Live studio Ingest to Xsan (Prores422)

[abstractrude]

I have a siutation where a happy xsan with a bunch of client machines now has a studio that needs to ingest live from the studio into the xsan. I have looked at b4m but i'm wondering what others are doing. Would like to take the baseband in (HD-SDI) and digitize it into the SAN in some sort of automated way. I would really like to hear how people are using studio cameras with Xsan.

[bs3375]

We have several setups using Gallery's PictureReady! but I think only one is actually doing scheduled ingests ... to a NAS (just in case that makes a difference for you).

My company was an early integrator of B4M and assisted in setting up the original system at CNN during the salad days of Xsan 1.0 running on OS X Panther. It was a good solution then [and now] but their pricing is confusing.

I don't know if I answered your question or not, but whatever you choose make sure you get vmeter for QoS if you intend on sharing a volume between live ingest and post production. Editors scrubbing in the timeline can and will cause drop frames on capture if you don't account for it.

[jfw]

Gallery's PictureReady! has advantages in simplicity (if all you need is capture), but it has a smaller company supporting it.

B4M's FORK is much more fully featured, which can be both good & bad.

There's also Softron, BUG.tv, and Telestream's Pipeline. And if you only have occasional needs it might be OK to just use FCP manually.

So it depends on the specifics of your needs. B4M usually meets the needs for traditional television broadcast end-to-end workflows, whereas the others can be more point solutions.

[abstractrude]

thanks for all the suggestions.

[d4corp]

you should try tools on air products, you'll just love them

http://www.toolsonair.com/

[bs3375]

sorry for hijacking the thread, but does anyone know if tools on air supports AMP?