Running the Premiere Pro on a machine in the cloud

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November 8, 2017
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Hello friends,

I am trying to find out if I could run Adobe Premiere Pro on a cloud based machine (E.g. Amazon EC2 etc).

Because the product is part of creative cloud suite, most of the search results are misleading due to the use of the word "cloud" in differing contexts. Some deeper discussions are ruined because Adobe themselves use AWS for delivering their suite to everyone.

My use case is simple: I have a completely scriptable, predefined workflow (can be done in ExtendScript). When my product framework receives special requests I have to cut a movie in an automated manner and send the result to the end user - a short movie with different inputs. For this, I would like to instantiate the PP in a cloud machine and run the session and then quit once I am done. If this works, I will have to have several licenses and machines happening in parallel. My alternative is to create this whole editing session in a linux script with FFMPEG and ImageMagick, I want to explore if it is possible with Adobe Premiere Pro. Running from a cloud based machine is important to me because I don't want to struggle with the maintenance of the infrastructure myself.

Thanks for your advice,

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This discussion started a few years back. I just heard about cloud computing and would love to do it with Premiere Pro to save thousands of $ for a computer. So my question: Has anyone experienced working with Premiere Pro on Cloud Computing (by Azure)?

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Hi. Sorry to revive such an old discussion but I would be really interested to know how much this is costing you per month?

Putting Adobe CC onto a VM in the cloud would releive my reliance of both macOS & Windows. Which would be awesome.

I've looked at pricing on Google Cloud Console, Azure and AWS and it seems pretty hefty, so I'd be interested in knowing some real usage/pricing.

P.S kudos for keeping your cool with people that didn't understand the topic 🙄

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NatalieKimbro

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Have you seen Vagon? It is approx $7/month. Apparently this is a great cloud-based computer option and also frees up your OS so that you can keep working on other projects beyond Adobe and use Adobe in Vagon. Since Adobe and Apple and other big names often encourage proprietary components, I am weary about trying something like this. But it is enticing.

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Brainiac

I hadn't heard of vagon. I've looked at their web site; it's long on gloss but vague on technical detail. But then, it is trying to sell to creative people. I would like to know how it works with Creative Cloud licensing. I should point out, though, that $8 per month is the cost to hold your account and files. To actually run anything with a GPU at vagon costs $1 to $9 per hour.

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NR2013Author

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I tried this out on an EC2 machine with Windows server 2016 in t2 large configuration. It works well so far.

jjin2016

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Thanks for your word.

I am interested in using AWS based premiere and S3 while editing. I hope to edit on EC2 and use S3 for fast share the project. Your guide helpful to me to start my trying.