[Oliver Peters]

[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?

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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?

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[Jeremy Garchow] “Right now, my only issue is not being able to batch relink Mxf master files to h264 proxies in fcpx”

Relinking with FCPX is terrible. Generally it either works or not at all. Premiere is muuuuuuch better at that. My guess is that your folder names and paths do not perfectly match. For FCPX, it also needs matching TC and audio configurations, but you probably know that. It’s also not a good app for anything MXF.

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[Jeremy Garchow] “I think this is the most practical. You have to make REALLY light proxies though.”

Bear in mind that I have only tested this. But look through my review of Postlab, which is ideal for FCPX.

https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2020/03/07/a-first-look-at-postlab-cloud/

But more important to this discussion than how Postlab works was moving the files. I created very lightweight proxies that could be moved easily and cheaply through Frame. Granted you could use other services, too. But if you are only concerned about craft editing at home, this would be one way to go. Naturally you could just as easily copy files to a drive, but it is one way.

However, for edit proxies, these need to be a wrapper format that properly supports your audio channel configuration and TC, otherwise relinking is an issue. So MOV or MXF using a range of codecs, such as DNxLB (not with FCPX), XDCAM35, ProRes Proxy, or even H264 (wrapped as MOV).

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[Oliver Peters]

[Jeremy Garchow] “There are much less of us, then there are Netflix users. ;D”

Yes and no. Wait until everyone wants to be on the cloud and with full resolution. The aggregate bandwidth might not be that much different.

[Jeremy Garchow] “I am trying to work with SNS’s Nomad solution all though TeamViewer from the home to the mothership”

Good luck with that. The fallacy of this approach is that you still have to have a manned facility somewhere that does not run on auto-pilot.

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For the Avid editors in the crowd

https://www.avid.com/remote-work

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[Oliver Peters]

From the effort that Adobe is putting into iOS, I would expect them to have a nice complement of “pro” apps running on iOS long before Apple does.

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https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/18/21185188/ipad-trackpad-how-to-support-mouse-cursor

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Boiling everything down

https://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/news/news-features/howto/workflows-from-home-what-youll-need-for-remote-collaboration

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[Oliver Peters]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “considering that the newsroom press release has a picture of Lumafusion on the iPad, maybe I shouldn’t get my hopes up ;-)”

FWIW, Lumafusion will now export an FCPXML, so you can go from there to FCPX. But also to Resolve (directly) or Premiere (via XtoCC).

Of course, you could also go with Adobe Rush on the iPad Pro ☺

– Oliver

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