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Cloud computing has dominated the IT conversation for many years now, but the media and entertainment industry has lagged behind. While the past few years have seen a handful of innovators migrating certain workflows to the cloud, it took a disaster on the scale of the global coronavirus pandemic for the broader industry to seriously consider what cloud solutions could do for media production.

While the impetus to move to the cloud may be a scary one, there’s never been a better time for media enterprises to investigate cloud-based workflows. Even after the current crisis passes, cloud-enabled media enterprises will benefit from increased agility and efficiency.

Cloud Enables Media Enterprises to Work Efficiently

To succeed in today’s increasingly competitive marketplace, media enterprises need to focus more of their resources on creating and monetizing content, and less of their resources on managing infrastructure. For media enterprises, cloud architectures offer the promise of infrastructure that is more flexible, agile, and self-managing.

Although workflows have become increasingly streamlined, demands for even greater efficiency have presented new challenges for content creators. In a case of the tail wagging the dog, the demand by consumers for content on any device, distributed across any network, puts pressure on content producers and distributors to deliver more finished products to these consumers. In response, they are ramping up workflows, investing in applications and relevant infrastructure simply to meet demand. However, this may not be the most pragmatic approach, nor the most cost-efficient.

How the Cloud Works for Media Enterprises

Migrating from a traditional on-premises solution to a cloud-based platform can help address the need for agility and economy. At its most basic level, the cloud provides a more cost-effective platform for fulfilling unpredictable spikes in demand. At a more strategic level, the cloud provides a platform for aligning the needs of both creative and business teams.

In the cloud, virtualized applications and servers become resource pools that can be dynamically reconfigured and provisioned as needs change. Imagine allocating resources to address ingest of source material during the day, then re-allocating those same resources to do transcoding or rendering in the evening.

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Provideocoalition.com recently sat down with certified remote editing expert- Michael Kammes.

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As we watch the spread of the coronavirus continue so does the talk about remote editing and editing at home so I wanted to talk remote editing with an expert on the subject, Michael Kammes. I’ve had calls about this, I’ve been messaged about it and I’ve seen tons of discussion online about it. I know a bit about some ways to edit remotely but not enough to answer all of the questions I had been receiving. I thought to myself… who knows the most about this topic than anyone else on the planet and that was an easy answer in my friend Michael, of 5 Things fame.

Michael works for BeBop Technology who is a leader in this field. Michael has been on an incredibly busy schedule these last few days as interest in this topic has exploded.  He was kind enough to sit down with me Sunday evening for about an hour to answer all the questions I had (and I’m sure you have too) about remote editing.

I wanted to address the topic on several levels and this is a rough outline of how we covered it:

• Physically shipping media on a hard drive and issues with that
• Remote-ing into an editing system with an app like TeamViewer, LogMeIn or Google Remote Desktop
• Putting media on Dropbox or Google Drive
• Mounting media stored in “the cloud” as a drive on your desktop
• Using a VPN if you’ve got a facility set up for that
• Looking at the high end of remote editing like BeBop Technology, the reality of that for small companies and what that might cost
• The difference between true remote editing vs. working with a client remotely for notes, changes, review, and approval

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