Posted by nobody special on 09/04/06 03:29

Well, I think what you need to do that is to hook up the editing system
to a SAN, Storage Area Network. Apple Xserve might be good for this.
You would be using two editing systems hooked into this one shared
array, which is basically an oversized RAID system. One editing
station, an ingest system, could be a mac laptop or mini, nothing
fancy, running FCP and set to digitize your live source onto the SAN.
The second editing system can access whatever is on the SAN to arrange
and cut up and play clips, without interrupting the ingest still going
on. The SAN has so much simultaneous read/write capacity that both
systems could draw from it's banked footage at the same time. This is
not exactly cheap, however. Similar networked systems are avaialble for
Avid. Indeed, that's their bread and butter these days.

Other ways to do this involve custom hardware like the Grass/tektronics
profile system. Pro sports guys have other means to do this but i'm not
qualified to cover that.

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