Brave new world. Again.

[Craig Seeman]

[Herb Sevush] “t’s nice to be able to cut on a laptop efficiently when you have to, but it’s not nearly as good as cutting with large monitors and proper audio monitoring for anything other than web work.”

I agree. It’s easy enough to setup a professional system at home. I’d also agree what’s missing is a new MacPro. Even a colorist working on Resolve at home still needs the GPU power. Even those working in a home office still have clients that come in and sit over our shoulders.

It also means that if I need to bring things on location I can pack up key elements and hook it all up to a laptop via Thunderbolt. Key is that fewer people are “land locked” to a facility.

[Herb Sevush] “I can open my address book and still find a bunch of editing shops that have been open for all that time because they fill a need that a lone editor in starbucks can’t quite handle.”

Yes, that’s why I said a few years to go and fading. I do think there’s going to be a bit more radical shrinkage in facilities over the next 3 to 5 years.

BTW I have my own serious Apple peeve that doesn’t seem to come up in this forum at all. One might infer the future from Apple’s approach that mobility is going to be of major importance to the professional and working remotely even if you’re using workstation power.

From the company that feels the optical disk is dead they sure aren’t providing an alternative. Compressor’s encoding lacks a lot as a professional encoder whether it’s Apple’s H.264 or limited feature set needed for file delivery. Apple has struggled through .mac .me and now .iCloud and these services are weak even as consumer tools let alone the professional who might need to share files or documents. Even FCP7 had a modest attempt with it’s iChatAV type thing. We can debate FCPX and where Apple is going with the MacPro but there’s virtually nothing to discuss about Apple supporting the mobile or remote professional.

Apple says tape is dead, optical is dead yet Apple is weak in providing content delivery starting right from their H.264 codec implementation. They can’t even do a High Profile CABAC H.264 encode and offer no way to deliver it or otherwise screen to a remote client. This is a major hole in their ecosystem.

Let’s look at this another way.
Avid comes with Sorenson Squeeze which uses MainConcept and even x264 encoding and Sorenson has a bunch of expanding cloud based services.
Adobe comes with Media Encoder which uses MainConcept. They’ve got Adobe Anywhere in the works.
Apple has Compressor with an inefficient H.264 encoder, very limited feature set, no cloud based service.

[Craig Seeman]

Looks impressive.
“Truly free”
I’ve got to go through the EULA and find were they come to collect your soul.
There’s got to be a back end business model in there somewhere.

… or maybe they’re waiting for Apple to buy them with what would be pocket change for them.

[Gary Huff]

[Joseph W. Bourke] ”
I’d like to hear how others experience works out with this, since it’s a work in progress, but it worked like a charm for me:

https://www.soshareit.com“

Thanks for the heads up on this, Joseph. Like you, I’ve been kind of frustrated with Dropbox, and the requests for raw footage upload over the ‘Net have grown more and more in the last few months. I will take a look into this.

[Joseph W. bourke]

Thanks Gary…please let me know what your results are. I’m two thirds of the way through a 597MB upload to a client, and I’m at 2 hours and 15 minutes – very fast for my connection. And as I said above, the subsequent download on the client end is almost immediate. Maybe some people who are interested in trying this out can create a posting area, either on this forum, or on another, since it’s not exactly FCPX-centric (but of course, it is, since most of us have to deliver the goods electronically these days). Any suggestions? Thanks…

I really hope this catches on – it’s a brilliant idea to use bit-torrent technology to solve the bandwidth delivery riddle.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Clint Wardlow]

Now all you need is a Nagra –even though it won’t synch with your Bell and Howell (you’ll just have to fake that in post).

[Franz Bieberkopf]

[Craig Seeman] “.iCloud and these services are weak even as consumer tools let alone the professional who might need to share files or documents.”

Craig,

I think you’re talking about niche needs. iCloud will likely be “good enough” for most people, most of the time …

Franz.

[Franz Bieberkopf]

Jeremy,

Reductions in cost and size, and increases in power should enable more people to choose their ideal editing environments.

For me that would include quiet seclusion, screen size, audio monitors (and even acoustic treatments), screening conditions, tech resources, a quiet place outdoors near at hand, and possibly a pleasant mountain stream.

I’m sure the cafe is ideal for some, but facilities may well play a role for others …

Franz.

[Bob Woodhead]

Yeah, editing on a coffeeshop table is absolutely NOT a replacement for a professional monitoring environment! And if I could insist to only work from 9-noon on Tuesdays & Wednesdays, I would, but unfortunately, some jobs require otherwise. The aha! moment was that in what used to be a compromise in terms of efficiency was no longer there. Yes, I fully expect clients to continue to request that in some circumstances. And I will be glad to charge them accordingly. (By that, I do not mean less!)

[Santiago Martí]

In January 2010 I bought my first Red One. I also bought a dell precision workstation with a core 2 quad and a nvidia quadro card inside with 16 gigs of ram.
I traveled all around central and south america shooting commercials with my Red One and a Phantom.
All editorial work was done natively on the adobe suite and scratch. Phantom files were transoded to uncompressed on location.
E-sata was used and it worked flawlessly.
This was 2010 and you are saying it is the future?
I still prefer a decent workstation with a quadro card and a dream color, but for my shooting needs I got an Ibuypower with a desktop processor, a sandy bridge hexacore at 3.30 with an nvidia gtx680m. It is a beast, it’s heavy, a lot, and it has a terrible display, but it runs 5K epic at half res in PPro. It has e-sata, USB 3.0, fw800, express card, etc. It is everything but light and portable, but it is a beast!

https://Www.robotrojo.com.ar
Santiago@robotrojo.com.ar
Red One MX, Red Epic X, Red Pro Primes

[Craig Seeman]

Unless I’m misunderstanding you I don’ consider sharing files niche at all.
From “consumer” to “professional” I can’t avoid it.
Keep in mind that often one is not just sharing with work collaborators but with clients who aren’t that tech savvy. Even dealing with DropBox is a problem for non tech folks. I’m finding issues even putting files on a client’s iPod Touch an issue when they try to move them to another device.
I don’t think this is niche at all.