Adtec Decoder Bridges Home Office and Edit Bay Thousands of Miles Away
Summary
In this traditional on-site setup, the Avid editing machine’s audio/video output was fed to a client monitor that Clark would watch from a couch just six feet behind the editor.Then Clark moved to the U.K. and quickly realized he did not want to have to stay in L.A. for the four-to-seven days after wrap that it would take to begin the director’s cut, so he began to look into remote solutions and discovered Adtec encoders and decoders.Now, thanks to his choice of the Adtec Digital signEdje, Clark can be thousands of miles away and still oversee, in real time, the production of his current project, the hit series Hawaii Five-0, now entering its second season, and popular CSI:NY, now in its eighth season.About six years ago, Clark was side-by-side with his editors as most of the programs he directed were shot in L.A. where he was living.In this traditional on-site setup, the Avid editing machine’s audio/video output was fed to a client monitor that Clark would watch from a couch just six feet behind the editor.The more bandwidth-efficient signEdje, using H:264 technology, helped him to save money as he didn’t have to provide the bonded T1 service at the upload end that had been necessary with the older MPEG2-based system.Clark’s remote editing process works with the Avid Media Composer’s audio/video being fed in to the Edge 4000 encoder.