Remote production specialist The Switch has launched its new MIMiC service offering, promising to provide on-demand cloud-based video production in an as-a-service model – allowing it to be spun up and down as needed, to help customers keep costs down. Much like cloud computing, this approach to video production is going to slowly squeeze out legacy approaches, but it is going to take some time. Of course, we’ll probably never reach the point where a van full of gear is replaced solely by a tablet, nor when the in-field camera and capture equipment is done on an auxiliary device like a smartphone. However, there are an awful lot of efficiencies to be gained from the industry moving towards a software-driven…