Work Flawlessly with Remote Video Editors: FINALLY. My NAS Storage Workflow for Video Production! 

I work as a full time editor for a company in an area I’m not super happy about. I might bring this up to them when I move away so I can still work for them but not have to live in the same town as my job. Thanks Scottie!

Enjoyed the video. Appreciate your taking the extra time to test theory before posting a video about it. Also, your view on Apple's need to incorporate collaboration into FCP is spot on.

Changing lives over here man! Great video thanks for the info

Very cool. Remote is the future.

Thanks for this great explanation. It's really helpful. I'm doing video editing purely as a hobby but storage is always an issue and I've been going through all the stages: using external drives, then getting bigger and bigger SSDs to the point I didn't know anymore what is what, and now finally considering a Synology NAS.

Great video!!! Been using a Synology nas since 2016 and it’s a life saver!

Brilliant video Scott! Keen to build one out and follow this workflow.

Questions: 1. What’s the best way you’ve found to archive your files to Google Drive? Do you just use their interface or are you syncing the files from your NAS somehow? 2. Are you editing directly from the NAS or downloading the files, editing, then reuploading to the NAS?

Instead of keeping the files inside the project, why don't you just keep them inside folders outside of the project and when you import then into the library, just keep files in the same place. That way different people can still access the different video files.

I would really love an in depth set up video along with how you organize your footage. Also are your editors editing directly off of their NAS?

This is a game changer for us. Thanks for breaking it down!

Here is just one of several excellent videos from SpaceRex on using a Synology NAS for video editing. This one is about how you would sync the NAS's : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-togY3hr_hv0.html NASCompares also has some really good videos on the subject.

Hey man. We have a Synology NAS setup in the office, with our remote editors running off SSD's that are connected via the Synology drive client to the cloud, so no need to have a big NAS in everyones home. Have you looked into this? and if so what was your reasoning for not going that route?

Hey Scott great video! How would it affect your workflow if the remote editor doesn't have a NAS in their home? Would they still be able to edit directly from the main NAS stationed in the studio while at home?

Hi Scott great video. One question. Does this still work with one NAS. Could remote editors use without a NAS at their location?

Scott, thanks, good, sincere advice.

I’m lost and confused 😊. Video production company? Podcasts? High pressure cleaning? Bakery?

Hey Scott thanks for the video! Curious if you've ever experimented with proxies or files that 'self destruct' or become unusable after a set amount of time? If editors download sensitive files, it would be great to have the piece of mind knowing they become useless after a period.

nice had this up a while, got thru it nicely to see. thanks, Mon 25.4.24 17:42pm

Thanks for sharing Scott. This seems like a great workflow for a lot of production companies. I have a QNAP NAS but its Thunderbolt which allows for reasonably fast read/write speeds. Do you not have any issues with the hard drive speeds for editing directly off these? I think you also mentioned editing the projects wirelessly with WIFI that seems really tough unless maybe they're all Proxies or you're all on M1/M2s.

For remote editors... do they have to sync a folder to the local machine? or do they work on a remote folder? I wish you showed the actual folders/app.

Great video! One comment....if you have 6 x 16 TB in RAID5 then you have 80TB of usable.

Why would you need separate nas drives on the editor side ? You could just have the main nas at the studio upload the footage and send download link and upload link to the editor.

Finally. yes Ive just got a 1821+ and its awesome happy to see how you set it up. Out of interest why didn't you use SHR instead of Raid 5?

Thank you so much for this info!

It’s why after 20 years I’m switching from FCP to Resolve. Apple the first to introduce collaboration except for FCP is the only application that truly needs collaboration. And if I switch then I eventually will switch my phone as well. And could possibly move to a less expensive PC. Sad but I don’t know what Apple is waiting for?

Thanks for the video. Are you editing full res video files via the network or are you using proxies and do you connect your computer to the NAS directly via ethernet? Thanks.

Hey Scott :D This was super helpful!

I've been waiting for this lol

This is awesome!!!!

hello, great video. I have a question. lets say I have my nas drive with all the footage and finalcut projects in a location A. and if I go to somewhere else, lets say location B, will I be able to edit the videos remotely through the internet connection without any nas server in location B?

Thnx!

Hi Scott, great video. Do you use ProRes or ProResRAW footage, or is it all H.265 and H.264? Cheers!

Great video!

you sound like bird person and I love it

Thanks mate

So does it allow for your editors to edit directly off the NAS using proxies? I’m assuming the original media wouldn’t work well in 4K or bigger file sizes via network? Maybe I’m missing a step that answers this…

Thanks, Scott, for such an insightful video. I have been thinking of ways to have my editors edit remotely. I wonder, if I do not have the budget to supply my editors with a NAS to station at their residence, do you think that having all of them install Synology drive app on their laptop and have it actively sync files with one Synology located at the office will be possible?

