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When Covid-19 began creeping across the globe, conferencing became an even more critical tool for producers/directors to use to determine when – or if – field production would be completed before the shooting was shut down. While production product/service providers like Adobe, Avid, EditShare, Blackbird and others have been working on virtualized remote production solutions for some time they were often considered risky (think cybertheft) unstable/unreliable and occasionally expensive for large data transfers. But when the door was suddenly slammed shut on a number of projects that were beginning or in the midst of production, studio and content executives were faced with the possibility of an empty slate of new films/ shows for 2020. The completion/release dates of content such as No Time to Die, A Quiet Place Part II, Jurassic World:Domain, The Batman, New Mutants, Mission Impossible 7, Avatar 2, Avatar 3, Wonder Woman 1984, The Matrix 4 (our 'gotta see' fave), hundreds of lesser films, episodic series and even reality shows were suddenly … questionable. While production studios went dark and production crews headed home, studio and project owners had renewed interest in the petabytes of RAW content