Collaborating remote workflow

[FilmnMsc]

Wanted to see what efficient ways anybody might suggest for two editors to collaborate on a weekly podcast.

We tried Lucidlink with Productions and Lucidlink wasn't running well for either of us.

One thing we're looking for is the ability to combine our sequences without Premiere duplicating video files when applying color.

Thank you

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi,

I read your message. What wasn't working for you? Maybe @R Neil Haugen can assist. I hope we can help you. Sorry for the frustration.

Thanks,
Kevin

[FilmnMsc]

Hi Kevin,

Certainly didn't mean to suggest that the fault was on Lucidlink's part, we just couldn't seem to get our sequences to run smoothly despite downloading the plugin and pinning the footage. It would stick and lag quite a bit to the point it was going to take us even more time to edit these already time consuming episodes. It's just me and one other person and we were both operating at at least 400+ up and down. 

We are both running Macs.

Thank you for your response,

Brody

[R Neil Haugen]

Did you contact LucidLink about this? There shouldn't have been any hiccups even with 400 Mbps service. And as noted in my other response, their support on Slack ... 

lucidlink-community

... is incredible, fast and very helpful.

[R Neil Haugen]

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.

[FilmnMsc]

Hi R Neil,

Is it possible that the Amazon servers are contributing to the efficiency in your workflow. It is just me and one other editor both running Macs with up and down speeds of at least around 400. 

The problem we were having was the sequence running quite slowly and sticking despite having the media and assets pinned in the Lucidlink panel in Premiere. 

I will check out the Slack channel as well. Maybe there was something we missed in the process.

Thank you,

Brody