Networking two or more workstations together.. with red files in mind.

[william howell]

the setup...

two multimedia dudes in one office... we sit with our backs to each other... one dude (me) is the final cut/photoshop/editing guru... one dude (other dude) is the motion graphics/3d/after effects guru.

we're both on apple workstations....we actually have 5 computers at our disposal.... 2 mac pro's... 2 MacBook pros.... and an intel imac...

one dude (me) has a 32 tb raid drive almost full of two decades worth of video documentation... the other dude needs access to it so he can edit videos/media too.

for a second... let's forget the fact that we're about to step into editing Red files... and definitely need more hard drive space..

with the launch of final cut X.... we lost the functionality that final cut server gave us to communicate and collaborate...

what hardware do we need (given the fact that our mac pros don't have thunderbolt on them) in order to both have real time access to video files to edit on different machines?

now... what hardware do we need to work with red files...

i assume red rockets in both towers... but from there... any suggestions would be helpful...

our IT director is a force to be reckoned with in the IT world... but... the video editing world requires special tools.... and we're not sure what tools we need to make our setup work...

any info will be more than appreciated...

billy

(sorry for the stupid questions... but those are the only kind i have.)

 

[Zach Gray]

We use caldigit super share with 5 stations and metasan. Can't complain. Been very fast and stable.

 

[william howell]

thank you zach... we'll look into it.

 

[Ian B. Johnson]

Get in touch with the guys at MAXX Digital about the Final Share system. Very fast, very simple, very expandable. We've got 90TB connected to around 10 workstations over ethernet (no fiber necessary), though you can scale it to whatever size workforce you have.