Best cloud collaboration workflow

[Michael Phillips]

Will it be a “send” or a “shared” – A send might just use a service like filemail.com while sharing might use Dropbox. Things get a little more complicated if you want version management involved as you will have to manage that manually with things like Dropbox. I’ve used https://www.rushtera.com/ which is very fast and does a great job. I’ve recently used Frame I/O for review and approval workflow and it was great. AFrame combines a little of both.

Michael

[John Keating]

Thanks for responding Michael. I don’t know what you mean with “version management.” can you elaborate on this.

[Michael Phillips]

if you’re updating bins for example when editing, that you don’t overwrite a bin that might be in uses when doing so is one example. I usually zip up project folder and add a date/timestamp to it before putting it on a shared drive somewhere. If working with graphics and such, you will have a naming mechanism in place for the same reasons.

[John Keating]

Thanks so much. Rushtera is great.

[Job Ter burg]

I’ve always tried and make it so that one machine had the actual master project, and anyone on any other system would send bins over in that direction. Depends on your workflow if that is at all possible.

[Michael Phillips]

I agree that setting up a master-slave workflow will reduce/eliminate deleted bins and work and visits to the Attic.

Michael

[Brian Berdan]

I’m using Dropbox right now- my assistant keeps my project updated from afar. As for media synchronization, I’ve done a couple shows using Chronosync and Slink. Slink allows Chronosync to see remote drives and do backups and syncs with them. Each editor has their dedicated renders and imports drives or partitions, and I set it to back up to each others systems overnight. Worked great… like Unity in slow-motion.

Brian

Brian Berdan
migrant filmworker

[Harry Jung]

Try collavate. You can send a file or docs within google drive to request an approval

[Glenn Sakatch]

I just went through this on a project of my own. For us the biggest hassle was the pc vs Mac issue, simply because quite a bit of the footage was AMA linked. Every time you load their bin you must relink the bins that use those clips.

My pc was looking for G drive material. And her Mac was looking for Volume named material.

If it was all avid media then it is just a matter of keeping it organized.

Glenn