Merry Christmas from Avid - Digidelivery client for Lion

Arriving in time for the end of support by Aspera comes a Digidelivery client for Lion. It comes with a lot of disclaimers but from some limited testing seems to work very well and runs without the need for Rosetta. This client was released by Avid rather than the new owners Aspera which just goes to highlight how little they actually planned to ever put into this product but good job to Avid for doing this.

http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=428591

Thanks to Bob Russo for the heads up on this.

Last chance for a year of free backup and transfer - Gobbler

A few months ago I wrote about Gobbler being a possible replacement for the soon to be unsupported (less than  a month at time of writing) Digidelivery boxes. Well the service has gone from strength to strength since, you can now use it to send ANY file type, Backup sessions from most major DAW’s and using a clever hack any file within those folders; You can also send a public link to a recipient meaning they no longer have to sign up for a Gobbler account to download materials. 

Pricing is due to be announced very soon and it seems there will be a 30-50% discount on the data plans for a short time too. 

December 7th is the deadline for receiving a free year and 25GB of storage space after that the storage will drop to 5GB by default. 

The service is fast and efficient and with no filesize limit to speak of (unlike YouSendIt) it is ideal for most if not all of your data transfer and project backup requirements.

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Life after Digidelivery - Gobbler?

I have been testing a new service recently that looks like a reasonable replacement for Digidelivery now that Aspera have announced the death-knell. It is called Gobbler and allows you to back up your Pro Tools sessions to an Amazon S3 storage system (cloud based/remote, replicated backup).

It’s incredibly simple to setup and use and allows you to then share backed-up projects with others. It can also keep a offline record of where your sessions reside, scan your home-based drives and it will catalog all of the audio files associated with the project, the geographic location of those files and give you an idea of the size of the session. 

I plan to continue testing this system as it moves out of it’s initial beta period next Monday (June 27th 2011). During this time however if you sign up you get 50GB of free storage to start backing up and sharing your sessions. 

To take advantage of this now click on this link to learn more.

FULL DISCLOSURE: Clicking this link helps me to get more free space for referrals but I do genuinely believe this could be a viable replacement for Digidelivery in small post houses/independent editors.

Project File Type support copied from the https://www.gobbler.com/features#organize site:

Compatible with most major DAW software and file types

• AVID PRO TOOLS
• APPLE LOGIC
• ABLETON LIVE
• STEINBERG NUENDO
• STEINBERG CUBASE
• PROPELLERHEAD REASON
• PROPELLERHEAD RECORD
• PRESONUS STUDIO ONE
• COCKOS REAPER
• APPLE GARAGEBAND

Update on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 1:53PM by Ceri Thomas

Costs for Gobbler

Looks like they are planning a $8.95 basic plan after the beta has finished which I guess would be for the 50GB of storage. More info in this forum thread however: http://community.gobbler.com/gobbler/topics/cost_and_storage