special circumstances however that can move at “line rate performance” like a race track for example.
Remember that Ethernet TODAY is offering FCoE, (Yes….you read right…) Fibre Channel over Ethernet…..your TB connection will not move 800MB/sec …. but you may see it go a couple of hundred MB/sec or whatever is going to be allowed by O/S, and devices it’s working with. (Remember, it’s a 10Gb link yes, but you’re always at the mercy of the lowest common denominator on transfer speeds…..for example the drive in your Mac pro will not go as fast as 4 drives RAIDED on a direct attache storage box…)
Thunderbolt is wonderful technology replacement or upgrade from E-SATA, Firewire etc….but it’s not going to be any kind of match for the Shared Networking you’ll be needing for 2-3-4-5+ editors to share a single storage location over a network in real time …..
It may develop into that some day, but it’s not today, and it’s not six months from now, and probably not 1 year from now either.
If you want to edit video in shared environment, and you want to do it from more then 1 Mac at a time, together, on the same network, on the same storage, over the same switch, etc….Thunderbolt is not that answer.
Just my 0.02 of course, but I’m sure there’s plenty of info, people, and data to back it up.