Adobe Anywhere

[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Lawrence] “This looks and sounds totally awesome. My partners and I have been wondering how we would collaborate when we finally leave FCP7 and lose iChat Theater Preview. We have our own servers and reasonable bandwidth so if this works as promised we should be happy campers. Looking forward!”

Agreed. It could potentially make collaboration with offsite AE artists a bit easier as well.

Very curious about the hardware requirements!

[Walter Soyka]

[Tom Prigge] “What I meant, my perspective, is this makes it easy to outsource to folks anywhere willing to work for much lower wages. It’s a global perspective.”

All the big VFX houses already follow the sun. Transcontinental workflows are still very difficult, though, due to bandwidth and latency issues.

I lost my first bid to an Indian firm earlier this year. However, to Jeremy and Joe’s point, I have also won bids in Chicago, San Francisco, and Paris this year — and I’m in the NY metro area.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Shane Ross]

This would be perfect for my current situation. Production Company in Virginia…production in Virginia. Post Supervisor, assistant editor and one editor in Virginia. Three editors and one VFX guy in Los Angeles. Currently using Avid because I can send back a bin with a cut and it relinks…but they don’t get the media that I brought in on my end, like SFX and some music. If we had this, and I brought the music into the project onto the cloud server…then they can just open up and watch my cut. Or do all of the needed OMF and VFX prep (the assistant back in Virgina) leaving us editors to move onto the next show.

We didn’t use Premiere on this because of the relinking issues (media management) that happen when you send projects or cuts to another person who has the same media. Relinking is required 80% of the time, and is one file at a time.

THis peaks my interest. Because it looks like the editors share the same project file. As they don’t close or open projects to see the cut the other person was working. They did some sort of sharing thing though. Still…it’s like an Avid Unity in the ether.

Mercury Streaming Engine…interesting.

Shane
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[Oliver Peters]

[Jeremy Garchow] “t might take the form of iCloud integration, it might not.”

Hopefully not. Apple so far has proven that they just can’t get the “cloud” right. It works for syncing your device and your computer – sort of. Try to access something simple, like your iCloud e-mail via a browser, and the iCloud experience is one of the most consistently unreliable on the web.

[Jeremy Garchow] “What I find interesting about this little preview (and of course we will need more details) is that it seems Adobe is going to let you host your own server.”

Watch the video. They talk about being connected to an Omneon MediaGrid. This is not something most editors can implement. They is something for CNN and similar operations, as their press release discusses. The beauty, though, is if a place has deployed the infrastructure, then you as an editor, can tap into it long distance (or across the hall) with the code built into Premiere.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “Watch the video. They talk about being connected to an Omneon MediaGrid. “

I watched it and I heard that part.

I guess we will know more later this week.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Shane Ross] “Mercury Streaming Engine”

rather. I’m holding off now, for the umpteenth time, on an imac purchase in the hopes that the next one has nvidia. I’ve had the cash for a full bang imac for a while, but given I personally think its going to be premiere in a range of scenarios over the next year, I’m horribly dis-inclined to lump with an ati card. Given that so many of us have this as a concern, and apple being an iron sales company – I find it hard to believe that the next imac will not be nvidia powered? In at least the 27″ fully loaded sales scenario, we have to be a realistic factor?

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Dustin Parsons]

Any word on when this will be available?

[Jeremy Garchow]

‘Octember 2013’.

Here’s more info where they do say sometime in 2013.

https://www.fxguide.com/featured/new-tech-adobe-anywhere/

Looks like you’ll need one (or more) powerful computers attached to fast storage, and the client computers can be much less powerful as the processing is done on the server side.

Jeremy

[Michael Gissing]

This looks really interesting to me. I have recently made the decision to go CS6/ Resolve and build a grunty WIN box to run it for post finishing. I am also hoping that by the end of next year I will have fibre internet (even though I am in rural Tasmania at the bottom of the world) so I can have the grunt server on fast internet and collaborate with editors and AE artists locally, interstate or anywhere.

[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Looks like you’ll need one (or more) powerful computers attached to fast storage, and the client computers can be much less powerful as the processing is done on the server side.”

This is why I don’t think it’s terrible exciting now, but if U.S. internet connections get a overhaul for upload speed to where its feasible to upload footage to the cloud, it could be a great boon if merged with Adobe Creative Cloud using some fast hardware on their end to stream it back.