At times, “software only” rendering engine is your only salvation. Although a renderer should explicitly follow the instructions to process the data properly (using hardware to accelerate the process when possible) I have often had to accept that some of our machines produce different output results than others. Sad.

Premiere has never had very good support for audio and the user interface. Welcome to the channel linking rabbit hole.

Any audio engineer of any experience will recoil in shock when first introduced to the audio component. Adobe seems to be determined not to fix the mono/stereo problem. 20 years ago, Final Cut did this effortlessly, along with…

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Hopefully I did not speak too soon. It’s a combination of Qsync, VPN and a local small DAS for each workstation. Was working great, but now I’m having problems. Inexplicable denials of access by qsync client. Let’s see if qnap can track down the problem.

Haven’t lost any file though, and it’s great having it keep things in sync all in the…

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Judging by the silence, it seems there may be no more interest in server based editing these days. Anyway, I came up with a solution to allow my home users to edit at 10 gigabit speed and keep the central server updated. Really a game changer for our workflow.

The title says it, and I apologize if this has been covered but I can’t easily find a thread.

Like so many, we had been happy in the office with multiple workstations editing Premiere on the LAN over 10Gb on our 1685. Then everyone went home, took the workstations and “can” edit over VPN v e r y s l o w l y. To speed things up, files are loaded…

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