EditShare Announces Geevs 5.0
Sunday, April 11, 2010
EditShare has announced the new Geevs 5.0 release. EditShare acquired Geevs technology in September 2009, expanding its Complete Collaboration product line to include acquisition and playout for broadcasters. The new Geevs 5.0 release enhances the production workflow across EditShare solutions and incorporates new core capabilities such as support for ProRes and DNxHD.
"Geevs 5.0 represents a significant upgrade for the entire broadcast platform. Across the board we have enhanced many aspects of the Geevs ingest and playout capabilities, placing Geevs ahead of the pack with regards to integrated broadcast workflows," comments James Richings, Managing Director, EditShare EMEA. "The expanded format support and integration with other EditShare products, such as Flow and EditShare shared storage, means that workgroups like video journalists using Final Cut Pro or Avid can easily create, share, and distribute content with greater speed. Flexibility and interoperability are key for every broadcaster; Geevs provides a solid foundation to build your broadcasting workflows, whether it is multi-camera instant replay, live studio playout, or multi-format ingest."
Geevs multi-channel ingest and playout solutions offer a wide range of client software applications, including Geevs Sports for instant replay and dynamic slow motion.
Geevs 5.0 feature highlights include:
• New User Interfaces
Sleek new user interfaces with improved functionality and intuitive controls for managing media in fast-paced broadcast environments.
• New Sports Client Application
Multi-channel synchronized recording and playback with up to 16 camera feeds, including instant playout from any angle with dynamic slow motion replay. Multiple servers can be accessed and used from a single controller.
• Expanded Codec and Format Support
Geevs servers now offer seamless integration with Avid and Final Cut Pro editing workgroups using DNxHD, ProRes, and ProRes HQ codecs.
• Integration with EditShare Storage and Flow
Geevs provides a seamless exchange of media, with direct ingest to EditShare XStream and Storage Series servers, Flow database integration, and real-time generation of proxy files for Flow Browse. View Geevs ingest clips in Flow Browse or Flow Logger, instantly begin working with your captured media during ingest, and organize clips into Bins and Sequences.
• High Performance Audio
Support for 32-bit audio and Dolby E offer Geevs users more advanced multi-channel audio workflows, supporting high-end broadcast.
• Edit While Capture
Allows EditShare users to begin working with media in their NLE while it is still being captured. Files continue to grow in the background until ingest is stopped.
Geevs feature highlights include:
• Ingest & Playout
Geevs Servers have a wide range of client software applications to control ingest and playout in different environments. Geevs Client is a multi-purpose I/O application. Geevs Autorun provides dedicated 24/7 channel playout. Geevs Sports provides synchronized ingest of up to 16 cameras, with instant replay and dynamic slow motion. Geevs Live provides Studio Playout with MOS integration and GPI triggers for Vision Mixer support. Geevs Multicam provides dedicated studio ingest with instant review of all angles. Other applications provide transcoding, backup, file delivery, studio logging and review, VTR Replacement, and Channel Automation.
• Formats and Codecs
Geevs servers support AVI, QuickTime, and MXF containers as well as the newly-added DNxHD, ProRes, and XDCAM codecs. All standard broadcast formats are also supported, including DV25, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 HD, and Uncompressed SD and HD.
• Synchronized Ingest and Playout
Geevs offers synchronized multi-cam ingest for sports, studio, or other live multi-cam environments. With instant review of all angles, including dynamic slow motion, operators can control every aspect of their content.
• Broadcast Tools
Geevs provides a flexible set of tools for broadcasters, including an XML API, VDCP, MOS, router control, graphic overlays, and GPI triggers for integration with external controllers or vision mixers.
• Flexible and Expandable HD/SD Servers
Geevs broadcast servers are available in 1U or 4U configurations for optimal flexibility. With HD and SD configurations, support for SDI and Analog Component, GPI, External Timecode, and NAS, SAN and DAS options, Geevs servers fit seamlessly into almost any broadcast environment.
• Playout During Transfer
Geevs supports Playout of files while they are still being transferred, offering huge time savings and last-minute critical changes to content.
• Automation
Geevs provides support for VDCP for integration with Automation Systems.
EditShare will demonstrate Geevs 5.0 at NAB booth # SL4725.
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EditShare to Unveil Flow 2.0 at NAB 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
EditShare has announced a wealth of new workflow-engineered capabilities for EditShare Flow, its production asset management solution for building collaborative media production infrastructures. Fully integrated with the award-winning EditShare shared storage and archiving solutions, Flow provides extensive content management, asset tracking, and production capabilities for managing post-production and broadcast workflows.
"Our development team has engineered a stunning array of new Flow features just in time for NAB," says Andy Liebman, Founder and CEO, EditShare. "Flow has evolved into an industry forerunner for building collaborative media production workflows. The new Flow 2.0 platform adds high value production features including Edit While Capture, scanning non-Flow ingested media, bandwidth-controlled file-based ingest, support for new codecs, sequence creation, and deeper integration with EditShare Ark. These new features enhance collaboration and streamline any editor's pre and post-production tasks."
Highlights of the new Flow 2.0 release include:
• Edit While Capture
In addition to the current "chunking" feature, Avid and QuickTime users can now ingest with Flow and begin editing on their NLE timeline within seconds. Clips expand in the background while you continue to edit.
• Bandwidth-Controlled File-Based Ingest
Flow 2.0 introduces bandwidth-controlled file-based ingest, with support for P2, XDCAM, XDCAM HD, and AVC-Intra formats. Users can maintain video in its native codec or transcode to a different codec - while simultaneously generating proxy files during ingest. In addition, administrators can control the aggregate bandwidth of transfers to ensure that the network or storage will not be overwhelmed during multiple, simultaneous file-based ingests.
• Format Support
Flow now supports the P2, XDCAM, XDCAM HD, and AVC-Intra formats for both file-based ingest and HD/SD-SDI ingest.
• Ganged Capture
Ingest multiple channels in sync with the click of a button. Metadata is automatically populated across all channels to provide fast workflows - ideal for reality or sports environments.
• Batch Capture and Scheduled Ingest Imports from Templates
Schedule your ingests with a simple template that can be imported directly into Flow. The new templates support batch capture with multiple tapes or scheduled live ingests - including to multiple codecs.
• Flow Scan Options
Flow 2.0 adds manual or scheduled scanning of non-Flow media stored on EditShare shared storage systems. Flow then adds the scanned clips into the Flow database while making low-res proxy files in the background.
• Bins and Sequences
Flow Browse users can now create Projects, Bins, and Sequences for pre-editing and shot selection. Sequences can be edited and trimmed and then played back in Flow Browse. Flow 2.0 also provides the ability to drag and drop entire sequences directly into Avid or FCP.
• Flow Logger Enhancements
Custom logging templates with pre-defined metadata can be created to provide an intuitive logging interface. Flow Logger supports logging of live feeds or existing media files.
About the EditShare Flow Product Line
EditShare Flow consists of Flow Ingest, Flow Browse, Flow Logger, and Flow Scan.
Flow Ingest supports an extensive range of codecs and wrappers, including Avid MXF and Apple QuickTime formats. Flow's ability to encode simultaneously in 2 high-resolution formats and a proxy eliminates the need for background transcoding and proxy generation after capture.
Flow Browse is a cross-platform application that gives users access to all content stored on their EditShare shared storage and Ark systems. With intuitive organizational features such as Bins and Sequences, assistants or editors can pre-edit material before they even reach the edit bay. Clips and Sequences can be dragged from Flow Browse directly into a bin within the NLE, providing a fast and intuitive means of managing large amounts of data.
The new Flow Logger application offers customizable templates with pre-defined metadata fields that are ideal for productions such as reality TV and live sporting events. Customized metadata fields, such as names of contestants or sports players or predefined content to describe actions and story lines, provide an intuitive interface for logging live feeds or existing media files.
