Codex Inrtroduces Codex Backbone and Production Server

Codex Inrtroduces Codex Backbone and Production Server by PVC News Staff:
The Codex Backbone is a hybrid system with productions taking advantage of local appliances – Codex Production Server - along with the distributed hardware of the Cloud through the Codex Backbone. Based on the proven technology of the Codex Vault, the Codex Production Server is a repository for all digital files and metadata generated during principal photography.

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Adobe Anywhere for Video Now Available

Adobe Anywhere for Video Now Available | Creative Cloud User:
Adobe Anywhere is a powerful collaborative solution for broadcasters and large enterprises that enables users to work together using centralized media and assets across virtually any network. Anywhere allows teams to efficiently shoot, log, edit, share and finish video productions on standard systems without heavy file transfers and duplicate media. Adobe Anywhere supports the latest versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Adobe Prelude CC, available as part of Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe Anywhere support for Adobe After Effects is expected later in 2013.

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Can clouds help the surge in post?

Post Magazine - Can clouds help the surge in post?:
Web based tools and storage are enabling new capabilities for long range collaborative work which works well for proxy viewing and other lower-resolution download-based services, however the high latency can be an issue for more real-time high resolution, high frame rate work since coast to coast communication latency can be about 100ms.

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Cloud transcoding rages at NAB

Cloud transcoding rages at NAB | Broadcast Engineering Blog:
It would be easy to come away from the show imagining that almost all transcoding will soon be taking place in the cloud because of its compelling economics, but that is not going to happen just yet. In many cases transcoding will continue to be an in-house operation because it is closely aligned with other processes hosted in the data centre such as digital asset management (DAM). By the same token, cloud based transcoding services that offer associated functions including DAM in integrated packages will have particular appeal to small operators or those starting from a clean slate for multi-screen deployments.

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What is Adobe Anywhere?

John Nack on Adobe : What is Adobe Anywhere?:
Adobe Anywhere helps editors, VFX artists, and other video pros simultaneously access, stream, and work with remotely stored media. As the product site says, “There’s no need for heavy file transfers, duplicate media, or proxy files.

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Introducing Kollaborate - the cloud platform for media professionals

Introducing Kollaborate - the cloud platform for media professionals:
We're proud to announce our latest product - Kollaborate, the cloud workflow platform for media professionals. Launching today in public beta, Kollaborate provides storage space and collaboration capabilities for you and your team.

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MPEG-DASH open source tools and cloud services

MPEG-DASH open source tools and cloud services:
Our presentation from the media web symposium 2013 in Berlin on the open source landscape around MPEG-DASH as well as on cloud-based services for MPEG-DASH

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Taking a look at Amazon Elastic Transcoder | Blog | GridVid.Me

Taking a look at Amazon Elastic Transcoder | Blog | GridVid.Me:
There is a lot of buzz today in the online video community about Amazon’s recent entry into the cloud video transcoding space. Of course, this is nothing entirely new for Amazon Web Services; popular cloud encoding services have run on Amazon EC2 infrastructure for years now. With Elastic Transcode, Amazon takes a step up the cloud stack, offering a Software-as-a-Service that competes directly with GridVid.me, Zencoder, and other popular cloud video encoding services.

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NVIDIA Unveils Industry’s First Cloud-Based GPU That Delivers Workstation Graphics Capabilities to Any Screen

News: NVIDIA Unveils Industry’s First Cloud-Based GPU That Delivers Workstation Graphics Capabilities to Any Screen:
Engineers and design professionals will be able to work anywhere on virtually any device and still have access to the computing and graphics performance of a GPU-powered workstation, with today’s launch of the cloud-based NVIDIA® VGX™ K2 GPU.

