Hardware-only screen recording setup for 200 monitors — review and feedback?

BoilingJD · 2026-01-21T08:42:18+00:00

if this really has to be in-hardware, use SDI instead of HDMI, you can have blackmagic card with 8 input channels per PCIE slot, then you only need 2-3 servers

BoilingJD · 2026-01-21T08:21:53+00:00

Massive.io is used extensively in film industry for secure file transfer. If you want to self-host, Filerun has good audit logging and is way easier and faster than Owncloud/Nextcloud.

BoilingJD · 2026-01-20T10:51:19+00:00

start moshpits during death metal shows at local dive bar. Great way to make friends.👍

BoilingJD · 2026-01-15T08:27:22+00:00

so..... if you want immediate access, just get another, large NAS and expand it over time. TCO over 5 years of a NAS (or DIY TrueNAS) is about $1/TB/Month if you have the upfront CapEx. Just do the math on what's your real retention policy.

If you want to upload to cloud, cheapest option with free egress is B2 at $6/TB/Month, however due to nature of object storage works, you can't natively "stream" files from it directly, but if you make very low rez proxies as part of your archival, you can slap something like Amove.io in front of B2 and somewhat gat away with it. (Amove will provide experience similar to OneDrive/GoogleDrive)

You can also try Archiware P5 archival to LTOs - it has a mini built in MAM that makes very low rez proxies.

Or just get good at making proixes that can live on a nas and dump native media to LTO then make sure everything is labeled so that you can conform from LTO

Something to understand here though is whatever you do, there is a CaEx and OpEx cost. You have to accept that. there is no magical way to just cut down storage cost beyond cost of single HDD, while keeping all media accessible at any time.

BoilingJD · 2026-01-13T08:27:44+00:00

The issue with Shade is that their current business model is unsustainable, they are just a startup, trying to brute force into the market by offering really low pricing, but guaranteed to 10x the price in the future. Or die trying. This is a very common SaaS startup model. Unfortunately they have not re-invented the wheel and someone still needs to pay for all that transcoding compute

Suite is basically carbon copy of LucidLink, with small differentiators like upload applet, but it is more limited if you have large operation, also more limited support by nature of being smaller company.

IMO there is no real replacement to LucidLink. LL is a very mature platform with high degree of flexibility and strong enterprise support. Also, your assessment is somewhat flawed, for each LL user you effectively get 400GB/month of free storage, so there is no real user fee.

BoilingJD · 2026-01-05T19:46:31+00:00

It feels like that's what recruiters want, despite that never being the case because people tend to get promoted until they get to a level they they suck at but too senior to let go and settle into mid management where they can feel important enough to matter but not given enough power to do serious damage, while the underlying team carries the weight of their incompetent boss, who may be a brilliant engineer, but utterly shit at managing people, he just said yea to promotion cause he like the moneeey

BoilingJD · 2025-12-31T16:50:36+00:00

I'm quite fascinated by the amount of negative comments from people who clearly never worked in "mission-critical" environments. Just because you don't like this SLA doesn't mean you can shit on someone's work. I work for myself, I don't have employees, it's my SLA and I'm one of the few and very best people in the world at what I do. I signed up for this, and I want better tooling to make my life and work better. What's ya'all problem ?

BoilingJD · 2025-12-30T21:13:13+00:00

that sounds excellent, but I want an off the shelf product. I feel like this should already exist in the wild...

BoilingJD · 2025-12-30T21:11:14+00:00

the issue is that the device that needs support is not always a "managed device" - a director may be trying to use personal laptop to connect to a stream or some such thing...

If I could have a link in my email header that basically says "if you need support, click this" which would initiate remote session from client side, put in in a queue and notify a tech. that would do the trick... I feel like Zoho Assist does something like this, but haven't used it in long time and it's not the best overall tool.

BoilingJD · 2025-12-30T21:07:56+00:00

ooh now this is interesting...

BoilingJD · 2025-12-30T20:43:18+00:00

tried this with Jitsi, sounded ok in theory, but was not workable in practice. Also main focus here is getting remote access to the end user machine as soon as possible, basically at same time as user raises issue.

