Let's get going.
So welcome to LucidLink unlocked. This is basically your inside look at how LucidLink can transform the way you work without changing all of your favorite tools and workflows. Nick and Clayton are gonna give us an amazing real life example of that today.
This event series is dedicated to going deep into LucidLink to get into the pro tips and the insider info. So it is good to be here live because you can actually ask live questions too and get those answered. So we're really happy to have you here to join us.
Today, we're exploring the new LucidLink, the latest features that have launched specifically, including some things that just launched this morning. So you are getting the hottest take on all of this.
Today, we have Clayton Dutton, one of our senior solutions engineers. He's one of my favorite people to watch to give a demo of LucidLink so you were in for a treat. He's very dynamic and engaging. We also have Nick Kirikidis.
Did I say that right? Okay. Cool. Better known as Nick Kaye. Nick Kaye is a, I would say, pseudo influencer in the freelancer freelancing space.
He has a ton of courses to teach you how to become a expert freelancer, grow your business, and also just be amazing at your craft. Definitely check those out. I will drop his LinkedIn. But he's also a LucidLink Classic member and has been for a long time.
So I'm excited to have you here to kind of talk through how you've used LucidLink and how you might transition to the new LucidLink in the future.
Great. So before we get going, people are joining. They're sitting back in their seats. They're gonna be here
for another fifty six minutes. Clayton, why should they stick around? What what should they get excited about?
Lots of good stuff. We've got some new stuff to show for that. One of which was just announced this morning, so I'm really excited about that. And really just hearing from Nick.
Nick's not only, an influencer, but also a a true customer. He's been a good partner of ours. But, also, I'm excited to hear from him. I get to play with the equipment all day, but I am not actually doing the work with LucidLink like someone like Nick.
So I'm always excited to hear about someone from Nick. Nick, I don't know if you have anything to add there.
Yeah. I for me, I'm just I'm blown away at even just now finding out those new features being announced this morning in the US. I mean, I'm seeing what I've seen over the last five, six years using Lucid as a classic customer and transitioning to three point zero. I just see innovation every single time and I genuinely a fan. I mean, before we kind of, kind of got in touch with each other, I've just seen my career grow.
I would happily say because of lucid, like, to do what I do now and have this lifestyle of working a hundred percent remotely in what is sunny Barcelona in this blacked out office at the moment. Is only possible really because of a tool such as elusive ink because I I just didn't have this option before with the level of clients I was working with, dealing just with terabytes of files every day.
So I'm excited for for all the new things we're gonna talk about today as well.
Nick, I'm gonna cut that and use it for social media. I'm just giving you a heads up now.
Okay.
Clayton and Nick, you ready?
Should we get going? Okay. Cool.
Great, Nick.
Take it away. Thank you all both for being here and doing this.
Certainly. And thank you again, everyone. We realize you have day jobs, and so we're gonna make this fun for you. I want you to leave here.
It's going that was a good spend of my time.
Well, let's get into it, because I know everyone here is a visual person, most likely, and so let's jump in. And we're gonna talk about a number of things today. First, I'm going to just take a couple minutes and just acclimate you with to LucidLink.
I have to recognize the fact that not all of you may be current customers. Some of you may not actually know what it is. So I'm not gonna take a ton of time to do this next part, but you'll notice up here I have two LucidLink, what we call file spaces, right next to my just internal hard drive. The reason I did that is because in at the end of the day, that's what we are.
So we make cloud s three object storage look, act, and feel like a local hard drive. And I can go to any piece of of data and within my file system, and I can just start playing the data back. I can scrub through. I don't need to download first, which for any of you using sync and share like Dropbox or G Drive or OneDrive, you know that's kinda transformational.
And what we're actually gonna be showing you today is a cross the world workflow. I'm here right side out of New York City. Nick, you're in, Barcelona, Spain. I'm very jealous about that. Correct?
Absolutely. I'm in Barcelona at the moment, but equally jealous. New York is such a cool city.
So couple things. Let me kinda shut set the scene here and show you what we're gonna do. We've got a premier production spun up. There's nothing really going on in it yet. No media or anything. But the first thing I'm gonna do is get some media up into the system.
You know? We can't do anything without having the data there.
the first thing I need to do and I have a lot of data here, and we'll get into this in a second. I don't really want Nick seeing all of this stuff. I trust Nick. Right?
But he's not working on this all this stuff. He and I are gonna be working on something related to partnerships today. I'm gonna be uploading a bunch of data. Nick and I are gonna be collaborating a little bit, and we're gonna get into this.
So I'm gonna go into my media folder, and then I'm just gonna go in all my presentation media and upload almost everything. You know what, Nick? I'm gonna wait on a couple things because I wanna demo something to you later, but I'm gonna throw all this stuff up. And while that's going up in the background, the other thing that I now need to do is add Nick to the file space.
You can see I have a bunch of file spaces here. You may notice that one's called Mumbai, another's called UK Media. Just as a reminder to everyone, keep your data as close to the people working on it as possible. In most cases, that's very helpful.
Right? We're not magic. We solve the the problems of latency and collaboration at scale, but there are still physics involved. Right?
Thousands of miles of fiber cause latency. So you wanna have your data as close to anyone working on it as humanly possible. Although it's not unnecessary to, it's helpful. And we'll go into, ways to deal with high latency workflows in a minute.
So I need to first add him in. So let's first go to my domain where I have all of my file spaces, and I wanna add them into some, right, just this file space here. So I'm gonna go into my members. And in this case, I know that Nick is part of he's in my system as Nick, excuse me, info at n k films dot co dot u k.
