Remote Workflows are Driving Post-Production
By Jamie G
While the world is slowly starting to go back to normal since the pandemic, companies are keeping their employees working remotely, especially the production industry. With advanced technology, such as hard drives, working from home is just as effective as coming into the office or studio.
Companies like Levity Live, who work with shows on HGTV and Food Network, were prepared to keep work running during the lock down. Once they caught word of the virus they preordered huge hard drives that would make post-production possible from home.
John Bravakis, executive VP and chief operating officer at Triage Entertainment, a production company owned by Levity Live, says with proper preparing, he was able to keep the workflow and transfer the content to his editors and post coordinators. He believes that the technology that is available to help remote work is going to be getting easier and faster to use. According to Bravakis, emerging technologies that focus on speed, accessibility, remote team viewing, and security are going to help keep remote work more permanent.
James Voda, VP of post production at All3Media America was also prepared for the lock down. He worked with his vendors and producers to figure out what would work to efficiently have his employees work remotely. He prepared by storing all the data on hard drives so his team was ready to edit. Voda uses existing open broadcaster software OBS Studio to stream a video feed from AVID directly into videoconferencing apps like Webex Teams. This allows his team to work together and collaborate from a distance.
Both Voda and Bravakis agree that the pandemic has shifted opinions on remote work. Remote work has proved to be effective and open up career possibilities to people all around the globe.
“There was a fear that activity would drop, but it’s been quite the opposite. The pandemic has proved that post work can be done anywhere in the world and has provided more opportunity for that to happen. We can have editors anywhere. This has really opened that up.”
James Voda
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