The new Flow Scan application adds media files that have not been captured with Flow Ingest into the Flow database - while also creating low-res proxy files. Within seconds after capturing media with an NLE, users can see and browse the media in Flow Browse.
EditShare Flow feature highlights include:
• Universal Media File Support
Single file format that can be used by a wide range of editors and compositors including Avid and Final Cut Pro.
• Exclusive Integration with Automatic Duck
Thanks to EditShare's exclusive partnership with Automatic Duck, when you work with Universal Media Files, you can translate sequences back and forth between Avid and Final Cut Pro and all your media will just link up - no transcoding, duplicating, or re-rendering required.
• Multi-Channel Capture
Each Flow Ingest Server can capture up to two channels of HD-SDI or four channels of SD-SDI, and the number of ingest channels can easily be scaled up at any time by adding more Ingest Server chassis.
• Multi-Format Support
Input from each HD/SD-SDI channel can be saved in up to two formats plus low-res proxy simultaneously.
• Centralized Ingest
One location for all media input. No tying up an edit bay. Ingest material straight to your EditShare Media Space.
• Customizable Logging Templates
Configurable Flow Logger templates standardize content logging, providing a fast and intuitive workflow - ideal for fast-paced reality shows and sports events.
• Search and Access all Your Media Assets
With its powerful search engine, Flow Browse lets you see all the material stored on your EditShare shared storage or Ark servers without tying up an edit bay.
• Metadata Management
Display and edit clip metadata including customizable fields.
• Shot Selections
Set in and out points of a clip outside the editing application and organize clips into Bins or Sequences which can then be dragged directly to an NLE.
• Sub-clip Creation & Drag and Drop
Break long clips into smaller sub-clips; drag and drop media directly into Avid and Final Cut Pro bins.
EditShare will demonstrate Flow 2.0 at NAB booth # SL4725.
The EditShare Worldwide Channel Partner Meeting takes place on Sunday, April 11th at 10:00am. Please contact us to register and for more details.
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EditShare Ships New Ark 2.0 Media Archiving System
Thursday, April 08, 2010
EditShare has announced the availability of its new Ark 2.0 backup and archiving solution. Fully integrated with EditShare's award-winning shared storage solutions, Ark 2.0 offers superior media file protection for broadcast and post, providing digital and tape-based options for creating backups and archives. Ark 2.0 boasts a full array of media protection enhancements, most notably its complete integration with EditShare Flow.
"Ark 2.0's flawless integration with Flow and broader support for tape loaders and libraries elevates it to a new level of asset protection," says Andy Liebman, Founder and CEO, EditShare. "In an integrated Ark and Flow environment, archived material is made part of the content repository. Archived clips are automatically scanned and added to the Flow database in proxy format, providing instant access to low-resolution versions of all archived materials. From the Flow Browse interface, users can search and retrieve archived media, organize clips into bins, assemble clips into sequences, and restore high-resolution versions for editing. Thanks to these enhancements, Ark 2.0 is now one of the most reliable asset protection systems in the industry."
Highlights of the new Ark 2.0 release include:
• NEW Integration with Flow for Complete Backup
Integration between Ark and Flow ensures that all archived clips now have a record in the Flow database prior to being copied to Ark. Flow scans all clips to ensure that proxy files have been created. Ark updates the Flow database to keep a record of exactly where each archived clip is located. Flow users can then search and browse all clips stored on Ark.
• NEW Integration with Flow for Complete Restoration of Files
Having a record of all archived or backed up clips in the Flow database makes restoration of files from Ark easier than ever. It is now possible to search or browse for clips even though high-resolution versions are "offline" and stored only on Ark. Through Flow Browse, users can play low-resolution proxy versions, incorporate them into sequences, and then restore the desired high-resolution versions to any EditShare Media Space. From within Flow Browse, authorized editors are able to set up Restore jobs to occur instantly or at a later, scheduled time.
• NEW Support for Multi-Drive Tape Libraries
Ark 2.0 supports a range of tape loaders and tape libraries. Autoloaders and libraries with multiple tape drives can now be used.
• NEW Activation Feature for Ark Disk
A new activation feature allows customers to utilize their Ark Disk system as a rapid failover should one of their main shared storage systems fail.
• NEW Improved Tape Management
The new Ark user interface graphically shows which tapes are currently loaded into a Tape Library and in exactly which slot they can be found.
EditShare will demonstrate Ark 2.0 at NAB booth # SL4725.
The EditShare Worldwide Channel Partner Meeting takes place on Sunday, April 11th at 10:00am. Please contact us to register and for more details.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Ark
EditShare Unveils Version 6 of its Storage Series and XStream Series Shared Storage Solutions
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
EditShare is pleased to announce the availability of Version 6 of its Storage Series and XStream Series shared storage solutions. Part of EditShare's Complete Collaboration product line, the award-winning shared storage solutions are renowned for their true project and media sharing for Final Cut Pro and Avid editors. EditShare's user management tools are designed specifically for post and broadcast workflows, providing an ideal infrastructure for editing workgroups. Version 6 boasts a variety of stunning performance and workflow enhancements, including simplified media management, optimizations for DPX workflows, and support for dual port 10-Gigabit Ethernet cards.
"Version 6 makes EditShare a stronger player in every aspect of the media industry," said Andy Liebman, Founder and CEO, EditShare. "Thanks to phenomenal internal development, our Storage Series and XStream Series shared storage solutions include a variety of new features that will tremendously increase performance, especially for high-bandwidth resolutions. Also, for the first time, EditShare shared storage solutions will be offered on Solid State Drives, paving the way for the future of storage. We look forward to showing customers our cutting-edge product advancements."
Highlights of the new Version 6 release include:
• NEW Optimizations for DPX Workflows
With Version 6, users can enable DPX optimizations on a per-Media Space basis, and choose specific optimizations for HD-DPX or 2K-DPX workflows.
• NEW User Groups for simplified administration
Version 6 allows for the definition of groups of users. Once a group is defined, it can be added and removed from Media Spaces and Project Spaces and managed the same way as individuals. Users can also belong to multiple groups.
• NEW Managed and Unmanaged Space Capabilities
Version 6 includes the ability to convert Managed Spaces to Unmanaged Spaces.
• NEW Media Space Renaming Feature
Administrators now have the ability to change the name of a Media Space.
• NEW Versions of Netatalk and Samba
By updating to the latest versions of Netatalk and Samba, EditShare ensures the fullest compatibility with the latest versions of Mac OS X and Windows 7.
• NEW Graphical Interface
Version 6 features a sleek new look to bring it visually in line with EditShare's Flow, Ark, and Geevs solutions.
• NEW Integration of Solid State Drives
Version 6 allows EditShare to offer its first shared storage server with Solid State Drives (SSD). A single set of 16 SSDs can support multiple streams of 2K DPX files, 50 or more streams of video in formats including ProRes or DNxHD, or hundreds of audio streams for mixing applications. While SSDs are still much more expensive than spinning disks, the cost difference is narrowing rapidly, and for some applications, they are appropriate today. In addition, EditShare will be implementing a new "data movement" capability that will allow customers to intelligently move Media Spaces from SSDs to Spinning Disks when usage patterns indicate that the higher performance of SSDs is no longer required for that media.
• NEW Dual Port 10-Gigabit cards
About 80 percent of all EditShare systems ship with 10-Gigabit networking. With Version 6, EditShare systems now offer a Dual 10-Gigabit option, providing facilities with greater bandwidth and flexibility.
EditShare will be exhibiting Version 6 of its Storage Series and XStream Series shared storage solutions at NAB booth # SL4725.
The EditShare Worldwide Channel Partner Meeting takes place on Sunday, April 11th at 10:00am. Please contact us to register and for more details.
