Cloud Collaboration cost

[Cowboy Bob]

Originally Posted by YYR123

That would be mean wouldn't it? Cheers

Agreed. Honestly, I quite liked it.

Originally Posted by YYR123

Honestly I haven't seen it, but I am in the camp with Sir Nigel....glad you got it to work and wish you well but I am not planning on using the features

I have a setup in the country, and bank on people coming to me... :)

BTW - When are you gonna sell me your used D-Command ?



I have a setup in the country, and bank on people coming to me... :)

BTW - When are you gonna sell me your used D-Command ?



Cheers

Pretty much the situation as I have. My studio is at the corner of 14th and Plumb (14 miles out, plumb in the middle of nowhere) Actually, the road is called Squaw Creek Road. I built my studio in a cattle shed once I stopped raising cattle.

I too count on clients coming to me, but I have done the Box, DropBox, iCloud collab on occasion. I can easily see myself as a "sometimes" 500 MB user right away, and probably no more than 20 GB a month level ever. I'll have to see how it works with the satellite internet.

Thanks for the tip, Tom, about renaming the ProTools on a Mac. I had never heard that, and I definitely use that when 12.5 drops.

[nigelpry]

Originally Posted by Tom Graham

PS - no ones made any jokes about my song yet…

Your bass and guitar 'I'm a one take man' efforts were edited out of the videos, and Gil helpfully mixed you way back, presumably to spare your blushes ;-)

If you'd care to post a link to the takes, I'm sure someone here will be up for scrutinising them for any potential cringeworthy elements that we could ridicule for all eternity.

;-)

[Fidelis]

Hi Tom, I just notice on the protools expert site, that cloud collaboration uses a lossless compression on the audio files (down to 3x the actual size of it). Can you give us more info on that please? What kind of codec are you using? Is it really lossless? Thanks!

[taylor4814]

Originally Posted by Fidelis

I just notice on the protools expert site, that cloud collaboration uses a lossless compression on the

Yeah, that's noted in original Avid blog post...

Same here, extremely interested in the tech behind the collaboration platform... love to learn more

[jacko]

$300 a year? Thanks, I'll pass.

[SamboBing]

So yes - you can 'delist' a current collaborator and then invite a new one. And or - a person can leave as a collaborator on their own.

Hi Tom,
The videos nicely show how one would take a local session and push it to the cloud, but what about the reverse? If I have a project in the cloud and want to make it a local session to make room for a new project in the cloud, how does that work? Similar to adding and removing collaborators I assume?

Thanks much. New options are looking good so far.

[Tom Graham]

Originally Posted by SamboBing

Hi Tom,
The videos nicely show how one would take a local session and push it to the cloud, but what about the reverse? If I have a project in the cloud and want to make it a local session to make room for a new project in the cloud, how does that work? Similar to adding and removing collaborators I assume?

Thanks much. New options are looking good so far.

Hi,

Thanks for the props on the videos. Any project can do the reverse of what we showed - essentially doing a 'Save Session Copy In" and making new audio files to turn it into a traditional, local session. You then could delete that Project from your Project list.

Thanks,
Tom

[Tom Graham]

Originally Posted by Fidelis

Hi Tom, I just notice on the protools expert site, that cloud collaboration uses a lossless compression on the audio files (down to 3x the actual size of it). Can you give us more info on that please? What kind of codec are you using? Is it really lossless? Thanks!

Hi Fidelis…

We use WavPack lossless audio compression on uploaded and downloaded audio files to minimize their size and speed up transfer times. This compression can reduce files up to 70% of their original size, so you can work on a large Project that takes up only a fraction of the real space. Audio quality is bit-for-bit accurate after the transfer, so there’s no change to the sound.

Thanks,
Tom

[Bob Olhsson]

I've been using wavpack to archive for over a decade and it's incredible compared to any other lossless encoding. It handles floating point files and maintains all of the metadata. The result is bit for bit identical files. Speaking of archive, that would be a wonderful new feature to add to Pro Tools!

[thanos4]

Originally Posted by Tom Graham

Hi Fidelis…

We use WavPack lossless audio compression on uploaded and downloaded audio files to minimize their size and speed up transfer times. This compression can reduce files up to 70% of their original size, so you can work on a large Project that takes up only a fraction of the real space. Audio quality is bit-for-bit accurate after the transfer, so there’s no change to the sound.

Thanks,
Tom

thought it was some Source-Elements voodoo magic under the hood...