MARK HERVEY
Post Production Technical Supervisor
Hybrid Films, New York, NY
List: $12,000+ depending on configuration
WHY I LOVE IT: We did a lot of research on products
and EditShare came out on top: it was the best priced and highest
quality shared media system that could use our existing Ethernet
networking infrastructure. Other solutions either offered fewer seats
for more money, or required a prohibitively expensive new fiber optic
cable infrastructure. It was also the only solution that offered our
editors the ability to work in shared Avid
Projects.
"With several big projects running concurrently, we were finding that
the management of our media was getting out of control. We had 23
editors needing simultaneous access to all new footage, plus we had
media from two previous seasons of A&E’s Dog the Bounty
Hunter that had to be available for use in the new season. It
was time to make a choice: either continue buying an ever-mounting
number of external drives or look into implementing a centralized
storage solution that would allow collaborative editing from a single
pool of media. This is when we turned to EditShare.
Connected to the 9.6TB EditShare system are 15 full editing suites
running Avid Xpress Pro on Macintosh G5s, as well as several PowerBook
G4s and iMac G5s to do light editing and screening. The EditShare
system gives our editors the ability to digitize into and edit from the
same Media Spaces.
At any given time, each one of them can work from the exact same shared
Avid project files and access every second of video shot for the
previous two seasons of Dog the Bounty Hunter, at
15:1 offline resolution. And thanks to EditShare’s comprehensive media
management and security features, everyone can work with the knowledge
that files and shared Avid bins aren’t getting erased or modified by
editors who don’t have the proper authority.
It’s only been a few months and already we have a more streamlined
workflow, if only for the fact that we don’t have to copy media
anymore!"
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