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Adobe Anywhere
Those of you at the show, have you been impressed with Anywhere? It was one of the big things I was looking forward to seeing when I thought I was going. What are your thoughts?
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[Craig Shields] “Those of you at the show, have you been impressed with Anywhere? It was one of the big things I was looking forward to seeing when I thought I was going. What are your thoughts?
“As I’ve been moving around, I’ve missed presentations about it thus far. The real push seems to be around Creative Cloud and CS Next, as they are temporarily calling it. I really haven’t been focused on it, so I haven’t asked about it. But I will tomorrow if I get a chance.
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I didn’t see it anywhere…
Seriously though – one of the most impressive demos of the day for me was Lightworks – the Assistant Editor/Editor workflow is more powerful than anything I’ve ever seen. Funky looking program but great for long form feature work.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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[Lance Bachelder] I didn’t see it anywhere…
Oh, the irony! 😉
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[Lance Bachelder] “Seriously though – one of the most impressive demos of the day for me was Lightworks – the Assistant Editor/Editor workflow is more powerful than anything I’ve ever seen. Funky looking program but great for long form feature work.”
Yes. It was pretty cool. I haven’t seen the full demo, yet. I hope to tomorrow, but the five minutes I got to see looked great.
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It’s being demo’d in the far corner of the booth. Check it out.
Kevin Monahan
Social Support Lead
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
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Here are a couple of vids on the workflow:
https://www.adobe.com/products/adobeanywhere.html
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Just in case you don’t notice the second thumbnail at the bottom – here’s Adobe Anywhere – looks as if CNN must have beta tested it:
https://www.adobe.com/products/adobeanywhere.html
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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The datasheet available for Anywhere hardware requirements indicates this product isn’t for the small shop: https://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/anywhere/pdfs/Anywhere%20recommended%20hardware.pdf
1 Collaboration server (running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit)
3 Mercury Streaming Engines (Servers also running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit)
At least 8 10GbE ports.
(None of which jives with the video here: https://www.adobe.com/products/adobeanywhere.html#nerolimedia_split_adobe-anywhere-nab_708x398-1300.mp4 – …throw a server together, anywhere you have a network point….)Using the datasheet, the foundational server/software costs alone could be $15K-$20K minimum, but perhaps you could build your own server and run something else, though I continue to wonder why Adobe doesn’t pay more attention to enterprise Linux for back-end duties.
Hopefully they have something up their sleeve for smaller outfits and/or groups of local editors who don’t have a data-center with 4 servers to spare… 😉
While I can’t help but think they’ve designed the product so that smaller outfits need to turn to their “Cloud” (I’m a broken record I know), it looks nice for large organizations.
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[Kevin Monahan] “It’s being demo’d in the far corner of the booth. Check it out.
“I missed it, which is a bummer.
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I got to demo it pretty extensively and got kind of lucky as the made woman demoing had to step away so actually one of the lead engineers on the team did it for me instead. He wasn’t a good presenter but he clearly knew everything going on under the hood so I asked what I could.
First of all, it was very impressive, everything ran butter smooth and you didn’t get any noticeable artifacting in the footage unless you were skimming very fast, but it was totally tolerable.
I asked the basic question, so am I basically just looking at an h.264 feed of my footage here, sort of like OnLive is for video gaming? He wouldn’t commit to say it was specifically h.264, but he did talk about how its an Iframe codec being used. He noted this being important so they could keep the quality up, but also will require Up bandwidth to be fairly solid (which is where most people’s bottlenecks really are). But they are already working on a Long Gop version of Anywhere that will allow much broader connection types to take full advantage but the engineering challenges of streaming long gop in real time with frame accuracy to an editors skimming desires is a huge challenge.
They haven’t posted any minimum internet speed requirements yet, or price. They said they literally haven’t even figured out yet what it should cost.
The demo they had was streaming footage from their systems near or in San Francisco.
Director, Editor, Colorist
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