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my job as it turns out is relatively simple to do in isolation i can review

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scripts with my writers with video chat and screen sharing i can have Yvonne

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hold the camera or set up a tripod hey hon and i upgraded to gigabit internet

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so that i can quickly beam all the footage back to my office for editing

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the problem is over a third of our team has been either

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sick there's nobody here or self-isolating over the past while and

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working on large video projects remotely isn't nearly as simple as working with

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text documents not all of our editors have powerful workstations at home and

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even if they did our environment is very collaborative so the whole team needs to

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have access to the same projects and files which are stored on our server at

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the office so we turned to this

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this right here is not my laptop

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well i mean that is to say it is my laptop but as you can see i am

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effortlessly playing back an 8k video

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project even though it's on this wimpy little ultrabook that's because i'm

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using a software product called parsec to use the powerful hardware of my

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desktop workstation that's over at the office from here at home

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it uses the same low latency encoding technology that powers cloud gaming

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services like GeForce now and parsec

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claims that it can be used for video editing animation and even computer

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assisted design or cad so to validate their claims we have spent the last week

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experimenting with their software and even using it as part of our workflow

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supports switching between dual monitors and allows administrators to control who

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can access which workstations but for our purposes the free single monitor

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version works just fine to get set up

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you create an account download the app they've got desktop versions for Windows

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mac and Linux log in on both machines

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the host and the client and they should immediately show up

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if they don't you can try manually configuring ports and port forwarding in

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the network tab and on your router we never had to though

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if you have a fast internet connection immediately increase the bandwidth limit

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on the host machine so that's the one that you plan to remote into the default

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10 megabit per second has a lot of ugly compression artifacts even at 1080p

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also if your hardware supports it h.265 encoding might yield better image

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quality but if my experience is anything to go by it might also just give you a

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black screen i ended up stuck with h.264

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once you're remoted in the interface is shockingly simple you click the little

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translucent parsec logo and you can hide it switch to windowed mode chat with

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other users who are sharing the session like if you had a friend logged in to

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play a split screen local multiplayer game or disconnect

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that's it it supports copying pasting text between

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the host and client but it definitely lacks some of the other

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creature comforts of even older versions of teamviewer i will talk more about

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that later where parsec blows teamviewer and most

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other remote access apps out of the water though is the experience

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now it was built for gamers to use their personal gaming machine as a high

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resolution 60fps cloud gaming service

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that they can connect to from anywhere and it works really well

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my home desktop monitor is a 3840x1600

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ultra wide and at max bitrate on a good wired connection i was surprised at how

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well it handled things like a wall of scrolling text

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my ping time to the office is under three milliseconds though so this is

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basically a best case scenario but at 60 hertz i'm getting just about one frame

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of total latency including encoding

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transmitting the data and decoding it's really responsive

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now of course most of the work that i do is in microsoft word where i would have

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no reason to remote into a powerful workstation so now let's hear from some

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of the other members of my team video editing is what got us interested in

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parsec in the first place it's not perfect we average one to three frames

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of d-sync between audio and video which makes syncing with the slate and audio a

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bit confusing because it might not sound in sync even though the waveform says it

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is audio playback through parsec also isn't quite good enough for evaluating

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the quality of recording because it adds some compression artifacts but it's good

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enough as long as you're just cutting video as opposed to doing audio

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restoration visual fidelity is largely good enough but if you have an

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inconsistent connection or there are big changes in a scene when you alt tab or

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zoom in expand a monitoring window the compression artifacts can take a few

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seconds to clear up where we've been really happy is the input lag it's very

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close to being right in front of the machine and sometimes i'll forget when

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i'm using parsec versus doing things locally while editing like i didn't even

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know i was editing at home i just feel like i'm just wearing pajamas and

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working at the office there's no difference when it comes to fine detail

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and color work compression artifacts can be mistaken for the actual image and

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vice versa color bars in particular showed a constant compression artifact

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in the red bar parsec suggested super sampling uh running the workstation at

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4k and the client pc at 1080p to improve

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this but even that will require a final pass for color accuracy here at the

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office so we haven't really tinkered with that too much the biggest downside

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right now is leg up multi monitor support the pro version supports

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switching between two displays but not showing both at the same time so it's

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not that great there are some workarounds we could explore like

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equipping our editors with extra large monitors for using software like display

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fusion or fancy zones to split them up virtually we'll cross that bridge when

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we get a little more desperate though for now parsec is working fantastically

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for the bulk of our remote editing i love it

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the lack of multi monitor slowed me down a little especially when some of the

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Windows got lost and i had some performance problems at first but after

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switching to a wired connection they mostly cleared up and everything about

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using maya felt snappy and almost instantaneous i was still experienced

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some latency but it was worlds better than what the wireless connection with

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only one real caveat the camera the worse the network connection the

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more the camera felt kind of heavy to move especially during whippy actions

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like zooms and rotations and also lacks

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the snappiness of animating on the host pc directly all in all either wired or

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wireless i can definitely say that compared to lugging a eight pound laptop

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around i'd much rather use parsec for modeling and animation on the go as long

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as my internet connection is good enough so i'm apparently doing the gaming

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section of our work from home video because Linus thinks i'm a huge gamer

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because i play games on my lunch break

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so when i tried out parsec my laptop immediately adapted my gaming desktop's

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21x9 monitor to 16x9 and i dropped into

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some combat in black mesa which i'm playing through right now on my lunch

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break with no issues there was definitely noticeable latency between

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flicking the mouse or hitting the trigger and seeing the results but it's

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decent enough to play single player games for sure even if competitive

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multiplayer is off the table as for my other favorite game rocket

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league controller support was plug and play and while a true esports player

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would obviously find any amount of latency unacceptable for someone who's

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just trying to have a good time it's more than forgivable i did not feel like

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it was significantly degrading my performance i spent a bit of time

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playing with the gaming features as well and even from a remote location i was

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super impressed overall we did find parsec to be more tinkery and less

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polished than teamviewer for example it doesn't run as a service so you'll have

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to set up automatic login and then like a logout

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script or some kind of separate remote access software if you want to be able

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to reboot the machine and then parsec back in

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control alt i is supposed to be the hotkey for immersive mode but i never

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managed to get that to work so i had a hard time sending Windows shortcuts like

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control delete and in my humble opinion

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two-factor authentication should be mandatory for remote access software

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like this also i experienced a couple of just

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totally weird complete lock-ups

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but for what we're doing there is nothing

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quite like it and it's been serving us surprisingly well

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and the price is right so hopefully you

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