Sebastien Bertrand
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Hello Øystein,
Yes, connecting your Promise storage via fibre channel is your best option for performances. Get a pair of mac minis with Promise SANLINK for the xsan metadata controllers, 3 fiber cards for your workstations and a second ethernet switch for a metadata network.
Upgrade your workstations to Lion or Mountain Lion to get the free Xsan licenses. If you have dual controllers on your Promise storage, you can use the 8 fiber ports on your promise storage to connect up to 6 workstations (2 metadata servers + 6 workstations). Unless you go over 6 workstations, there is no need for a fiber channel switch.
To set that up, I recommend you get an experienced integrator, as the concepts involved in setting up a SAN are quite different from a standard network installation.
Sebastien Bertrand
Systems Integrator, Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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Hello Scott,
The enterprise server does run on linux, as long as you have java and mysql installed. However, the CatDV worker, responsible for all the automations does not run on linux, so you will need Windows or OSX to run the worker.
Sebastien Bertrand
Systems Integrator, Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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Hello Jessica,
You have to enable the Advanced menu in Preferences->General->Menus
It will make the “Paste Metadata” option show up in the Edit menu.Cheers,
Sebastien Bertrand
Systems Integrator, Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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Hello Jeff,
No it doesn’t. See the following from the 6.7 release notes:
“Please note that using the CatDV Server as a license server does not change the basic license terms. Licenses are not concurrent or “floating” licenses and you still need one license for each machine you use CatDV on – once a client machine has requested a client license it uses up that license for that day and prevents any other machine using the license until the next day.”
Cheers,
Sebastien Bertrand
Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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Hello Kyle,
In the past, I have worked around similar issues by moving the clips to a new catalog. You might have hot a little bug there, and I would suggest you send your catalog to squarebox support so they can analyze the problem.
Sebastien Bertrand
Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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Hello Henrik,
The MXF option will allow CatDV to read MXF metadata and merge multi-files mxf formats into metaclips. To analyze or playback mxf, you still need to give Quicktime the capability of opening an MXF wrapper by using Calibrated{Q} MXF import or MXF4Mac.
Sebastien Bertrand
Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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Hello Jordan,
There is no rule of thumb for the server needed. Generally speaking, CatDV server is hardware and storage agnostic. Your specific workflow and the usage you will make of CatDV is what will influence your hardware choices.
In the end, your safest bet is to work with an experienced system integrator who can analyse your workflow, and help you choose the proper hardware and the software components you will need. The NX3100 is a storage server, so you also have to make sure you will get proper bandwidth and storage for the work you want to do with CatDV
I would be happy to chat with you about it. I’m based in Toronto, but I work with customers in Calgary as well.
Cheers,
Sebastien
sebastien at ordigraphe.com
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Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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Hello Eric,
Stornext is a hardware agnostic filesystem and IBM XIV is a hardware storage solution. Stornext allows several clients to share the same volume read/write at block level. You could very well run a Stornext file system on top of your IBM XIV/iSCSI and it would allow different editors to share the same LUN (given that the IBM storage can provide the bandwidth/low latency you need to edit video)
Sebastien Bertrand
Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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I believe (but please read the EULA by yourself or verify with the vendor), if you own final cut pro, you are allowed to install the qmaster node (in the extra install folder of FCP) on any number of computers. It does include the codecs you are looking for.
Sebastien Bertrand
Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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Hello James,
The way to backup a mysql database is usually by using the mysqldump command line utility.
Something along the lines of:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump -u root catdv > /Volumes/backup/catdv.sql.backup.sql
This is probably what the catdv control panel is doing when you press the backup button.
You might want to automate this backup using crontabs or other automation mechanism.
Cheers,
Sebastien Bertrand
Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
https://www.ordigraphe.com