CLOUD EDITING GEAR
ATOMOS CLOUD STUDIO GOES LIVE Atomos Cloud Studio is a collection of services, including cloud and live streaming, with network-connected devices. Created in partnership with Mavis, it offers two new cloud-based live video production solutions for real-time collaboration. Cloud Studio is live, and the first three products in the range are now shipping: the Zato Connect, Atomos Connect for Ninja V and Ninja V+, and Shogun Connect. All three support Atomos Cloud Studio and work with the Atomos Stream service. With a forthcoming update, Atomos Connect and Shogun Connect will integrate with Frame.io Camera to Cloud (C2C). In September, the brand releases Live Production: a cloud-based control room for live video and remote work. This includes a video switcher and sound mixer, with effects, graphics and talkback. atomos.com “The genius of the system is if your whole team employs the latest DaVinci Resolve, which supports cloud hosting”
OUTSIDE THE BOX The Cloud Pod has no internal storage. Plug in your own SSD, like this Lacie Rugged Pro we used
An entire team, in different locations, can watch the project and communicate in real time with the included chat function. But to avoid more than one person trying to cut, colour, fix audio or alter graphics at the same time, there is a lock-out system. If someone starts to make cuts, it prevents everyone else from doing anything to that panel in Resolve. They can watch cutting and comment, but not change it. However, the colour panel is accessible for grading, Fairlight for tweaking audio, or Fusion for any graphics amendments. So four editors may work on the same project timeline at once. There is a cost for this service: $5 per library each month, paid by whoever sets it up. Other users don’t have to pay the fee. The system is helped by the Blackmagic Proxy Generator App, which automatically creates and manages proxies from camera originals. You can create a watch folder and new media is automatically converted into H.264, H.265 or Apple ProRes proxies. Then switch between original footage and these, as Resolve instantly links them in the media pool. This means it’s feasible to edit with proxies, then relink to camera originals for grading. A major Resolve update includes new FX AI tools, editing functions, changes to Fairlight and GPU-accelerated paint in Fusion. With this upgrade, the low cost of entry to Blackmagic Cloud hardware and a very reasonable $5 monthly fee for hosting a library in the Cloud, this is the best way we’ve seen yet of making collaborative editing understandable and affordable.
performance. Now they have speedy SSDs inside, four 10G Ethernet connections, and a parallel memory core that sustains maximum transfer speeds on each 10G Ethernet port at the same time. The array of flash memory is set in RAID 5 for speed and protection. Ethernet ports mean you can connect four separate computers, or they work together with link aggregation for huge 40G Ethernet speed. There’s also HDMI monitoring output. With any of these Blackmagic Cloud hardware devices, it’s possible to share files quickly with anyone on your network – or via Dropbox sync. But the genius of the system is if your whole team employs the latest DaVinci Resolve 18, which supports the Blackmagic Cloud for hosting and sharing projects, as well as a new proxy workflow. Resolve’s cloud technology works perfectly with the three new Blackmagic storage devices, and means multiple users can work on a project in Resolve simultaneously.
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SHARE POINT The new version of DaVinci Resolve 18 lets different users work on the same project at one time
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