RE: [seul-edu] Video Editing in Education

["Jason Mellen" <jmellen@intellikey.com>]

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> From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
> Of jeremy hunsinger
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:27 AM
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: RE: [seul-edu] Video Editing in Education
>
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> >
> >Hmm, that sounds interesting. I have used Be before and I know
> it is fast.
> >My only concern would then be how to deal with video files. If
> they are all
> >stored on the file server, wouldn't there be a huge network load
> trying to
> >edit them? Or perhaps moving them to each client when they are needed?
>
> a $500 switch(academic price) running at 100mbs with the
> fileserver acting
> as firewall to the outside.  you will not notice the load
> internally if you
> have hardy fileserver, probably with raid.  your bottleneck will
> be at the
> disks as usual.  there is really no need to have the linux file
> server, if
> you have enough space on each system to hold the video files, but since
> video can be quite large, I'd use a nice hefty fileserver.  btw, this
> should like just the thing for a Sun Academic Equipment Grant,
> contact your
> local sun representative about it and check out their webpage.
> if you got
> an ultra10 running linux and one of their a1000 raid arrays that would be
> more than enough space.
>
Thanks, I'll check out sun and see what they have available.

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Jason Mellen
Palm Bay High School
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