So he's part of the everyone group, but, actually, I wanna go and give him some fine grained permissions. You can see I can see all of my file spaces or hard drives here. What's great about three point o, for those of you that are on classic currently, is that, you know, to give access in classic to each one of these, you would have to add me specifically to each one of these hard drive or file space instances. Now you can give me partial access to one or more of them.
So I'm just gonna grant access, and I'm gonna go to this partnerships folder. Now I'm going to grant in just a second read, write access to this. But before I do, I'm gonna pause here, and I'm gonna stop sharing because I won't be able to I want Nick now to come into the conversation and show about what we're gonna see on his side of the pond.
Absolutely. So I'm gonna be sharing my screen right now, and please give me a thumbs up if you can see that. Okay? You should be seeing a a desktop here with the loose link dashboard.
Great. Right up there.
And, Nick, you can see that you have no file spaces yet. Now I'm getting ready to change that. I'm gonna give you read write to what I just gate was was just in front of you. So in just a second and and this could take a couple seconds depending on where you are and how far and what's going on, but you could see, look what just happened.
I mean, that that was pretty instant to me. I mean, as you were just saying that, I saw a camera to cloud, file space appear right there. And for anyone who can't see, it's just this section here, right below the asset base workspace. I've now got a camera to cloud right here. And if that's okay with you, I'm gonna go ahead and connect that, Clayson.
Please do. And I'll call it to everyone's attention. Remember, as an admin, I had a lot of data there. When that when you when you're done connecting, Nick, let's check out and see what kind of access that you have.
Absolutely. And I have to say, I love the way that you can organize all the groups and the members. Because when I collaborate with other freelancers as well, I love that the fact that you can just create a freelance group or motion designer group, or a grader group. And I already have those kind of folders and structures set up already.
I thought I can see that's come through, by the way. So I'm gonna go into that file space there, Clayton. Yep. And you can see that show up on my desktop as well there.
Almost like we have an SSD drive plugged into this very computer.
That's showing up straight away. And then we have the partnerships, NK Films, and I can see you've created a full sizzle twenty twenty five for me to dive into.
That's right. And if you wanna open that project file up, if you go back and, let's see. Sorry about that. Yeah. Just open the premier prod production up, and you should be able to launch premier and, get access to the sequence I have once we open that up. Yeah. So we'll get that going there.
And let me see if I can try save. There we go.
And you should see a new, there we go. I don't know if you're getting that on your side yet, Nick.
So, just inside the premier project here, and, I can see that.
Yeah. If you double click that, you know, it's got a lot it didn't load anything into your sequence yet. Pardon me.
Let me just create that, and let me hit save.
That was my side. Hit and refresh. Let's go out.
That's great.
Right here.
So one of the things that you'll notice, guys, is that even though the data is dynamic, in this case, Nick had to take action in Premiere. Right? So sorry, Nick. Go ahead.
Yeah. This I mean, I can see you already made a sequence for me here. Yeah. And I'm really curious to see what you've created for me. I can see this is a new show real I'm gonna work with in full, and I'm literally scrubbing through the timeline.
And I'm not sure how it is on the stream, but you can take Nice. My word for it. It's playing back smoothly here. I'm actually just gonna mute that and play it here.
And that that is buttery smooth. That is absolutely I can't see a single frame dropped this side. And that took what? Seconds, Clayton, when you drop that?
Yeah.
And it just goes to show you guys, and, look look, we all have lives as well. Today, if I'm not using LucidLink, you know, if Nick gets a call from school and has to go pick up the kids, it's that's a problem. Right? Production stops.
With LucidLink, as you just saw, I can have an editor without with zero access to my hard drive in any way and onboard them in under two minutes to an existing project. And in fact, Nick, I don't know if you can go back to your LucidLink media folder real quick for me. I'm gonna pop something in there for you, and I'm gonna do something cheeky here. And I'll show you all this later, but I'm actually gonna upload some data from my phone.
So one of the things that we wanna show you later and we'll talk about today is that, on iOS well, this has been available on Android for a while. We're actually able now to upload data directly to LucidLink from your camera roll. So you could literally go into any specific project, and I love this because every marketing shoot I'm on these days, they all have these really high end pro shooting going on, but you also have a lot of people running around with maybe, you know, phones, and they're shooting for social and web. And there's really no reason why you can't just start working from set within seconds.
So I'm gonna upload something in the background, and just tell me when you start to see this thing come up. I'm gonna do two things. So I'm gonna upload I'm gonna upload my, a a video of just me as a talking head, and then I'm also gonna upload, something else for you, which is an m p four, a rather large one. So if you could just go ahead and start working on that.
If you could just bring up that m p four, and you'll see a record of it pop up. There it is. So what happens now that's still uploading everyone. You can see there's a little icon.
So if you double click that m p four for me, and just open it up in QuickTime, that's fine. You can see that what happens if you hit play there?
We can actually start playing back the data as it's uploading. That is still uploading from my side of the pond here, guys. Because it's an m p four file, I still have two hundred megs that I'm uploading. He can actually start to access that data. So the timeline will grow and premiere and everything. Nick, I don't know if you have anything to add there.
I mean, that's for me, that's just incredible. The fact that I'm playing it back while it's uploading, and streaming to what looks like my desktop. As you said, this is something that would have taken so long. I have so many stories I can tell you about couriers in London. By the time they got from central to my place, which is an hour on the best days, without rain, that would that alone means that all the risk is going onto that one drive, that physical drive. So the fact that I can have this, as well as other editors, never mind, access this at the same time, is the closest thing to magic in post for me. The fact that I can work with this right away.