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EditShare Channel Partner Meeting at NAB 2010
Thursday, March 04, 2010
The EditShare Channel Partner Meeting is scheduled for Sunday, April 11th at 10:00am. Please contact us to register and for more information.
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EditShare Ships Flow 1.2
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
EditShare Flow 1.2 is now available. Fully integrated with the award-winning EditShare shared storage solutions, Flow offers advanced recording and media management capabilities for postproduction and broadcast production workgroups.
"Flow 1.2 features such as real-time proxy creation, shared bins and sequences, and Universal Media File technology go far beyond traditional multi-channel ingest and browse solutions," said Andy Liebman, Founder and President, EditShare. "With Flow 1.2, we have removed many bottlenecks in both pre and postproduction. Users have unprecedented access to content via the enhanced Universal Media File technology. No format conversions are needed. The new sub-clip and sequence creation functions allow producers, reporters, and assistant editors to immediately start selecting clips and pre-editing without tying up an edit bay. Thanks to Flow's new customizable metadata templates, media can be effortlessly tagged with relevant descriptive terms and editors can quickly locate content and turn around media-rich packages with the best available content."
Highlights of the new Flow 1.2 release include:
• Avid & Final Cut Pro Sequence Support: Exclusive integration between EditShare and Automatic Duck creates an industry first: the new EditShare Universal Media File Technology allows Avid and Final Cut Pro editors to share and edit the exact same media files and exchange sequences between the two applications - without any transcoding, re-linking, duplicating media, or re-rendering.
• Real-time Logging & Custom Metadata Templates: The new Flow Logger application offers customizable metadata fields that are ideal for productions such as reality TV and live sporting events that frequently ingest and log the same type of content. Flow Logger allows users to create customized metadata fields that describe actions and story lines and save these configurations as a template for repeated and future use.
• Avid & Final Cut Pro Sub-clip Creation: In Flow Browse or Flow Logger, editors can easily create Avid and Final Cut Pro sub-clips during or after ingest. All sub-clips are available to drag and drop directly into Avid and Final Cut Pro bins.
• Flow Scan: This simple, powerful new function allows users to scan EditShare storage servers for media captured outside of Flow. Proxy files are automatically generated and media is cataloged in the Flow database, optimizing Flow searches across EditShare Media Spaces.
• Flow Projects: With Flow's new Projects feature, producers, editors, and assistants can now organize media into bins and create sequences before reaching the edit bay.
About the EditShare Flow Product Line
EditShare Flow consists of Flow Ingest, Flow Logger, and Flow Browse. Flow Ingest supports an extensive range of codecs and wrappers, including Avid MXF and Apple QuickTime formats. Flow's ability to encode simultaneously in 2 high-resolution formats and a proxy eliminates the need for background transcoding and proxy generation after capture. The new Flow Logger application includes flexible metadata templates and tools for maximizing the organization of projects and media. Flow Browse completes the workflow with advanced capabilities for searching and assembling media from the EditShare Media Space.
EditShare Flow feature highlights include:
• Universal Media File Support: Single file format that can be used by a wide range of editors and compositors including Avid and Final Cut Pro.
• Multi-channel Capture: Each Flow Ingest Server can capture up to four channels. The number of ingest channels can easily be scaled up at any time by adding more Ingest Server chassis.
• Multi-Format Support: Input from each channel can be saved in up to two formats plus proxy simultaneously.
• Centralized Ingest: One location for all media input. No tying up an edit bay. Ingest material straight to your EditShare Media Space.
• Customizable Logging Templates: Configurable Flow Logger templates standardize content cataloging. The rapid one-click logging is ideal for fast-paced reality shows and sports events.
• Search and Access All Your Media Assets: With its powerful search engine, Flow Browse lets you see all the material stored on your EditShare without tying up an edit bay.
• Metadata Management: Display clip metadata including customizable fields.
• Shot Selections: Set in and out points of a clip outside the editing application.
• Sub-clip Creation & Drag Drop Media: Break long clips into smaller sub-clips; drag and drop media directly into Avid and Final Cut Pro bins.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Flow
EditShare Sales Training WebEx and Conference Call
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Channel Wolves will be hosting an informal EditShare Channel Sales Training WebEx and Conference Call on Thursday, January 21st at 1:00pm Eastern Time.
The training will cover:
• EditShare Key Competitive Advantages
• Demonstration of Final Cut Pro and Avid Project Sharing
• EditShare Flow Overview
• EditShare Ark Overview
• Questions and Answers
Please contact us for more information.
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Vote: Broadcast Engineering Excellence Awards
Monday, December 14, 2009
EditShare and the Cincinnati Reds' Great American Ball Park are in the hunt for Broadcast Engineering's ninth annual Excellence Award in the category of "Post & network production facilities". Please help EditShare and the Reds secure this prestigious honor by voting today! Here are the details:
Customer Profile
Cincinnati Reds Great American Ball Park
Vote Now! (Post & network production facilities category)
http://broadcastengineering.com/excellence-awards/9th-vote/
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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.
Read the Case Study
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EditShare Acquires Geevs and Lightworks Technology
Friday, September 11, 2009
EditShare today announced at IBC 2009 the acquisition of Geevs broadcast video servers and the Lightworks nonlinear editing platform. These solutions complement EditShare's Complete Collaboration product line which includes multi-channel ingest, shared production storage, and archiving solutions. The acquisition of Geevs and Lightworks technology will provide EditShare customers with expanded options for building fully-integrated, tapeless workflows.
Scoring record sales for Q1 and Q2 of 2009, Geevs servers offer broadcasters, post-production facilities, and content producers a wide range of capabilities including HD/SD multi-channel ingest, playout automation, and file server management for large-scale deployments. Lightworks is one of the original nonlinear digital editing systems and is widely used today by feature film editors including the multi-Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker.
Stay tuned for more information.
Labels: EditShare, Geevs, Lightworks
EditShare Ships Ark Tape and Ark Disk for Media Backups & Archives
Thursday, September 10, 2009
EditShare is now shipping two new EditShare Ark models for creating media backups and archives: Ark Tape and Ark Disk. Ark Tape and Ark Disk are workflow-engineered to automate file migration to and from EditShare's award-winning shared storage solutions. Because Ark automatically communicates with EditShare shared storage systems, media spaces, project spaces, and other important data structures are seamlessly exchanged between systems.
Ark allows EditShare users to create safety backups during the editing process, move media to lower-cost storage when a project must be put on hold or while it awaits approval, and create long-term archives of entire projects or selected media spaces. In addition, EditShare Ark Disk systems may be activated in an emergency as a "lower-bandwidth" EditShare server to minimize downtime.
EditShare Ark Feature Highlights
• Seamless integration with EditShare shared storage solutions, retains user permissions and data structures for media spaces and project spaces
• Simple-to-use interface enables "non-IT" staff to automate and schedule full and incremental backup and archive procedures
• Ark Disk-based model available for fast "nearline" storage and retrieval - can be used as a temporary failover for storage server
• Ark Tape-based model available for cost-effective backup or long-term archival - lower power requirements for long-term storage needs
About EditShare Complete Collaboration Products
EditShare's shared storage solutions, the EditShare Storage Series and EditShare XStream Series systems, enable editors and compositors to easily and economically share media and work collaboratively regardless of the platform or application. Users connected to an EditShare network can seamlessly access in real-time a common pool of media files. Source material, work-in-progress, and finished packages are shared and instantly available to all users on the EditShare network. The rules-driven workflow ensures that no data is ever overwritten or accidentally destroyed.
EditShare Flow and EditShare Ark bookend the shared production storage workflows with advanced multi-channel ingest/browse and archiving/backup capabilities. The integrated solutions provide a highly scalable, end-to-end media management workflow.
