Yes to cloud collaboration!

[JCBigler]

Originally Posted by reichman

We are completely dependent. I wouldn't be able to operate for more than a day. Raise your hand if any of you reading this sent your work via FedEx in the last year.

I have delivered several projects via FedEx in the past year. I asked if they had an FTP site I could upload to, but they didn't. I guess Oklahoma is stuck on the far end of the digital divide.

And I can say that I will not have the internet service capability to be able to use cloud collaboration from my house.

Not everyone lives and works in a major metropolitan area with 100Mbit fiber runs to our building, like Avid seems to believe every one does.

[guitardom]

Originally Posted by Craig F

or sent a real letter over an email

I received a thank you card from a client 2 days ago

[ronwasserman]

Originally Posted by reichman

I'm sure that PT12 stores sessions on the hard drive in the same way that every other version of PT has.

It absolutely does. Read the comparison chart at Avid.

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by Frank Kruse

Will this service offer end-to-end encryption?

This is an excellent question! I'm forwarding this to Avid and let's see how much (if anything) they can tell us without revealing too much...

[JCBigler]

Wouldn't end to end real time encryption and decryption massively increase the processing load on both the system and the internet connection? I can't see that being a viable feature for anyone.

[JFreak]

No. Streaming requires buffer anyway so it's a non-issue (IMO). Encryption/decryption however requires some variable amount of CPU resource.

[Frank Kruse]

Originally Posted by JCBigler

Wouldn't end to end real time encryption and decryption massively increase the processing load on both the system and the internet connection? I can't see that being a viable feature for anyone.

Do you have a source for that claim?
There are several video and audio chat apps that offer encryption and even run on smart-phones. Some so strong that even the NSA can not read it (Redphone/Signal for iOS). Even FaceTime offers some form of transport encryption.

I think it's an essential feature for everyone these days. People working in post-production in particular.

Frank.

[Frank Kruse]

Originally Posted by JFreak

tell us without revealing too much...

I think this side of the service should be clearly communicated. Claiming "It's secure!" is very easy.

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by Frank Kruse

I think this side of the service should be clearly communicated. Claiming "It's secure!" is very easy.

I know. Just that clearly Avid cannot reveal the whole spec, because that would mean it is not secure any longer

[Frank Kruse]

Originally Posted by JFreak

I know. Just that clearly Avid cannot reveal the whole spec, because that would mean it is not secure any longer

This can drift way off topic but I'll say that this doesn't have to be true.

It's a common misconception that open-source equals insecure crypto. In fact the exact opposite is true. All the crypto-techniques that the NSA can not read are based on open-source and free code. (PGP/GPG, TOR, RedPhone/Signal, OTR over Jabber etc. etc.). It's the proprietary systems that raise suspicion
Secrecy doesn't necessarily increase security.
It's the proprietary standards that can be worse because they can not be audited or checked for flaws in the code.
Keeping that a secret only raises concerns and suspicion and is going to hurt them in the long run. The best way to avoid this is to communicate openly how they deal with our data. Because that's what it is. It's our data or our client's data that they want us to store in their space. It's not a good idea to be secretive about where and how it's secured.

Frank.