“Although you can access SAN locations from different computers on a network, only one installed copy of Final Cut Pro can use a SAN location at a time.”
http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.1/#verdbd6b23
I’d hardly call that SAN support. One of the points of using a SAN in a video workflow is so multiple people can use it at the same time.
Just a quick note. Tonight I was reading up on the migration document for OS X Lion Server and discovered this little tidbit:
Quicktime Streaming Server is not supported on OS X Lion Server.
There are some changes to wikis and mailing list support as well. Here’s a paste from page 17/18 of the guide:
When you upgrade from Mac OS X Server v10.6 or later, virtually all existing data and settings remain available for use, but note the following:
I’m a little surprised that Mobile Access is also gone. They were pretty proud of that feature in Snow Leopard Server.
Be aware before you jump, folks!
Final Cut Pro X shipped today on the Mac App Store for $299.99.
As I feared, the other utilities that normally ship with the entire suite are broken out as separate apps. Right now, Motion and Compressor have been introduced at $49.99 apiece. I’m a heavy user of all three, so that takes me up to $399.99 for the suite. I also use Soundtrack Pro, but there’s no sign of that program on the App Store yet. I’d imagine that will be released as well.
Since I have workflows that rely on FCP, I’m holding off on the upgrade at the moment. I’ll be watching though. One thing I should point out that is rather compelling. Xsan is built in to OS X Lion, so you will be able to get a nice, fast, redundant disk setup to feed FCP. That’s pretty exciting. The barrier to entry just keeps lowering.
My good buddy @fakemacfusion on Twitter ran across this little tidbit on the Apple KB. Apparently, in OS X 10.6.7, movie files posted to the wiki server in OS X Server may not play in Firefox or IE. It’s a damn shame that no one uses either of those web browsers anyway, right? Cough.
Mac OS X Server v10.6.7: Wiki movies may not play in Firefox or Internet Explorer
(Via @fakeMacFusion)
Apple reveals new info about OS X Lion; launches Developer Preview | Macgasm: “”
(Via MacGasm)
Looks like OS X Lion will include the server components baked into the client. Interesting and probably a very, very good move. Could this be a preparation for licensing the OS on more hardware that is not developed by Apple?
Here’s a Thursday morning question for you.
For those of you in the media business (specifically small business)… what offsite backup solution do you use? Why?
The Achilles heel of offsite backup is gigantic media files that are gigabytes in size. If you’re into the terabyte range, how do you handle offsite backups of that data?
I’m interested to hear your feedback. Please comment below.
Let’s get the facts out of the way first. If you’ve not heard this, sit down. Apparently it’s earth-shattering news to Mac users.
Ready?
Apple is going to stop packaging Java and Flash with OS X.
I’ve got more for you.
If they’re going to stop packaging it, that probably means they won’t be delivering updates to those packages to Mac users automatically.
Now I’ll let that sink in. Like I said, apparently, that’s enough to drive Mac users to a coronary. Are you back from the hospital yet? Good. Let’s talk.
Coming from a world of Windows and occasional bouts with Linux, I’ve grown accustomed to installing applications and plugins that I need on my workstations. It’s something of a ritual. When I converted back to Mac in 2006 I was pleasantly surprised to see that Apple delivered Java and Flash as part of the operating system.
Over the past year or so I started to become a little troubled by this. Apple’s updates to Java and Flash seemed very opaque. They provided little information on their site about the updates and the security vulnerabilities covered in the latest bits. Of course I could go look at the Java and Flash vendors’ websites for this information but let’s play the part of mom & pop user here for a moment. If Apple is delivering these updates, I would expect mom & pop to consider Apple responsible for those updates.
…and Apple has been consistently slow to deliver.
Now it seems that reality has caught up with them. The rapid pace of security vulnerabilities and exploits has probably kept them mighty busy. I’m sure they found themselves asking more than once… why are we putting ourselves through this? Better yet, Apple was taking regular criticism from security analysts over it. Sometimes it was because of the opacity of the information Apple provides (which, let’s be real here… none of us like that at all) and sometimes it was due to an unusually long cycle of updates to get these things out the door.
I would imagine there’s a lot of hysteria around this because of Oracle’s manhandling of Sun’s projects post-acquisition and the war of words over Flash. I can handle a conspiracy theory.
But really, folks. I don’t think there’s a lot to read into this. Apple is actually trying to help users stay more secure by sending them directly to the vendor. They’re not banning the technology from the platform (especially Java – boy howdy you people are truly nuts if you think they’re banning Java). They’re merely making Mac users go obtain their own copies of the software if they need it. What’s the problem with that? Everybody else does it.
P.S. Yeah, I know most Linux distributions ship with a version of Java installed. However, most of the time those are hacks of Java that are licensed separately. If you want the “official Java” you have to get it yourself.
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