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Friday, May 16, 2008

Using web tools to collaborate between creatives.

Wisdom from the masses

BackPackIt and BaseCamp

These two tools – created by the same company – are like the Google Sites solution on steroids. They provide very nice customizing options and lots of solutions for sharing files, saving histories of revisions, creating to do lists, calendars, making notes, email notifications, and message boards to foster collaboration and communication. There’s even time tracking built in!

All in all, this is one of the friendlier solutions, meaning that it seems pretty foolproof and easy to set up and implement. The big drawback here is money. I suppose if you can get this into your budget, the money doesn’t matter, but hosting your own website would be cheaper (though not easier). BackPackIt and BaseCamp are essentially the same web application paid for with two different subscription models from what I could tell.

BackPackIt costs $24/month for 6 users, $49/month for 15 users and $99/month for 40 users. BaseCamp has unlimited users but charges by the number of active projects. At $24/month for 15 active projects this would seem the better way to go as long as you didn’t have more than 15 films in some phase of production at the same time. In addition to the cost, this is definitely not a “tailored” production application like CelTx, but the ease of sharing files and communicating with other team members is definitely a very useful thing.

Check them both out at:
http://www.backpackit.com
http://www.basecamphq.com/
http://www.37signals.com (This is the parent company. They do other cool stuff, too.)

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Check out Apeer. It’s like IM for digital files. It’s the first and only application that enables individuals to enter into a synchronous and instant multi-user, participatory exchange where all parties can simultaneously view photos, hear music, and see videos in real time over the internet – all in one window. It also provides conversational tools with built-in voice and chat.

http://www.internetnews.com/webcontent/article.php/12221_3746076_1

Posted by  on  05/20  at  03:00 PM

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Hi Steve,

I am a collaboration blogger for a company called Octopz and a mediamaker with a film and video background, so I think I can chime in here with an additional, albeit biased, suggestion.

You and other film and video pros might want to have a look at our web-based collaboration software service at Octopz.com.

In a nutshell, Octopz allows a filmmaker or videographer to collaborate with clients and colleagues throughout the whole cycle of a project, from brainstorming, storyboarding, scripting and visualization right through to final cut and client approval.

It is a fully integrated web collaboration service that is specifically designed for creative pros, including filmmakers and videographers. In fact, our support for rich media, video and 3D is one of the key areas that distinguish us from other similar offerings which are geared more to print or web designers.

We are also the only fully released service (not alpha or beta) in this category of visual collaboration software to fully support integrated text, voice an video chat.

All anyone needs to use Octopz, on a PC, Mac or Linux, is a popular web-browser (Explorer, Firefox, Safari) and the Adobe Flash plug-in.

Octopz is not a free service, but it compares very well with other services that have similar capabilities, like Adobe Connect Professional.

A 15-day trial account is available on our website and I would be happy to meet you and any other PVC writers and readers in an Octopz room to go through its capabilities, and more importantly, to get any feedback you or others might have on our service.

For more on Octopz, including acclaim, awards and posts on creative collaboration you can visit the blog I edit at thepond.octopzlive.com

Best,

geo

Posted by geoperdis  on  05/21  at  08:37 AM

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