Wednesday, March 6, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: Hope for Avid - Interplay Connect and Sphere

 

4K? Over the internet? You are kidding right? Unless you compress the heck out of it in which case, what's the point of 4K? Might as well shoot 100K and squeeze it down to 1.5Mbps.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Quinsee-Jover" wrote:
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> Can it handle 4k?
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> 2k?
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> Tony
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> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Rupert Watson
> Sent: 06 March 2013 15:23
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> Subject: RE: [Avid-L2] Hope for Avid - Interplay Connect and Sphere
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> We demoed this last week at BVE in the UK and I have to agree. A game
> changer.
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> Rupert Watson
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> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Steve Hullfish
> Sent: 06 March 2013 15:09
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Hope for Avid - Interplay Connect and Sphere
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> I went to see the presentation on Interplay Connect (different than just
> "Interplay) and Sphere.
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> These are probably the most impressive products I've seen from Avid in a
> long time (and play into Terry and other's perspective of Avid as now being
> a server company)
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> Interplay Connect allows anyone, anywhere access to an Isis, through
> Interplay to be able to log footage and do review and approval. Through a
> web browser, it's possible to watch raw footage, place locators, open and
> download and comment on any other types of files that might be on Isis, and
> do frame accurate review and approval of sequences. It even allows the
> creation of very basic sequences - like selects reels - from a browser, even
> using a pretty crappy internet connection.
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> Sphere allows a Symphony or Media Composer running anywhere there's an
> internet connection to edit footage that resides entirely on an Isis in a
> remote location. This obviously has implications for all of us. It also
> allows a remote Media Composer or Symphony to ingest footage on location and
> upload it - as either proxy or full resolution - to the Isis in another
> distant location. That was pretty cool to see. It allowed remote footage to
> be intercut seamlessly with local footage and for the MC to upload JUST the
> local footage used in the sequence - at full rez - in the background WHILE
> MC continued to edit.
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> I rarely use the word "game changer" but I think this is one. Clearly Avid
> has had all of the individual piece of this for a long time, but they
> assembled them together in something much more lovely than a "Frankenstein"
> kludge.
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> The only real issue with this, is that with the cost of the Isis, Interplay,
> Interplay Connect and Sphere licenses, it's clearly over most people's
> heads. But these solutions are ideal for several projects I'm working on at
> the moment and several that people for whom I'm consulting are having. Very
> impressive. Kudos to the team. BTW, Bob Russo demoed the whole thing
> beautifully.
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> If you haven't seen this working in a local sales presentation, check it out
> at NAB.
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> Steve Hullfish
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