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Adobe Anywhere
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Michael –
You may laugh at this, which I did at first, but I’ve been getting high quality approvals to my clients via my YouTube Channel. I got sick of sending a small approval copy via Dropbox to the agency I was working for, then finding out that the final client approval couldn’t be made, because the “picture was too small”, or “it looks out of focus”, or “it’s jumpy on my machine”. Of course it looked bad, it was an approval copy…any higher quality wouldn’t play back on the client’s old gasping Pentium processor.
So…I put an approval copy up on a YouTube channel, set up so that it could only be viewed via a link which I sent out. This was important to the client, since there was proprietary information in the production. It worked like a charm! The quality was great, CGs were readable. Everyone was happy. A bit off topic, but good to know nonetheless.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Thanks Joseph. I have been using Vimeo for the same reason but it takes a while for the file to upload and be streamable. Youtube also has the annoying habit of muting audio if it finds non cleared music which some temp tracks have.
One advantage of Youtube though is that many of the new TVs can stream it directly so the client can view on a TV not a computer screen. But this Adobe anywhere idea means a level of direct colaboration and review rather tahn an encode upload download lag, even with Youtube. Also I am working on 52 minute docos so often the client wants the whole show to review.
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[Michael Gissing] “I got excited to see that the demo stressed the picture quality and that there was not delay in making a change and then streaming the change.”
According to the video, the “change” happens only after you share the sequence, so you’d have to share the sequence with your clients, they’d receive it, and they would play it back. They, of course, would have to know how to operate and run premiere.
The streaming part comes in where the media is on a fast server and encodes the native file formats to this streaming codec for playback on your local machine.
Back at the server, processing is happening to the native files. In the case of After Effects, compositions are streamed as one stream, not the separate composite streams. This seems to suggest that one might need more than one CPU and probably several GPUs. Unless, of course, there’s a newer better efficiency codec at the helm of the CS Suite from which the streaming codec is derived. I would hope this would include an i-frame codec with multiple resolutions. The video also mentions starting in Prelude.
I’m sure we will be hearing more about this soon, and maybe my hopes are too high.
What I think would be cool is to use Prelude as the Creative Suite hub/traffic circle. This would allow you to send a sequence to Prelude, clients could mark up the timeline with comment markers, and then they fire back the sequence to you with the markers in place right in Pr. And of course, Prelude would handle any transcodes that need to happen.
Talk about an ecosystem.
Jeremy
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Used to could do that very thing with Clipnotes. The most dangerous approval tool I’ve ever used. Had one producer forward the email/.pdf to what seemed like everyone in the agency (who all naturally had to comment). Imported the return xml and ended up with like 50 comments on a :30 timeline. Never again.
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[Paul Neumann] “Imported the return xml and ended up with like 50 comments on a :30 timeline. Never again.”
This made me laugh harder than it should have.
I guess I see Adobe Anywhere the most useful within our own virtual walls. We are small, but we are busy which means all of us aren’t in the studio all the time. Being able to create notes in a unified interface that we all understand without leaving the application is pretty sweet. The collaboration between us as a company, would be a very welcome addition. I just hope you don’t have to have BBC/CNN money to do it.
Our clients will still watch web screeners if they can’t come to the studio.
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[Walter Soyka] “As demoed at NAB”
I’m assuming this is what I saw them demo at NAB. (for some reason my browser won’t play the Adobe TV clip)
As I recall, I believe all the files (media and projects) are kept on a server. You run the apps on your computer. (PP, AE, etc) When running PP, the server streams the media to you. When hit stop, it downloads a single full frame image. So it’s trying to keep the bandwidth requirements low.
In the demo, the created a PP project, in Vegas. Then had another guy modify the same project at a remote location and then they showed his changes “real-time” in the Vegas booth.
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Just ran across this video from an Adobe roadshow. A much, more detailed explanation of how it works.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “Just ran across this video from an Adobe roadshow. A much, more detailed explanation of how it works.
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-6-roadshow-videos-on-demand/reapin...”
Thank you, sir.
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