EditShare ReadMe - Software updates

EDITSHARE README STORAGE VERSION 6.0.2 ARK VERSION 2.0
NEW IN STORAGE VERSION 6.0.2
extended attributes that are now part of OS X 10.6 filesystems, ensuring
that OS X users do not encounter problems when connecting via AFP.
• Automatic updates. Your EditShare server now delivers updates, reports
when they are available, and queries whether you want to install them. See
“EditShare Updates.”
• Improvements to the Role Assistant and the ESA Assistant. See
"Configuring Your System with the EditShare Role Assistant" on page 7 in
this ReadMe, “EditShare Updates,” and “Setting up Multiple Severs with
ESA Assistant.”
The following new features are described in the EditShare Version 6.0 Editor’s
Guide:
• You can now reset your login count in EditShare Connect. See “Resetting
Your Login Count.”
• The Avid Launcher has several UI changes and now allows you to choose
to work with Avid-Style sharing or with Avid Unity. See “Method Two:
Avid Launcher.”
Avid-Style Sharing
While EditShare pioneered the first non-Avid system for sharing bins,
sequences and media, we now offer a second way for collaborating with these
assets. Called Avid-Style Sharing, the new system provides bin-locking and
media sharing that works the same way it does with Avid's Unity storage.
Each approach has its advantages. For example, the original EditShare way of
sharing bins via User folders is probably much more secure for schools and big
organizations where editors want some guarantee that their bins and sequences
cannot be modified by others. Similarly, deleting files and rebuilding media
databases is both safer and easier with EditShare's Avid MXF spaces.
However, for Avid editors who are accustomed to the way Unity works, now
there is no need to learn a new way of doing things. With EditShare's Avid-Style
Sharing, you get both Avid-Style bin-locking and the Avid way of associating
media files with the workstation that created them. In addition, with Avid-Style
Spaces, you get a small performance boost on Windows workstations that can
be important when ingesting or outputting sequences with six or more audio
tracks.
See “Sharing Projects with Avid-Style Media Spaces” in the EditShare Version
6.0 Editor’s Guide.
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