Now, Nick, if you could go into read read write mode either in the bottom left or by refreshing. Yeah. Either way, I know that I love this. We both have different ways of working. So he could refresh and then take ownership of the project. You'll see I just added something in the background.
Absolutely. I see you made a new edit here, and, oh, wow. Can we play that back?
I don't know if you wanna play it back.
It's just me thanking you for for today. I was figuring we could put that on the end of something. But what I want everyone on on the call to see it on the webinar is you're seeing dynamic read, write collaboration with Adobe productions. Oh, by the way, Nick, somebody wants to know oh, Robert does. What's what are you using for your mouse pointer? That's pretty slick.
Oh, yeah. It's an app on the Mac App Store called Presentify.
You can kinda draw arrows and highlight the cursor similar to yourself, Clayson. But, yeah, pretty cool for for demos like this.
I like that. So, gang, we can both have this we both have the sequence open right now. Nick has control over it with the current, and and currently, I have a read only copy on my side. I can see it's locked in my panel, but I don't really need to do anything.
Nick has everything he needs. Nick, I'm gonna do something mean to you for a second, but I promise I'll fix it real quick. Sure. We really wanna take this home and show everybody that literally, we're not kidding.
He is part of this file space. This is the live active file space. So, Nick, let's just pretend, and I wanna be very clear about this. Nick is the most has nothing but integrity.
So not that this would ever happen, but what if I needed to remove him out of the project? Let's see what happens. So just give me a second here. I'm gonna go to info.
I'm gonna see as access to one thing, and I'm gonna remove access. And you could tell me what happens. So that's gonna take a couple seconds.
Oh, wow. I've I've seen already in the Lucid panel. I've been removed from the file space there, but should we go ahead and look at the LucidLink panel as well?
You can look at your LucidLink, application. Or if you if you refresh that sequence, you can see something will likely happen to it as well. Again, so as you can see, he's offline.
Let's fix that. So don't do anything. Stay right where you are. I'm gonna you're gonna Slack me, and you just say, are you crazy?
What are you trying to do? And I'd just be like, oh my god. Sorry. That's like pulling the patch cord when back when we used to do, you know, tape based workflows.
Okay.
Yeah.
Now if you want to, that access should be restored. If you hit locate and okay, that should come back online for you, but you might have to refresh first. I'm not sure.
We'll see what happens. I've never actually tried this, in real time to this damaging degree, but let's see what happens.
And let me go back to yep. So let me go to my members. Let me make sure that you have access.
Yep. You can edit on partnerships. Good.
Okay.
Now you see if I could relink this.
There we go. I don't think you'll need to, but you might you might need to. You might just need to refresh. I I can't remember.
So what I'll do is I'm gonna just see if I could get Premiere to relocate this. Oh, thanks, Joe.
Joe remembers. There you go. Joe remembers the patch cords. And it just go to the media folder where it was before. Now, obviously, you wouldn't wanna knock people offline like this, deliberately. But just to kinda show you, you can go back to the camera cloud drive and easily access any acts any media, that media folder again, and quickly go into partnerships.
Did I not add you correctly, which is entirely possible?
I'm just gonna see if I'm showing up with my boosted file space here. Oh, I'm disconnected.
So I'm gonna reconnect on my side.
Reconnect. There we go.
Well, look. People being live and testing this in real time.
This is exactly what people run into.
Guys, this is deliberate. We really wanna show where all these curves. So go ahead and hit connect. Oh, you already did.
Great. Now when you go back into Premiere after it's connected, you should be able to just accept the defaults, and it likely you you could even you can just hit, you might have to refresh. Let's see. There you go.
Here we go.
Yeah. I'm gonna locate. There we go.
It did okay.
There we go. It's found the files already. And that's another thing I I love that you're all linked to the same file path because, you know, there's other services. I've used that.
Again, we're all kind of having essentially duplicates of the same file. And what you've just shown me there is that, you know, even you're looking at the same file, I'm looking at the same file. And if I need to relink anything, it lives in the same place it was. That you you just saw there was just a case of me not connecting to the file space.
Yeah. And Joe and Simon, thank you for remembering the Patchcore days fondly with me. When who among us didn't pull them, hear someone scream immediately run out of the core? Come on.
I would usually admit it. But that's great. And listen, in Nick's defense, we had not rehearsed that. I decided to be extra mean and pull that trick in real time.
So, Nick, apologies. I owe you I owe you lunch next time in I'm in Spain, man.
No worries.
Okay. Great. Now, Nick, I don't know. Do you use the LucidLink panel much yourself?
You wanna talk a little bit about that or tell us a little bit about your workflow as a LucidLink user?
I think that would be really helpful to hear someone that uses it every day actually talk about it.
Absolutely. Yeah. I think it's a really good time to talk about the panel because for especially for myself and anyone who's in the chat or watching this on the replay is a digital nomad or works remotely.
You'll you'll probably be familiar with a feature called pin in. And what I love about the loose link panel inside of Premiere is that if you've done this in finder or explorer, you'd have to pin individual folders or pieces of media and think, oh, hold on. What was it I was working on, when I'm working on this project? What media assets were I using for this particular sequence? Whereas inside of Premiere, if I look inside here, I can see my my n k logo master sequence.
If I click these three dots here, I love the fact that you can just pin all clips.
And what that means is, someone like myself who who works out of Internet cuffs, who goes on flights, and I'm the kind of guy who's I've got my laptop there on on the flight in a little kind of small chair, and I'm I'm doing kind of client amends or even kind of personal videos, and I'm doing that all offline.
