Remote Access Video Editing/Rendering Workstation Build

[mrangen]

Budget (including currency): $3000 CAD

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Video Editing / Rendering

Other details: Remote Video Editing

 

My sister is setting up a video editing studio and, as her techy brother, she relies on me for hardware support. What she would like is a desktop she can leave at the studio but remote into to do editing work. For high speed remote desktop, I've been using moonlight. I'm wondering if there's a better approach or some sort of standard industry practice for this. She ideally would like to be able to access the workstation in her studio from anywhere in the world.

 

Requirements:

• Powerful Editing Workstation
• Storage For Videos
  • Potentially a storage server for her and employees to share access to
  • Potentially a web server for selling stock footage
  • Backups
• Ability to log in and do work from anywhere in the world
  • VPN?

 

How could I best achieve this for her?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Assuming you have a reasonble quality internet connection moonlight and simmilar are about as good as you can get. There are better managed remote access solutions, but there normally much more expensive and a pain to seutp.

 

5 minutes ago, mrangen said:

Potentially a web server for selling stock footage

Id host this on a public host from a vps or just a web host.

 

5 minutes ago, mrangen said:

Potentially a storage server for her and employees to share access to

How fast is your internet connections. I know there are many solutions for downloading proxies, editing those remotly, then sending the edit file back to other eidtiors.

[jaslion]

15 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

How fast is your internet connections. I know there are many solutions for downloading proxies, editing those remotly, then sending the edit file back to other eidtiors.

I also never recommend having a system used by a user to be the storage server as well it leads to a whole host of user error and problems pretty much always.

[mrangen]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

There are better managed remote access solutions, but there normally much more expensive and a pain to seutp.

If I were to go that route, any software you'd recommend?

 

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

How fast is your internet connections.

100Mbps minimum obviously aiming for the fastest available, I just don't know if there's fiber to that building yet.

2 hours ago, jaslion said:

I also never recommend having a system used by a user to be the storage server

Yeah, I was thinking of a NAS or something stored at the office.

 

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id host this on a public host from a vps or just a web host.

This is a good option too.

[Electronics Wizardy]

19 minutes ago, mrangen said:

3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

 

If I were to go that route, any software you'd recommend?

MOst of the ones I know about are for vdi or thin client uses. You can give rdp in windows a shot, but its liekly gonna be worse here.

 

20 minutes ago, mrangen said:

100Mbps minimum obviously aiming for the fastest available, I just don't know if there's fiber to that building yet.

3 hours ago, jaslion said:

What is the latency to the remote editor connection? There is a point where it limits your workflow a good amount

 

 

[mrangen]

11 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What is the latency to the remote editor connection?

Depends on location:

• At home - neglible, should be low latency
• At a hotel somewhere - your guess is probably better than mine.

She does have a decent gaming laptop for remote work that can handle most of what she throws at it but she likes the idea of having a powerful workstation in the studio and hopes to make use of it remotely. e.g. Say she's on vacation but a customer needs something. She'd like to be able to get someone to go record some footage for her and upload it to their shared drive and then she'd like to log into her workstation remotely to edit that footage without needing to download it to her laptop over the hotel's internet.

[Electronics Wizardy]

14 minutes ago, mrangen said:

Depends on location:

• At home - neglible, should be low latency
• At a hotel somewhere - your guess is probably better than mine.

She does have a decent gaming laptop for remote work that can handle most of what she throws at it but she likes the idea of having a powerful workstation in the studio and hopes to make use of it remotely. e.g. Say she's on vacation but a customer needs something. She'd like to be able to get someone to go record some footage for her and upload it to their shared drive and then she'd like to log into her workstation remotely to edit that footage without needing to download it to her laptop over the hotel's internet.

Yea editing from home will work fine, but probably a bit more noticable latency.

 

From hotel rooms, your will have to test the connections, it will probably a poor experience.

 

If she has a good laptop id be tempted to just use that for the edits.

[brob]

Does latency really matter with remote editing? All of the work is executed on the workstation.