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By Jennifer Walden C OVID hastened the postproduc- tion industry's adoption of remote co l l a b o rat i o n , ye t t h e ex i s t i n g remote editing and mixing tools rarely provided true satisfaction for creators, es- pecially when dealing with long playback sessions. John "Beetle" Bailey, Chief Tech- nical Officer/Co-Founder of Synchronicity Media, said, "We're all victims of the tech- nology that's out there. We need it to work right away, and if it doesn't, we'll kick it to the curb in five minutes." Bailey is a Canadian recording engineer/ mixer/producer who engineered and mixed Alex Cuba's 2021 Grammy-winning "Best THE RISE OF SYNC CAN SYNCDNA HELP MIXERS DO THEIR JOBS BETTER? Latin Pop Album" titled "Mendó" and is a two-time winner of the Juno Awards' "Re- cording Engineer of the Year." F i n d i n g s u i ta b l e re m o te w o r k a n d rev i ew to o l s h a s b e e n a s t r u gg l e " b e - cause many solutions are based on old streaming technology. We haven't had something up to our industry standards that actually works," added Dominic Castro, Synchronicity Media's VP of Product/Brand Ambassador. Castro is a music producer and mixer/re-recording mixer/sound editor who works on films and series and is also a Dolby Atmos mixer at DNA Immersive (a mastering studio in Los Angeles). While editing music for "Hidden Strike," starring Jackie Chan and John Cena, Castro met top Hollywood music mixer Gary Lux (who has earned Emmy nominations as a re-recording mixer on "The Jacksons: An American Dream" series and pre-recording mixer on the "Sinatra: 80 Years My Way" series). They needed to find a way to con- nect the film's director in Nashville with the composer in Hollywood for real-time collaboration. Since they were working on music, sync was an absolute priority, yet all the available tools had latency issues. Who better to create a technical solution than the people needing the issue solved? 42 C I N E M O N T A G E T E C H