> Robert Lawson wrote:
> Some of the technology behind Avid's cloud offering has been integrated
> into other Avid products.
> I think cloud-based editing is not a simple proposition.
The Avid NAB demo of a few years ago showed an editor working remotely cutting with low-res proxies. The high-res footage lived on the server in another location. The editor's "EDL" was "published" to the server and the software in turn conformed the high-res automatically for air. This is essentially how Quantel's Qtube works, which appears to be the only somewhat, full-featured cloud editing system currently in use.
A link:
http://tinyurl.com/7lht9da
I don't know how many sites or how fully-implemented it is, though.
The proxy/publish approach works in a LAN though, too. So "cloud editing" doesn't necessarily mean it has to be across the country. It could be between two buildings in the same town. Of course, that approach is already how Quantel's standard news edit systems are built.
In a proxy scenario, like with FCP X, it could be possible to start editing with the proxies while higher-res files are being sent in some fashion to the server in another location. A similar publish step activates the list for the high-res media when the server has all the files.
- Oliver
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