Technology ?

[Chris Borjis]

unless you have a seriously fast dedicated Wide Area Network.
the amount of lag will be very frustrating to deal with.

it’s possible if you have big $$$ to spend.

[Mark Suszko]

Where would you load in your footage from?

One way you might look at this is, FCP is incredibly cheap for all that you get, buy a copy for your laptop, edit in the field using low-rez proxy media files, FTP the finished project files to the office mothership, where someone loads that into their copy of FCP and sets up a batch-digitize at full rez of only the footage the final version actually needed. This is too unweildy a workflow for news, but maybe on a long time film project?

Adobe has an interesting long distance client collboration tool that lets you play back and mark up the same video file from both/either ends of a Skype connection. You FTP it once, then the realtime part of it only sends transport commands, not video data, but bith ends always run in synch. Like when a technican remotely tskes over you desktop, but you can still override the mouse.

But this is not the same as remotely editing. And I don’t think it works with FCP, only Premiere.