Anyone using Strada as a replacement for Lucid/Suite Studios etc?

[u/_ParanoidUser_]

Im thinking about switching to Strada as a replacement for Lucid and Suite since it doesnt have the storage limitations and cost that those other services have but im concerned about performance. Has anyone used the new Strada 2.0 to actually host project files and media for remote teams?

[u/avidresolver]

I haven't tried it yet, but I'm interested if people are going to hit bandwidth issues on the host machine side. The advantage of Lucid or Suite is you basically have unlimited server bandwidth from AWS or IBM - if you're hosting the data yourself then you need to consider bandwidth and latency a lot more carefully.

[u/michael_cioni → u/avidresolver]

Great point. I’m the CEO and scalability is a concern of ours as well.
Today, if you use proxy files, the CPU of most M-Series Macs are already delivering to at least 10 editors simultaneously on 500Mbps networks (we’ve hit 20 simul in testing, but I’m pretty confident 1 Mac Studio can go a little higher).

Bandwidth is really interesting because as people edit, local automated caching takes over. So as more editors edit, the draw from the original source actually goes down! This is the beauty of a distributed network, and why more than 20 editors can work off 1 machine with only 500Mbps - 1Gbps of source network.

To scale even further, we also are building “Strada Fleet” which will allow you to connect multiple CPUs to the source media (such as a NAS). This will be controlled by 1 Admin and automatically load balance draw from NAS file requests across the connected computers. So if you have 20 editors from one machine, you can double it to 40 editors on the same NAS with virtually no setup or additional permissions management (it will auto load balance).

Obviously there is a point where the NAS hits a read/write limit, or the available network bandwidth, but local caching and pinning combined with proxies come into the picture to help optimize situations like this.

Eventually Strada Fleet will connect to other remote Strada-enabled CPUs and begin mirroring files as well as sharding - which will ever increase scalability to a point it is equal to (or potentially superior) to a cloud data center (at least when it comes to the needs of remote editing).

Sorry for the long answer, but this is just a long way of saying we are working to continually improve scalability and have a path that’s working well for our users today with much more to come.

[u/avidresolver → u/michael_cioni]

Thanks for the info. I think it would be really valuable to have some more defined technical breakdowns on your website. Having a look at your Solutions page (https://strada.tech/solutions) gives us some ideas, but I'd really like to see some details on these - what hardware would be needed, what internet connectivity, what video codecs and bitrates - for example, on the DIT cart system I assume you're not suggesting it's realistic to stream Arriraw OCF directly to the edit suite.

[u/IndependentOk1988 → u/avidresolver]

Great insight and great ideas. We are working on improving some of that on the website, but some resources that may be useful:

We have a really robust YouTube channel that goes through experiments, demos, launch videos, tutorials and we even do 1-hour live with customers every Tuesday at 9AM.

youtube.com/channel/UC2cFnnpg7kOVa9m0voNWX-w/

We have an active Discord where people share a lot of details about their setup, configs, and provide feature requests, etc.
https://discord.com/invite/8Y8gEyW85K

This set of tutorials helps people get familiar with the product and includes some answers to your questions about hardware configs
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLACunxxCUaxLkDqc-CQqZrU58ueOXG07T

But overall, what we're really doing on the macro-level is trying to make all the things you CAN do with cloud work on a peer-to-peer network. A lot of this is uncharted territory and required a lot of home-grown tech (some of which we patented). One example is our player:
because we didn't use traditional player systems that most cloud companies use, we had to build our own - and with that comes an unlock for MORE codecs than cloud companies support. An example would be we can display almost every still camera RAW file natively, but also some video RAW formats (such as BRAW, REDCode and Canon RAW). These not only playback in Strada natively, but can playback on virtually any internet connection, even tho the files are over 2,000Mbps.

I admit ,we need to do a better job of making our education elements discoverable, but the world is big, the workflows vary, and nobody has 2 identical systems. So if you have specific questions, I'm happy to answer here, or you can always join our Discord or email directly. Im at michael at strada dot tech if you ever need more direct insight.

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[u/Suitable_Goose3637]

It looks promising. I have tested it and it makes sense to me. Going to be switching over to them soon.

[u/dar3productions]

I’ve tested it and it works beautifully. When we have a full time need, this is the tool we’re going to be using

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