![]() LucidLink tries to simplify that a bit with “block pricing.” As of this writing one month of performance LucidLink storage runs $85 and includes one terabyte of storage as well as one TB of egress. One often confusing thing in the byzantine world of cloud storage comes in the form of ingress and egress fees. Once LucidLink is setup, the Filespace will connect when the software launches. You could try standard if all you need to store are still image, small product assets and maybe audio. You’re probably guessing that video editing would require the performance tier that uses Amazon S3. LucidLink offers both a standard storage tier and a performance tier. It’s that cloud part of the equation that is a bit trickier. That local software installed is the interface between your system and the cloud. Using LucidLink is as simple as just installing the software and setting up and account for access and billing. There are other videos worth watching in the LucidLink resources page for more about using LucidLink with Premiere Pro and other tools like Kyno. LucidLink and Adobe have worked together and even did their own demo which will give you more detail on how it all works. Also, DAW’s like PreSonus’ StudioONE, Ableton Live, and others can easily be used with LucidLink’s technology. Customers use LucidLink in their VFX and post-production workflows. You can access video and audio files directly from the cloud and utilize a variety of NLE’s like Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, and Blackmagic Resolve to name a few. Yes, LucidLink works great with video and audio editing. LucidLink has an FAQ on their website that answers a lot of questions but I wanted to quote the one question that will be most relevant to readers of this article:ĭoes your solution work for video and audio editing? It’s not as simple as your Netflix stream as there is some voodoo going on behind the scenes to make this work as it seems almost too good to be true. When you go to access that media in the LucidLink cloud on another system then it is streamed in realtime back to your system and into whatever application you’re asking to see it. More on that upload to the cloud in a bit. Depending on your upload speeds it might take awhile to get that media into the cloud. When you copy media to your LucidLink volume that media is uploaded to the LucidLink cloud but appears to be locally stored just like a hard drive. It’s a cloud storage volume that lives up in the cloud. It looks like a hard drive but it’s not a hard drive. Below is my LucidLink volume in DaVinci Resolve. You can open a Finder/Explorer window and your LucidLink volume looks just like a hard drive. Your video creation apps and things like the Premiere Pro Media Browser will see the LucidLink volume just like a hard drive. It’ll be there in open and save dialog boxes just like a hard drive. Anything cloud-related likes to use lots of buzzwords.Ībove is the LucidLink volume the company set up for me (named simmons) mounted on my desktop just like a hard drive next to a Thunderbolt drive, the system drive and a USB stick. There are a lot of internet buzzwords in this review as well as when you look around the LucidLink website. LucidLink will mount a volume right on your desktop that looks just like local storage or a hard drive plugged into your system. What exactly is LucidLink?įirst I think it’s important to understand just what LucidLink is and what it gives you when it’s all set up. ![]() Both BeBop and Postlab Drive use LucidLink technology.īut none are quite as unique and quite seemingly magical as LucidLink. Add to that extensive use of Postlab, the amazing Postlab Drive, this Nextcloud product that Damian Allan looked at, and remote editing work I’ve done using various platforms and I can say there are a lot of options out there. We’ve had a couple of remote video editing talks here on PVC and I was able to kick the tires on the amazing BeBop Technology platform. I think of this technology as another evolution in our remote/collaboration world that COVID has thrust us into. A click on the LucidLink website greets you with this: I said, “that seems too good to be true.”įast forward to fall 2020 and I’ve had the opportunity to take LucidLink for a spin. It was cloud-based file storage that would let you store your video and audio files and “stream” them in real-time from the cloud to use in post-production. I was walking the show floor when I stopped to chat with my friends at Bridge Digital and they told me about a service called LucidLink. We were traveling and eating out and having trade shows and gathering for in person learning at Post-Production World. When I was at NAB New York back in the fall of 2019 the world was a different place. ![]()
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