So I precache them. So for anyone who doesn't know, pinning is a way to kind of cache the files locally to your hard drive. Right? So the fact you can do this per sequence on a project like this, my show reel, that's linking work for sixteen years. Right? And and this is a real scenario, Clayton. This is where I have sixteen years of work, terabytes to terabytes of data, and I can just pin the clips I'm using Or what's even cooler is you can even do the clip ranges to just the sections of the shots that I've favorited or I've marked or I've labeled.
So what this does is it allows me to see how much space that's taking up on the physical drive here that you can see inside of Premiere, as well as just how much used cache I've set it inside of Lucid.
So really cool to do this inside of, Premiere. But for those of you that wanted to know as well, in finder, you know, you can always right click on the file and you can pin those individual files as well or the folder. But for me, I I prefer to do it inside of Premiere.
Love it.
Alright. Alright. Let let me grab the screen back from you for a second then, Nick, and I'm gonna show us a couple of things that we, couple of other things we wanted to talk about about today. And then, yeah, we'll get more into this workflow. Great. So let me go and share my screen as well.
Okay. Can everybody see my screen again here?
Currently. Loads and outputs. There we go.
There we go.
Alright, everyone. You can probably see the fact that I have my iPhone open, and I want to call your attention to the new iOS app. You'll notice here, and so we'll kind of just show you both things for a second. So at the workspace level, you can see I have access to many different accounts, and that's characterized the same way over here in the app.
So I have access full access to anything that I've been given access to in the real LucidLink world on the desktop level, I have that same access here. Earlier in the partnerships folder, I can I went into the media folder, and I could just upload directly from photos my camera roll, or I can go into my actual files into my file system on my phone and pick whatever I want to up to up upload? So that immediacy becomes very, very critical. A lot of our customers do, in fact, upload their heavy footage from set two, but sometimes you don't have the connection speed.
You don't have the staffing. There's not time. So to be able to get proxies up there quickly, whether that's natively shot from a phone or an offloading from a camera card from set, don't forget, anyone that has connection to that data anywhere in the world could start working.
Can I add even an extra thing that I've I've even done on a project recently is if you are an Adobe user and you use something like media encoder, you could create a watch folder? So any rushes that upload to a particular folder can auto, proxy. They could auto encode into the format you'd like. So you can just upload to that folder from set from the cam you've just showed me there on your on your phone, and that could be also proxying those files for anyone in the world to start editing.
You know what's funny is you'll you'll laugh at this. I'm doing the same thing. And, Nick, what folder do you think I'm having them drop stuff in?
Drop o c f in.
There you go, mate. That's where my shooters on set drop their footage. And, yes, media encoder's looking at that and flipping everything to an h ten eighty p h d two six four for because what if look. I don't know what kind of Internet connections everyone on my production are gonna have, but I can guarantee that some of them, if not all of them, are gonna be suboptimal.
People love Wi Fi. I do too. I'm not Wi Fi right now because I like my job. But a lot of times, I am. And so we give you the feature set to work completely Wi Fi. I I finished a piece from in the air from on the way to Amsterdam a couple weeks ago from New Jersey working thirty five thousand feet in the air flawlessly, not a single frame dropped. I did precache in advance, obviously.
You know? But all I was working off was airplane hotspot. Perfectly fine. Right? We're doing metadata updates back to the project file.
Right? If I go into Premiere now and I'd have to take back, if you could give me write mode and just yeah. And then I I can hit that save. Oops.
Let me grab that from you.
I'm good. You should have access in a moment.
Cool. Yes. I'll grab that. Cool. Now I can do that. Now I can do my save.
Now as soon as I hit save, we're we're doing that little metadata update back to the project file. Right? If I go back, look at Premiere, we go into the partnerships, we actually look at the project file. We'll see that little PR lock file.
Right? So that's Premiere doing all its magic in the background, and, really, LucidLink is the main hard drive. But whether it's iOS or Android, you're gonna be covered, remotely when you need that access.
Now we've shown a little bit about three point o today. A lot of you may still be on classic. One of the great things about three point o for our Mac users is is you can remember, and thank you for for hanging in there with us, the Mac install for Classic was rather painful. That's not the case anymore. Whether it's Windows, Mac, or Linux, we do not even require a computer restart.
So bringing people in is very easy. Inviting them got a lot easier as well. I can just do a fake email here to kind of show you. But, really, everything's based off of an invite link.
So you don't even need to create a password for anyone. You don't really need to tell us what they need to see yet. And when Nick clicks on that link, he's gonna be brought into the system literally, and this will be brought to his attention, and there'll be a button here that says connect. It's that straightforward.
Again, member management as a whole got much easier. You can see everyone that's active here. I also have over here a pending, area, so I can look at that. I can also see who's been deactivated. Everyone's behaving themselves, so I haven't deactivated anyone yet, though. You never know.
So, again, I think think, you know, administrating your your file space is is much, much easier as well. We've also, opened up SSO integration now to include SAML. So OIDC and SAML both fully supported. So, really, starting to see everything come out into this next level of of readiness and scaled workflows through and including things like API and SDK coming out later this year.
But a lot of what's on everyone's mind right now is, oh my god. Am I gonna have to migrate my terabytes of data from classic to to to three point o when I'm ready to upgrade? No. You won't.
We don't want you to go through that. Right? And we also don't you don't have to upgrade. There is something that we're releasing on October seventh called the upgrade tool.
That's gonna be just exclusively for our enterprise large dataset customers right off the bat. It's gonna be out for general release a little bit later this year, and then everyone else will come on board. But it's designed to be an upgrade in place solution. Right?
So you'll register your interest with us. And those of you at the big if you're under contract now, feel free to go ahead. We'll provide this link to you in, after the session, or or Marcy may be doing it now live in the chat. So you register your interest, and then we'll just go through the process together.