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EditShare Adds Support for Apple Final Cut Pro 7
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
EditShare has announced compatibility with Apple's new Final Cut Pro 7 release. EditShare's Complete Collaboration product line offers media acquisition, shared storage, and archiving products for broadcast, post-production and DI workflows. Seamlessly integrated from ingest to archive, EditShare is the only solution to offer both Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid project sharing for editors.
Thanks to EditShare's patented bin-locking / project-locking framework, Avid and Apple Final Cut Pro editors can instantly see, copy, or revise the work of colleagues with the assurance that a bin, sequence, or project will never get accidentally deleted or overwritten. Via a file manager-type interface, editors can clearly see all the bins and project files being used by all editors in their group. Bins and projects belonging to another editor are automatically opened as "read-only", and control can easily be transferred from one editor to another.
The EditShare Value Proposition
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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.
Read about EditShare and the Pittsburgh Penguins
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EditShare and Automatic Duck Team Up to Simplify, Streamline Shared Workflows Between Avid and Apple Final Cut Pro
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Instant, automated file format and sequence translation enables Final Cut Pro and Avid editors to share same media, with timelines intact, from a single storage space
EditShare announced that it has partnered with Automatic Duck to solve a critical workflow productivity issue for postproduction facilities and editing workgroups that want to collaborate on shared media files across disparate editing platforms. EditShare's unique Universal Media File technology - a core feature of the Flow product line - allows a single media file to be used simultaneously by Apple and Avid editors. Automatic Duck's Pro Import FCP and Pro Export FCP allow editors to translate bi-directionally between Avid and Final Cut Pro sequences. Now EditShare and Automatic Duck have joined forces to create a special version of Automatic Duck that understands EditShare's Universal Media Files and that knows how to retrieve information from the Flow database.
As a result of this technology partnership, for the first time it becomes possible for editors in a mixed Avid and Final Cut Pro environment to seamlessly switch back and forth between the two applications, using a common pool of media files, with entire timelines intact. This development eliminates the time-intensive, productivity-draining process of exporting, re-linking, re-connecting, transcoding and re-importing media - a workflow typical in multi-platform, collaborative environments. This is a tremendous time-saver, enhancing overall collaboration. The newly integrated solution will be demonstrated at NAB 2009 (April 20 to 23 in Las Vegas, NV) on the EditShare stand (SL6420).
"Many facilities feel they have to choose which editing application they go with - typically Final Cut Pro or Avid. This limits the talent pool because editors are usually aligned with one application versus another. The new Automatic Duck and EditShare integration means that organizations can build mixed application environments without having to make a painful choice," explains Andy Liebman, President and founder of EditShare "Under the new workflow, an assistant editor can log projects on Final Cut Pro while the senior editor works on Avid - or vice versa. You can truly use the editing application you want to and share the very same media files".
"There's a simple reality facing editors - editing applications don't talk to each other, and we created Automatic Duck to solve that issue," added Wes Plate, president of Automatic Duck. "EditShare was founded on a similar premise: there was no easy way for editors in a workgroup to share media files. Partnering with EditShare on this initiative enables us to build on our original vision, taking the notion of simplifying workflows between applications and extending that value to the collaborative, shared media workgroup environment."
Labels: Automatic-Duck, EditShare, EditShare-Flow
EditShare Adds ASSIMILATE to List of DI Workflow Partners
Saturday, April 18, 2009
EditShare has announced a technology partnership with ASSIMILATE, a leading developer of high-resolution and stereoscopic applications for the DI market. The new development combines EditShare's XStream shared storage solutions with ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH Digital Process Solution, enabling real-time DPX and RED 4K workflows across DI and non-DI post-production equipment. This new integration offers EditShare's highly-popular Project Sharing with unmatchable real-time performance to SCRATCH artists.
The newly integrated solution will be demonstrated at NAB 2009 (April 20 to 23 in Las Vegas, NV) at EditShare Booth SL6420.
"For many years, EditShare has been at the forefront of Network Attached Storage solutions for popular post-production tools from Adobe, Apple, Avid and more. With the introduction of digital cameras such as the RED ONE Digital 4K Camera providing stunning performance, there is now a significant move toward DI workflows. EditShare XStream is a key component in enabling DI production pipelines to be fully integrated and tapeless from acquisition to finishing," comments Andy Liebman, CEO and founder, EditShare. "EditShare guarantees real-time performance and image quality while facilitating cross-workflow media sharing with non-DI applications and systems, freeing facilities from bringing work into digital and putting it back to tape."
EditShare XStream allows an entire facility to be connected, from ingest to delivery of the final cut. EditShare is agnostic to any specific manufacturer so EditShare XStream has been engineered to work seamlessly with any application supporting Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. EditShare XStream takes advantage of PCIe infrastructure to combine high data rate streams such as DPX with a large number of simultaneous video streams and almost limitless storage capability.
"SCRATCH includes a rich tool set of cost-effective real-time post tools - conform, construct, color grading, and finishing - which have made it a key enabler in the migration to digital intermediate pipelines by post production houses for many years now. While SCRATCH is resolution independent, it's ideal for tapeless workflows at digital 2K and 4K," says Jeff Edson, CEO, ASSIMILATE. "Combined with EditShare XStream storage, users will experience a seamless, extremely efficient workflow that can greatly increase productivity."
Labels: ASSIMILATE-SCRATCH, EditShare, EditShare-XStream-Series
ION Media Networks Adds EditShare XStream Technology
Friday, April 17, 2009
ION Media Networks has expanded its EditShare shared media storage with the deployment of two new EditShare XStream high-performance systems. The XStream units with a total of 64TB of storage support the HD production by the ION Creative Services team. Utilizing content creation tools from Avid, Apple and Maya, the Creative Services professionals produce on-air promotions, graphics and branding for all of ION's company-owned stations and networks from their West Palm Beach, Florida facility.
"With our move to HD, we upgraded all our editing systems and we looked to the EditShare XStream because it gives us the high performance to support the intensity of an all-HD workflow with unlimited expandability," says Robert Cummings, Director of Engineering for ION. "We've had great experience with our other EditShare servers. The ability to share media with EditShare really brings efficiency and organization. To handle the HD workflow, speed and scalability were the big drivers for bringing in the XStreams."
"XStream is specifically designed for the most extreme and demanding media sharing workflows, handling high volumes of simultaneous users as well as very large numbers of video streams," says Andy Liebman, CEO of EditShare. "We've incorporated the latest technologies including PCIe connectivity between the XStream chassis and faster drives to provide extremely efficient use of bandwidth and maximum performance. And to grow the system, it's quite simple and affordable to connect another chassis full of drives."
ION elected to configure the two EditShare XStream systems with one 32TB system acting as primary storage handling only HD content and the second 32TB system operating as a backup with automated, scheduled synchronizations. The EditShare storage servers which were installed in late 2006 and 2007 are still being used to handle SD production work for some older television series which are only available in SD, as well as for web content, audio and graphics. EditShare's Extreme Scalable Architecture (ESA) allows multiple EditShare servers to operate on a single network. ESA makes the process transparent for editors who simply work on designated media spaces. System administration is simplified with smart management tools that can be used from any workstation to manage across systems.
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EditShare at NAB 2009: New Feature Highlights
Monday, April 13, 2009
EditShare Flow Version 1.2
• Scans Media Spaces locating media that was not originally ingested through Flow, moves it into the Flow database, and generates video proxy thumbnails and tracking metadata.
• Supports up to 8 channels of audio per video ingest.
• Expands codec support to include DVCPRO HD and other HD formats enabling more users to take advantage of EditShare's Universal Media File technology.
EditShare Flow
EditShare Storage Series and XStream Series Version 5.5
• EditShare Project Sharing: New enhancements make managing project bins easier than ever for Apple and Avid editing systems.
