Remote Capturing Of Video

(From The Yahoo Avid User's Group)

I had this strange dream.

What if I could load a tape here in U.S. and an editor in Australia or elsewhere could run the machine and even capture?

Okay. Not top quality, but offline.

Is there such a thing as a VTR emulator that works over the Internet?

If it does, you'd be dealing with serious latency issues.

FORBIDDEN TECHNOLOGY has a web-based video editing product called FORSCENE. You ingest and upload to a central server and then you can edit that footage anywhere in the world as long as you have a internet connection. So, your tapes could be in the U.S., your editor in Russia, and the director is viewing the final cut on his cell phone in India.

FORScene

Pretty cool. I've seen it done.
[Note: The Australian editor will be working during his day, which is your night, so let's hope he doesn't press the eject button.]

SONY's eVTRs can be given an IP address and addressed as FTP servers if you put them outside the firewall.

SONY IMX and J3 decks are able to play video directly through a LAN. Not exactly the internet, but close. I think the deck can actually be controlled from a remote location through ethernet.

In the early 80's ABC used an interface called VIMC (pronounced VYMAX) standing for VERTICAL INTERVAL MACHINE CONTROL. The idea was transport data control was inserted in the vertical interval.

On the ABC prospect you could route the output of a studio to your 1" machine and the TD could then control the playback of the machine.

Similarly, if ABC in New York wanted to control a deck in Hollywood they would just route the appropriate video feed from New York to the VTR and voila the machine could be rolled from New York.
[I've actually seen this done using 1" machine for ABC's WORLD NEWS TONIGHT when I was in the New York control room in the early 1990s for a broadcast.]

I'd doubt that this system is still around just like I bet the backup ABC West Coast feed is no longer coming from a VO-5850 3/4". I'm sure someone at ABC still remembers the good ol' VYMAX.

Theoretically, this same thing can be achieved today using
APPLE REMOTE DESKTOP, which allows you to operate keyboard and mouse remotely through an FTP connection. You could control the capture process remotely, as long as someone changes tapes for you. Then you could use something like COMPRESSOR to make sorensons, and FTP those to yourself.