MLB's Cincinnati Reds Hit an HD-Grand Slam with EditShare

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Cincinnati Reds' Great American Ball Park has a huge scoreboard display and hundreds of LED and fascia boards strategically placed throughout the stadium. A new control and production facility needed to be built to maximize the fan experience while improving the workflow for producing action-packed HD videos, highlights, player profiles, corporate sponsorships and more. A centralized storage solution from EditShare integrated with software from Dixon Sports Computing and EVS servers delivered the winning combination for the Reds.

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EditShare Customer Profile: The NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins

Thursday, August 06, 2009

When it comes to stepping up the speed of media across the production chain, the Pittsburgh Penguins turned to EditShare shared storage solutions. Prior to the installation of the advanced workflow-engineered shared storage solution, an EditShare Storage Series 8U 30TB system, the Pittsburgh Penguins digitized specific game clips to each workstation using an off-the-shelf drive. The game source material became isolated to either a specific editing workstation equipped with Apple Final Cut Pro or a compositing workstation equipped with Adobe After Effects. Because certain media was housed on specific workstations and not in a central location, media had to be constantly re-digitized in order to be available in multiple locations. Further, there was a constant battle to balance the media space per editing and compositing workstation, limiting the amount of material to work with for any given highlight or replay project.

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Customer Profile: EditShare Tames March Madness

Monday, June 30, 2008

Resolution Digital Studios and EditShare Team Up to Cover the NCAAs

Resolution Digital Studios (RDS) is the content creator's dream in the Midwest. The state of-the-art facility on Chicago's West Side provides end-to-end services to filmmakers, ad agencies, corporate clients, and event planners that turn creative vision into reality. The 32,000 square foot production and post complex includes a multi-level studio and sound stage, modular, customizable sets, SD and HD equipment and services for in-studio and field production, post video, graphics and audio suites, and transmission capabilities.

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New EditShare Customer Profile: Performance Post

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Performance Post is a Los Angeles post production facility with a Hollywood reputation. They do a lot of finishing work for television syndication and have a fast-growing business in "repurposing" films for television and new media.

The repurposed projects need reformatting, re-editing, time alteration and other work to meet the editorial and technical constraints of the various distribution media. With volume approaching a thousand titles a year, Performance Post owner Fausto Sanchez needed to find a better way to maximize his resources.

Prior to the EditShare installation, Performance Post had a stable of six Avid systems - each with their own storage. Sanchez explained, "The film-to-TV workflow involves some highly technical work that can only be performed in specially-equipped studios. Not every studio has all the necessary equipment, so having storage limited to one room was extremely inefficient. It was a nightmare trying to schedule and juggle all the jobs." Sanchez needed a centralized storage system that would allow true editing collaboration in order to meet the delivery deadlines of the increasing number of projects.

Sanchez evaluated several systems before selecting an EditShare 5RU unit with 8TB of storage. EditShare systems are Networked Attached Storage (NAS) devices that are highly optimized for video editing - both in their hardware and their software. Sanchez was particularly impressed by the fact that unlike many SANs, which require expensive Fibre Channel cards and switches, all EditShare systems use a standard 1 Gigabit Ethernet network for connectivity. Anticipating increased workloads involving high bandwidth, uncompressed HD streams, Sanchez implemented EditShare's 10 Gigabit Ethernet network option for his system. Speed and collaboration were his primary considerations. EditShare allows file level sharing so that all connected workstations can capture, access and share in real-time a common pool of media files. Regardless of application or platform, source material, work in progress and finished packages are shared and instantly available to all users on the EditShare network

EditShare's ability to seamlessly work with various generations of Avid products was a key reason for selecting the system. Sanchez says, "It's effortless - you log on, select and mount your project, and just move on. It doesn't get in your way at all. And with EditShare, I have the ability to keep the older systems like the Media Composers running right along side my newer HD systems."

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EditShare Field Customer Profile: Australian Football Grand Final

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Australia's largest post facility - Cutting Edge - has put EditShare Field through its paces on the Australian Football League's (AFL) Grand Final series aired in high definition (HD) on Network TEN.

The AFL Grand Final is Australia's version of the NFL's Super Bowl and it is consistently Australia's most-watched television show every year. This year's match saw the Geelong Cats overtake the Port Adelaide Power by 119 points. High scoring isn't the only thing unique about "Aussie Rules" football. It's fast-paced and extremely physical - tactics focus on kicking and tackling; in-the-air pass throws aren't allowed. The high energy play on the oversized oval field with four goalposts at each end presents a challenge for broadcast coverage.

