Work-from-Home B-Roll Storage Solution

[L. Dizzle]

Wanting to give a small team of work-from-home Pr/Ae editors access to a B-Roll pool located and maintained at the office.

• Currently looking into connecting a QNAP TS Series NAS to our office network.
• Asking IT to make it accessible both inside and outside the office.
• Meta tag, browse and organize assets via Bridge.
• OK with assets needing to be copied to direct attached HD for editing.

How do those of you working-from-home access your B-Roll footage located at the office?

[L. Dizzle]

Anyone working remotely but accessing B-Roll at the office?

NAS suggestions?

Network, Connection, Configuration insight?

[R Neil Haugen]

I am a contributing author over at MixingLight.com, a colorist's subscription website. Where remote work and moving tons of files is a daioy discussion on their Slack.

There's all sorts of ways, different software and software/hardware options, so many I can't keep track of all the ones they talk about. A comon one for editing that I've heard of for similar situations is distributing low-res proxies of the b-roll. When the editiors actually use it, and it's accepted ... then they get the original full-res file from the central supply. That way only a small amount of media is sent to everyone.

Neil

[L. Dizzle]

A lot of useful info over at MixingLight.

I'm sure I am oversimplifying it but so far it looks like the best bet is:

• Get a decent NAS/RAID and plug it into our [1G/10G] office network.
• Offload all footage to the NAS//RAID.
• Use Bridge to add keywords to our footage.
• Use Media Encoder to create proxies of our footage.
• Search footage via Bridge.
• Remotely download proxies and edit.
• Relink to full-res for export.

Thoughts? Real-World experiences?

[R Neil Haugen]

That looks to be a very solid workflow. Bridge was ignored by Adobe for years and they finally started adding some of the capabilities that so many in both stills and video post needed.

Neil