Mon May 30, 2022 2:14 pm
Roger is accurate. The Cloud Pod or Cloud Store Mini, or soon the full Cloud Store will connect to your local 10G ethernet network in your office (yes, you buy a little 10G switch for the Cloud Pod or Cloud Store Mini). The Cloud Store Mini has 8TB of internal storage, and the Cloud Pod - you plug in your thunderbolt 3 drive to it, and this becomes your media storage (the Cloud Pod is not as fast as the Cloud Store Mini or Cloud Store). Once your computers are connected to the switch, everyone in the office can share the media, and edit directly off of the Cloud Store product. There is no reason to "sync" your computers with Dropbox to the Cloud Store - you just go to work.
The Sync feature to Dropbox is so that a REMOTE EDITOR that has a Cloud Pod, can log into your Dropbox account and have that media sync to his local system at his home, and start editing. For a Resolve 18 client, they would join Blackmagic Cloud, sign in, and the project data would appear as well. But if you are using Premiere, etc. you could just email the remote editor your project list. (It's not as slick as with Resolve 18).
I don't care if it's BMD Cloud Store, LucidLink, Hedge PostLab Drive, or anyone else's solution. If you need that media to be shared - you are at the mercy of your internet speed connections. That is why Proxy workflow is so cool. And that is why when you see these really cool demonstrations of products like LucidLink with full res 4K media - well, SOMEONE put the time and effort to upload that full res media. With Proxy media, everything is faster.
Bob
Bob Zelin
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