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even shared with another post professional half-way around the globe. And to ensure your team is current with the latest tools and how to get the most from them, organizations like FMC conduct a continuing series of PostlProduction World online events and courses run by the best folks in the industry. With cloud service facilities strategically located around the globe, firms like AWS, MS, IBM and others not only give creatives instant access to the post tools but also the projects they need to work their magic on. It has taken us a long time to trust putting RAW, work in progress, and final projects in the cloud and be assured that the cloud storage will be reliably scalable and secure. And yes; it’s faster, more economic and probably more reliable than shipping hard drives of content via FedEx or UPS. There, we said it … get over it! We won’t say that the cloud and remote workflows made it possible for people to continue creating great content during the 2020 shutdown, but it sure helped. That and CDN (content delivery network) services like Akamai that enable pipe-choking 4K/8K HDR content to move from one post facility to another and back to directors/producers to review and approve. With this as a solid foundation the M&E industry was able to reinvent itself and get back to work in a totally new and more efficient/effective manner. First, different parts of the TV, film crew (set design or post-production or VFX) had to learn to work together, remotely. One of the first things producers and executive producers found was that the team was more responsive and responsible than when they were physically in the same location. The workflow, assignments and deadlines were being handled and people actually communicated more quickly and more effectively using video conferencing and text/note tools to ensure everyone on the team knew the project status at each step of the process. Disney’s and ILMs work on The Mandalorian was one of the mind-blowing next-generation technology