To answer your question and maybe clarify things a bit more - the owners want to be able to simply drag and drop large media files that have been sent by clients onto their local machines (Mac desktop Pro setups with Final Cut Studio 2), where they can then edit the clips, if possible. Our current hosting provider for our website only allows for FTP of files no larger than 20 mb at a time, and when you work with video, you have gigs upon gigs of files - so most companies would simply mail over hard drives, but obviously this is a major hassle. Thus the need for a new solution.
Of course, if you're suggesting that I might be able to accomplish this with mac software, out of the box, I would consider that...
If you check out Sharing in the preferences menu you will see you can set it up to allow ftp connections and from within your own network, easy as that!
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First off, thanks for the response.
To answer your question and maybe clarify things a bit more - the owners want to be able to simply drag and drop large media files that have been sent by clients onto their local machines (Mac desktop Pro setups with Final Cut Studio 2), where they can then edit the clips, if possible. Our current hosting provider for our website only allows for FTP of files no larger than 20 mb at a time, and when you work with video, you have gigs upon gigs of files - so most companies would simply mail over hard drives, but obviously this is a major hassle. Thus the need for a new solution.
Of course, if you're suggesting that I might be able to accomplish this with mac software, out of the box, I would consider that...
Just using OS X would be a good option for you.
If you check out Sharing in the preferences menu you will see you can set it up to allow ftp connections and from within your own network, easy as that!
Hope you have a good connection over there! ;)