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Xsan can’t. If your environment has AVID video or ProTools audio FibreJet is here to support you guys. FibreJet of course also supports Apple’s editing tools and storage. The video workflow of ingest and capture, edit, and final output is what FibreJet was invented to enable. Only FibreJet has built in project management specifically designed for professionals working in video and film, editing audio or creating effects and motion graphics.

Capture, Edit, Collaborate, Output without missing a beat
Capturing, playback and output require stringent real-time demands for high-bandwidth/low-latency access to the shared storage SAN, even while others are using it. Dropping a frame is unacceptable. This is why Apple’s Xsan can not even play in same environments that FibreJet operates flawlessly, such as demanding low-latency Protools systems.

Work together, without losing your head
With FibreJet, multiple editors can share the same source material concurrently at the same time, including having the same projects open. With Apple’s Xsan you will find yourself losing each others work if you try this one — have both editors open a Final Cut Pro project and start editing, whoever saves their file last will overwrite without any warning all the work the other editor has performed! This can not happen with FibreJet, as it protects against this very case, while at the same time letting multiple editors safely use the same material concurrently! Sorry Xsan, can’t play here either. What’s more, there is no limit with FibreJet to the amount of storage you can add for projects or the number of workstations you can add to the SAN. Files never need to be transferred between machines (good riddance to sneakernet!), thus eliminating wasted storage. Want to reserve exclusive access to the bandwidth of a storage resource for a finishing workstation? No problem with FibreJet.

Use storage more efficiently
FibreJet makes it more easy than Xsan to create different storage pools, such as fastest, or more protected.

Use storage more efficiently with FibreJet than Xsan
FibreJet makes it easier than Xsan to create different storage pools, such as fastest, or more protected to transparently direct editors use of storage automatically without any rules. What’s more, because FibreJet supports standard native Mac OS X file systems and storage utilities, there is nothing new for the administrator to learn either. Create storage pools of RAID-0 for highest speed access, and RAID-1 pools for finished work, while using RAID-5 (a good balance between speed and protection) for everything else.