• Advanced Rights Management: EditShare Storage and XStream Series servers can now query an Active Directory server for user passwords.
• New Playout Integration: Automates migration of files to third-party broadcast servers for playout.
• EditShare XStream: Servers can now scale to 128 drives and beyond.
• EditShare XStream: New DI workflows with a number of industry-leading applications including Nucoda (Digital Vision) and Bones.
EditShare Storage Series or EditShare XStream Series
EditShare Ark Version 1.0
EditShare Ark is scheduled to ship in Q2 2009. Feature highlights include:
• Backup and archive EditShare Shared Project Spaces
• Backup and archive to disk and Quantum LTO tape libraries.
• Restore from disk or tape library back to EditShare Media Spaces.
• Comprehensive backup management features for automating backup and syncs.
EditShare Ark
EditShare Channel Partner Meeting at NAB 2009
EditShare's Worldwide Channel Partner Meeting is scheduled for Sunday, April 19th at 10:00am. Please contact us for details.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Ark, EditShare-Complete-Collaboration, EditShare-Flow, EditShare-Storage-Series, EditShare-XStream-Series
EditShare Sees Global Expansion in Education Market
Sunday, February 22, 2009
From media labs to broadcast sports, EditShare Shared Storage solutions improve collaboration and stretch dollars for colleges and universities
EditShare has announced several recent sales to educational institutions, greatly expanding the company's roster of academic customers. Many schools have paralleled the industry's move to EditShare Complete Collaboration products, which are designed to maximize media sharing and storage for multi-user editing environments. The recent purchases are especially noteworthy at a time when academic budgets are severely strained. EditShare offers state-of-the art technology at a cost-effective price, ensuring that educational facilities provide superior technology to students and in-house production units while respecting budgetary restraints.
Recent educational sales in the US include new systems purchased by University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Oregon State University, University of Central Florida, Baylor University, Harvard University, Florida State University (FSU), Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), the US Army War College, University of Texas at Austin and University of North Texas. Recent sales in Europe include Glasgow Cal College (UK), University of Bolton (UK), Napier College (UK), Sapir Academic College (Israel), Yizrael College (Israel), E-Universidad (Spain) and European Film College (Denmark). In EditShare's Asia Pacific region, large EditShare systems have recently been purchased by University of Technology (Sydney), Deakin University (Melbourne) and the Victoria College of Arts at Melbourne University.
In academic settings, EditShare systems are used in media training labs, distance learning scenarios as well as in-house, professional video production facilities. Designed for the industry's leading editing and compositing products from Avid, Apple, Adobe, Autodesk, Digidesign, Media 100 and Sony, EditShare storage servers allow all connected workstations to 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.
XStream Series tackles high demand scenarios
The University of North Texas (UNT) recently purchased a 32TB EditShare XStream which is specifically designed for the most extreme and demanding media sharing workflows, handling high volumes of simultaneous users as well as very large numbers of video streams.
"We needed a system that could handle all of our users and all of our editing environments - Avid, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro systems," says Mark Dobson, Media Services Coordinator at UNT. "EditShare XStream gives us that flexibility and ensures that we can meet high-capacity demands. That's all the more important as we expand the editing lab and transition our workstations from SD to HD."
In media lab and classroom settings, EditShare servers act as the media hub, centralizing media so students in various edit suites can simultaneously access video, graphics and other multimedia assets. Tutorial media can be placed in shared workspaces with built-in protections to secure an individual student's work from accidental override or deletion. Instructors can review work-in-progress as well as completed assignments with complete security.
EditShare Flow enhances workflows
Many colleges, like West Virginia University (WVU) and Florida State University, have recently expanded their EditShare systems to meet the growing needs of their busy broadcast and production operations which cover high-profile athletic events as well as news, lectures and other campus activities. WVU has also purchased FLOW, one of the newest products in EditShare's Complete Collaboration product line-up.
* FLOW Ingest captures up to four channels of media and associated metadata, storing each channel in up to three formats simultaneously and outputting a proxy for fast retrieval. No background transcoding is required and files are available immediately for editing. EditShare's unique Universal Media File allows ingested media to be shared and used by editors working on both Avid and Apple editing applications.
* FLOW Browse simplifies media cataloging, search and retrieval within EditShare shared storage environments. Users can quickly locate media among hundreds of thousands of clips on the EditShare media spaces. From Flow Browse, users can update metadata, log clips, and drag and drop media to Avid and FCP bins.
About EditShare Complete Collaboration
The EditShare Complete Collaboration line of products provides shared workflows throughout the media workflow - from ingest through production to archive. FLOW Ingest and Browse are fully integrated with EditShare's Storage Series as well as the ultra-performance XStream Series for high volume, high-demand environments. EditShare Ark provides a range of disk-based solutions for backup, mirroring and archiving needs.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Complete-Collaboration
MacVideo Interview with EditShare Founder and CEO Andy Liebman
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
In a new MacVideo interview, Andy Liebman explains how EditShare technology is being used to bring key workflows to Apple Final Cut Pro which, until now, have previously only been found in top-end Avid systems.
Watch the Interview
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EditShare Case Study: Greedy Goes Daily with The Electric Playground
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
When it comes to video games, Vancouver-based Greedy Productions is ahead of the curve. Greedy founder Victor Lucas is a guru of video gaming. A new multi-year contract with Canada's Rogers TV has catapulted Lucas's weekly TV program "The Electric Playground", which serves up industry news and game reviews, into a daily, half-hour entertainment slot...
Read the Case Study
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Vote: Broadcast Engineering Excellence Awards
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
EditShare and the Pittsburgh Penguins are in the hunt for Broadcast Engineering's eight annual Excellence Award in the category of "Post & network production facilities". Please help EditShare and the Penguins secure this prestigious honor by voting today! Here are the details:
Customer Profile
The NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins make media move with speed
Vote Now! (Post & network production facilities category)
http://broadcastengineering.com/be-excellence-awards/vote-8th-exam/
Labels: EditShare
Q&A: Andy Liebman, President and Founder of EditShare
Monday, October 27, 2008
Studio Monthly recently interviewed Andy Liebman, the President and Founder of EditShare. Questions included:
* What are some of the latest advancements in your product lines?
* In your experience, are there questions that people should ask before buying storage, but may not consider at the time?
* What are some basic ways a facility can assess how much bandwidth and space they require?
* Why do you prefer Ethernet to Fibre Channel connectivity?
* How important is it to buy storage elements and accessories from the same company?
Go here to read Andy's answers!
Labels: EditShare
EditShare Releases Flow
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
EditShare Flow Ingest is the only acquisition solution that captures in one format and simultaneously outputs to multiple formats including Apple QuickTime, Avid DNxHD, and low-res proxy formats. Feature highlights include multi-channel ingest with independent control over each channel, full metadata capture, and edit-while-recording capabilities. All EditShare Flow systems are ready for EditShare's forthcoming Universal Media File technology. This unique technology creates a single media file which can be used in both Avid and Apple Final Cut Pro editing environments. Universal Media File support will be available as a free update for Flow customers later this year.
The EditShare Flow Browse application simplifies and accelerates media searches within the EditShare storage environment. Users can quickly locate media among hundreds of thousands of clips. EditShare Flow Browse supports proxy viewing outside the nonlinear editing application for optimal viewing on the EditShare Media Space, annotation of metadata forms, and the ability to drag and drop media into Avid or Final Cut Pro bins.
Please contact us for more information.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Flow
EditShare Rolls Out XStream Series
Sunday, September 14, 2008
EditShare announced at IBC 2008 the release of EditShare XStream. Part of the new Complete Collaboration product line, XStream is EditShare's 5th-generation, high-performance shared storage solution for DI and Broadcast workflows. Leveraging the fastest storage technology on the market, each EditShare XStream 16-drive chassis processes over 1GB per second. Users can combine multiple XStream chassis for performance to match the needs of any large-scale production workgroup or high-bandwidth content creation facility.
