• Final Cut Server,  Network Infrastructure

    Using Final Cut Server to edit over a WAN?

    Maybe you will, maybe not… In terms of how it taxes the network, clips will typically be 5 to 25MB per second (big B there By the Way) according to how many frames per second and other design considerations. Obviously even if there is a 5MB pipe, the clips are likely too big to edit given a live master asset so you’d need to cache locally, which means for each clip (and however many clips in a project) you’re talking about that much data caching to the local host before you can start editing. To put this into a pseudo-real-world scenario (taking collisions, encryption and network latency out of the…

  • Mac OS X

    Mac OS X: Monitor Bandwidth with SurplusMeter

    You can monitor bandwidth utilization with SurplusMeter, a free download from skoobysoft (source code also available).  This can be helpful if you are monitoring traffic on a computer behind some form of metered ISP connection. http://freespace.virgin.net/jeremy.dronfield/skoobysoft/utilities/utilities.html