[Tig] Remote client supervised color sessions (was "Color")

[Dominic Case]

>Technology is ahead of humanity at times for the wrong reasons.

It can result in not enough interaction, or too much. But you are right, it
rarely gets it right in terms of the way in which humans need to interact.

I saw a demo last year of a remote, collaborative multi-user approach to
editing (but it could have been colour correction, compositing etc.)

The control surface was a computer GUI projected onto a benchtop. People
could stand all around it. There was another GUI projected onto a benchtop
in another city, which was connected in with a very fast fibre. You could
command the system with a conventional mouse, or by pointing (with your
hand) at an icon on the benchtop, or by using a block of wood as a pointer,
or by voice command - or all at once! From either city. Or, for all I know,
by command line on a keyboard in the next room. How it managed interrupt
conflicts I have no idea. But that was seen as a computer issue, not as a
human issue. The idea was to enable collaborative working. The system also
had a large screen video-conferencing style hook-up between the cities so
you could make eye contact with the other folk. I could wave at a frame in a
clip-bin and shout "play", while someone else could lean across and tap on a
timeline to mark an edit point.
 
It raises the question of whether, in a grading session for example, there
is conventionally one operator but a lot of opinions because that's all the
equipment can cope with at present, or simply because we can only work as a
group with one person doing the driving. Or is there some human dynamic - as
yet untapped - that would enable a group all to work actively and
cooperatively on the same project - in the same room or not?

Scary stuff.

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Dominic Case
Atlab Australia
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