As others have suggested Slingbox and remote desktop solutions (Citrix,
VNC, LogMeIn, etc) are good solutions. You can also try Live Streaming
Service Providers (LSSPs) like Ustream and Livestream. You will need a
dedicated computer (laptop), a capture card (Blackmagic for example) and
a free account (or paid). Far from simple but latency can be low and
have the ability to embed video to your website.
On 5/27/2013 8:56 PM, blafarm wrote:
> I've tried a variety of solutions, many of which have required running dedicated encoding platforms routed to a streaming CDN (Content Delivery Network) like Akamia or Highwinds (running FMS: Flash Media Server).
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> As it's not my principal way of working with clients, I decided to vastly dumb-down and simplify with a new HD Slingbox 500 that features an HDMI input. The box supports various frame rates -- some better than others.
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> Picture quality varies on your upload bandwidth, client download bandwidth -- and the number of network hops it takes to get there. Fortunately, it is self-regulating and throttles the picture quality based on network conditions. This can be an important consideration.
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> Audio quality is not great and latency can be an issue -- although it will always be an issue without a CDN having a national or global backbone and lots of POPs (Points-of-Presence).
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> One advantage to the Slingbox is that desktop viewing is free and is cross-platform. Mobile viewing is cross-platform as well, but requires an app that is nominally-priced -- but at least you are not stuck trying to send Flash to an iOS device.
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> Something that can either be viewed as an advantage or a disadvantage (depending on your subject matter and client paranoia) is that Slingbox is encrypted and can only be viewed by one software client at a time. So, viewing by multiple, simultaneous individuals would require multiple Slingboxes -- which would also tax your available upload bandwidth with separate streams.
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> If this is your principal way of working, and quality is paramount to cost, I would go with something like a Digital Rapid live encoding solution (there are many others) and a dedicated IP connection with your client (or at least a suitable bandwidth bucket from a reputable CDN running FMS or Wowza).
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> You can 'value engineer' this with gear from lesser streaming manufacturers (including encoding solutions running on general purpose PCs, which I have done) and lower cost CDNs -- but it takes research, effort -- and it can add complexity to the process.
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> I'm always interested in learning about new options. But if down-and-dirty works for you -- and you don't want to spend tons of money on dedicated hardware or CDN bandwidth bucket commitments -- the Slingbox might be passable. It's certainly easy enough to experiment with -- and you can return it to Best Buy within 30 days.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Breuer" <tonybreuer@...> wrote:
>> Does anybody have any recommendations for screen sharing with remote clients?
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>> I work remotely from my clients and the majority of the time I export quicktime files and use either yousendit, dropbox or vimeo to post cuts for approval.
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>> Recently though, I have one client with whom I want to actually work collaboratively while I edit. I've tried Webex but it doesn't support my dual monitor Symphony so I have to rearrange all my windows onto one monitor. It also doesn't recognize the Matrox mini for audio output so I've been using Skype on my iPad camera pointed at the video monitor with the volume turned up to monitor the editing. Not exactly and elegant solution and Skype has a tendency to freeze when traffic gets high.
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>> I know about Avid Sphere, but that is geared towards much bigger post houses and not a one man cutting indie doc features. Way out of my price range.
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>> I even considered bailing on Avid and going to Adobe after 22 years on Avid systems but Adobe Anywhere is only available on Premiere enterprise solutions. (or at least that's what I was told on Creative Cow). I'm relieved, because I really like cutting on Avid and don't want to abandon ship at this stage of the game.
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>> I know FCP7 had the cinema output (or whatever it was called). But I was never really comfortable cutting long form with hundreds of hours of mixed format material in Final Cut.
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>> I can't seem to find any solutions out there. It seems to me that with all the cloud based collaborative solutions someone would address the needs of the smaller shops which must be numerous at this point.
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>> Anybody else faced with his problem? Any suggested solutions? Fuze, AFrame etc all seem to only deal with exported clips. Is there no affordable streaming solution?
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>> Thanks
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>> Tony Breuer
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