Gothenburg innovation for remote editing

The Gothenburg-based production company Can Film has developed DejaEdit, a technical solution that allows remote film editing. Lindholmen Science Park has co-financed the project and had a chat with Nikolai Waldman and Clas Hakeröd at CAN Film.

The idea behind DejaEdit was born a few years ago when Nikolai and Clas were working with the post production flow for GötaFilm’s “Ettor och nollor,” which was filmed in Gothenburg and edited in Stockholm. The team found file management a struggle and that the editing assistants spent more time locating and moving files than partaking in the actual editing. The problem was one experienced previously in earlier productions.

A vision of the files being automatically sent to the right computer, with no input from the editor or assistant, formed the catalyst that started the development of what later became DejaEdit. Cut to a few years later and the vision has been achieved. Even if the work encompasses several edit stations spread around the world, all the media and metadata is kept synchronized. 

“Files are downloaded to local disks instead of being streamed, which means the system can be used everywhere. This means that editing can continue even when there is no online connection. When a connection is subsequently established, all media and metadata is automatically synced,” informs Nikolai Waldman.

DejaEdit has been used for feature films including “Alone in Space” and is currently being used for an eight-episode television drama series in which the majority of the scenes are being filmed abroad.

“The material is available for editing in Stockholm about one and a half hours after leaving the camera. This means the editors have a rough cut ready just half a day after filming,” continues Nikolai. 

Lindholmen Science Park has co-financed the projects in two tranches, Click here to read more (in swedish) 

More information about DejaEdit is available here