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“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.

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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.

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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)

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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.

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