LONDON-Remote access to all video files to all the relevant (and authorized) personnel is a good thing. But do those benefits extend to editing in the cloud?
Although it has been around for some time, it is only in the relatively recent past that acceptance has been spreading.
WHAT DOES THE TERM EDITING IN THE CLOUD' MEAN? Providing you pick an advanced solution, video editing in the cloud takes care of everything for you. That's the view of Ray Thompson, director of broadcast and media solutions marketing at Avid.
A common misconception is that cloud-based video editing is just about editing tools sitting inside a cloud service provider's infrastructure. But it usually encompasses a storage component and a bandwidth component to get content into and out of the cloud.
Stephen Tallamy, chief technology officer at Editshare, adds: Editing in the cloud provides the ability to be in any location and work on any machine and mimic on-premise workflows with fine grain control over your media such as real-time scrubbing capabilities, along with editing and grading video content in real time.
Nicholas Stokes, CEO, Envoi, a provider of cloud solutions, provides further insight. It enables content creators to establish their video production and editing environment within a cloud framework. This makes it possible to manage full editorial and post production workflows all in the cloud, so that video creators no longer need massive on-premise hardware infrastructures.
Thompson agrees. He says that when a post production facility previously wanted to add capacity it meant buying more hardware. But with the cloud, users can spin resources up and down as and when needed.
From an economic perspective, it enables facilities to easily expand their resources since they're no longer confined by physical space, he said. Thanks to cloud-based editing, you can hire talented editors regardless of where they live.
That's a view shared by Tallamy. The benefits are immense, particularly the ability to save on costs throughout a production. You can limit the on-site production teams, and then hire and work with the best talent anywhere and of course, the speed and ability to turn things around at a much faster pace.
WHAT IS A TYPICAL WORKFLOW?Stokes provides a scenario: A video creator is shooting on location in Los Angeles and needs to deliver 1TB of media data to his team of five editors. However, editorial teams for the U.S. are in New York and the international team is based in the U.K.
You have 24 hours to deliver the final interview, he continued. If you hired FedEx or UPS it would take 24 hours to ship hard drives to each location, then eight plus hours to edit the content. With the cloud you can upload or ingest media data into the cloud in hours and the global editing teams can start content creation immediately.
Tallamy provides further insight. Ingest content, create proxies and deliver the high-resolution media via chunking to a data centre. Meanwhile, editors are working away on either the source media-via cloud workstations, or proxies-for local workstations, cutting the stories and narratives. Then, a quick resync enables them to relink to the high-end material simply and efficiently. Using a media management system connected to a file delivery system, the content can now be backhauled to a video server somewhere for playout.
WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES?Stokes believes the biggest hurdle until now has been the ability to move high-quality capture content to the cloud.
The present deployment of 5G will quickly remove this obstacle and enable the cloud to be at the center of the content creation process right from the point of capture, Stokes said. With so many different tools, workflows, and formats, the biggest challenge for video providers right now is defining the right setup for their unique deployment.
Bandwidth is always the challenge as media file sizes continue to grow, according to Tallamy.
Moving large data files is always a challenge considering network pipes are not built the same in every location, he said. So, if you choose a remote location for a production, expect to tailor your workflow or codec choice. We have seen this across multiple reality TV shows we have worked with where the location is superb but the network isn't.
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For Thompson the challenges relate to the environment itself.
If you have a good solution, it will auto provision everything for you, he said. You just need a technical resource that understands what the requirements are to run the application and storage. You also need to know how much estimated bandwidth you're going to need, taking into consideration how many people will be working on the project. Depending on the resolution and bit rate of the content you're going to edit, you may also need a dedicated line between your facility and the cloud point of presence or data center. Therefore, having a secure connection is critical.
WHAT ABOUT SECURITY?Tallamy believes security is a huge topic and is among the top three concerns by most creative production teams.
There are guidelines and rules set out by industry groups such as the TPN, MPAA and the EBU in order to best meet the security guidelines, Tallamy said. We implement our EditShare EFS auditing platform across all craft editing platforms, enabling you to secure your content and offer peace of mind for creatives that their content is always kept safe, whether it's on premise, in the cloud or anywhere in between.
Speaking for Envoi, Stokes maintains that cloud workflows are often more secure than on-premise as there is no physical presence to be accessed.
Cloud providers, such as AWS, ensure maximum security and we also integrate with Teradici to ensu
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LONDON-Remote access to all video files to all the relevant (and authorized) personnel is a good thing. But do those benefits extend to editing in the cloud? 