Specializing in on-location assignments, the Outdoor Broadcast (OB) unit of Cutting Edge has the country's largest fleet of production equipped vans packed with the latest HD technology. For the AFL Grand Final, Cutting Edge needed a rugged storage solution that would support a high-definition, quick-turn around, collaborative scenario in a temporary location.

A 3TB EditShare Field unit was the answer. EditShare Field is the world's first portable shared storage solution. The unit is compact and ruggedized, perfect for field work. Like all EditShare media sharing and storage products, EditShare Field supports a wide range of editing and compositing applications. EditShare Field stores audio and video files in a central networked location and connects to laptops and desktops over standard Gigabit Ethernet. EditShare Field supports all SD and compressed HD resolutions (including DNxHD).

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New EditShare Customer Profile: Merit/Andrew

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Business was growing for Merit Andrew, a boutique film production company based in Orange County, California. The company's four edit bays were humming with work ranging from national spots and music videos to high-end industrial films. The firm has seven full time employees, but multiple crews of up to a hundred professionals are often in the field.

Executive Producer Curt Fleming says the company was feeling some real pain moving around media, wasting more than two hours each day just to get media from room to room. An entire production day per week was spent managing media manually. To get back this wasted time, Merit Andrew needed to automate and streamline their workflow with a shared storage solution.

Fleming followed strict criteria as he considered every available system. "We're not willy-nilly with our funds and we do our homework before we invest in anything. It has to pan out financially," he explained. The solution had to support Avid as well as other editing and compositing systems. He wanted an open, heterogeneous environment with protected storage at an affordable price point. Fleming says, "Key Code Media helped us evaluate multiple solutions for our workflow, outlining the positives and workflow constraints and their impact to us. Once all the questions were answered, EditShare was a no-brainer."

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New EditShare Customer Profile: Undbitte Entertainment

Monday, August 27, 2007

Undbitte Entertainment is one of the busiest post-production facilities in Germany. Its list of prime-time series includes popular hits such as Big Brother, Quiz Taxi, and the new show Poker Bus. Georg von Kreisner, Technical Director for Post Production, notes that each of the shows has unique technical demands, but all produce huge volumes of material with short turn-around schedules.

Undbitte Entertainment has relied on EditShare to streamline their production workflows over the past two years. Von Kreisner says EditShare's unique Avid Project Sharing which allows multiple editors to simultaneously edit show content is a dramatic time-saver. This is especially important to meet the short turn-arounds that are an inherent part of reality television...

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New EditShare Customer Profile: West Virginia University

Sunday, August 19, 2007

The Television Production Department at WVU is a busy operation, turning out more than 50+ "Mountainer Magazine" and "Mountaineer Jammin" programs for the Mountaineer Network which is syndicated and carried by several TV stations in the region. These and a full schedule of live Mountaineer Network game coverage of football, basketball, and other sports and campus activities keep the WVU team at full tilt. With the workload growing, Manager of Communications Engineering Fred Marstiller needed to streamline the operation and move towards an integrated file-based workflow to keep up with demand.

With each of the five Avid edit suites a stand-alone unit, there was no way to share material; valuable time was wasted digitizing tapes and waiting for materials. That all changed when WVU installed an EditShare system loaded with 36TB of storage. Unlike other shared storage systems, the Network Attached Storage (NAS) EditShare solution is uniquely optimized for postproduction workflows, offering software tools such as Avid project sharing that maximize collaboration for multi-user environments such as WVU.

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Portland Trail Blazers on EditShare

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Producing 75 complete shows each season of the Portland Trail Blazers' quest for basketball glory is a full court press for Blazers Broadcasting, and there are no free throws if you miss a key shot. With millions of enthusiastic viewers, the producers and editors are committed to bring all the excitement of each game to their team's fans with digital production clarity.

With budgets tight, Blazers Broadcasting considered several server-based systems to feed their NLEs, but last October they selected EditShare and installed this Network Attached Storage system with 4 terabytes of capacity...

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New EditShare Customer Profile: Cutting Edge Post

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Australia's largest post facility goes with EditShare

Having grown over the past 12 years into Australia's largest privately owned post production company - with facilities in Brisbane, Sydney and on the Gold Coast - Cutting Edge offers services for a broad spectrum of post production needs including television commercials, feature films and large scale Reality TV shows from all around the world. The company's credits include "Hell's Kitchen", "Big Brother" and "I'm a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here!" just to mention a few. Cutting Edge relies on EditShare to provide the optimal editing workflow.

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