"Not only can EditShare XStream support a wide range of mission critical and high-bandwidth environments, it does so with immense flexibility," said Andy Liebman, founder and president, EditShare. "You can put multiple EditShare XStream systems on the same network along with your EditShare Storage Series systems. This allows administrators to manage all their storage requirements from a single unified EditShare interface and precisely match the performance needs of each job. Our customers can also integrate acquisition and browse tools from the new EditShare Flow product line, enabling realtime collaboration from ingest to editing on to archiving and back. The possibilities are limitless and the performance is outstanding."
Combined with EditShare's 5th-generation administration, monitoring, and workflow tools, XStream enables industry-leading performance and an open environment for creative teams to share media regardless of application or platform. Users of Apple, Adobe, Assimilate, Autodesk, Avid, Digidesign, Sony, Thomson, and other applications can connect via Gigabit or 10-Gigabit Ethernet and freely share media regardless of size or format. As with EditShare Storage Series systems, XStream offers tremendous workflow advantages within the XStream Workflow Director: true project and media sharing for Apple and Avid users, user management tools that are designed specifically for post and broadcast, and integration with post and broadcast equipment for realtime and complete collaboration across the entire workflow.
EditShare XStream supports huge numbers of SD and compressed HD streams or multiple streams of uncompressed HD or 2K. With its unique PCI Express expansion architecture and a dedicated RAID card for every 8 or 16 drives, XStream provides unparalleled reliability, performance, and scalability.
EditShare will begin shipping the first XStream units at the end of September.
Please contact us for more information.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-XStream-Series
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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Labels: EditShare, EditShare-User-Story
EditShare Introduces Universal Media File
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Industry First: EditShare creates one file for use in both Avid and Final Cut Pro
EditShare has introduced new technology that creates a single media file which can be used in both Avid and Final Cut Pro editing environments. The Universal Media File technology works in conjunction with EditShare's Flow Ingest, the only multi-channel acquisition solution that captures in one format and simultaneously outputs to multiple formats.
The Universal Media File adds a new dimension to shared workflow situations, allowing media to easily be shared and used by editors working on both Avid and Final Cut Pro systems. There's no need to tie up ingest channels or create multiple files of the same media for use on different systems.
"The user has a choice of codecs and you can capture a single file and open that same file in both Avid and Final Cut Pro," explains Andy Liebman, President and Founder of EditShare. "It's really a first and the user doesn't have to do anything complex. In the interface to our ingest server, you just select the universal file for that codec, and it's done. The data remains pristine; none of the file data is compromised. This offers a great advantage and time-savings to any operation that wants the flexibility to work in a mixed editing environment."
Files produced in DV25, DV50, and DVCPRO HD can be ingested as universal media files in EditShare. Additional formats such as IMX will be included in the future.
Complete Collaboration - EditShare Flow
The Universal Media File technology is included with EditShare Flow, part of the company's Complete Collaboration product line that provides a unified workflow solution for ingest, logging, and browsing without requiring an Avid or Final Cut Pro workstation.
EditShare Flow Ingest enables media capture in one format with simultaneous outputs to multiple formats including Apple ProRes 422, Avid MXF, and low-res proxy formats. Feature highlights include multi-channel ingest with independent control over each channel, full metadata capture, and edit-while-recording capabilities. Users can automate ingest, control ingest remotely, or initiate it manually.
EditShare Flow Browse simplifies and accelerates media searches within the EditShare storage environment. Users can quickly locate media among hundreds of thousands of clips. EditShare Flow Browse supports proxy viewing outside the nonlinear editing application for optimal viewing on the EditShare Media Space, annotation of metadata forms, and the ability to drag and drop media into an Avid or Final Cut Pro bin.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Flow, EditShare-Universal-Media-File
Interview with EditShare Founder Andy Liebman
Monday, June 02, 2008
Scribe Media interviewed EditShare Founder Andy Liebman on the NAB 2008 show floor. Andy spoke in-depth about EditShare's new Complete Collaboration family of solutions including EditShare Flow's Universal Media File capability. This phenomenal, patent-pending feature lets users capture a single file and open it in Avid and Apple editing systems without the need to ingest twice.
Watch the Interview
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EditShare Customer Experience Video
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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EditShare Debuts Complete Collaboration at NAB 2008
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Complete Collaboration: EditShare Flow, EditShare Storage Series, EditShare XStream Series, and EditShare Ark. Manage media from ingest to archiving.
EditShare has announced Complete Collaboration, new, breakthrough turnkey solutions for managing and storing media from acquisition to archive. Complete Collaboration includes EditShare Flow, EditShare Storage Series, EditShare XStream Series, and EditShare Ark. Visitors to NAB 2008 can view the new Complete Collaboration product line at booth SL9820.
"Complete Collaboration is a natural extension of the original EditShare workflow. Tools to share, exchange, manage, and safely store media are developed specifically to support the wide range of post and broadcast workflows. With the EditShare philosophy at its core, Complete Collaboration ensures that users can leverage the editing applications and content creation tools of their choice," says Andy Liebman, founder and president, EditShare.
Complete Collaboration - EditShare Flow
The new EditShare Flow series offers two distinct packages - Flow Ingest and Flow Browse - that integrate seamlessly with the EditShare Storage, XStream, and Ark solutions. EditShare Flow Ingest is the only acquisition solution that captures in just about any format and simultaneously outputs to just about any format including Apple, Avid, and low-res proxy formats. No transcoding is required; files are immediately available. Features include multi-channel ingest with independent control over each channel, full metadata capture, and edit-while-recording capabilities. Users can automate ingest, control ingest remotely, or initiate it manually. EditShare Flow Ingest supports Apple ProRes 422, Avid MXF formats, and up to three codecs per channel including proxy.
EditShare Flow Browse simplifies and accelerates media searches within the EditShare storage environment. Users can quickly locate media among hundreds of thousands of clips. EditShare Flow Browse supports proxy viewing outside the nonlinear editing application for optimal viewing on the EditShare Media Space, annotation of metadata forms, and the ability to drag and drop media into an Avid or Final Cut Pro bin.
Complete Collaboration - EditShare Storage and XStream Series
EditShare Storage Series encompasses EditShare's existing shared storage solutions: the EditShare Field mobile storage solution, EditShare Metro for small to mid-size editing workgroups, and EditShare's scalable Rack Units. In addition to the legendary Apple and Avid project sharing capabilities, the storage series offers automated diagnostic tools and the industry's most efficient back-office data processing policies and administration.
The new EditShare XStream Series is designed to support high-performance post and broadcast environments. EditShare XStream can process media at data rates of 300MB per second per stream, supporting up to 52 streams of DV50 and multiple 1080p 444 HD projects/streams. This makes it the perfect solution for post facilities working with Digital Intermediary (DI) 2k projects as well as television stations with large numbers of simultaneous users accessing central storage or employing concurrent workflows.
Complete Collaboration - EditShare Ark
EditShare Ark provides integrated solutions for backups, mirroring, and archiving. These essential security features let users economically organize and manage media in a variety of scenarios, including LTO-backup and "spinning disc" solutions that can be upgraded to the full EditShare Server Series with little to no downtime. Built on "Green" drive technology, the EditShare Ark units optimize storage costs without compromising quality or scalability.
EditShare Complete Collaboration Availability
EditShare Flow, XStream Series, and Ark will ship in late Q2 2008.
