Enhance the Finishing Process
Once the editorial department locks the picture edit, it’s time for the finishing steps. From color grading to visual effects, the merging of these finishing workflows is becoming more common and more essential to the overall post-production process. With the proper technology and workflow, the frustration of working independently, and the challenges of transferring media from facility to facility, can be avoided. Enable the creative professionals to complete projects on-time and without excess expense by providing access to the original source material and by being able to perform real time color adjustments.
Today, post-production facilities can control much more of the media project, take on new work, and secure more of the client’s budget. Facilities who embrace the concept of a converged color grading and visual effects workflow will likely maintain and grow their client base. But you must empower your artists with the right tools and technology.
EditStor Delivers the Required Performance and Functionality
Video editing storage solutions currently play a critical role in the entire post-production process. For the shared storage to handle the heavy requirements, video server performance cannot be underestimated. With 4K the norm, and 8K soon to be more prevalent, your network storage must be engineered with the proper performance characteristics.
EditStor is a purpose-built collaborative video editing server engineered for the most demanding media workflows, including 4K and 8K formats. Not only must the video storage provide the overall bandwidth for multiple 4K streams, but the connectivity to the client editing server must also provide the necessary bandwidth and sequential data flow. Look to a video storage solution, like EditStor, that can play more than just 4K streams, but 4K uncompressed file sequences straight to the finishing servers, whether the application is Davinci Resolve, Adobe, Autodesk, Assimilate or other related finishing applications.
It is common for multiple workstations to be running on an EditStor that is supporting the entire post-production process, including color and visual effects. Archion delivers multiple EditStor models to support finishing workflows, including the EditStor Omni, EditStor Omni Flash and EditStor Velo Flash. The bandwidth is available to support these finishing workflows with a up to 8,000 MB/second in a single server that scales in both speed and capacity with additional EditStor servers. Proven 40 GB Ethernet connectivity further enhances the overall performance. Contact an Archion representative today for more information on Archion’s shared storage solutions for finishing workflows.