Re: Editing at a distance.

As I understand it (which is not at all well) this is something how the new Adobe video pdf system works: all footage is first mirrored at two sites, hooked together live, with a skype voice line alongside. The software locks both sites to the same time code reference so both site displays are always looking at the same exact frame. You and the guy at the other end, say, a client or director on location, both have control of a timeline of the project that can be step-framed or shuttled at any speed or direction at will. The data overhead is low because you're not actually streaming the pictures and sound, just the timeline shuttling commands. Then each workstation moves it's timeline around to match. Supposedly you can annotate frames and draw right on them in telestrator style. Seems like a powerful collaboration tool. Or on the bad side, a way to over-micro-manage someone remotely. If you and your editor are really all that far apart in how you're looking at things, technical solutions may not help. If OTOH, you are leaving a lot up to the editor and just use this tool to see and understand his progress, again, that could speed things.