But, really, it's really to to be designed. All of your permissioning comes through. You will, though, however, need to connect reconnect SSO. Obviously, it's a different implementation.
A different back end storage bucket. So for security reasons, but permissioning and things of that nature should be seamless and really straightforward.
This is music in kids, by the way.
I As I said, I've the amount of clients that I've onboard onboarded by just from pure almost kind of selfish reasons of just using LucidLink just makes our life so much easier.
It's just why working on it with a new project. But the fact that clients before that maybe aren't as tech savvy savvy or freelancers that may not wanna kind of even sometimes people working in the studio that don't have the permissions to do a restart and install the, you know, Lucy Classic on their system. The fact that you can do this now without a restart and just be the user, installing it again set up literally within minutes is incredible. You saw how quickly it was for you to invite me to the Filespace.
But take my word for it, even just onboarding as a brand new LucerLink member, and use that is so easy, especially with three point o. It's just it is literally within minutes.
Yeah. Thanks, Nick. Yeah. And I listen. I have to just say, and I don't say this enough, but hats off to the engineers and developers at LucidLink. I mean, that everything from iOS to all this really next level stuff that I'm showing, I'm astounded by the level of intelligence of those groups. It's it's truly an honor to work with them and watch all these things come to fruition.
And those of us who've been in the business a long time, Nick, yourself included, these are scaled problems that have just really made working at scale tough and and responding to our customers' needs quickly very difficult until now.
Absolutely. It's really kind of it's expanded the way that we can work. And and, you know, I think before having a tool like LucidLink, there's so many clients and projects I would have had to literally have said no to. And still to this day, where there's clients that say, you know, oh, you know, I'm originally from London. I'm a UK company, but I'm now based in Barcelona.
Yeah. If they wanted to ship a physical drive to me, and that was the only way, I would have to lose out on the then I say, hold on. Hold on. Let me taste something like LucidLink. And and then kind of I I introduce them to LucidLink if they're not aware. And Yeah. I'm actually able to take on projects that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
So, yeah, I totally agree hats off to the engineering team who create this magic somehow, this dark dark arts of of postproduction streaming, to call this.
And, Nick, when I worked in London, on the on the international side as an American, I had no idea what languaging meant and how hard it was and how much time and energy it adds to the process. And to be able to to just give access to my languaging houses, just to data that's already there instead of curating these individual datasets for them, shipping them out on hard drives, or or we transfer or whatever I was doing in the past, is also another great win for me. I don't know if you're doing, I'm sure you're bringing your vendors on that way too.
Yeah. It it works both ways. It's it's freelancers and members that I bring on for projects that are scaling myself as a small studio that I kind of onboard freelancers to access that same data.
But also, when I work on a on a larger project, I'm brought into a team, we work through LucidLink.
It it really just allows us to also just I think something we take for granted is the versioning. The fact that we are all looking at the right version, and there's no room for error. We're not second guessing, is this the final underscore master underscore version two five final?
It is really much the concept of we are all working on the same latest project and the latest version, and it just reduces kinda in any kind of miscommunication. Right? Because we've all been there when you send a version of your edit to a client, and it may be looking at version twelve, and it should be looking at version fifteen.
And that that syncing feeling you get too.
Yeah. It's the worst. So this kind of this is one way that it always avoids that room for error, and this solves that.
Well, the last thing I'll talk about and then listen, gang. We're gonna open it up for plenty of q and a today. We'd love to go as deep as you want.
And and listen, this may not be for everyone on this call, but I do wanna announce that we are really proud of it. Where the concept of TeamCash. Right? A lot of our big customers have multiple facilities with large on prem NASAs, and they'd like to take advantage and use that infrastructure on premises, so that the on premises experience with LucidLink matches in every way the external, remote experience.
And I'm proud to say TeamCash is a really good solution for that. We're gonna opportunistically cash stuff in the TeamCash every time an individual requests it. Nick, you probably know this, but right now, LucidLink works mainly. One of the clever things we do is working on caching.
Right? So this cache size here, I by the way, we support cache sizes up to ten terabytes.
But that that's my cache. Right? It's only beneficial to me. I'm the only one that get that gets benefit from that.
That will be true with TeamCash as well, but we're also gonna drop that in the TeamCash. So slowly over time, I've got this wonderful TeamCash that fills up, and we're always gonna be checking that first when you're on premises. So we're gonna mitigate egress even further from your workflow to really give you that immediacy And all the syncing, all the updating, all the goodness that you're relying on LucidLink to be a managed service for continues. You don't ever have to resync back to LucidLink.
It's all managed in the background seamlessly.
Wow. I am I right in saying this is gonna be something that is gonna be so useful for if you run a render farm. If you have to do kind of really heavy multiple machine renders in the same building, which is very common and and a lot of people that have to kind of go to cloud computing and and outsource that. I imagine you could benefit of all that team cash in in one building.
Yeah. Yeah. If you absolutely. It's a great great call out for that. And especially our customers, some of our really and and by the way, I say sophisticated.
This is getting more and more of us are are getting the courage to jump into the cloud mode ourselves and start automating and vibe coding and all of that. Sky is the limit, gang. When we come out when we release our s API and SDK and you look at LucidLink, you know, as a managed, you know, service sitting on an e c two instance in the cloud, doing transactional rendering, transactional proxy creation, ingesting large datasets, and we've got some even more exciting news coming out that we'll be announcing, at Adobe MAX very soon, so make sure you you you meet there. We'll also have a virtual session up online.
