Use the installed GPU workstation.
Run the real editing, grading, CAD, or 3D application on the Pier.
Media and VFX
Keep artists close to the work. Keep workstations close to the media.
Give editors, colourists, and artists responsive access to the machines already connected to your storage, GPUs, and production environment.
Product evidence
Live creative application through Deck
The problem
The workstation is powerful because of where it is.
Moving source media, caches, licences, and specialist hardware to another environment can be slower and riskier than reaching the workstation already beside them.
Leave media beside shared storage.
The session travels. Project data does not need to move to a vendor cloud.
Preserve professional pen workflows.
Deck carries precise keyboard, mouse, and professional pen input to the workstation.
Operator control
Production policy stays with the workstation.
Pier controls clipboard direction, content type, transfer size, workstation audio, and microphone input. Deck cannot widen the policy.
Prevent media leaving through clipboard.
Disable Pier-to-Deck clipboard transfers while retaining another permitted direction if required.
Match the workflow.
Enable workstation audio for editing and review, or disable it for a restricted session.
Licence the workstation.
Three artists using one workstation across three shifts still use one Pier licence.
Host the complete path.
Connect directly today; customer-hosted Arcen Span is planned for managed gateway deployments.
Practical questions
What a media systems administrator needs to verify.
Does the artist work on the real workstation?
Yes. Applications execute on the Linux or Windows Pier. Deck is the remote working surface.
Does a session require an Arcen cloud service?
No. Direct sessions, operating-system authentication, and current node-locked licence verification do not require an Arcen service or internet route.
Can the operator restrict clipboard and audio?
Yes. Clipboard direction, content, and size are host-authoritative. Workstation audio and microphone input are independently configurable.
Product status
macOS Deck with Linux and Windows Pier is the current platform path. Multi-monitor coverage, target-native validation, and release support remain subject to the published product status. Arcen Span is planned.
Deployment and pricing
One Pier licence per workstation.
Review the direct path, current status, and offline HostID licensing.
See platform pricing