Collaborative Editing? Is it possible?

I work with a team of about 250 employees, with about 15 managers. We use Macs in the office, and currently are running a Mac Pro with Snow Leopard Server. We use Numbers to do all our spreadsheets.
Currently, there are a few Numbers spreadsheets that we all share to update information. Those Numbers files just live in a folder on the server. The problem is, is that if more than two people are accessing/editing the same document, someone's information is lost or overwritten.
Is there anyway to setup a collaborative working environment for iWork docs? We thought about using GoogleDocs, but we want to keep the files in our closed protected in-store network.
Any thoughts?

You are lucky if the document survive to these attempts.
The responce is simple : No, there is no provision for collaborative editing.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 1 février 2010 07:58:34

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I want to ask you all if Premiere Pro allows Collaborative Editing. If yes, how does it work on Premiere Pro? Specifically, I have two questions:
- Is it possible to share files on a Central Storage along with several users? It means, an user is editing a project that contains the same files of another user project.
- While an user is editing a project, is it possible to copy and/or see the project content by another user? Even if this project is locked, which is our desire, could another editor copy and/or see its content?

Hi there,
On a basic level, this should work. Editors running Premiere Pro on separate systems can import the same shared media from the network, even across Mac and Win. When the media is imported in Premiere Pro, the first editor to import the clip has write access to that clip, so they wouldn't be restricted from changing the clip, such as overwriting it, changing the timecode, metadata, etc. However, any editor that imports the clip while it has already in use on another system will not have write access, only read access.
In the Preferences > Media, there is an option to "Save Media Cache files next to originals when possible". For best performance, this option is better left off, so that conformed audio will be generated on the editor's system. However, if you want to avoid audio conforming on each system, and just want to do it once, and you don't mind the performance hit, you may try turning that option on.
In my limited testing, it seems that CS4 (4.2.1), on Win only, has a problem with saving projects to network attached storage - Save As works the first time, but thereafter both Save and Save As seem to fail with a file permissions error. In CS5, this is not a problem. The other issue is that Premiere Pro doesn't restrict write access for the project when it is open, so if the project is opened on two systems, there can be contention. If an editor wanted to peek at the current state of the project being edited by another editor, it would be safer to import the project into another one, so that there is no danger of modifying it.
There are a few collaborative editing products out there that advertise support for Premiere Pro:
http://www.studionetworksolutions.com/
http://www.editshare.com
http://www.studionetworksolutions.com
Not sure if anyone in the forums has ever tried these with Premiere Pro, and has some experiences to share...?
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I am writing to enquire about a solution for a collaborative project between two filmmakers in different countries. Ideally, we would be able to have a cloud media library that could be referenced by both of us as well as a project folder with work in progress that would allow one of us to review the other’s progress or pick up editing where the other left off.
It is a relatively small scale project and I’m not sure what would be the best platform on which to base it. We are currently both using Adobe Premiere Pro CC but it is the cloud library aspect which concerns me. We would need approximately 2TB of space in order to accommodate all of the footage and work in progress sequences.
My immediate thought was to use the cloud storage integrated with CC, but as far as I'm aware there is not an option to increase storage size to the amount we would need. My second thought was to use something like Google Drive or Dropbox, but someone has told me that it is not suitable due to issues in Premiere Pro referencing the files? I'm not sure I completely understand the issue, hence the reason for writing.
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Adobe sells the Adobe Anywhere platform for collaborative editing, but it's not a realistic option for small-scale projects due to the huge investment in hardware required for the servers. Premiere in desktop mode isn't designed for parallel editing - two people cannot have the same PRPROJ file open at the same time, and you cannot merge changes from two separate copies - so if you're sharing the project file on a cloud service you will have to ensure that only one editor is working at any moment. Without active file locking, that has to be done through a manual process (phoning to confirm handover, etc.).
Sharing your original source footage on a cloud service isn't necessary as Premiere won't be changing those files - so the inexpensive option is to distribute copies on hard drives to both editors, and/or for the primary editor to set up a proxy workflow so the project files are much smaller. Both editors then work of locally-saved copies of the footage and download the updated PRPROJ file from the cloud service when the work hands over. Premiere can rebuild its preview/cache files provided it has the source material and the project file in the same place, so both editors would set up the same absolute folder names - don't work from a My Documents or ~library folder!

Best storage solution for collaborative editing between two editors

Hello!
I was wondering what would be a recommended hardware storage solution for collaboratively editing Final Cut Pro X Libraries. Our current process revolves us copying all the video footage onto a portable drive and copying it over to each others machine. This is a time consuming process and the process gets broken up if one of us isn't in the office. We are working only with 1080p (and less) footage and both machines are MacBook Pro's (both have Thunderbolt connections).
I've dug around the internet and found network solutions (setting up another machine as a server w/ the storage drive there) but that setup seems like a lot of work.
Is there another way to do it with a single shared drive, no additional computer setups that would allow us to edit videos concurrently? I'm not looking for a scalable solution, just something to allow us to edit from the same pool of footage at the same time.
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In any case, you need a fast network - at the very least gigabit ethernet. There exist NAS options for a decent price.
In this kind of setup, you would save all your media in the NAS, work on your libraries locally, and use "external media" - so the media would stay in the designated places in the NAS, and the libraries point to it. Libraries will be fairly small, and you could pass them around.
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buy a different camcorder... NO! Kiddin'!!
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