Sorry for your loss Bouke and thanks for sharing about it to the group. My community of editors in LA experienced a loss last Tuesday night when an editor friend of mine and many in LA succumbed to Covid-19 after 4 days on a ventilator. I had known this person over 30 years and he was approximately my age so things became even more real than they already were for me.
Here's some practical things I've been experiencing regarding work. I've been working from home on both 4K Netflix series that are not HDR and HD series. Our mixer is working at home too and we use dropbox as a conduit to get reference copies and final mixes back and forth. I post my final show as an H_264 on the Post Producer's dropbox and he fans it out to the Show Runner and Legal. I get notes and address them. We have been asked to speed up the finishing to save money, nothing new here but we can only do so much in this regard. I think the speed request is borne out of the fact that all production has ground to a halt so the revenue stream for the Production Company has been effected by this and fear of the future loss of income weighs heavy on the bean counters. I do sneaker net into the office late night during vampire hours to drop off and pick up media drives and the post producer uses team viewer to upload content to the producer portal.
My wife is also editing from home on a 2013ish 21 inchish iMac with a second monitor. I set her up with Avid but the production company she works for did an AMAZING job of setting up HP RGS at the office, the equipment and setup was done in approx 5 days with two being weekend days. They replaced the macs in the editors bays with PCs so my wife is running through a VPN and running the Mac version of HP RGS client software to control her now PC edit bay at work. It is working well and we only have a basic Spectrum Cable Internet subscription of internet. When I run a 50perrson Zoom meeting she usually takes a break from editing because it gets a bit stuttery during my Zoom stuff. A fellow editor who lives a few miles away is doing something similar with a company supplied 25 inch iMac but her experience is that during the afternoon approx noon to 6P the internet becomes sluggish for her. We don't seem to be experiencing that but I don't know what ISP she has. My home is hard wired Cat 6 to an airport extreme that is over 5 years old with a gigabit Ethernet switch. Nothing fancy and the production company team viewered in to set up the VPN. All and all it was pretty painless onn our end. The hardest part was figuring out I could stretch the HP RGS window across to the second monitor and them mimic properly a dual monitor Avid. I would caution when doing this be mindful to keep the Avid window boundaries inside the visible area of the RGS window. At first I dragged the Avid window way out past the edge of the RGS window and Avid would pop up error messages to the right outside the viewable RGS window. We had to figure out to scroll the RGS window to see the prompts, like insufficient media to make this edit. Avid would just bonk after that because we didn't see the prompt off screen so keep the edge of Avid inside the viewable area of you screen(s). Sounds real simple now but in the thick of it we were scratching our heads.
Bottom line is there are ways that aren't too dependent on the editor side tooling up much to keep working. Of course the home office will need to do some work and now that I'm in the middle of this stuff I see even more clearly how this will be the Tsunami of Remote Editing and things will certainly change down the line for all of us. I still prefer to edit on site but I'm much less skeptical about offline editorial being remoted. That is if Phillip's Robot editor doesn't put us all out of a job before we get our VPNs working. ;-) Of course the next hurdle will be the lag of no production to feed post but that's more an issue of acceptance now.
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