Collaborating remote workflow

I've used LucidLink since the "proof of concept" days. My shop is in Oregon, all PC, two of us, our partner is in Cape Town, SA, all Mac. Our entire Production/media/fx and etc. 'lives' on Amazon S3 servers in London.

We both now are running around 400-450Mbps up and down solid, I used to run 250+ though without a problem.

Mo is one of the most amazing Ae wizards I have ever been around, and well ... I know quite a number of "known" people, and he puts out complex but visually amazing things in minutes. We've layered tons of tracks of sound effects, multiple UHD video, and with it all seen by our computers as on a local drive ... as LucidLink handles things through a 'virtual drive' on the local machine.

He's called me via WhatsApp to tell me he is uploading media and files to our filespace, I'll go into my virtual drive and yep, they folders are already there. Within a few moments I get filenames, and when I do, I can import those to Premiere and throw sequences together, including playback.

And the upload isn't even finished from Cape Town yet!

So ... given my experience, and my knowledge of the crew at LucidLink, who give the best service this side of Omniscope, what were the problems? I'm really curious, as this process is used by most of the really massive major long-form projects around the world ... media from set uploaded nearly 'live' to the project servers, and editors hitting the rushes minutes after they're uploaded. During the day of the shoot.

Did you ever go on their Slack channels about them? The users and staffers tend to respond near instantly in our experience, for the very few times we needed assistance.