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Final Cut Server Technotes

Final Cut Server Technotes

[From Best practices for upgrading to Final Cut Server 1.5]

[From Final Cut Server: User account name "fcsvr" can cause installation issue]

[From Final Cut Server 1.5: Image Sequences in the Final Cut Server catalog upload again as individual image files by device scans]

[From Final Cut Server 1.5: Blu-ray and AVCHD output options only available in Compressor 3.5 with Final Cut Studio (2009)]

[From Final Cut Server 1.5: Best practices for naming image sequence files]

[From Final Cut Server 1.5: Alert may appear during upgrade]

[From Final Cut Server 1.5: Active Directory bound Windows clients require a custom Kerberos configuration file for successful authentication]

[From Final Cut Server 1.5: "Create unique output directory" option should be enabled in Compressor for transcoding to image sequences]

Final Cut Pro: Notes for setting Scratch Disk on Xsan

Final Cut Pro: Notes for setting Scratch Disk on Xsan: "Final Cut Pro: Notes for setting Scratch Disk on Xsan

* Don't designate the root level of the Xsan as a Scratch Disk.

* Don't share the same Scratch Disk location between two or more users.

Ideally, each....

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2 Degrees Storage (Cheap large HD raids)

2degsnow Mac EtherDrive® Storage Hardware

Mac EtherDrive® ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) Storage appliances, built on Coraid technology, publish single disks or RAID sets on the network where they can be accessed by Mac Workstations or Xserves.

The Mac EtherDrive® Storage products deliver almost unlimited networked storage capacity with a cost lower than that of other networked storage technologies available for the Macintosh.

With the advantages of a lower cost, GigaBit Ethernet infrastructure, but without the overhead of TCP/IP, the Mac EtherDrive® Storage is a clear winner over technologies such as iSCSI and FibreChannel in providing low-cost, simple to deploy, scalable networked storage for Mac. Details...

Raids, 0,1, 5 and 10

Granite Digital Ships G5 Macintosh SATA Dual Drive Internal Mounting Kit

Granite Digital Ships G5 Macintosh SATA Dual Drive Internal Mounting Kit: "Granite Digital, a leading manufacturer of SATA, FireWire, and SCSI storage solutions, today announced it has begun shipping a SATA Dual Drive Internal Mounting Kit for the G5 Apple Macintosh capable of addressing 1.5 Terabytes in either JBOD, RAID 1, or RAID 0 configurations. Support for both the older (PCI) model G5 and the newer (PCI-e) is provided in two separate models. All SATA I and II drive mechanisms are supported at speeds up to 300MB/s per channe"

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Final Cut Pro: Read Prefetch settings for Xserve RAID

Final Cut Pro: Read Prefetch settings for Xserve RAID: "If you are using an Apple Xserve RAID for video in high data rate formats (such as Uncompressed SD formats or HDTV formats), a Read Prefetch setting of 128 stripes (8 MB) is recommended."