Final Cut Pro X Network Storage Workflow

Discover a better Final Cut Pro workflow with EVO

Share, edit, collaborate, and manage your media like never before with the EVO video editing server.

Powering creative companies around the world

All EVO shared storage servers include built-in media management, automation, and FCP workflow tools at no extra cost!

What sets EVO apart?

Benefits

  • Edit directly from the server
  • Share everything from h246 to 8K+
  • Support for every flavor of ProRes RAW
  • Unlimited built-in MAM
  • World class 24×7 support
  • No per-seat license fees

Workflow

  • EVO software suite included
  • Share FCPX libraries over the network
  • Export Final Cut Pro X metadata
  • Cloud and LTO integration
  • Search, preview, tag, and index your files with built-in ShareBrowser media management software

Architecture

  • Custom EVO OS
  • 1/10/25/50/100Gb Ethernet
  • HDD or SSD
  • LDAP / Active Directory integration
  • macOS, Win, and Linux support

Read more about features users love in EVO.

Smarter collaboration

Share your media and libraries with multiple editors, artists, and other collaborators without missing a beat.

EVO’s project locking feature means no more redundant file copies, no more hard drive hand-offs, and no more slowdowns.

Download the official Final Cut Shared Storage Workflow Guide.

Seamless integration into FCP

Use ShareBrowser’s workflow extension to search your storage, preview files, and bring media and metadata right into your timeline with perfectly synced keywords and notes.

All without leaving Final Cut Pro.

“By harnessing metadata with keyword and tag collections in FCPX, we’ve evolved to a more refined and efficient approach. Now with ShareBrowser, searching and organizing our media is so much easier to manage.”

Andrew Pulaski
Editor and Cinematographer, Abstrakt

Shared FCP libraries, solved

Teams can store their media and FCP libraries on EVO, and securely access them, without the risk of other editors accidentally overwriting protected in-progress work.

Using EVO’s included ShareBrowser software, your whole team can see and keep track of who is working on a FCP library and protect projects from unintended changes by other users.

This method of FCP library sharing is exclusive to EVO, and is the safest and most effective way for a team to use Final Cut Pro with network shared storage.

Search, tag, and preview everything

Every EVO includes ShareBrowser—easy to use media management software that lets you search, tag, organize, and preview media across all of your storage, even external drives, from your desktop or web browser!

Unlimited ShareBrowser licenses are included with every EVO system.

Learn more about ShareBrowser

Integrated Keyword Collections

Use ShareBrowser—EVO’s integrated media asset management software—to tag clips based on scene numbers, locations, and more. Then, when you export those clips, FCP will automatically create Keyword Collections based on your tags!

ShareBrowser is designed to help you finish projects faster, inside and outside Final Cut Pro.

Your notes, exactly where you need them

With a simple drag and drop you can send your media, complete with custom tags and comments, directly into your Final Cut Pro project. So you always know what “A001_C003_080213” is.

Custom tags and comments from ShareBrowser will appear inside the “Notes” and “Keyword Collections” fields right inside your FCP project.

Get an online demo of ShareBrowser MAM

Servers for any size team

EVO systems are available in multiple form factors for Final Cut Pro workgroups of all sizes.

EVO 16 Bay

Enterprise scalability for the most demanding multi-user workflows.

Quick specs
Capacity

  • Maximum disk per chassis: 16
  • Expanded capacity: 1.8PB

Connectivity

  • 1, 10, 25, 50, 100GbE configurations available

Available drives

  • SSD and HDD configurations available

EVO Suite included

  • ShareBrowser MAM
  • Slingshot transcoding and automations
  • Nomad remote workflow
EVO 8 Bay

A perfect blend of performance and scalability for small to medium teams.

Quick specs
Capacity

  • Maximum disk per chassis: 8
  • Expanded capacity: 528TB

Connectivity

  • 1, 10, 25, 50, 100GbE configurations available

Available drives

  • SSD and HDD configurations available

Alternative form factors

  • Also available in short-depth 4RU chassis for DIT carts, mobile trucks, and flypacks

EVO Suite included

  • ShareBrowser MAM
  • Slingshot transcoding and automations
  • Nomad remote workflow
MOD Powered by EVO

Compact EVO Suite server and cloud edge device.

Quick specs
Capacity

  • Maximum disk per chassis: 4
  • Maximum capacity: 30.4TB

Connectivity

  • 2 x 10GbE ports

Available drives

  • SSD configurations

Accessories included

  • Carrying case
  • Vesa and wall mount
  • 6 months of SNS Cloud VPN
  • And more

EVO Suite included

  • ShareBrowser MAM
  • Slingshot transcoding and automations
  • Nomad remote workflow
EVO Prodigy Desktop

The ultimate desktop NAS for small teams and startups.

Quick specs
Capacity

  • Maximum disk per chassis: 4
  • Maximum capacity: 88TB

Connectivity

  • 1 and 10GbE configurations available

Available drives

  • SSD and HDD configurations available

Alternative form factors

  • Also available in short-depth 1RU rack mount chassis

EVO Suite included

  • ShareBrowser MAM
  • Slingshot transcoding and automations
  • Nomad remote workflow

Want to see more hardware? Visit our products page to see more

“All we have to do is put our energy towards creating things as a team. EVO is this invisible force that keeps us all connected every minute, every day.”

Gevorg Karensky
Founder, Bipolar Studio

ProRes RAW ready

EVO’s hardware architecture and operating system are precisely tuned to give your team the power to edit 4K, 8K, VR, and everything in-between, directly from the server.

We’ve spent the last 20 years pushing shared storage systems to their breaking points, so you don’t have to.

Learn more about how we test our systems

142

streams (16 Disks, RAID 6)
DNxHD 36 1080p @ 23.976

51

streams (16 Disks, RAID 6)
ProRes 422 HQ (220) @ 29.97

14

streams (16 Disks, RAID 6)
ProRes RAW HQ 4K @ 23.98

12

streams (16 Disks, RAID 6)
ProRes 4444 4K @ 23.98

10

streams (16 Disks, RAID 6)
RED 6K 5:1 WS @ 23.98

8

streams (16 Disks, RAID 6)
ProRes 4444 4K @ 29.97

See more stream counts and EVO performance metrics

For more demanding workflows, like 16-bit 4K DPX/EXR, EVO is available in all-SSD configurations with up to 100Gigabit Ethernet.

Stream counts above were conducted using an EVO 16 Bay model with 16 x 12TB HDD disks and EVO OS v.6.1 on macOS and Windows workstations connected over Gigabit and 10Gb Ethernet using AFP and SMB protocols.

Tests use many simultaneous unique clips (independent files) of various sizes with Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer, and other professional video editing software.

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What people are saying

We grew the number of episodes during production and the staff kept growing. We had a show runner, nine producers, two executive producers, seven editors, and four assistant editors—20+ users reviewing and editing footage on EVO at any given time.

Jose Berrios
Post Supervisor, Park Slope Productions

All of our raw footage, Premiere projects, graphics, and finished shows are safe and available from any machine. We’re sometimes delivering over 100 videos a week, so having EVO has been absolutely essential to our workflow.

Golnaz Alibeigi
Channel 9 Studio Manager, Microsoft

We were using a 64TB direct-attached RAID, and it got to a point where we knew we just couldn’t get anything done without a centralized server that we could rely on to handle our workflow without hiccups.

Gevorg Karensky
Founder, Bipolar Studio

We have better processes in place because of EVO. It’s allowed us to sleep… without it, it would always be crunch time.

Andy Fink
Lead Video Editor, MasterClass

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