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Working from home
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[Oliver Peters] “You should look at Frame.io. It’s a much more professional approach.”
I agree. I researched them and Kollaborate and a few others. But, again, some choices are eliminated for me because of stringent corporate firewalls. Vimeo Pro is working fine so far.
Ironically, one of my clients, who is the biggest name in telecommunications on the planet (Is that enough of a hint?) doesn’t have gigabit internet internally at their corporate HQ. You can imagine that their IT department is gargantuan, and the dungeon-masters in IT say what goes in and out and what doesn’t.
Funny off-topic story. To me, anyway. I was grilled for over an hour by a security guy at this company about what I do to protect their IP. I had to keep telling him that I work only with marketing, and we WANT people to know what we’re doing. The more people that know, and the more they know the better.
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Boiling everything down
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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For the Avid editors in the crowd
https://www.avid.com/remote-work
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Oliver,
Great summary. Very helpful for everyone at this time.
I noticed you didn’t mention: Hewlett Packard’s buit in “RGS”. It’s getting a lot of attention here in Los Angeles, with multiple facilities deploying them in the hundreds! We just did a test drive this morning, and to quote Larry David, “It’s pretty, pretty… good!”
Here’s the link: https://www8.hp.com/us/en/workstations/zcentral-remote-boost.html
I’m gonna start a separate thread called, “Cupertino, we’ve got a problem!”. It seems to me that PC based systems are way ahead of Mac’s when it comes to “remote control” over a WAN.
Stay isolated. Stay healthy.
Mark
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[Mark Raudonis] “I noticed you didn’t mention: Hewlett Packard’s buit in “RGS”. “
I didn’t really know enough about it and it’s not a solution if you haven’t already made that investment and have it ready. But I’m not 100% clear from the link what it does. I get how it would work within a shop, but how responsive through internet connections?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Oliver Peters] “how responsive through internet connections?”
Good enough to edit with! Might be the holy grail everyone is looking for right now.
Testing now.
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[Mark Raudonis] “Good enough to edit with! Might be the holy grail everyone is looking for right now.”
So what are you editing? Proxy files? If you send a multicam stream to the editor, I imagine the GPU is crunching that together on the remote machine and sending a single stream back to the editor. How is that stream compressed/throttled in order to see it in realtime at full frame rate at home?
As I understand it – and again their website is very vague – you’re running a virtual machine to drive the actual machine located in the plant. Honestly, I’m out of my depth, so that could be completely wrong. If you are doing this from home and not the other side of the building, what is your connection from home into the machine?
Don’t you still have to have assistant editors on-prem in order to ingest files and do other media management?
How is this different than Avid’s remote editing solution through Media Central or the defunct Adobe Anywhere?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Mark Raudonis] “I’m gonna start a separate thread called, “Cupertino, we’ve got a problem!”. It seems to me that PC based systems are way ahead of Mac’s when it comes to “remote control” over a WAN.”
Cupertino has a LOT of problems in the Pro Sector – Speed would be one where Windows blow macOS out the water. Since Apple began doing their iOS must be included in macOS-Thing… Things started to go bad for Pro Users on Mac.
With Catalina and its obvious slowness compared with even macOS Sierra I am looking more and more to the windows side of things. And I have been using Macs since 1994. I would hate to switch but if Apple doesn’t do something I will !
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[Oliver Peters] “[Mark Raudonis] “I noticed you didn’t mention: Hewlett Packard’s buit in “RGS”. ”
I didn’t really know enough about it and it’s not a solution if you haven’t already made that investment and have it ready. But I’m not 100% clear from the link what it does. I get how it would work within a shop, but how responsive through internet connections?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com”
im trying to use this now. my mouse keeps dissapearing – no way to use dual monitors or sound interfaces/ video put boxes. Its not a workable solution IMO.
if anyone has any tips or tricks, id love to thear them. we only have to do this becuae we finish out of house and the finishing house is requesting it.
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[Oliver Peters] “You should look at Frame.io. It’s a much more professional approach.
“I’ve used both Frame.io and Vimeo extensively. While I agree Frame.io is a robust solution for client review, it’s worth noting that one area where Frame.io is lacking is in total storage. Both Vimeo and Frame.io offer $20/month basic plans. Vimeo offers 1 terabyte of storage while Frame.io offers only 250 gigs. And even if you upgrade to the next level of frame.io for $50/month you will still only get 250 gigs of storage. For those that collaborate with colorists, motion graphics artists and others on projects, it’s possible to use up 250 gigs very quickly.
Vimeo also has very robust analytics. So it’s important to weigh whichever option serves your individual needs the best.
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