Video Editing Server Help

[Quinn Bromley]

Ok so I'm trying to help our someone who's running a video editing business and I'm trying to gather as much information about what he's wanting to do before I meet up with him but I'm a bit in the deep end here. I'm hoping someone can help send me in the right direction with the little bit of information I've got to go off.

 

Basically he has multiple people using multiple different programs to edit on different computers. He wants to have all of his files accessible to everyone in a way where they can easily edit together. Currently they're using dropbox which is obviously far to slow and unorganized for people to be working on large files together.

 

What I'm thinking is that he needs to have all of his files on one local server that everyone can work on without having to download then upload each file. The first problem I'm having is I have no idea how to set something like that up and get a bit overwhelmed when researching it and the other problem is that most of the computers accessing the files will be on a wireless network and I'm worried that that might now be fast enough to be able to work on footage straight off the server.

 

Any information or help that might nudge me in the right direction is greatly appreciated. Thank you