Richard Herd
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[Andrew Kimery] “anything involving more than one person need access to the footage “
And apparently the very difficult problem is when we add “at the same time” to your sentence.
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[Oliver Peters] “Apple decided to get out of that type of enterprise business”
I recall those events. But the one I selected above is what I called the internal gossip. What was said and calculated during the “Apple decided” phase?
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[Oliver Peters] “a few facilities in the world that are using Apple File Protocol over Gig-E “
I am one of those facilities. 3 apple trash cans, and 3 cheese graters, with 2 Xraid. I afp through a switch into the cheese graters also in the switch as necessary. I playback in CS6 at full rez (AVCHD mostly but there is some APR422 — which we have moved away-from). And I set my AE common folder to a shared folder on one of the cheese grater’s internal but not used drive.
As luck would have it a good friend of mine is a network engineer at the local research university. Wow. The stuff he plays with is amazing. He carves out blocks of processing and SAN so medical researchers can do whatever it is they do with the data they collect. It’s absolutely mind blowing. We barely scratch the surface.
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[Andrew Kimery] “ThB vs Fibre thing”
I imagine the financing and accounting departments ditched the project as having too low of return, and that is a different point of view than, say, selling units, or being techno-advance (even if it’s branding only from Apple *coughing in my fist: HP*). If a unit costs $1 to make and you sell it for $100, then that’s a business you want to keep. But if a unit costs $1 to make and you sell it for — what? 5% margin, 10% margin — what is that Apple number? — well they will ditch it.
Looking at storage for iTunes, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and Pro Apps, Apple has to figure folks have to store their stuff somewhere and access it remotely (I think that’s Bill’s point).
That does not mean I cannot create my own cloud SAN, and I hope Apple makes the thing that competes with Drobo. OR is it reasonable to believe they will make iCloud.com storage stuffs?
To my eyes, there seems to be an obvious market in that prosumer area for Drobo-like SAN (photographers, graphic designers, musicians, video…there are many people here).
EDIT to add a detail: Today when I downloaded the free U2 album from iTunes, I logged on to my iTunes account and it downloaded to my authorized computer at work. Even we assume the iCloud.com storage would expand, it still (at least currently) means the media has to play from a local machine. To change that means to change the EULA, I believe. It would make the media “radio” and not “licensed.”
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[Oliver Peters] “Remember, they got out of that business and the engineering team left Apple.”
I remember.
That bit of internal gossip, it would be nice to know what actually happened.
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[Bill Davis] “the “growing content” realm? “
Yeah, that why they need to compete with Drobo. Gotta put my free U2 album somewhere.
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[Andrew Kimery] “IMO if anything big is missing from Apple’s post ecosystem right now it’s a multiuser environment to compete with the offerings from Avid and Adobe.”
And that seems like hardware — apple’s thing. I expect something to compete with Drobo.
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[Marcus Moore] “if Adobe was even willing.”
Or hostile takeover.
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[Steve Brame] “Do you mean that you went back in to Audition to re-cut the audio, or you did it in Premiere?”
I had to recut the audio in Audition, by using the timecode from Premiere.
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There are two options.
1. Use Prelude to transcode the footage. To do this, you have to ingest the footage, and set the parameters you want, transcode, then right click the footage and send to premiere. This is a great option if you have lots of footage from different sources and want to put it into the same I-frame codec.
2. Use the Media Browser in Premiere to import the footage into the Project. (Often people are not using the Media Browser and that’s the problem).