How can everyone access the NAS wirelessly? to edit 4k footage you really need 10GB ethernet speeds

Great video! Thanks for sharing! How fast is your internet at home and is there a recommended internet speed?

10G FO is needed for CATIA. I can't understand that you're in Pennsylvania. OMG. IYKYK.

Clear as mud

Pretty-good buts !DS1824+ or Bust!

i just stumbled across your video, wow, this could be a solution for us. can the editor be anywhere? or does he/she have to be in the same place as his/her NAS? i would love to see a real world scenario test somewhere in a café or so 🙂

@15:00 - I don't understand. Your remote editor edits straight onto the Synology NAS? Or does she downloads the footage and edits locally and then uploads the project file? If she loads that NAS as a network drive and edits from that- then it should be super snappy. I don't know if this could happen if you have that NAS, say, in Europe. I guess she lives quite near you, then... I barely see any feedback by NAS /Synology users about accessing this NAS data remotely...Most seem to use this NAS locally...in house.

thank you!!!

Long time editor who's new to this tech. Did you need to add the optional 10G Ethernet module or were you able to do all your network transferring as they were out of the box? Did you add SSDs, too? Thanks.

I just want an m.2 (4) bay for PCI Express NVMe 3.0 x8

Scott, we currently share (through synology gofile browser links to clients) large video files in the GB's to external users to download. What happens often, is that the client complains that the download gets interuppted, slow and unsuccessful. What advice would you recommend to send successully to external users to access content on Synology?

I saw this asked in the comments with no answer, but would LOVE an answer to it. Can you edit 4k files through the network storage without an issue? Or do you have to use a proxy workflow because the network connection can't keep up with 4k files? That's really the deal breaker with my company so if I know you can edit 4k files with no issues here, I'm game!

Are you seriously telling me that you edit wirelessly!? Are you using 4K footage? I am looking into this for my employer and this is amazing if true! I would think you would need to be hard wired at a 10gig connection in order to cut 4K or larger footage. Your editors download to their mini-server...edit it wirelessly at their location and then just push the edit files ie: project file...xmls...graphics etc back up to your main server at office? So do they just delete their local video files to keep their mini-server from getting loaded or bogged down? Very interested in this process...it would help us out so much. Thanks for the great info.

Hiw do you remotwly edit on the laptop or on a remote server?

nice

If you are a solo creator in one studio I presume NAS holds no advantage and your previous OWC DAS setup is best?

Are you using the native Synology Drive app or you upload using the web GUI?

Hello thanks for video. Is not clear how you can access to your libraries on the server from remote and not from the home lan. Could you explain it? Thank you

Would keeping the media files outside of the project solve your issue with the way Final Cut handles collaboration? Essentially, you would store all of the media in a folder for each client or for each project and then when you import it into a final cut library you “leave files in place “. I would think this would allow all of your editors to utilize the various clips and media files simultaneously for different projects. Obviously you still can’t have two people working on the same Final Cut library at the same time, but even you said that’s not necessarily something you really need to do. at least the files are not all stored inside of the final cut library file itself, which it sounds like is what was the issue

Interesting but there was this moment where I suddenly thought - wait a minute is this sponsored by Synology. Why does a remote editor working alone in their home need a NAS? What is the difference between this approach and just having a big local drive of anykind and Dropbox to share and sync a folder?

this is great, but the files you are editing must be tiny. no way this makes sense for raw or prores footage. or am i missing something?

Which hard drive you end up using?

What app is synching the main NAS with the remote NAS?

Hello! I would like to ask, how did you set up more than 2 servers to do 2-way sync? I've tried to do research about this and seems like you solved this problem, but is it possible to ask how did you specifically do it?

I wasn’t able to see in your video but when your editor is editing video at her home away from the server, does her computer need to be connected to the internet via Ethernet cable?

What bandwidth speeds are you deploying at each location?

i would have gone qnap personally

Is there any way to edit video from nas on android without downloading the videos as in the pc?

I'm curious how this would work editing Prores RAW 8K footage...

Hi Scott, may I ask how you set up all those NAS settings to be wirelessly connected and remotely accessed, don't mention editing. I have the DS920+ too, but I can't make it work as you do. Does Synology provide some kind of customer service for that?

hey, is it possible to just have the one drive at your home and then editors can remotely access it and just download footage onto one of their local external drives and work off of that. The only thing they would have to do is just upload project files and final video.

Thanks! just want ask have you testing editing 4k video using nas ?

Can I ask, if I want others to upload footage to my NAS system remotely is that possible? Meaning can I send out a link to a client who has footage for me to edit and then they can upload it to my NAS and I pull it from there?

Do they need to have a NAS as well? Or can they edit off of your NAS?

Still have unlimited google drive? So annoyed I missed out on that.

cries in Australian

Oh Scott...

Or just get davinci. Recently made the switch, no regrets !

not really a solution when you are always on the road...

This video is useless. Show the config.

no specifics.... talking about nothing dude