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Finally.
It’s not like outdoor broadcasters haven’t been doing this since, oh, forever.
But good.
I was just talking about this, less excited about the real-time editing from set, but the review capabilities and the idea of a centralized server for all material looks exciting to me. It would be like having editorial, color and vfx work off the same server is a nice idea, well once the cloud is fast enough.
The pushback will be the same as it has been for the last decade.
Studios and data integrity / chain of custody.
Bonding companies.
Investor assurances.
Camera unions.
Editorial unions.
There’s always a reason why it won’t work.
The reason is always to do with a special interest.
And then after the statute of limitations is over, someone will try it again and claim it’s the emperors new workflow.
Meanwhile, outdoor broadcasting, real-time graphics, 8k production, real-time slowmo, real-time distribution, no “versions”, real-time archiving with metadata, worlds best athletes…blah blah blah…
I’m just sayin’
yea the amount of times I have had to wait for a drive to be sent over to color just seems silly so hopefully this will rid us of stupid problems like that, but invariably it will introduce new problems.
I have been doing a similar worklow using qtake and dropbox for a while now, qtake writes live proxys and uploads them to dropbox then editor grabs it and off he goes.
the only cool thing here is that you dont need a qtake…
@finnjaeger
Ooof!
QTake.
Kind of cool back in 2008.
But it didn’t really spread like wildfire.
Could have been the prohibitively expensive license fees.
Maybe it’s different now?
for commercials in germany I see it on almost every set in fact. Only been to 1 non qtake shoot that I can even remeber . Also had qtake in South Africa.
How else do people to live playback? Using like Blackmagic recorders?