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ieei.tv September 2007 Newsletter
Digital Storage Solutions |
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Vacations have been taken, kids are back in school, leaves are changing colors, re-runs are over, the fall tv season has arrived and our minds are "back to business."
It's just that time of year to take inventory of what's been working, what needs improvement and where to store everything new. This month's ieei.tv newsletter focuses on system solutions that help you do just that.
Tell better stories with our tools.
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- You need a high performance shared storage pool that can also be used as a render node in support of your Maya, Photoshop, After Effects or Flash.
- You have large file counts in your graphics, special effects and animation projects and you need a storage platform to handle millions of small files on one extreme and handle large sequential files at the other end of your workflow. This is one fast tool!.
SOLUTION FOR THE ABOVE:: fxStor
- You have a need for doing collaborative real-time video editing for your edit bays. We don't care what application you are using: Apple FCP, Avid, Adobe, or Canopus Edius.
- We support you all.... Post Production, Broadcast, Animation, Educational, whatever!
- You need support for multiple video streams, including DV25/HDV, SD, DNxHD, Apple ProRes 422, or DVCPRO-HD. NO Problem with vStor!
- Any edit bay can edit from the the same scalable storage platform.
- Apace TotalShare allows for users to dynamically share Avid project bin files and FCP sequence files, with a flag of who's using those files. This enables the users to work with any collaborated workflow no matter what applications they're using. (post editing software like Avid or Apple FCP, graphics or animation/ special effects).
- Democratize with vStor from ieei.tv
SOLUTION FOR THE ABOVE:: v Stor with TotalShare
- You have a need for enterprise class NAS that can be used as a primary access storage as well as be used as a near-line archival storage.
- You need more than 300MB/S throughput but do not want to deply a SAN. SAN is expensive, block based and expensive. Ouch!
- You want to leverage from your "existing" wired Gigabit Ethernet backbone and have the flexibility to upgrade to 10GE when you are ready while making sure your investment in your new storage system purchases can be upgraded and can scale.
- You need to connect all your MAC, PC, Linux, Solaris and Unix workstations to the same storage and have any data or content type reside in a simple file format on your network storage.
- You need to consolidate your storage and have access to your transcoded content from the same storage pool to service your local workgroups.
- You have a need to distribute your content via streaming media to PC, Mobile, and IP TV.
SOLUTION FOR THE ABOVE::
eStor with RAID-6, 4-24TB Oh Yaaa.
- Make any edit bay a capture station to your shared storage Apace. Use Apace Capture module to accomplish this.
- Have you addressed backup at all? Think those Firewire or USB drives are ok? Worth the chance? Use Apace vShare to sync up the Firewire or USB drives onto RAID protected Apace storage. Easy, safe and automatic.
Better to be safe then sorry.
- Heck you have invested in many storage islands and direct attached storage from SCSI, to Fibre channel to USB to Firewire drives and have upgraded your internal workstation drives with several hard drives holding your precious content all over your facility.
- But... You need to consolidate, protect and centralize the management of all these storage islands without having to retire them.
- You need to access your content from anywhere in the world through a simple GUI interface and scale your performance and capacity linerarly just by adding more systems to your current infrastructure without having to re-wire your entire building We have the tools to do all of this.
SOLUTION FOR THE ABOVE::
Capture Module and vShare
- You need to backup your Avid Unity/ISIS platform and need an intelligent backup storage to offload your expensive Avid storage to a platform that works seamlessly with OMF and MXF file formats.
- You need workflow resilience when your Avid Unity system goes down to continue to edit from your backed up data.
- You do not trust the metadata servers of your Apple XSAN or any other SAN since you know if they go down so do all the linkes to your data residing on your Raids.
- You can't afford to lose media. Think of the hours to get it back from tape, if you even can.
SOLUTION FOR THE ABOVE::
UOL Unity Isis Offload for Avid
APACE SYSTEM SOLUTIONS::
XOL for Apple XSAN
- You need Digital Asset Management
- You need intelligent content management, search and query.
- You need a company to understand your workgroup needs, has the flexibility to listen and devise / engineer / custom program end-to- end solutions that will sove your workflow problems rather than offer you just point storage products.
- You need help? We can help.
SOLUTION FOR THE ABOVE::
Media Asset Manager
Some food for thought about the design and engineering of the Apace tools:
- Performance Performance is the key for real-time video editing. We have the highest performance rating and best control of latency and jitters, no frame drop for specified number of real video streams. Further, because we address at the latency/ jitters, when you jump around a video clip on the timeline, you'll have a more crispy response vs competition.
- TotalShare Allowing users to dynamically share Avid project bin files and FCP sequence files, with a flag of who's using those files. This enables the users to work with any collaborated workflow no matter what applications they're using (post editing software like Avid or Apple FCP, graphics or animation/ special effects). We understand the most users may not only deal with Avid and it's important to provide tools for a mixed and heterogeneous setup.
- Group Access Control We let users not only set up access for Read-only and Read-write but also to separate groups from each other. For example, if you have an outside consultant coming, you may not want him to see all your media assets and projects and you can set him/ her in a separated and limited access group.
- Real-time Ingest in Avid Beyond our support for collaborative editing in Avid, Apple, Adobe and GV Edius environment, we particularly support Avid real-time ingest to the media pool without interfering current editing work. Under users' control, they can see incoming new media without the concern of disrupting their current work. Brilliant!
- Web-based Management Apace provides a consolidated all web-based management for your workflow, networking and disk RAID. You can securely access and manage your systems locally or remotely from anywhere around the world. We're living in an Internet age and we don't assume you are glued to the office 24/7. Hey, we might even have lives outside the office.
- Internet based Support We have a secure way to support our customers worldwide via Internet. It's very convenient and stress- free for users and safe (as safe as you do online banking). We don't ask you to perform any procedure operation and all you (as a user) have to do is a few clicks to get us on to your systems and just watch. We have done this as far south as South Africa and Australia and all the way to War zone in Iraq! Effective and simple!
- Large-scale concurrent capture for Avid and Apple have mechanism to support automatic capture for large number of concurrent streams for schools and realty TV uses with NO frame drop. We can support 50 streams of DV25/HDV or equivalent and yet let editors start their work as soon as the captured clips are available. It works with TV broadcasters very well to handle tens of ingests from field, satellite, tape and local feeds. Pretty cool.
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Edit Locally With CalDigit | |
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Storage Solutions that Work for Un-Compressed SD up to HD 1080/60i 4:4:4 as well as Photography & Audio Applications  Video Applications:
We support FCP / Studio2, Adobe Premier Pro (soon to be validated), Vegas, AVID Express and more. CalDigit products are Matrox Video Group (validated), Blackmagic Design (certified S2VRHD) & AJA Video Systems.
Audio: We support Digidesign Pro Tools, Steinberg Nuendo and Cubase, Apple Logic, MOTU Digital Performer, Cakewalk Sonar, Sony Vegas and more.
Photography: We support Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Apeture, Lightroom and more...
Man these CalDigit system solutions are FAST!!!!!
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Dennis Lives The Dream! | |
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Stanley Cup In The OC
While making its way through a proud and thrilled Orange County community... The Stanley Cup stopped at Fashion Island, Newport Beach for a public viewing. Our President, Dennis Bress was one of the lucky visitors! Go Ducks!
Next up... the World Series Trophy for our Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim!
Ahhhhh Life in the OC Baby!
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