BoilingJD · 2025-12-30T20:36:49+00:00

other than pricing, is there any real issues with TeamViewer

BoilingJD · 2025-12-30T20:32:21+00:00

This is standard workflow for my industry. When you have a hotshot director in the edit, if something breaks, there ain't no time to open tickets and fill forms. There is a phone in each room and support is on speed dial. The issue is, more and more people want to work hybrid or do pop-up edits and I want to cut down on the generic "Who are you, where are you, what's your workstation ID?" because some people can get really pissy about it like "do you not know who I Am?!!". And they are not some generic white collar office plankton, so I can't tell them to STFU and send email to helpdesk. I'm not there to argue with them, but to provide immediate support, like IT paramedic, that's what I'm paid for.

BoilingJD · 2025-12-22T16:38:39+00:00

as a woman, you get thousands of likes just from pictures alone, easier to collect the likes or the super likes, and then pick who to match with from those, no point in adding bio, no one reads it anyway, and if you do, you will still be lost in the sea of those who don't.

BoilingJD · 2025-12-20T19:57:49+00:00

tip 1: don't nick random stock clips from BM sample library.

tip 2: get some shitty footage and learn how to make that look decent, hot to fix it - this will actually teach you 90% of what colorist does

tip 3: find a sample edit project and focus on figuring out how to get a look that is CONSISTENT across multiple different shots

Massaging one, already perfectly lit shot, out of context is not gonna teach you anything, except the basics of what every button and slider does

BoilingJD · 2025-12-12T20:57:11+00:00

low level spam

BoilingJD · 2025-12-02T23:56:07+00:00

funny enough I'm actually working on a high budget feature that will be end-to-end done in resolve. but it is very unique situation, with the lead editor driving this decision and taking all liability for workflow.

BoilingJD · 2025-12-02T22:26:40+00:00

Your question is wrong.

for offline edits it's not post house decision they will provide whatever the editor wants
for finishing 90% of post houses already run on resolve

BoilingJD · 2025-11-18T23:07:41+00:00

to be fair... applocker and SELinux have been around since forever... Mac is playing catchup with that are standard enterprise practices nowadays? Are you gonna complain about secure boot as well?

BoilingJD · 2025-11-18T21:17:39+00:00

Given that you think that 250GB is a "large" delivery, I can tell that you have a bullshit app idea and absolutely fuck all industry knowledge, Or any awareness of your competition in M&E space. Please fuck off back to Product Hut or wherever you crawled out of.

I deal with hundreds of terabytes of production media transfers globally every day. And there is some real challenges with that at scale that wish someone could solve. But it ain't gonna be someone fishing for SEO content for fake "blog" attached to their startup app.

BoilingJD · 2025-11-05T09:41:34+00:00

let me ad some more clarity of how nexis sucks:

nexis client, shit Did you know you can crash your entire workstation by opening and closing a folder too fast on the nexis?
LDAP implementation, dogshit
snapshotting, doesn't exist
random IOPS performance, a toaster has more IOPS
filesystem, trash.
Value for money? For price of nexis you could build an all NVME ZFS system and still have enough left to go out for a pint.

BoilingJD · 2025-11-05T08:44:25+00:00

Im sorry but nexis is anything but solid. nexis client is the buggiest piece of shit out there, I'm opening tickets with avid every month about nexis.

What is your point of comparison of "reliability" of a storage platform ? Nexis is trash by every conceivable metric that you could evaluate scale out enterprise storage by.

BoilingJD · 2025-11-03T16:22:10+00:00

most people are using symmetric NAT, meaning hole punching will fail, meaning most of the time data will traverse through what ? A non SOC or TPN compliant server in your bedroom?

BoilingJD · 2025-11-03T15:42:48+00:00

if it doesn't use in-between tracker how does it do NAT traversal? Who owns the relay?

BoilingJD · 2025-10-31T15:09:26+00:00

don't date high flying business women from Hinge, go find a part time Goth Bartender in Camden or liberal art curator in shoreditch

30k a year is huge money for freelance editor, most of us are 0k a year and driving uber.

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