OT: Adobe's Colaborative Workflow Concept (at NAB)

After reading a variety NAB summaries from around the web, I didn't come across anything (I probably missed it) on Adobe's Technology Sneak Peek: The Future of Collaborative Editing presentation that they showed during NAB.

Adobe showed off what they referred to as a Sneak Peek at a concept for a collaborative workflow at NAB this year. What they showed was not part of any existing or announced product. It's not in CS6. They stated they had no plans for it, they just wanted to share the concept. The concept was a approach to a collaborative workflow for editors using Premiere Pro.

The demo consisted of a special build of PP. Launching this special build immediately brought up a login in window. You entered in a server, username and password.

The server basically showed up in PP's media browser. The presenter simply dragged some clips from the server into a new Project. The clips didn't transfer, they are simply pointers to the actual media which reside on the PP server that he logged into.

He could play and pause any of the clips and they looked okay. What the server did was it streamed the clip to his computer. When he hit stop, the server then transferred one single frame in full resolution.

He dragged some of the clips on the timeline. Made a few basic edits and then saved the Project back to the server.

He then brought up a video chat with another Adobe person, who was apparently in Seattle. That person opened up the newly saved project, applied some additional edits and saved it. The presenter was then able to open the project and see the new edits.

It appeared to me to be an interesting concept. So I was wondering if anyone at NAB had seen this presentation and what they thought of it.

Although, I don't know why Adobe would show something like this in a public forum. I can understand the importance of getting customer feedback. I'm not sure why they would not do it under an NDA and in front of all your competitors.