running apps, doing work, remotely.. from far away?

[Bob Auiler]

Logmein allows full remote control of keyboard, mouse functions and monitor switching. I’ve used with my iPad a few times and it works surprisingly well.

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[Michael Kammes]

Completely possible…as mentioned LOG ME IN works, I like Team Viewer, personally. Apple also has Apple Remote Desktop. I’
ve bene using these for years for remote monitoring, and the occasional long distance tweak when I need to start a render or encode remotely.

The problem you’ll run into is responsiveness and refresh. Expect an inherent (slight) delay in the mouse clicks you make reflecting on your local screen…plus, you won’t see full frame rate during playback. Something hss to give when it comes to pushing the signal over the internet, and frame rate is one of them. Usually, color is dumbed down as well to improve responsiveness, although this usually something a user can change.

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[Elijah Lynn]

[Tom Strike] “Hi. I realise that this is probably wishful thinking, but is it possible to run FCP (and other apps), execute work, move files etc from a far-off workstation. I have a mac pro, that’s connected to the internet via a network, and it’s that workstation i’d like to operate (from across the country). Am I ten years too early in my asking? I see remote desktop allows some remote fiddling, but not the kind of ‘full command of machine and all app manipulations’ via remote. My mac laptop is the one i’d like to use as the master, and the macpro is the slave. hope someone can help? thankings.”

I also access my system with LogMeIn, plus they have an Android app I may soon get! You can’t really do any editing on it like that except for this quasi way:

Do your edits and then screen share it from within FCP using iChat theater, you will have to have two IM accounts to pull this off but it would work and it would work a bit like the guys at NASA steer their spaceships remotely…. input command… wait… receive feedback… input command… wait… receive feedback and so the story goes…

The iChat theater preview is pretty slick and you can definitely see a dissolve fairly accurately, very impressive and I think everyone should test it at least once so they have the tool available.