This is similar to how Steam Remote Play works too, it uses RDP. A lot of tasks work really well over remote desktop.

I mean, of course. The source video files for an entire season of 4K TV are friggin' huge, and you want different editors to be able to work in different locations.

The article argues:

> To me, though, it highlights a huge issue with Apple’s current professional offerings. They are built to work on a single machine. At least for high-end use cases, the remote workflow threatens to cut them out of the equation entirely...

This is hardly a "huge issue". Plenty of people work on a single machine. Once your project gets too big, you move more and more to remote and cloud. It's a spectrum, and you want a machine flexible enough to handle both.

Kind of funny to me that they have to go so "thin client" with this.

You'd think there'd be some kind of "mipmap gateway" component to network-aware video editors, that incrementally re-renders scrub-quality and preview-quality renders of the timeline as the client tells it about project changes, and then streams those rendered changes back down the pipe to the client, proactively, into a local cache — without the client ever needing to (or even being allowed to!) hold the raw assets.

Then the local "fat client" editing UI could be snappy at pretty much all times — except for just after modifying the timeline, when it'd have to flush (some variable amount of) the preview cache. (And even then, the controls would still respond; just the preview and timeline-thumbnails would jitter, until the [active part of the] re-cache finished.)

Would this enable piracy? No! Who's going to want to release a 480p rip of a TV episode at this point? (And 480ps is all you need, for a functional live preview, when lining up ADB or B-roll or whatever else. Anything needing closer examination — VFX, say — could be rendered and sent by the gateway "on demand", as stills [on play-head stop] or as short clips [on first play after range-selection].)

(It would enable leaks... but so does RDP, if you combine it with local video-capture software. So that's nothing new.)

It’s actually about having only one seat license and everyone remotes in to use it.

Maybe the remote stuff was just to edit on set or in a hotel room or something?

We've gone full circle! Thin clients are back baby!

poor editors, having to work with a magic keyboard

But they are still using a Mac at the end? What’s the point of this story?

Another story about Apple users are upset about how they sell/license their software.

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