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Adobe Anywhere: A Game Changer for Cloud Editing

Adobe Anywhere: A Game Changer for Cloud Editing | ScreenLight:
The platform will enable Prelude, Premiere Pro, and After Effects users to work together from anywhere by accessing a centralized media server. It promises to erase the boundary between facilities based and remote editing. As details of the announcement have been covered elsewhere, I'll focus on the benefits of Adobe's approach and how it differs from other cloud editing services. I'll also add my thoughts on who it's going to be targeted at initially, how it will be priced, and the hardware requirements. Before we begin, we'll need to cover some of the basics.


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Video Backup and Archiving With Amazon Glacier

Video Backup and Archiving With Amazon Glacier:
Amazon recently introduced an online data backup and archiving service called Amazon Glacier. For just $0.01 per GB / month, you can upload and securely store as much data as you want, with 99.999999999% durability.

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Harmonic and Nagra Team to Power the World's First Commercial MPEG-DASH OTT Multiscreen Service

Harmonic and Nagra Team to Power the World's First Commercial MPEG-DASH OTT Multiscreen Service:
Deployed Jointly by Abertis Telecom and Nagra, the Live and VOD Multiscreen Cloud Service Leverages Harmonic ProMedia(TM) Suite and Nagra MediaLive Multiscreen.

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Introducing Adobe Anywhere: Badass video collaboration

Introducing Adobe Anywhere: Badass video collaboration:
I’m delighted that Adobe has officially unveiled Adobe Anywhere, our collaborative workflow platform for video. You can use After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Prelude to manipulate assets on a server, letting people team up across locations, devices, and networks.

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Render Rocket

Render Rocket:
The efficiency of your 3D projects will blast off with Render Rocket, your render farm in the Cloud.

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NVIDIA Introduces World’s First Virtualized GPU, Accelerating Graphics for Cloud Computing

NVIDIA Introduces World’s First Virtualized GPU, Accelerating Graphics for Cloud Computing: NVIDIA VGX Cloud Platform Puts GPUs in Enterprise Data Centers, Freeing Users to Run Microsoft Windows, Any Applications From Their Connected Device (San Jose, California--May 15, 2012) NVIDIA today unveiled the NVIDIA® VGX™ platform, which enables IT departments to deliver a virtualized desktop with the graphics and GPU computing performance of a PC or workstation to employees using any connected device.

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FORscene

FORscene:
This week’s Tools Spotlight interview is with Stephen B. Streater, founder and CEO of Forbidden Technologies.  As pioneers in Web-based editing, their FORscene technology has become the world’s largest Cloud video post-production platform.


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Thunderbolt and Cloud Storage Solutions on 5.2.12 on Vimeo

Thunderbolt and Cloud Storage Solutions on 5.2.12 on Vimeo:
LaCie’s Linh Do provides a detailed overview of Thunderbolt Storage Solutions including the 2big and Little Big Disk Series and eSATA Hub along with the best way to implement Cloud into your workflow.

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How cloud computing is set to change the face of media forever | Cloud Pro

How cloud computing is set to change the face of media forever | Cloud Pro:
The media have been quick to embrace the potential of the cloud and it's a market that will look very different in the future

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Aspera Unveils New Aspera Shares Web Application at NAB

Aspera Unveils New Aspera Shares Web Application at NAB: Breakthrough Multi-node File Sharing Web Application Enables High-speed, Secure Data Sharing and Exchange over Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure (Las Vegas: NAB 2012 Booth SL10315--April 17, 2012) At the NAB Show, Aspera Inc., creator of next-generation technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed, is introducing Aspera Shares, a breakthrough new web application that provides a simple and intuitive way for companies to share content in the form of files and directories, of any size, within their organization or with external customers and partners.

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Avid’s Interplay Sphere is Editing in the Cloud | Studio Daily

Avid’s Interplay Sphere is Editing in the Cloud | Studio Daily:
Promising to "break down the walls" for content creators, Avid today introduced Interplay Sphere, which it said will allow editors to work in real time from any Internet-connected location. The system uses cloud-based architecture and an intelligent uploading scheme to allow Media Composer and NewsCutter to work on footage remotely — and to upload new footage back to the base while the editor is working.

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