Storage

Is this the replacement for the XServe? The countdown has begun

Active Storage are teasing us with this countdown to Monday where a machine to replace the EOL'd Apple XServe might be announced. They have a pretty good track record too..

Storage

Xsan

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ActiveSAN challenges Xsan on an Xserve

Active Storage have come up with a Metadata controller that looks like the now defunct Xserve. They're very proud of their new baby especially its ''out of the box'' readiness.

Storage

Xsan

YouTube

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Hitler's comments on the death of the XServe

You knew something as important as the cancelleation of the XServe would end up like this. Worth watching just for the Mac Mini line.

Apple

Storage

YouTube

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Apple Press demo shows Thunderbolt and FCP running 4 streams of uncompressed HD on the 15" MBP peaking at 600MB/s

Wow! Two great bits of FCP news in two days. The new MacBook Pros that have been released today feature 'Thunderbolt' Apples branding of Light Peak technology from Intel.

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LaCie are first up with Thunderbolt 'Little Big Disk" 500GB 700MBs and it's tiny!

There will be many products released soon that feature Thunderbolt, but LaCie has got in there first. Take a look at the tiny "Little Big Disk" 500GB of SSD.

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Video of Thunderbolt in action 4 HD streams into FCP then to a 27" display

A great video of Thunderbolt in action to finish off an interesting day. Apologies if the video above takes time to load, but hey that's Flash:)

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Thunderbolt, Xsan built into Lion Server, hello cheap fast shared storage!

It has been a few crazy days of Apple news and we've loved every leak, tweet and article that we have come across. However it is only now that we are coming to realise how massive the new announcements really are. Prepare for a shock...

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Free webinar on Asset Management Inside Final Cut Pro 10th March 10 AM PST

Looks like this will be handy, a free webinar about managing media inside and outside FCP. The webinar starts at 10:00 PST 10th March 2011 and runs for an hour and a half. Sorry about the short notice, but if they would have emailed us we could have posted this a while ago.

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How to condense down and archive those finished FCP projects using Media Manager

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An old but excellent tutorial. Media managing is hardly the most glamorous side of editing but it has to be done. Even though disk space is becoming cheaper by the day, you can't keep every take of every shot. This tutorial from Peter Salvia brought to you by his second glass of Amstel Light during some downtime during his laundry, will show you how to condense those finished FCP projects down. We had this video up for publishing before the free webinar was announced, a good primer for that one and a half hours maybe!

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Final Cut Pro tutorial, 5 basic music video effects from Wes James

It seems to be the current fashion with FCP tutorials these days to get as many tips in as possible, this video from Wes James is no exception. Learn how to do popular music video effects such as light leaks or even the Charlie's Angels wipe.

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Editshare's Energy Series Storage - Industry leading real-time project sharing

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Editshare ups the ante as it introduces 'Energy', its new high-performance mid-range shared storage solution at NAB 2011. The beauty of ‘Energy’ is that it offers advanced project sharing with sequence and bin locking for Avid, Apple FCP, and Lightworks. If you want more than one FCP editor working on a project then this might be the answer.

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100 Drobos Free Giveaway Competition

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You gotta love the Drobo, here at fcp.co towers were big fans, regularly backing up all of our fcp.co stuff onto one, so when we saw this story, we knew we had to share it with the world. You just can't beat free.

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Promise Thunderbolt drives now available on the Apple Store

We are going to have to hide our credit cards this morning. Apple have just posted the Promise Pegasus R6 12 & 6TB drives on the Apple Store. That 'Add to Basket' button is saying 'click me.'

Apple

Storage

Thunderbolt

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Two ways to manage your FCPX events, one gives access to Xsan volumes too

If you've been editing with FCPX then you will know it is an all or nothing approach with showing your media in the event library. Here are two solutions that get round that problem, one gives Xsan compatibility too.

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New bigger Thunderbolt drive for LaCie, price and ship date for Little Big Disk

When we first saw the announcement about Thunderbolt we knew it would change the industry. We met up with Clément Barberis from LaCie to look at the Little Big Disk and its new Thunderbolted big brother.

Storage

Thunderbolt

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G-Technology show their monster 8TB Thunderbolt hard drive prototype at IBC

We can't believe we read a tweet this morning saying that there weren't any new Thunderbolt products on display at IBC. Maybe they didn't go past the G-Technology stand and catch sight of this 8TB monster prototype.

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CalDigit show Thunderbolt connectivity with ThunderExpress

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CalDigit have announced their ThunderExpress PCIe adaptor, their first Thunderbolt product. This unit allows you to connect one of their three PCIe RAIDs to any Mac, Windows or Linux machine that has a Thunderbolt port.

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