[Lumiera] Work-flow II - Capturing

[James O.S. ILDEN]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Christian Thaeter <ct at pipapo.org> wrote:

> Nikola Duper wrote:
> > Well, to be honest, I don't know :). But this would be a great idea and
> > I would LOVE to have this possibility. Personally I don't need this
> > function for now but it would be great for many TV production studious.
> > Christian, are there any plans on this issue?
>
> Yes, thats covered. Certainly not for a first release. I explained that
> in a mail some time ago. When a networked filesystem is capable to be
> used by mmaping files with reasonable performance then it will just work
> as is. Otherwise (if you have a huge, slow, cheap raid vault in your
> basement) then lumiera needs to copy the files first into the working
> area on your workstation, actually that is what nikola wants anyways. I
> think thats a reasonable default but might not suit everyones needs.
>

Long live proxies and working on interoperable EDLs right? :P

>
> Finally for far future: the Lumiera core itself is created with
> distribution in mind. The media accessing backend may some day run
> headless and serve frames only to other lumiera instances (workstations,
> render nodes, ...). But this is only a vision we will not implement that
> anytime soon.
>
One of my wettest dreams to see by an opensource NLE :)

>
>        Christian
>

My wuestion is: Isn't it possible to use a dedicated filesystem and optimize
it frame processing stuff on it? I am thinking about stonefs that Autodesk
uses for their high end systems. It is a wild shot but sounds actually cool
for me.

>
>
> >
> >> How would you handle media sharing such as a SAN or large-disk server
> >> video-storage and distribution, such as a news-room footage archive,
> >> Nikola?
> >>
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