Product specifications

MediaNetwork Editing Clients
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A MediaNetwork workgroup can support up to 24 Fibre Channel editing
clients. Clients can be Macintosh, Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows
XP systems. MediaNetwork clients run a variety of Avid applications,
collectively known as the Avid Composer Products software.
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For an complete updated list of all supported systems and clients see the Avid
Unity Release Notes that ship with your system.
Windows Clients
Windows and Macintosh clients can vary by release of the product For
complete details on the Windows and Macintosh configuration requirements
for each version of Avid Composer Products software, see the Avid Unity
MediaNetwork Release Notes that came with your MediaNetwork workgroup.
PortServer and PortServer Pro System
A PortServer can have any workstation on your in-house network connect to it
for file copying and file transfer. You can connect up to four PortServer
systems to your MediaNetwork workgroup and mount different workspaces
on each PortServer.
A PortServer Pro can support up to 20 Ethernet editing clients. You can
connect up to 4 PortServer Pro systems to your MediaNetwork workgroup,
and the they can support a maximum of 60 editing clients.
Other MediaNetwork Clients
MediaNetwork workgroups also allow you to attach other clients that provide
additional services and functions for the workgroup. Avid Unity
MediaManager allows you to search, catalog, and manage the assets currently
stored on a MediaNetwork workgroup. Avid Unity TransferManager allows
you to package the elements of an Avid sequence and send them to another
client system, another MediaNetwork workgroup, or a playback device. Avid
ProEncode allows you to off-load file conversions to a separate system when
you are converting a file from one format to another (such as from MPEG to
QuickTime
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).