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Space, the final frontier from OpenAI—would this be useful for your production company and Office Hours collaboration on products and projects?

ASKED BY · Paul Valgus · AUSTIN, TEXAS · 10 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:54:16

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Space is a collaboration environment similar to Google Docs with scheduled updates and comments; usefulness depends on where team members already work; changing tools is easier than changing people's habits, so adoption depends on existing platform comfort.

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54:15What is this? So this is the equivalent. And if I can share screen without sharing too much. There we go. So it's basically an environment where you can create documents and share them with other people on your team and all collaborate together. other. You can have scheduled updates. You can add comments. So similar to a lot of Google Doc type of things where you can just collaborate. And the features and tools are one thing,

54:48but it's, you know, the biggest thing you have to take into account are the people. You know, how do they like to work? Are they more just, let's talk about it, use a piece of paper or whiteboard? Are they all on one platform or another? If nobody's on ChatGPT, then no, there's lots of other features similar to this on other tools. If most of your team is already

55:13on ChatGPT and they're comfortable in that, then yeah, maybe it's worth looking at. All of these platforms, whether it's Google or Microsoft or anybody else, they're all starting They're starting to consolidate and collaborate and they want to be your go-to platform for everything. And so I'd say it really depends on where the people are because changing tools is one thing. Changing people's habits is a lot harder.

55:44So make sure it's a tool that your team can readily jump into without having to change lots of personal habits. All right, Courtney, what's up next? Next up from St. Paul, Minnesota, Tommy Shantz says, anyone on the panel stack Blackmagic Design ATEMs to get more inputs? If so, what are the issues I might have to look out for? Courtney. Well, I'm doing that right now.

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