Does anyone edit videos over a remote desktop connection?

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

I do this fairly regularly with skydiving event videos. Someone shoots and Xfers/captures the vid for me, and I’ll remotely access the vid machine at the dropzone.
There are several methods, gotomypc.com is a good method, as is a dedicated VNC system.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
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[Dar Tamayo]

So you do get full speed video and sound? No delays? Are you using 100mbit or 1gbit for your network.

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

No delays, because it’s a remote PC. We’re not using the CPU cycles on the client machine, only on the host machine. We don’t pull the media from the host machine, it only resides on the host. The client side is merely a remote terminal. you couldn’t do serious color correcting or anything like that remotely, but the cutting…uses very little power.

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Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
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[Danny Hays]

I have edited in Vegas with Go to my PC before. It allows you to hear the audio from the computer your controlling. I use VNC for PC control as it’s free but there’s no audio. Also the preview refresh rate isn’t the same as if you were in front of the controlled computer, but it’s usable. At least it was for me.
I don’t have a static IP address so for free without audio PC control, Logmein is what I use. It’s like “go to my PC” where each time your IP address changes, it let’s a server know the new address so you can still see your PC without a static IP address. But in your case at home and not over the internet, with gigabit and remote desktop, you should be able to get better results than I did. I haven’t used remote desktop but I heard you do hear the audio from the controlled computer.
Danny Hays

[Fotis Vassis]

In your workstation, allow remote desktop, assign password to your winxp, if you want access from outside of your home, port forward port 3389 to your workstation’s (internal) IP (if you have broadband router) and set an account for dyndns (use router’s builtin client or else Winxp software client)

Start–>Programs–>Accesories–>Communication–>Remote desktop:dartamayo.dyndns.org (if outside your home) or 192.168.x.xxx (your workstation’s internal lan ip)
That’s all you have to do from your laptop.

All done for free

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[Chris Haywood]

I do! But I dont believe I get 30fps. I get sharp video, I get sound, and I have to slow down the play back to be sure audio and video are aligned, because at full speed, there seems to be a slight misalignment.. I think a good idea, if you are looking for a super computer, like the other guy that has the server and the 7000 dollar set up, it buy a used server for maybe about 500.00 or less.. I did. I use an hp proliant ml570 g3 with 4 dual core 2.66ghz processors and scsi raid 5. sounded like a jet taking off when I first powered it on, I actually took a step back, wow that was fun. I use windows server 2008 R1, so I need to work on that a little bit. I dont know exactly how the other guy configured the application role of the server.. I did try it, and set it up as an application server, but when I use remote desktop, I dont know which way is better. But there does seem to be some misalignment when at full speed. Its irritating, but for now, I dont know exactly what to do to fix that problem.. I dont think a new video board will do it, but Im not sure.. still checking.

[Jake June]

This is an old question, but it became relevant to me recently. I started working remotely and tried several remote access options. I ended up using https://www.helpwire.app/ The connection is stable and doesn’t drop during work. I also like that it’s easy to use, works across different operating systems, and it’s free with no time limits. Hopefully my tip helps someone!