Storage on the cloud?
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--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jay Mahavier <jay_mahavier@...> wrote:
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> The big thing is that if Avid insists on including the media sharing too, basically a full blown Unity Cloud system with centralizing media also, then what it's going to cost is going to be prohibitive for most users. Cloud based media can be an option, BUT, there needs to be a lower priced Bin/Project only system. And price it down somewhere around 8k-10k (1TB mirrored storage for project, bins, and attic. No licenses included).
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> And as for the connection licenses. Consider having Workstation/User based licenses. Why? Because currently lets say you have a Unity with 5 licenses and they are all being used on a regular basis. But a project comes along and you need to bring in 3 more workstations for 5 months. The shop then has to go buy 3 more licenses. Which of itself is no big deal. After the crunch time the 3 temp stations are gone, and the shop is back to 5 regular workstations. Then the maintenance contract is up for renewal and the price has gone up because the dongle is listed as having 8 licenses. And that's the new cost they have to pay even if those 3 other workstations aren't around any more. Which is just punishing your customers for wanting to use Avid products and workflows. And just serves to piss your user base (like me) off. Like when Avid doesn't want to let us convert a Fiber license to an Ethernet license and says that we have to buy the additional license which is going to drive up our support cost even though we won't be adding any additional workstations. But that's another story that has me all sorts of pissed off about how shitty Avid can be at times.
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> If Avid still wants the license to be server based then there should be a way to rent them and then deactivate them when they are no longer needed or making support contract cost based on installed hardware and not based on licenses count.
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> What would be more tricky would be to have two different levels of licenses to go with the two different levels of cloud servers. One license that can access Projects and Bins, and also media if connected to a Media Cloud Server. And then another license that for half the cost that can only access Projects and Bins from either the Project/Bin Cloud Server or the Media Cloud Server. But that might get a little too tricky.
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> Another option to buying ones own cloud server is for Avid to be able to house a cloud server and host the project and bins for the customer at a monthly charge. But any user/workstation that wants to connect has to buy their own connection license.
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> And what would be really great is if you could figure out how to extend the bin locking feature to nonAvid files. Like Photoshop files, Office Docs, After Effects projects, Premier projects, FCP projects, etc. That of course can be a price premium add-on.
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> Just a few ideas. Maybe some are workable, maybe some are best left to another company.
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> Jay
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> On Oct 26, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Frank Capria wrote:
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> > Someone's reading it. :)
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> > Frank Capria
> > (508) 709 9212
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> >
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Robert Lawson <avidrhl@...> wrote:
> >
> >> Jay,
> >>
> >> Hopefully someone at Avid is reading this thread, because *that* is a
> >> great idea.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/26/11, Jay Mahavier <jay_mahavier@...> wrote:
> >>> I disagree. Local media is fine. What I want on the cloud is Unity
> >> style
> >>> bin/project sharing with bin locking.
> >>>
> >>> They need to start selling a stand alone cloud server for bin/project
> >>> sharing. Licenses based on number of concurrent connections. Bin and
> >>> project creation directly to the cloud server, no bin copying to or from.
> >>> Bin sizes will need to come down a bit so that save times aren't to
> >>> burdensome. That or have auto-saves done to a local temp space and then
> >>> when the bin gets closed or manually saved it updates to the cloud server
> >>> for others. I'll manage new media through Aspera transfers or
> >> something.
> >>> But I would like to get rid of the remote editing problems of "oh, hold
> >> it,
> >>> you were cutting updated VFX into the same version of reels that I've
> >> been
> >>> making changes to? Well how long will it take to cut them into the reels
> >>> that I've been frame f**king for the last hour and a half? I really need
> >> to
> >>> see those new VFX. And I'm not done making changes."
> >>>
> >>> Jay
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Oct 26, 2011, at 9:28 AM, op wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Dear Avid,
> >>>> We don't need apps on the cloud, we need media on the cloud.
> >>>> thank you.
> >>>> owen
> >>>>
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