So for those of you who can't attend in person, you know, Nick Nick will be featured in in of some of that content as well. So but before we hand over for q and a, Nick, I just wanna first off, I wanna thank you for your time and energy. I know firsthand how what a hot commodity you are for your creative.
And and, also, thank you for being a customer. And but I'd I'd like to lean on you for just a minute or two and just say, of all the things you've been a user for quite some time now. Where is it is it saving download? Where's where where where are we moving the needle most for you and your small business? Well, not small business anymore, but in your business.
Oh, I I mean, you just mentioned some of the innovations already. The fact that compared to competitors out there, and I can name some names, but there's so many features that you're dropping and bringing. Even the fact that you're bringing an iOS app that is so useful for especially the clients and the projects I work on. You know, a few weeks alone, even working with clients like Adidas, where they have to do their main commercial work on their kind of red cameras and Alexa's, but also have to do the kind of social content with more influencer type on the phone.
The fact that you can now do cameras to cloud and just have that uploading right from the phone
Is such a time saver.
And and for me, it's more just the fact that you just lucidly could just make it so much easier for me to work as an individual business owner when I want to work on a project that is just for myself. But then I can also scale up as and when I need without kind of like huge costs of hiring a big office and getting spaces with editors all in one room. The fact that LucyLink allows you to kind of, I have to say affordably as well. I think that's something that's very underrated that there's other products out there that maybe people look at just the space option, the storage option of, oh, you can get five terabytes on on this competitor, you will not not get the same feature set that you do in LucidLink.
Like, I know, I probably sound like I'm kind of fanning out of at least leave that by now. But the fact that you can actually just all work on the same files is so easy to manage members. It's all instant, as you just saw, on the demo here, the very short demo. For me, there's just so many things that loosening up pushing the needle forward.
Nick, for me too. You know, in my role at Discovery Channel for years managing broadcast and post, we aired the wrong show twice in my seventeen years there because we counted the times the word final was at the end of the sequence wrong.
It was final final final final when it should have been final. You know what I mean? And so that is a very real issue. Yeah. Yep.
Yeah.
It's very underrated, and and it's something that is something you can't overlook with something to that level. Like, you're going to broadcast or streaming. You know, you need to be on the ball and just reduce any kind of technical issues. So you can really just focus on the creative.
Well, I saw one question there about TeamCash, exclusive to new LucidLink.
That is a great question, Will. And, I'm gonna drop a a link in the chat. I think Marcy may have done it, so forgive me if this is duplicative, where you can register your interest. Anyone can.
There's, you know, again, there's a there's some deal stuff that needs to be done there. It it won't it it will be an upcharge. Right? It is a a significant significantly different service. But in terms of its availability with LucidLink Classic, I'm not sure. It's so new. I don't really have that level of detail.
I know that we've been focusing on three for obvious reasons, but I don't know that there's any technical reason it wouldn't either, Will. So instead of answering that for you, I'm gonna have to punt and get you that information. And I'm gonna answer it correctly. That's all.
I I had to do the same thing last week, Clayton, in the Slack community, because I someone asked, and I was like, I don't know for sure, so I'm not gonna say for sure.
No. But we were geeking out about it, all of us. Yeah. We were all geeking out about going, but why would we're not sure why it wouldn't, but that's famous last words, man. I don't wanna say that.
Totally. Totally. And speaking of the Slack community, I've seen a lot of people ask about when exactly the upgrade tool will be ready for everyone, not just on contract customers. I do wanna encourage everyone, if you're not already in there, join our Slack community.
I'm putting the link in the chat right now. That is where you're gonna get the most the fastest and most up to date information on any product releases, any opportunities for beta testing, any opportunities for events like this where you can learn a little bit more. So that's not just me as a community manager wanting you to join our community. That is genuinely the best place for information.
It's also all there all the time so you can search things and very useful.
So just wanted to give it a quick plug for that for for those asking for timelines and stuff like that. Nick and Clayton, are you ready for a bunch of questions that I'm about to throw at you?
Go for it.
We can do it.
Okay. Cool.
Some of these are a bit long, so I'm gonna add them to the stage, actually, just so I make sure I get the wording right. And if you need to look back at the the question, we can do that.
So this one is about archiving.
How does archiving work when a project is completed? We are a small team and archive to cold offline storage. How can I sync to a hard drive for archive?
I'm happy to take that. But, Nick, if you actually are doing that, I'm happy to let you take it too, which dealer's choice.
I'll let you take that. But I will add a small tidbit that I, one thing I can't believe I didn't even talk about was snapshots. But I guess we could maybe kind of fill that in somewhere. But I've got a little kind of hot tip, no pun intended for cold storage is I use a, an app called Carbon Copy Cloner to also just backup, anything inside of Lucid link to go into a physical RAID drive, which I've got down here somewhere.
We then backed up onto another RAID hard drive. On the OCD with with the backups as you can already tell. So I have that automatically at the end of the day scheduled to do backups physically. But what I guess placing could also go into is that there's also a SnapSlots feature, which is, I guess, in this Mac time machine, where you you kinda could just reroll back any errors or lost files.
So that's a an awesome little trick that I use every day, and hopefully it helps one.
Thank you, Nick. Yeah. I threw a I threw a link to carbon copy cloner right in the chat for us. I love that too.
You bring up a good point. Because we mount as a local hard drive, you can kinda use anything with us. You can even drag and drop the content from your LucidLink hard drive onto your external hard drive. That works as well.
I, you know, I prefer using sync tools because there's some data that doesn't come over that way sometimes, but in general, it's that simple. We don't hold your data in a proprietary fashion in any way. We do store it in one megabyte encrypted chunks. In case you're wondering, that's how we can play back data that's not that as in like, when I was uploading and Nick was playing back some of the file, that's how we're actually able to do that.
