Re: Software Based Media Sharing for Avid

Hi Ian, sounds like fun:) But seriously, we have not been working on sharing media between Macs and PCs, but this of course will be interesting to have. It´s hard to say what you can do to make it work but in general, using FAT32 for instance to move a disk betwwen PC and Mac works very bad when you try to edit on the Mac. We always end up cloning the disk to a Mac-formatted disk, but then of course the PC wont read it... You could look at MacFuse from Google, wich could make your Mac Avids compatible wit PC-formatted drives, but then you should avoid FAT32 because of all its other limitations. If you are sharing over a network, i assume that you are using Samba - then a good recommendation is to use DAVE for the Macs, it is more stable than the Samba-sharing in OSX.

If the problem is that you end up crashing your Avids and/or corrupting media and/or the media databasefiles, then this is exactly what we are working on solving. We will have a Beta-version for everyone to test, but not for several months... I don´t know if this is any help for now...

Best Regards

David