Apple Final Cut Pro 6 User Manual
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Using Multiple Workstations with a Storage Area Network
Storage area networks (SANs) allow you to connect multiple computers to a centralized
media storage device, so everyone is working with exactly the same media files instead
of multiple copies. You can build a SAN using Xserve RAIDs, Apple Xsan software, and a
fibre channel card installed in each computer.
Online Editing on a Final Cut Pro System Versus Another Linear or Nonlinear System
If you plan to do final color correction, effects, and broadcast specifications on a
non-Final Cut Pro system, consider how you will deliver your sequence and media. You
need to pick a project interchange format that the online editing system recognizes.
For example, many Avid and ProTools systems recognize AAF and OMF files; other
post-production tools recognize the Final Cut Pro XML Interchange Format; and linear
tape-to-tape edit suites use EDL files. Media can be delivered on tape for recapturing
into a nonlinear system, or for editing onto the master tape in a tape-to-tape suite. In
many cases it is faster to recapture tapes than to transcode digital files from a
Final Cut Pro-compatible codec to a format the online system recognizes.