Jeff Handy
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Have you tried it out? I haven’t found it particularly helpful myself.
HandyGeek
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It does appear Adobe added file locking without the Team Project feature being used. I like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ6v_9sqobcHandyGeek
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Strange – it doesn’t seem to be a problem on Windows. I’ll have to try a Mac and see what happens there.
HandyGeek
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It’s always done that, which is why they wanted to roll out the Team Project feature – for file locking. That said, for now, stay away from Team Projects if you use dynamic linking. Until Adobe fixes that, it’s of little use to us.
HandyGeek
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Todd, I’m curious if this has already been addressed. On the After Effects versions page, Adobe Anywhere is listed as a supported feature.
https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/versions.htmlHandyGeek
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Once again, I answered my own question. Exporting to my SSD rather than to the SAN made the exports fly by. Three 10 minute clips took about 20 minutes – way, way, way faster!
HandyGeek
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I’d be happy to share a bit about our experience with Axle. We have had it in service for just over a year and it’s been a rocky road. I would like to say it’s been great, but it’s been only decent. I think you really do get what you pay for and Axle is not at the top end of the price range by any stretch. That said, what it does, it does pretty well. It really is insanely simple, like they say.
Although Sam and the team do respond quickly to emails, resolutions can take time. I find they often need reminders that I’m waiting for help. It’s a fairly small group, but they have recently added staff and had a much bigger presence at NAB and will also be attending InfoConn in Orlando next week. I think that’s great that they are working on getting the word out. It’s a good product in a very low price range and I think it works great in small workgroups.
Unfortunately, we have grown past that and the product doesn’t scale well for our use at Bisk Education. At least not yet. I’m giving them some breathing room and even looking to upgrade our licenses to allow for Adobe Anywhere integration. If we do this, we’ll be doubling down on Axle. It’s a risk on my part, but I really do believe in the talent of Sam’s team. They really do care, and I’m confident in the new build they have coming for 2015. The new platform will soon be ported to Linux. They will also be rolling out their RESTful API. When they can get to that point, I think we’ll be able to settle in for a long relationship.
I’ll continue with more granular detail on my experience if you guys want to get in the weeds.
HandyGeek
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Figured it out. I’m on a Mac Pro running ML. The common plug-in location for this version of AE seems to be within the user folders. That means, for each user on a machine, one needs to make another copy of the plug-ins in their respective user folder. Anyway, copying the plug-ins from the root library folder into the user library folder did the trick. YMMV.
HandyGeek
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We actually ended up with Axle. The value proposition was quite high, especially after they announced an upgrade available for use with Adobe Anywhere. That was the final selling point for us. Although we aren’t quite ready for that upgrade, I could easily see it happen within the next couple of years.
That said, Axle is not nearly as comprehensive as a tool set. Both Cantemo and CatDV have a big lead in that department. We can’t do rough cuts with Axle as yet. That’s kind of a big deal, but wasn’t a deal breaker for us. For now, we’re thinking of a hybrid Axle/Prelude use for this system. Axle’s built-in logging tools are helpful enough for 85% of our work, though we aren’t an average shop.
I don’t care for the way Axle handles user accounts. The system doesn’t use concurrent connections for licensing. We have over 60 users, but only need about 10 or so concurrent connections. The only way we could get it working right was to have only 10 users share group accounts. I think this is one of the biggest differences in these system – user and group controls.
The Axle system took about nine weeks to index and generate proxies for about 90TB of media. It would have been much faster if we’d had our Episode Cluster upgraded to Engine during that time. Now that we have Engine added to the mix, the system is doing much better. If I were consulting anyone on Axle, I would strongly urge my client to run Episode Engine and run it on a separate computer. Running Episode on the same system is a major slow down for the whole process.
HTH!
HandyGeek
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It sure would be useful if Adobe had a temporary, time limited, manual authentication method in the absence of online authentication. That’d keep this kind of mess from ever happening. Businesses NEED their software working in order to stay in business. Unless this is addressed thoughtfully, outages like this are going to kill the trust. I say this as a two year CC member with two accounts and, so far, no issues.
HandyGeek