The Cloud Store is pitched for larger companies handling multiple major projects, Petty said. A version with a massive 320 terabytes of storage is on the way, though its pricing is still undetermined, Petty said.
The base model 20 terabytes of storage will retail for $9,595 and will be available later this quarter, with an 80-Tb model selling for $29,995. The Store, however, is optimized for hosting and managing big chunks of video and audio in its banks of fast SSD storage in a RAID 5 redundant array, four Ethernet ports capable of 10-Gigabyte throughput, and two more ports for slower 1-Gb networks. Unlike many software-based companies relying on cloud tools for their businesses, Blackmagic also is releasing six new hardware devices that can help power a company’s or individual’s cloud work.Īt the heart of the initiative is the Cloud Store, an attached networked-storage device in a sleek black-and-silver tower enclosure similar to its external GPU units released a few years ago. Frame.io will be making its its own cloud product announcement later this week. Petty said the company had to design a new way for Resolve to handle proxies, but the new approach allows proxies to be consistently created and stored in ways that will make it easier for third-party programs to also take advantage of them.Ĭloud-based collaboration for video production is a specialized and technically demanding variant of the cloud-based document sharing approach that undergirds programs such as Google’s GOOG GDocs suite.Ĭompanies such as Frame.io, recently acquired by Adobe’s ADBE Creative Cloud ecosystem, have leveraged cloud-based services to dramatically improve remote collaboration for video editors, visual effects artists, color graders, and their clients, managers, and colleagues. The proxies can be easily shared and moved around for editing work, then exported back for application to the final product. The cloud functions will be built into the new hardware and into the major components of DaVinci Resolve, whose version 18 is now available in public beta for testing.Īmong other functions designed to speed remote collaboration, the company is releasing a free separate program, Proxy Generator, that creates much smaller, editable versions of original content as they become available on a storage device.
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