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  Final Cut Server: An Introductory Overview
Subject:   Useful for me?
Date:   2009-02-24 13:01:52
From:   charliemiller
Response to: Useful for me?

Steve, I'd say FCSVR could help your workflow out by helping to distribute some of these tasks across multiple machines – ingest, editing, transcoding, etc. Yes, you will need a license of FCP for each machine. Also, Compressor (the engine that FCSVR uses for transcoding) doesn't support WMV encoding out of the box. You'll need Telestream's Flip4Mac plug-ing.


Also, be sure to budget for cost and time of integration... as I mentioned in the article, installing FCSVR is easy, but customizing it to work the way you want can take some patience. If you think you'll need some help, you can check Apple's website for authorized integrators in your area.
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  • Useful for me?
    2009-02-27 09:53:33  Steve Mebs [Reply | View]

    Thanks Charlie.

    In your opinion, is a G5 adequate for our setup where there'd be only one, maybe two people connecting over GigE?

    For the laptop that I'd be logging/capturing with, would an older version of FCP work, or do we need the latest version? We have plenty of old versions in the closet.
    • Charlie Miller photo Useful for me?
      2009-03-01 21:49:05  Charlie Miller | O'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

      The place you'd see a performance hit with a G5 vs. a modern Mac is with transcoding in Compressor. I couldn't say for sure, as I haven't used Compressor 3 on a PPC Mac.

      Regarding capture: the Apple website specifies Final Cut Pro 6.0.4 or later for compatibility, so you'd likely want to upgrade your client workstations.

      Charlie