We don't need to wait for the entire file to sync up to the cloud in some cases. That's more about file type than it is about us, but think of it this way. If Adobe, Premier supports as a growing file type, so do we. So syncing back to your your own drives is should be as easy as either drag and drop or even even RoboCopy, rsync, anything like that works beautifully, any kind of command line stuff.
Joe would like to hear a little bit more about pinning sequences versus main media.
Yeah. So let's talk about that for a second. And I'm gonna actually share my screen for a second. And, yeah, go ahead, Nick. If you have anything to add there, feel free to as well.
Yeah. For sure. I mean Okay. Go ahead. Okay. Yeah. For for for pinning, I'm sure you're gonna show an example as well.
Or I I could share my screen if needed. But the idea is that you can pin, content locally to your hard drive if similar situations what Clayton mentioned. If you're going on a flight or an area with no coverage or is a bit spotty, you can also just pin that locally to your drive using your media browser or or file browser. In this case, if you're on a Mac, that'll be in finder.
There we go. Places beautifully showing that you can pin and unpin that data as and when, you like. A great tip as well. I've I've got these little tips I just I don't really use because I've just set them up in the beginning.
But I have a folder called do you know what? Maybe I'll just show you a little bit.
Yeah. Let me let go ahead. Let me just I'll stop sharing because I was just kind of I was, like, illustrating what you were doing.
It was That was beautiful.
That was kinda like a dance. But, you know, I was kind of dictating it, and you were kind of interpreting that at dance.
So what I'll just do as a very quick example inside of finder is I have a folder for all my active projects I'm working on called active projects, and I automatically pin that. So we bring up the right space. So I'm running classic as well as, three point o.
Good point there, by the way. You can run both simultaneously. We're connecting in different ways. So it it's totally fine, gang.
Yeah. Not many people know that, but you can actually need to run both. I'll just show you this in some classic, but, essentially, you can have a folder here for when if you're a freelancer or small business and you're starting a brand new project, I default have a folder like that pinned.
So anytime I set up a new project within that, as in my active projects, everything that goes in is automatically gonna be pinned to that folder.
So everything inside it, where it's to say that, you know, design or documents, education in this case was a project, for a different client, that would automatically cache to my computer.
The reason I do that is I work between the desktop and my Mac. If I wanna go to the Starbucks or any popular hipster coffee shop, I just have that file already there if they have dodgy Wi Fi.
And many times they do.
Indeed, unfortunately.
So you don't need to pin anything to back up your data, gang. We have what's called snapshots. So we have you covered for thirty days by default. You can, if you're on an enterprise plan, go in and create a custom snapshot schedule, and you can tell us to snapshot every minute, hour, day, week, month, and or year, and then you tell us how many to retain. They do take up some space, so you don't wanna keep them forever. It's not designed to be an archive strategy. But, again, if Nick said I like the project better last Tuesday, we could go into last Tuesday's, snapshot and literally have that project exactly as it was at that point in time.
That that actually saves someone.
I I was just about to say, I talked to so many customers and they're like, yeah, Snapshot saved me one time. And I'm like, I I don't wanna know what would have happened if it wasn't there.
Fortunately, recently, I just a quick anecdote is two weeks ago, I was, kind of doing a Mac OS Tahoe beta install. Yeah. And I I've done something weird in carbon copy cloner while I was overwriting something on Lucid's by mistake. And I had to recall a snapshot from two weeks ago to get a project I was working on, to get that permanent project file back, and that saved my bacon.
So snapshots are amazing to have in the background.
Yep. We've all been there. Someone asked what is the best practice to upload. Gang, we all buy the download number.
That's the only number the Internet people tell us. The upload's painful. We do, though, because we will atomize the file, and we do multi part the uploaded sixty four parts by default. That can be increased as well if you have the bandwidth to to facilitate that.
So always, always upload from the best connection if you can, no matter where that is. But even if it takes all day, just let it go on in the background. And if you wanna close your laptop, just know that your upload's gonna pause while you do that unless you're on iOS twenty six, actually.
So on the phone, if I'm uploading a large file from my phone, it does not matter if my phone's on or not. That upload will continue. That is the that's really cool part about the new iOS twenty six, by the way. You can say what you want about Liquid. I like it, but I love the back the background activity.
That's just huge.
So Interesting.
Alisa is asking about LucidLink's approach to security and authentication.
That's okay. Great question. So we have what's called a zero knowledge security policy. What I like about us, you may have noticed that I was showing the application.
So everybody has to have the app right now. Right now, that's getting ready to change, and I'll I'll show something about that while we're doing that. But for now, that is because because of application, this is where we're decrypting the data. Okay?
So everybody has to have the app installed, whether it's the phone or their desktop, and they have to be added into the file system, and they have you have to tell us what they can see. Otherwise, the data is encrypted at rest in transit at the object store and at the metadata hub, or you can think of it as a metadata controller for a classic NAS. So worst case scenario, a hack takes your service out. They cannot decrypt your data.
And by the way, did you notice earlier that, when I removed Nick from my hard drive or from my file space, he the audio went offline in Premiere. Did you notice that? So the decryption keys also become null and void as soon as I remove him. So when you remove someone, they're gone.
So they can't decrypt the data any longer no matter if it's in their cache or not.
They can open up the cache folder and see, encrypted data there, but they can't decrypt it.
Amazing.
We've had three different people ask about external link sharing, so I do feel like we need to address that for the people.
And when I say external link sharing, I mean, sending someone a link to LucidLink, and even if they are not a user in your file space, then being able to open that file.