Stay tuned for pricing details.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Ark, EditShare-Complete-Collaboration, EditShare-Flow, EditShare-Storage-Series, EditShare-XStream-Series
Channel Wolves Partners at NAB 2008
Monday, April 07, 2008
EditShare - Booth SL9820
Expect a mob scene at the EditShare booth as the industry will be abuzz regarding EditShare's new Complete Collaboration family of workflow solutions. The EditShare Channel Partner Meeting takes place on Sunday, April 13th. If you're an existing or prospective channel partner and you have not received an invitation, please contact us. Also, be sure to register for EditShare's Complete Collaboration Product Launch Party which will take place at the EditShare booth on Tuesday, April 15th at 5pm. Drinks and appetizers will be served.
Boris FX and Media 100 - Booth SL8720
Visit the Boris FX booth to see Boris FX plug-ins running inside host applications from Adobe, Apple, Avid, Canopus, Media 100, and Sony.
Featured solutions will include:
* Boris Blue 2.5, now with Adobe CS3 support
* Final Effects Complete 5 for Adobe, Apple, and Avid
* Boris RED 4.2, Boris FX 9.2, and Boris Graffiti 5.2
* Boris Continuum Complete 5 for Adobe, Apple, and Avid
Also featured will be:
* Media 100 v12.5 with new support for HDV and multi-channel audio input
* Abaltat Muse, Express, and Beat, professional sound editing tools
Private Boris Continuum Complete Sparks demos will be given on a Linux-based Autodesk Flame system. BCC Sparks' 130+ filters include Lens Flare, Film Process, Film Damage, Particle Systems, Volumetric Lighting Rays, Glint, Glitter, and Glare. Please contact us to book an appointment.
Bluefish444 - Booth SL7906
The Bluefish444 booth will feature the following solutions:
* Uncompressed video I/O on a laptop with Mobile Video Devices
* ASSIMILATE SCRATCH with Bluefish444 2K Lust
* Apple Final Cut Studio with Bluefish444 SD Fidelity
* redThing and blueThing, highest-quality HD/SD-SDI to DVI-I converters
* Bluefish444 2K Lust with Symmetry for acquisition, review, and playout
To reach Channel Wolves during NAB, please call 1.866.314.7785...
* Jordan Stabile: extension 101
* Grant Carroll: extension 102
* Eric Gardner: extension 103
* Rich D'Angelo: extension 104
We look forward to seeing you at the show.
Labels: Bluefish444, Boris, EditShare, NAB-2008
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."
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-User-Story
New Videography Article on EditShare
Monday, January 21, 2008
"EditShare is certainly marketing in a crowded and competitive space, but they offer the advantage of understanding the customer's production needs. These are robust systems offering comparable performance to any other unit out there, but the project sharing capabilities are unique. No other company offers Final Cut Pro project sharing as well as an Avid sharing solution. Furthermore, both Avid and FCP systems can co-exist in one ecosystem--a big boon for post houses that have to supply both solutions. EditShare is the collaborative workflow solution many editors will want when they expand their facility."
Read the entire article
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Vote for EditShare: Broadcast Engineering Excellence Awards
Thursday, December 20, 2007
EditShare and West Virginia University are in the hunt for Broadcast Engineering's seventh annual Excellence Awards in the category of "Post & network production facilities". Please help EditShare and West Virginia University secure this prestigious honor by voting today! Here are the details:
Customer Profile
WVU incorporates collaborative workflow to stay ahead of the game
Vote Now! (Post & network production facilities category)
http://broadcastengineering.com/be-excellence-awards/vote-7th-exaw/
Thanks for your support!
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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).
Read the rest of the profile
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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."
Read the rest of the profile
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The EditShare Value Proposition
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
EditShare is more than shared storage - it is workflow and collaboration tools for creative teams. Since its launch in 2004, EditShare has been pioneering advanced file-based workflows and delivering best in class shared storage products for media driven companies throughout the world.
* EditShare is the first and only non-Avid solution to offer Avid Project Sharing
* EditShare is the first storage solution to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet
* EditShare is the first to offer true Project Sharing for Apple Final Cut Pro
* EditShare is the first to deliver a Portable Shared Storage Solution
Check out EditShare's new PDF, The EditShare Value Proposition, to learn more about the benefits of EditShare. The PDF covers the following topics:
* The Benefits of Centralized Storage
* Standards Based Network Connectivity
* The Ultimate in Media Sharing
* EditShare's Powerful Project Sharing
* Access Control and Rules Based Management
* Efficient Protected Storage
* Integrated Synchronization/Backup Tool
* iSCSI Option
* EditShare ESA - Extreme Scalable Architecture
The EditShare Value Proposition
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Marketing-Materials
EditShare Ships Apple Final Cut Pro Project Sharing, iSCSI Support, and a New Archiving Option
Monday, September 17, 2007
EditShare Version 5.0 is now shipping with new, much-anticipated workflow capabilities: Project Sharing for Apple Final Cut Pro, iSCSI support, and a brand new Archiving option for cost-effective file backup.
Project Sharing for Apple Final Cut Pro Editors
The new EditShare Project Sharing feature for Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP) allows FCP editors to instantly see, copy, or revise the work of colleagues with the assurance that a bin, sequence, or project will never be accidentally deleted or overwritten. The new EditShare Project Sharing feature for FCP editors is seamless, eliminating time-consuming exporting and importing of XML files and duplication of FCP project files. This same outstanding capability was made available to Avid editors in 2006. To date, EditShare is the only developer to offer project sharing for both Avid and Apple editors.
Support for iSCSI
New iSCSI support lets customers simultaneously enjoy the advantages of a SAN and a NAS. Users may enjoy the ease, simplicity, and power of a file-level sharing NAS while benefitting from the block-level, SAN-type connectivity required for applications such as Digidesign Pro Tools and Avid DS Nitris.
EditShare Archive
EditShare Archive is a new option that can be added to an EditShare for cost-effective file backup. Archive is compatible with EditShare Media Spaces. If there is a problem with an EditShare - if it is stolen or damaged - EditShare Archive can be brought up as an EditShare server in a matter of minutes. Archive is integrated with EditShare for automating archiving and backup.
About Version 5.0
Already deployed by some of the largest post facilities and broadcasters around the world - including Australia's Cutting Edge and ION Media Networks in the U.S. - the new EditShare release adds significant enhancements to its core capabilities. Version 5.0 includes "plug and play" packaging for easy deployment, a streamlined file management structure to organize media files with greater speed and ease, and daily "health" reports on server activity. Improved Avid Project Sharing enables users to move nested folders and bins without having to worry about permissions. An optimized 'Administration Rights' tool grants specific access/controls on a per user and per media space basis.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Archive, EditShare-Version-5, Final-Cut-Pro
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...
Read the rest of the profile
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-User-Story
EditShare Scores C&T Award for 'Best Tapeless Digital Workflow'
Monday, August 20, 2007
EditShare took home the C&T 2007 for Best Tapeless Digital Workflow for a project/facility roll out. Submitted in conjunction with Cutting Edge, Australia's largest privately owned post facility, EditShare won the coveted C&T Award for the widely popular reality TV show "Big Brother".
About the EditShare / Cutting Edge Project
Cutting Edge Managing Director Michael Burton proposed a tapeless workflow as a means to improve turnaround times for fast paced reality TV shows such as Big Brother. The transition to a tapeless workflow solved several critical issues and reduced overall costs of the operation. No longer did the team have to double-handle media. With EditShare, editors have instant access to high resolution source material via Gigabit Ethernet networks 24 hours a day.
The Cutting Edge / EditShare System Overview
* Integration of a Content Management System that includes live and proxy video generation, simple searching, and basic timeline editing
* Avid ALE generation and transfer to editing suites
* Control of a EVS disk capture system, capturing 6 live feeds continually
* Automatic transfer of 6 video streams to a 30TB EditShare system
The system was successfully used 24 hours a day for the three month Australian Big Brother '07 series. The EditShare workflow comprised of 10 Adrenaline suites and 10 proxy editing suites editing 2:1 realtime off the EditShare server.
