Portal access to preview, logging and storyboarding expands access to content and functional tools adding business value in enterprise environments
Levellois-Perrot, France – Dalet Digital Media Systems, a leading developer of Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions, software and services for broadcasters announced today that it has packaged several of its tools and interfaces to allow them to be embedded into customer portals. Based on Google gadget technology, these web-based Dalet gadgets provide a way for third-party integrators and customers’ in-house developers to leverage Dalet’s tools at the enterprise level.
“By packaging some of our functional tools to allow integrators and customers to expose them within corporate portals and ‘mashups,’ we’ve given companies a way to expand access to the content and functional tools in ways that best suit the needs of the business. It’s another example of how our emphasis on open standards gives companies tremendous flexibility,”more
EditShare partner and filmmaker Doug Braddock leverages the EditShare tapeless workflow from ingest to archive to complete film in one week
Boston, MA – February 23, 2012 – EditShare®, the technology leader in shared media storage and end-to-end tapeless workflow solutions, recently joined up with Doug Braddock and his production crew to sponsor the team’s efforts in completing a film in just seven days. Their film, Mirror Mirror, has been entered into the 168 Hour Film Project, a Hollywood film incubator that attracts 70+ teams each year. The project is a competition in which production teams have exactly one week – no more, no less – to film and edit an 11-minute movie.
“There was an enormous amount of work to get through. Planning and preparation had to be meticulous and there was no latitude for serious technical problems to occur. We had to hand in more
Essential for the Successful Future of Teams, Leagues, Universities & Associations
Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) has announced a new Sports Digital Asset Management Service specifically designed for the athletics industry. For sports content owners and producers, having a digital asset management strategy has become an essential part of doing business and affects virtually every aspect of the organization’s operations and future multi-media ROI opportunities.
“A well designed digital asset management strategy gives a sports organization the ability to properly manage rich media assets” explained Mike Braico, EVP of Sales at IMT. “Think life cycle of the production process, including acquisition, editing and distribution for all digital media files and the underlying metadata.”
IMT worked with the Tennis Channel to design and build a new state-of-the-art file-based workflow, which allows their broadcast operations, editorial, graphics, and post-production teams more
Four-Drive, 8TB RAID 5 Storage System Used to Store 100 Hours of Raw HD Footage in Editing Process
IRVINE, Calif. — Feb. 21, 2012 — Sonnet Technologies today announced that its Fusion(TM) D400QR5 four-drive RAID 5 SATA storage system played a key role in the post-production editing process for “Hell and Back Again”, the Academy Award(R) nominated documentary describing the experience of a U.S. soldier wounded in Afghanistan. The feature-length film was directed by Danfung Dennis, a renowned photojournalist whose still photographs have been published in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and numerous other well-known newspapers and periodicals. more
Small Tree has unveiled STREAMS Counter, a storage system performance application utility, at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention. Free to download on Small Tree’s website at www.small-tree.com, and understanding of how critical I/O performance is to post-production professionals, STREAMS Counter will allow creative professionals to test their existing storage system to determine how many concurrent video streams they can reliably run before experiencing a dip in performance.
“There are several considerations that go into architecting a high performance shared storage solution that provides the expected performance for post-production workflows and nothing is more frustrating than having a post project delayed by slow rendering speeds or dropped frames,” said Corky Seeber, president of Small Tree. “Our easy-to-use performance application utility will give post facility operators critical information to determine whether they should consider another storage solution or more
IRVINE, Calif. — Feb. 16, 2012 — Sonnet Technologies today announced that its Qio(TM) MR professional universal media reader for Windows(R) PCs is now shipping and available for purchase. Qio MR is the industry’s first compact, mobile rackmounted device to support all major HD video memory card formats, providing a convenient and high-speed alternative to stand-alone card readers and various adapters for videographers and studios alike. Along with the release of this product, Sonnet is announcing that all Qio models now shipping are both Mac(R)- and Windows-compatible, and that new software is now available to update original desktop Qio models to work with Windows desktop PCs and laptop computers equipped with an ExpressCard(R) slot. more
EditShare XStream, Energy and Metro provide Avid editors a high-performance, collaborative workflow for end-to-end tapeless production
Boston, MA — February 16, 2012 —EditShare®, the technology leader in shared media storage and end-to-end tapeless workflow solutions, today announced that the company’s collaborative storage products – XStream, Energy and Metro – now provide complete compatibility with Avid® Technology’s new 64-bit systems, Media Composer® and Symphony™ v6.0 as well as NewsCutter® v10.0. “The big news here is ‘project and media sharing,’” says Andy Liebman, founder and CEO, EditShare. “With Avid’s switch to 64-bit back in November, we had to modify our bin-locking and media-sharing code to be compatible with the new Avid software. Our work is now done, and as of today, EditShare’s Mac and Windows customers can get the same robust project and media-sharing options we have always provided for Avid’s 32-bit versions. Every aspect of EditShare’s tapeless more
LONDON, ENGLAND, BVE Stand F-30 (February 14, 2012) – At Broadcast Video Expo (BVE) 2012 Facilis Technology, a leader in advanced shared storage solutions for post-production and content creation, will debut version 5.5 of its TerraBlock Shared Storage System featuring the Facilis Shared File System for Linux. Delivering improved compatibility, value, scalability and performance, the new software release also includes integrated server spanning and mirroring, Adobe® Premiere® Pro project sharing and a new capacity expansion product called TX16.
TerraBlock is Facilis’ multiplatform, high-capacity, shared storage solution supporting 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre channel, and 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet through the Facilis Shared File System. Key version 5.5 features include:
• Linux Shared File System Support – Mount Multi-user Write volumes on Linux workstations connected via Fibre channel or Ethernet
• Integrated Server Spanning and Mirroring – Create volumes that span across multiple TerraBlock more
Advanced monitoring system provides full insight to Chellomedia broadcast performance and transmission
Tel-Aviv, Israel – February, 14, 2012 – Actus Digital, a provider of web-based media monitoring and management solutions for broadcasters, government agencies and content producers, today announced that Chellomedia’s Spain-based business unit, Chello Multicanal, installed the advanced Actus monitoring and analysis system in their Barcelona facility. Chello Multicanal is the largest independent producer of thematic channels for Spain and Portugal, distributing content to 20 thematic TV channels. The new Actus installation is used by a wide-range of Chello Multicanal staff including the programming department to monitor all distributed channels, advertising for proof of delivery of commercials, senior managers for reporting, and two technical teams who proactively monitor broadcast performance.
“Actus media monitoring offers a flexible and reliable enterprise solution that supports our diverse system-wide broadcast monitoring and analysis needs. Its ability to simultaneously more
In the face of demanding deadlines, Wink Inc., a full-service media company with facilities in Denver and Jackson Hole, installed GraniteSTOR ST-RAID, a cost-effective, Ethernet-based shared storage system from Small Tree, to improve workflow at both locations. System performance improved immediately, leading the company’s founder and owner, Jason Winkler, to wonder why he hadn’t made the switch to Small Tree’s shared storage sooner.
“I don’t think you realize how much time you’re spending duplicating and moving media until you stop doing it,” Winkler said, in reference to his company’s previous practice of swapping around drives to share media. “Our workflow improved immediately with ST-RAID in that you bring media into the system and everyone is able to access it at the same time. There are no more outputting and compressing files for viewing and approval. All of that can be done while the editors are more
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