I know that that is not I I don't think that there is a timeline for that, but, Clayton, correct me if you have heard something else.
There there is and there isn't. So we have this sort of baseline functionality now, so I'll show you. So it's gonna try to launch the LucidLink app for me because I am obviously a LucidLink customer.
But you can see is this is actually the web here. So I'm still on the web page. I can actually not open the app, and everyone can do this today. You can browse files.
If you have access, you'll be able to see those files. Right? So, let me go back here. Sorry.
Let's browse files again. Let me go into freelancers, and I can see some of my video files here. Right? Now in the future, you're gonna be able to we're gonna be able to preview that right here.
But today, you can either open up in the desktop app or at that point, like Dropbox, if you were sharing with someone, you would download. And so that would download and I could open that independently outside of LucidLink all day long. So that's sort of how we're doing it today. So a lot of our customers, you know, if you're using Frame.
Io or Iconic or, that's still a great way. I like that. Here's why. Everybody wants external link sharing straight off of LucidLink, and that sounds like a great idea.
But trust me, your security teams are not gonna like you doing that to a production system.
Right? That's production. That's where all the sausage is being made. I don't want my customers my restaurant customers in the kitchen. I want them in the restaurant where I can control what they see and their experience.
So at this point, we don't have anything about review and approval. We just wanna be darn good at keeping your data secure, delivering it without you being able to download or duplicate it, and giving you a really good price to do that. So let the companion apps around us do that. But if you have to today, you can do just like I showed you, and your customers can have gain access that way.
I prefer that. I mean, I, you know, I use this in a workflow with Frame. Io and sometimes iconic. And just having my export with the internal team that everyone can access and review, but to send it to the client, just doing the review link through Frame is such a great way. And again, I'm a maybe I'm lazy, but I'm a fan of watch folders, because I export to a folder inside of LucidLink to with all my whips, my work in progresses.
And frame. Io picks up that watch folder and uploads it to my project. So already, the client has the link there already set up that I've shared previously, already got my email going. So I could just fire it off to them.
And Mark is asking, how does LucidLink behave when dumping a large amount of data in a short period of time?
I would assume dumping into it, or do you mean deleting? I don't know that it matters, but I'm gonna say, like, uploading.
So behind us and this is true whether we so we work with natively, we have two main hyperscalers we work with. Our main partner is AWS, and most of our file spaces are there. A lot of people like to use IBM as well. That's the key term there is hyperscaler.
I don't know that we one of our customers has over a thousand users and over four petabytes, and there's no issue there. So not that I've heard of. It's always about the bottleneck is always the upload speed, whether that's a facility, or at someone's house. Yep.
Great. And quick one from Jeremy in the chat. Will you have a way to share a rough cut link directly in Lucid in the future so we don't have to use Iconic for reviews?
Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, you can do that now, but, Jeremy, a lot of people ask us this. And listen, I I I actually, I didn't share this. I was actually the founding solutions engineer at Frame. Io, and I love the product.
But as an editor, it didn't do a lot for me only because I mean, it does a lot for everyone else, and it's so worth it. It works great with LucidLink. But I didn't like to have to download all that data during COVID that I was, you know so with LucidLink, I'm working at SITU off the cloud, then I'm uploading through the panel my review and approval copies. And, again, I'm keeping my customers and my execs out of my production system.
Awesome. I know we are almost at time, so I'm gonna cut us off for today q and a wise. That was Nick and Clayton. Thank you. That was rapid fire answers. Those were amazing. And thank you all for joining, all seventy five plus of you.
Great questions, and this is how we learn is just by understanding what you wanna know more about, and, hopefully, that was really helpful to get some real real time answers too. Like I mentioned, please join the Slack community if you have not already. That is where you're gonna get the most up to date, updates on LucidLink and everything else. Also a great place to connect with everyone else in this, chat.
Clayton very generously added his email. If I were you, I would take him up on communicating with him through there, not to not to blow up your inbox, Clayton. Sorry. And last thing, we have another virtual event on Thursday that I would love for everyone to come to.
Clayton, I see you're excited. Do you wanna tell them why you're excited?
Man, you've gotta come to this. It's it's awesome. Shot put users, you know, all they just please try and attend. And Steven Nijelski, my partner, and the solutions team did a wonderful job along with the the the folks over there to just really come up with a really smart integration.
Hundred percent. I just put the link in the chat. That is on Thursday.
Shotput team will be there. Our team will be there, and they're gonna do a live demo of what that integration looks like. So it'll be super fun.
Alright. Thank you all. Nick and Clayton, thank you so much for your time.
Thank you so much.
Always so fun to work with both of you, and we will see you all very soon in another event. Bye.
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks, Nick. My pleasure. We appreciate it.
Welcome to LucidLink unlocked — your inside look at how LucidLink can transform the way you work, without changing your favorite tools and workflows. Just add LucidLink.
"The new LucidLink" launched in November 2024, and we've been adding additional features each month to make it more and more valuable to our community. But what's all the hype about? What's different about the new LucidLink, and why will it make your life easier?
Join our Solutions Engineer, Clayton Dutton as he shares everything you need to know about the new LucidLink and the latest features we recently announced that will make your workflows even more seamless. Nick Kyriakides, owner of NK Films and LucidLink Classic customer, will join Clayton to ask questions throughout the demo for a more interactive experience.
Whether you're brand new to exploring any version of LucidLink, or you're a pro on using LucidLink Classic with your team, this will be a valuable session covering:
A live demo of the latest version of LucidLink highlighting the latest features
Differences between LucidLink Classic and the new LucidLink
A preview of features you can expect to launch in the coming months
Answers to all your product questions in a live Q&A
