I'm a video editor, not a networking guy, so I need some (probably very basic) advice... Here's our situation:
Small video department within a large company. Two FCP editors, one guy using Adobe Premier on a Win XP machine. IT dept. has never successfully figured out how to reliably provide access to a server on the LAN to us Mac guys (we have internet access, usually, but not reliably to a network drive -- frankly, these guys just seem Mac phobic...).
Now that Apple has released FCP Server, we'd love to be able to use it to provide management and access for all of us to a shared library of video & sound files. We'd like to have our own little LAN (just the Video Dept.) to do this. What should we spec. out?
OS X Leopard, or Leopard Server?
MacPro as the server or XServe?
If we use a MacPro, could this machine also serve as a sometimes workstation? -- for digitizing, so we don't have to have numerous VTRs on each of our desktops, and maybe running Logic Pro to record voice-overs in our announce booth (which is next to our old VTR racks)?
Thanks for any insights!
Small video department within a large company. Two FCP editors, one guy using Adobe Premier on a Win XP machine. IT dept. has never successfully figured out how to reliably provide access to a server on the LAN to us Mac guys (we have internet access, usually, but not reliably to a network drive -- frankly, these guys just seem Mac phobic...).
Now that Apple has released FCP Server, we'd love to be able to use it to provide management and access for all of us to a shared library of video & sound files. We'd like to have our own little LAN (just the Video Dept.) to do this. What should we spec. out?
OS X Leopard, or Leopard Server?
MacPro as the server or XServe?
If we use a MacPro, could this machine also serve as a sometimes workstation? -- for digitizing, so we don't have to have numerous VTRs on each of our desktops, and maybe running Logic Pro to record voice-overs in our announce booth (which is next to our old VTR racks)?
Thanks for any insights!