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Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Award
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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Labels: EditShare, EditShare-User-Story
DMN Podcast: EditShare's Andy Liebman on Production Workflow
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Smaller studios can now have what major studios have long enjoyed
"If you have ever worked on a project that had multiple editors on it you know the frustration that comes with having to sit and wait until one person was done with the media you needed. You waited and then even more frustrating or time consuming had to go and load the media onto a portable drive for your perusal or workflow. Although this worked for most it is about to become extinct.
What only the big boys at the studios had can now be afforded by smaller independent studios. Welcome to EditShare.
I had the opportunity to meet with EditShare President Andy Liebman last week for dinner. I was so blown away by what EditShare was able to do to the production workflow that I twisted Andy's arm to be on the show. His need for a better workflow prompted him to create EditShare.
The story is both inspiring and informative."
Listen to the Podcast
EditShare Ships Version 5.0
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
EditShare has begun shipping version 5.0, the latest release of the award-winning EditShare shared storage solutions. This new release adds significant enhancements including "plug and play" for easy deployment, a streamlined file management structure to organize media files with greater speed and ease, and daily "health" reports on server activity.
"From day one, we have designed EditShare systems to not only support but advance file-based workflows for media-centric environments. Version 5.0 is no exception. A customer driven release, we are confident that our users will be very pleased with the vastly simplified media sharing experience and impressed with the immense workflow benefits from features such as the new Health Report and Synchronization Tool," comments Andy Liebman, founder and president, EditShare.
"The changes to EditShare 5.0 have improved our edit workflow substantially. With a large number of users connected, the system would need to re-scan to make new media available to all suites. Now the media appears seamlessly and there is no interruption to the workflow. Add to this the bulletproof reliability that we've been experiencing with our EditShare systems and it truly is the cost effective yet powerful solution that we've been searching for," comments Michael Burton, general manager, Cutting Edge.
EditShare Version 5.0 New Feature Highlights
* Simplified Media Management: Multiple levels of file protection. New "Read Only" option. New "Maintenance Mode" for deleting and modifying files.
* Tighter Control Using Limited Administration Rights: Grant specific controls on a per-user and per-Media Space basis. Authorized editors exercise their admin rights through EditShare Connect.
* Improved Shared Avid Projects: Warnings that other users' bins are locked. Move nested folders and bins without having to worry about permissions. Works flawlessly under both OS X and Windows.
* "Plug and Play" Network Configuration: EditShare can now be configured to act just a like a "switch" for easy deployment. Plug in your workstations and connect to media or anything on the office network.
* Powerful Synchronization Tool: Duplicate media files across two or more servers - whether they're located in the same building or on the other side of the world.
* Daily "Health Report": Administrators receive a daily email detailing server status and performance.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Version-5
EditShare Announces the Addition of Apple Final Cut Pro Project Sharing to the EditShare Product Family
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
First to deliver Project Sharing workflows for both Apple and Avid editing systems
EditShare has announced the addition of Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP) Project Sharing capabilities to the EditShare product family. Deployed first for Avid systems and editors, the widely popular EditShare Project Sharing technology provides tremendous collaborative workflow benefits by enabling multiple editors to work on the same project simultaneously. EditShare is the only collaborative workflow and shared storage solution to offer project sharing for Apple FCP and Avid editing systems.
"EditShare is more than shared storage - it is workflow and collaboration tools for creative teams," comments Andy Liebman, founder and president, EditShare. "We design and develop solutions customized for the creative post process. Innovative features such as Final Cut Pro and Avid Project Sharing are perfect examples of unique benefits the EditShare workflow offers. They reinforce our commitment in delivering the very best collaborative solutions for creative environments."
For the first time, Apple FCP editors can enjoy the same tremendous collaborative workflow benefits that previously were only available to Avid editors. The new EditShare Apple FCP Project Sharing feature allows multiple Apple FCP editors to simultaneously open up and work from the same projects. EditShare Project Sharing is seamless, eliminating time consuming exporting and importing of XML files and duplication of FCP project files. As with all EditShare systems, the rights management and rules driven architecture allow administrators to pre-define user access and prevent overwrites, further enhancing the overall exchange of media and creative workflow across all post environments.
* An assistant editor can digitize clips, organize into subclips while the senior editor simultaneously reviews the material;
* Journalists can assemble stories and the journalist can review the packages in progress - extracting clips and sound bytes to create the promo;
* Editors working on a reality show can share the same "master clips" and "subclips" without duplicating media files or projects. The executive producer can preview a sequence at his desk while editing of the sequence continues.
The EditShare Project Sharing functionality for Apple FCP will ship as part of the EditShare 5.0 standard feature set in Q3 2007. Existing EditShare 5.0 customers will be provided an update with the new Apple FCP Project Sharing feature free of charge.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Version-5, Final-Cut-Pro
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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Labels: EditShare, EditShare-User-Story
EditShare Introduces Version 5.0
Sunday, April 15, 2007Simplified administration, powerful synchronization tools, and automated "Health Reports" expand productivity and capabilities of EditShare media sharing and storage
EditShare has announced version 5.0 of their award-winning EditShare shared storage solutions. The new release brings improved ergonomics, simplified administration, and expanded capabilities to the EditShare shared-storage environment. New administration features and functions allow EditShare administrators to synchronize two or more servers regardless of geographic location, receive daily "health" reports detailing server activity, and minimize time to deploy with a new "plug and play" configuration. The vastly simplified file management structure enables EditShare users to organize their media files with greater speed and ease. Attendees to the NAB 2007 exhibition can see EditShare 5.0 at booth SL11105.
"When it comes to evolving the EditShare technology, we listen to our customers and value added resellers. The constant theme is the need for simplicity, reliability, and flexibility," comments Andy Liebman, CEO and Founder, EditShare. "We have taken their needs and combined them with our engineering innovation to produce one of the best shared media storage solutions on the market today... EditShare 5.0."
EditShare Version 5.0 Feature Highlights
* Powerful Synchronization Tool: Duplicate media files across two or more servers - whether they're located in the same building or on the other side of the world.
* Improved Shared Avid Projects: See warnings that other users' bins are locked. Move nested folders and bins without having to worry about permissions. Works flawlessly under both Mac OS X and Windows.
* Simplified Media Management: Variable levels of file protection. New "Read Only" option. New "Maintenance Mode" for deleting and modifying files.
* Limited Administration Rights: Grant specific controls on a per-user and per-Media Space basis. Authorized editors exercise their admin rights through EditShare Connect.
* Simplified Network Configuration: EditShare can now be configured to act just like a "switch". Plug in your workstations and connect to media or anything else on the office network.
* Daily "Health Report": Administrators receive a daily email detailing everything they need to know about their servers.
EditShare Version 5.0 will begin shipping in Q2 2007.
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Version-5
New EditShare Customer Profile: Cutting Edge Post
Sunday, March 11, 2007Australia'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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Labels: EditShare, EditShare-User-Story
EditShare Ships Portable Shared Storage System EditShare Field
Thursday, January 04, 2007World's first portable shared storage system with Avid project sharing
EditShare Field is now shipping. Announced at IBC 2006, EditShare Field was designed specifically for mobile editing. Based on the EditShare 4.0 architecture, EditShare Field offers the same powerful feature set contained in a portable, ruggedized casing for secure transportation and storage. EditShare Field is the world's only portable shared storage system to offer Avid project sharing.
EditShare Field Feature Highlights Include:
* Ruggedized and Shock Mounted Components
* 3TB RAID 5 Storage
* Support for SD, DV, HDV, DNxHD
* Avid Project Sharing
* Unlimited Users
* Redundant OS Drive
* Redundant Laptop-style External Power Supplies
* Internal Battery UPS
* Rack Mountable
Labels: EditShare, EditShare-Field
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