niknak
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Found this could be useful for client feedback on FCP projects or co-editing with a director/producer on the other side of the world. Hope this is useful.
http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=32868
"Mike Curtis at HD for indies mentions it here too
Remote Edit Session - plus a better way
UPDATE WITH AN EASIER WAY - SEE BOTTOM
Remote Edit Session
Shane Ross over at little frog in HiDef wrote doing a remote edit session using iChatAV with a remote producer.
He aimed an iSight at the monitor in Digital Cinema Preview mode.
A Better Idea (if you have the hardware for it) -
If you have an AJA or BMD card with analog outputs, you can use those, regardless of whether you're doing an HD or SD edit. If you're doing HD, just use the downconvert function to send SD out the analog outputs.
Configure the unit to send composite or Y/C, not the usual component, through the analog outs.
I just checked - using the AJA control panel, you can click on the Analog Out tab and select Analog Format and use "Composite + Y/C."
On the BlackMagic stuff (I'm checking this on my Multibridge Extreme)....hmmm, I don't see an option for that in the PrefPane. I'll have to dig around to see if it can do it. So assume for the moment you can with BMD, DEFINITELY can with AJA -
So take your composite or s-video output from the card, and run that into a DV hardware codec. I have a Sony DVMC-DA2. What is a hardware codec? It's a box that converts a FireWire based DV stream to s-video, composite and RCA stereo pair, or vice versa (analog to FireWire DV signal).
Now connect the hardware codec (or use a camera if happens to have an analog to FireWire DV conversion capability) via FireWire cable to a second Mac.
In iChatAV, use FireWire Camera as your video source for a video chat. Run the audio from the edit if that is what your client wants to hear and be on the phone or speaker phone with them, or use a microphone and feed that into hardware codec to do simultaneous voice chat with client as well. A sneaky person might mix down the audio to one channel, and use the other audio channel for chat purposes. The editor wears headphones to avoid feedback.
I thought of this sometime last year and I think I even blogged on it, just haven't had to use it yet, but I should test it.
Somebody go try this, I don't have time today otherwise I would.
-mike
UPDATE - and, duh, if you're just doing a DV based edit, run the FireWire out directly into another Mac running iChatAV and define that FireWire source as a FireWire camera (camera, edit Mac - it doesn't know the difference! Just a DV stream coming in) and that's all there is to it"
http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=32868
"Mike Curtis at HD for indies mentions it here too
Remote Edit Session - plus a better way
UPDATE WITH AN EASIER WAY - SEE BOTTOM
Remote Edit Session
Shane Ross over at little frog in HiDef wrote doing a remote edit session using iChatAV with a remote producer.
He aimed an iSight at the monitor in Digital Cinema Preview mode.
A Better Idea (if you have the hardware for it) -
If you have an AJA or BMD card with analog outputs, you can use those, regardless of whether you're doing an HD or SD edit. If you're doing HD, just use the downconvert function to send SD out the analog outputs.
Configure the unit to send composite or Y/C, not the usual component, through the analog outs.
I just checked - using the AJA control panel, you can click on the Analog Out tab and select Analog Format and use "Composite + Y/C."
On the BlackMagic stuff (I'm checking this on my Multibridge Extreme)....hmmm, I don't see an option for that in the PrefPane. I'll have to dig around to see if it can do it. So assume for the moment you can with BMD, DEFINITELY can with AJA -
So take your composite or s-video output from the card, and run that into a DV hardware codec. I have a Sony DVMC-DA2. What is a hardware codec? It's a box that converts a FireWire based DV stream to s-video, composite and RCA stereo pair, or vice versa (analog to FireWire DV signal).
Now connect the hardware codec (or use a camera if happens to have an analog to FireWire DV conversion capability) via FireWire cable to a second Mac.
In iChatAV, use FireWire Camera as your video source for a video chat. Run the audio from the edit if that is what your client wants to hear and be on the phone or speaker phone with them, or use a microphone and feed that into hardware codec to do simultaneous voice chat with client as well. A sneaky person might mix down the audio to one channel, and use the other audio channel for chat purposes. The editor wears headphones to avoid feedback.
I thought of this sometime last year and I think I even blogged on it, just haven't had to use it yet, but I should test it.
Somebody go try this, I don't have time today otherwise I would.
-mike
UPDATE - and, duh, if you're just doing a DV based edit, run the FireWire out directly into another Mac running iChatAV and define that FireWire source as a FireWire camera (camera, edit Mac - it doesn't know the difference! Just a DV stream coming in) and that's all there is to it"