This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] [pt] Avid Announces Flexible Licensing and Deployment Options for Artist Suite Video Creative Solutions

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] [pt] Avid Announces Flexible Licensing and Deployment Options for Artist Suite Video Creative Solutions

Yes, interplay requires that assets are checked in (and out) of the database. But to be clear, we're talking about metadata only. Media transfer from remote to home base or from one workgroup to another, is a separate but equal operation.

Once you've checked in, interplay should know where your media is and also be able to track changes and usage. Yes, editors will still spew media all over the place, but even if the administrators can't control that, they can identify who did it since everyone is logging on to the central database as individual users.

Signiant, or the like, can accelerate the media transfer behind the scenes. You, the editor, can do all the "craft" editing and not be concerned whether you're cutting with proxy or full Rez video. Finishing is obviously a different story...

On Sunday, April 6, 2014, Andi Meek <kwikpasta@hotmail.com> wrote:

My interplay knowledge is pretty limited but don't you have to "check in" all assets to Interplay? I know you can set where a user is able to check those assets in so for example editor1 is only able to check in assets to the "editor1" folder. This way you can stop them from just dumping crap all over the nicely organised project structure. This would hopefully help with small imports, music tracks, tiffs, gfx etc and hopefully the job of ingesting rushes and organising the project structure will still be up to the tech ops (or i'm screwed!) . I agree though, there's much room for shoddy wrangling. You'd need a pretty fast connection to send the full res media back anyway so at this point it probably still makes sense to ferry the rushes back to base and ingest to the ISIS at the post house. If you have a really fast upload connection then better to send the unwrangled rushes back to the facility over signiant or something rather than attempt to do it through Avid?

Andi

To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
From: bigfish@pacbell.net
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 15:07:28 -0700
Subject: RE: [Avid-L2] [pt] Avid Announces Flexible Licensing and Deployment Options for Artist Suite Video Creative Solutions

" And I'm presuming that as you are cutting with proxies that the conform will be as simple as a dynamic relink to the online res media back at the post house? Interplay does this already and when it works it's seemless and immediate.

Andi"

There in lies the rub. Even with no cloud involvement every online has glitches. I can't imagine adding the cloud will lessen this reality, in fact I'd be surprised if it doesn't make things worse. It's hard enough to get my local in house AEs to capture ad ingest files correctly. Moving them out of house will probably make that even more problematic.