Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Adobe Anywhere "collaborative workflow platform"

My impression is that they are using the Mercury technology to make an
adaptive stream in realtime for streaming. If you have "small pipe" you'll
get a more compressed stream, if you've got lots of bandwidth you'll get
less compressed images.

There are some amazing ideas here and I can't wait to see how they shake
out. Although I assume, seeing as they aren't generating proxy files, that
the server load will get very high very quickly. If every client is needing
their own on-the-fly compressed and composited stream then the CUDA
resources are going to get gobbled up pretty quickly. That said, seeing as
they have clearly built a fairly open structure for this system I imagine
it's easily scalable so you can simply throw more big iron at it and
cluster resources somewhat.

As much as I like what Avid does with ISIS and what they are doing with
Sphere and what others like EditShare are doing, I really like this idea of
these types of solutions as modular software-based products. There are
dozens of reliable file storage systems and computer hardware is only
getting more powerful and cheaper, it makes a lot of sense to let people
build things up to suit their needs/resources/budgets.

Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/


On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Philip Hodgetts <
philip@intelligentassistance.com> wrote:

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> On Sep 6, 2012, at 6:11 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:
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> > I wouldn't compare it to Isis. Sphere is the proper comparison. But this
> video left me with two glaring questions.
> >
> > 1: They keep saying the Mercury engine allows this fats playback of the
> full video with no proxies. Okay, let's see uncompressed 1080 files playing
> over a 1.5 Mbps over the internet.
>
> The output of the server is full uncompressed, and you get the
> uncompressed frame on still, but during playback the image is scaled to the
> current display size in Premiere Pro and only that much image is sent. I
> think the "no proxies" means that you don't have to generate proxy files to
> work with.
>
> >
> > 2: They can both work in the same timeline at the same time. Hmmm, who's
> work takes priority? I'm trimming a shot longer and you are trimming it
> shorter at the same time. What happens?
>
> That worries the heck out of me. :)
>
> Philip
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