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Can I use FCP with Unity Drives?Posted by dvprt72
I work at a post house in Santa Monica. We have 4 rooms that are all connected by Avid Unity. We want to start converting each room to FCP over a few months. Can I use the Fiber Optic Avid Unity Drives for storage like a regular Hard Drive with Final Cut? I know that we probably won't be able to access projects in each room like the Avid Unity could.
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I should know this one. We have 4-3/4 Avids in the house--barring any rentals at the last minute. The "3/4" Avid is really a Final Cut station because one of the feature productions was an FCP house. I don't know if it can see the Unity or not. I'll need to ask... I do know we have had to juggle Unity licenses as we changed Avids around. I'm almost 100% sure that if you don't have a license, you don't see the Unity. It's really the Unity Manager you're licensing. Without that, the Unity turns into a plain pile of drives--and not a very talented pile, either. I'm also almost 100% sure you don't get a split. You either have a Unity or you don't. Someone is going to correct me--possibly our Hardware Manager. Koz
I cross posted this on the Avid-L2 and got this response:
There's no reason the drives couldn't be converted to shared storage through a utility program like SanMP. Volume-level locking is easy. You wouldn't get the full function that a Unity would provide, but it would save your investment in hardware, for what it's worth. John Svetlik My opinion is that if you're switching to FCP, you should switch to a SAN that supports it like Apple's X-SAN. Mark
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