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

I agree that Sphere has news implications, but I think it goes so, so far beyond that.

I'm really excited about it for production purposes and episodic TV production. I can see networks using this for promotional purposes.

Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com

On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:02 AM, oliverpetersvidy <oliverpeters@oliverpeters.com> wrote:

> I think Sphere vs. Anywhere boils down to how you want to work remotely. It seems to me that Sphere is really designed for news operations.
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> You are working away from the station with local content. You need to access the server for archival material. When you are done editing remotely with a combo or full-res (local) and proxy (ISIS) media, you "publish" back to the server and - bandwidth permitting - the consolidated local files are uploaded to complete the package.
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> In this design Sphere is basically the same concept as what Quantel has also been marketing (and selling) for more than 2 years as QTube.
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> http://www.quantel.com/page.php?u=fc919cb52f36247c19a4fdade742b8ce
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> OTOH, Adobe Anywhere is designed for pure remote editing. It fits more into these scenarios:
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> 1. You normally work at the facility and now you are at home and need to access an existing project.
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> 2. You send pieces of the project to different editors working remotely and collaboratively.
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> 3. You set up Anywhere *within* the facility where multiple rooms tap into Anywhere over a WAN. This approach would mimic how Quantel handles its news servers and not how Avid NewsCutter/ISIS work. Essentially each workstation is a *dumb terminal*.
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> The beauty of the Anywhere concept (so far in theory only, of course), is that a very lightweight machine - like a MacBook Air - can be the remote editing device, since all graphics-intesive, full-res operations are handled at the Anywhere server.
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> - Oliver
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