cloud based playback and DIT software demonstration

[Louis Eguchi]

view demonstration here...https://vimeo.com/42464538


hey been developing this tool over the last few days and wanted some opinions and suggestions. i am very sorry if this seems the wrong place to post this or to post essentially advertising here if this is wrong i will remove! however it would be an interesting discussion to see if these tools would be of any use to anyone else, if so we will commit to the additional features.Bestdescription...


OCTET is a private cloud based video file management and playback software, developed by Univers Labs. The system allows easy playback and pre grading of footage, ideal for DoP’s, DIT’s and directors.

OCTET allows responsive and reliable on set workflows for pre-visualising grading, correcting LUTs and playback.

OCTET runs on a Mac or PC and with the use of a standard wireless router, network or internet connection allowing selected persons to edit, playback or grade footage non destructively on multiple smartphones, tablets or computers.

OCTET uses intelligent on the fly transcoding, no more waiting for clips to fully render several versions of footage before viewing on any device, just point OCTET to the folders containing your footage and users will have safe and responsive access to the footage without changing the original files.

OCTET is in an early Alpha version and is not currently available to the public.

Univers Labs are adding features daily, the following features are being developed:

Histograms.
RED R3D support.
LUT Import.
Look saving and loading.
Import and playback of Final Cut,Adobe Premiere and AVID files.
Conversion between standard color spaces such as rec709, fcc and linear.
Generation of HD dailies.
Video overlays.
Playback of image sequences.
3D anaglyph video generation and playback.
Standard DIT operations such as media offloading and file verification.
View and edit metadata.
Univers Labs are looking to test OCTET on professional productions; if you are interested please feel free to get in contact.

Any suggestions or opinions are welcome! contact us via the methods below:

https://vimeo.com/42464538 (https://vimeo.com/42464538)
#octet
@universlabs
hello@universlabs.co.uk (hello@universlabs.co.uk)

[Brian Merlen]

Sounds great! My only concerns are : will bandwidth from ISP's, internet bottlenecks, and potentially hackers get in the way? If this works, then its awesome, but with the internet infrastructure so slow, will this work without having a super speed connection?

[Kwan Khan]

Interesting

[Louis Eguchi]

Thanks Brian, Running this software over the internet is just one of many use cases for this software.

The software is what's called a private cloud, It can be run over the internet or locally on your Mac/PC. A common set up would be on set installed on a DIT's computer, Playback devices such as laptops, iPads, iPhones, etc would then connect over the local network (wired or wireless) to the software, not touching the internet at all.

For those interested in bandwidth usage / requirements if this software was to be run over the internet:

Playback: 1.6Mb/s
DIT Tools: 200Kb/s


For Internet/Local links, It is possible to set up encryption.

[Brian Merlen]

Thanks, sounds like a great program!