Editing over Remote Desktop? Or alternate ways?

[Walter Soyka]

[Gary Ellison] “Basically, I am moving from the UK to the USA for personal reasons, and the place that currently employs me as an Editor are willing to keep me on at a freelance basis if I can figure out a way to connect to their edit suite/ edit on mine which updates their system… Could final cut server help in any way?”

Maybe. FCS can create offline proxies of any media ingested in the UK studio for you to download and cut before returning your project file for a quick UK online.

@radical.media used Final Cut Server to allow teams in China and New York collaborate on subtitling and editorial. They don’t show a tremendous amount of detail, but you can see a quick video on Apple’s web site: https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/in-action/

There’s another thread with a similar question in the COW’sApple Final Cut Server forum.

Also, if you get familiar enough with FCS to get this working, that’d be an interesting marketable skill to bring with you when you relocate.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Jason Brown]

Have u looked at iChat screenshare? I use it routinely…limitations – only supports one monitor, and someone on the host computer HAS to authorize (accept)
you to take control…

[Gary Ellison]

Thanks for both responses! Regarding Server, I’ve never actually used it but after what you said I’m definately going to look into it.

Jason, does screenshare allow you to watch the sequence real time and hear audio?

Thanks once again.

[Jason Brown]

From my experience, real time(frame rate) is based on connection speed…
And yes, it pushes system audio…

[Walter Soyka]

[Jason Brown] “From my experience, real time(frame rate) is based on connection speed…
And yes, it pushes system audio…”

Isn’t there also variable lag? I’d think that would make trimming edits difficult, especially with a trans-Atlantic Internet connection.

Also, screen sharing would tie up one of the UK edit suites. Whether you use FCS or not, if you can cut proxies on your own machine, you’ll free up a bay back in the UK and actually allow your facility to bill more time.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Gary Ellison]

Having never worked with proxy files before, and not entirely sure of the workflow (which I shall research) how big do these files get? I mean for a particular project would all the rushes be able to be ftp’d to me somehow without too much trouble?

Thank you in advance, this would save my life!

[Walter Soyka]

[Gary Ellison] “how big do these files get? I mean for a particular project would all the rushes be able to be ftp’d to me somehow without too much trouble?”

See the AJA Data Rate Calculator to get a sense of file sizes.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Mark Raudonis]

Avid is really on the forefront here. THey demo’d an internet based editing solution at NAB in April, but
I’m not sure when they expect it to become available.

Here’s a peek.

https://community.avid.com/blogs/events/archive/2010/04/13/web-based-editing.aspx

Mark

[Will Eccleston]

Small correction to an above post: There is a way to set up iChat screen sharing so that NO action is required on the host computer to log in. Detailed here:

https://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080715205905862

Will Eccleston
Kinetiscape Films

[Jason Brown]

That is genius!! Thanks for the link…I’ll be using that, definitely….