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Netflix’s Media Production Suite

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Re: Netflix’s Media Production Suite

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BhavdeepSethi wrote: post #53

15 years ago, the first start up I worked for provided APIs for music streaming in India. One of the founders who managed all infra was in US, and so the servers (bare metal) were in LA. I still find it amusing, that it was cheaper (and faster) just to fly to India, buy bunch of portable hard drives, upload the media, fly back to US and upload the data to the file server, than uploading the media directly from India…

How much global infrastructure has improved… but also how physical logistics can still beat the internet when you're dealing with massive datasets.

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Post by MarceliusK »

echelon wrote: post #4

Having a dozen different VFX departments using different file transfer methods like FTP seems like a nightmare. But then I realized that the banks do this, and probably worse. There's one that uses Gmail to exchange documents (not financial, but important nonetheless) and uses the read receipt to determine if it has ingested the data. Replaying ingestion is marking unread.

It's amazing how often critical workflows rely on duct tape and hope

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ksynwa wrote: post #11
pests wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember reading once how all Netflix content is really meant for phones or smaller screens. Simple shots, not much background detail, lots of face closeups etc. I remember when being made by Netflix was a unique and cool thing, it didn’t last long until it meant probably-slop.

A lot of them are also meant to "second screen worthy" where they run in the background while your attention is mainly focused on some other task like playing a video game.

I have never been able to second screen, I just can't focus on my PC while listening to something. It's literally white noise to me. I do understand people do this though. When I do watch media seriously, I pay attention and keep off my devices.

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Post by Foobar8568 »

BhavdeepSethi wrote: post #53

15 years ago, the first start up I worked for provided APIs for music streaming in India. One of the founders who managed all infra was in US, and so the servers (bare metal) were in LA. I still find it amusing, that it was cheaper (and faster) just to fly to India, buy bunch of portable hard drives, upload the media, fly back to US and upload the data to the file server, than uploading the media directly from India…

We had to transfer a few 10GBs, if not 100GBs between Europe and the US back 15yo.

Bandwidth was of 100KB/sec at most, I suggested to do that fly over things if the systems team didn't want to raise the priority of that transfer, after prod tried 3 times over the weekend, sadly, they changed the priority of that flow, it took still like 40h? For the initial load.

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Post by oDot »

gcanyon wrote: post #33

I read through that whole article thinking, - I wonder what the UI looks like compared to tools I use now - I wonder if there will be a free tier, since my video needs are modest It never occurred to me until I reached the end that this wasn't a "enjoy this tool we made" post, but instead a "look how awesome we are" post. :-/

Hi there, I'm a fellow filmmaker building my own tools and would love to hear your thoughts and needs. If you'd like (and anyone reading this), please email

Studios at weedonandscott dot com

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Post by whatevertrevor »

pests wrote: post #63
ksynwa wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of them are also meant to "second screen worthy" where they run in the background while your attention is mainly focused on some other task like playing a video game.

I have never been able to second screen, I just can't focus on my PC while listening to something. It's literally white noise to me. I do understand people do this though. When I do watch media seriously, I pay attention and keep off my devices.

Yeah my attention during second screening is split such that I'm now doing two things _terribly_ instead of one thing well. I've decided to only have music or something equally non intrusive in the background instead of second screening a show/video/podcast.

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Post by sofixa »

fastball wrote: post #35
crazygringo wrote: post #21

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Are you serious? Have you watched Adolescence ? It's got more soul and artistic merit than practically anything else I've ever seen. And that was just last week. Maid ? The Queen's Gambit ? Baby Reindeer ? The Crown ? Ripley ? BoJack Horseman ? Sure they make a lot of schlock too, because they're a business and that's what most of their audience wants . But I don't see how you could possibly criticize them for that w…

You don't need this pipeline to produce 6 shows over a decade. Said another way, they almost certainly would not have bothered to build this system if the purpose was mainly to produce the shows you mention. The reason these systems exist is to enable the creation of hundreds or thousands of productions.

House of Cards, The Diplomat, Kaleidoscope, Lincoln Lawyer, The End of the Fucking World, etc etc
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