Apple Final Cut Server 1.5 - Manual (Page 12)

12 Chapter 2 About Building a Final Cut Server System
The following illustration shows one way you can set up Final Cut Server.
FireWire
device
Client
1
Client
2
Client
3
Client
4
Client
5
Media server
device
Xsan
volume
Final Cut Server system
Final Cut Server computer
Clients 1, 2, and 3 do not
have direct access to the
Xsan volume and must
access the Xsan indirectly
through Final Cut Server. Clients 4 and 5 do have
direct access and can take
advantage of edit-in-place
performance improvements.
Because the Final Cut Server client is a Java-based application, the client computers can
include a wide variety of types. Also, depending on what the user needs to do with the
client (for example, using Final Cut Studio with a direct connection to an Xsan or only
using the client to review assets), the client computers do not have to be as powerful
as the server computer.