Re: Remote video editing

In article <180620071030115723%kitzyme@xxxxxxxxx>, Kit
<kitzyme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <180620070942046804%nospam@xxxxxxxxx>, Elliott Roper
<nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <180620070907561627%kitzyme@xxxxxxxxx>, Kit
<kitzyme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I understand that there are programs (e.g. DAVE?) that can allow one
Mac to control another over the internet. Is it possible to be able
to do something as complex as video editing on the much faster remote
(dual G5) computer?
If so, what remote-control program is recommended?

I'd reckon it would be pretty awful, whatever it was. You need lots of
local grunt to see what you are doing in most video editing programs I
have seen. The network would want to be *very* fast. I'd reckon it
would still be horrible over a Gigabit LAN.

What would be useful is to get the remote machine(s) to do the heavy
rendering when you have sorta kinda finished editing and need to colour
correct great armfuls, or transform the whole thing to a different
format. Compressor, part of Final Cut Studio permits you to set up
whole farms of service nodes. Even then, heaving a few gigs of assets
and results over the network will get tedious pretty quickly. It works
best if all the machines can see the same storage node on a wicked fast
local network.

Going to all that trouble for a lonely G5 is a bit of a waste. What are
you using for a local machine? It would have to be pretty gutless to be
worse than DAVE-alikes.

Thanks for the detailed response.
I suspected that it might not be really workable and it seems your
answer confirms that suspicion .

The local machine ( in NE England) is my dual 1GHz MDD G4 with 1 Gb RAM
& standard video card.

The remote machine, dual 2 GHz G5 with high-end video card & 2,5 G RAM,
located in Sussex) currently runs Final Cut (not sure which flavour of
FC, but if it is important I can find out).

Basically, my friend from Sussex will be visiting here for a couple of
weeks and may get some urgent video and/or sound editing jobs to do
while he is away. So we were just wondering if he could deal with them
remotely if he bought the appropriate program e.g. with DAVE or Apple
Remote Desktop...

Thanks again.

Heh! I see. He might get away with the odd tweak to an existing project
with a Dave-alike. It wouldn't take much of a job to make it less
efficient than a quick dash to Sussex and back.

If it were me, and there was money involved, I'd fling the G5 in the
back of the car. For stuff like that, he'd be wishing he had a gruntful
MacBook.

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