[UniMacTech] Final Cut Studio Content via NFS Share

[Tony Williams]

Mark,

I'll probably be looking at just this situtation myself before the end of
the year so I'd be more than ready to swap notes.

// Tony

Tony R. Williams
Desktop Technologies Officer (Macintosh)
University of Newcastle, Australia
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phone +61 2 4921 6530

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Mark Szota <
mark.szota at infotech.monash.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Based on Apple's KB article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2909
>
> I am assuming it would be possible to store this content on a server and
> then make that accessible to desktops via NFS, and have the share(s) mount
> inline with the original paths as created by the Final Cut installers?  This
> would save duplicating a lot of data and reduce the size of our student lab
> SOE considerably, although a server/network failure may or may not cause
> problems with running the Final Cut apps.
>
> Has anyone tried this or is already adopting a similar approach? We only 20
> Final Cut licenses so it would not be serving a large number of users, and
> it would be unlikely that all 20 desktops would be running the FC suite
> simultaneously. I'm confident our server is well equipped to handle the load
> that would be placed on it.
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
> --
> Mark Szota
>
> Campus IT Co-ordinator
> Berwick School of IT
> Monash University
> Clyde Road, Berwick, Victoria, Australia, 3806
>
> Tel: +61 3 9904 7122
> email: Mark.Szota at infotech.monash.edu.au
>
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