[Michael Kaminski]

Sorry about the double posting. I didn’t think about the XSan forum until after the fact. Thanks for the feedback. We did try a test yesterday afternoon. We can get 2 FCP systems capturing to the server but add a thrid and all of them start dropping frames, which is what we feared. Avid told us we could have 20 clients connected to our current LanShare but what they didn’t tell us is that you can only have a max of 10 streams at a time. That doesn’t do us much good when we have 12 students with multiple streams working at the same time. We’ve been an Avid customer for years and they sell us something they know won’t fit our needs. Gotta love Avid.

So my next question is, will an XSan system do what we want? We are strictly working in DV. We won’t be sharing media files (maybe once in a while). We have our students working on their own indiviual projects at the same time. For example we have 12 users all caputring media at the same time or they will all be editing or a mixture.

Thanks everyone.