Chukyo TV Braodcasting Co.,Ltd (ChukyoTV) is a hub TV station which is a member of Nippon Television Network (NTV) group. It covers three major prefectures in the mid-area of Japan. It handles all broadcasting business, production, sale of programmes and goods, cultural and sports businesses and any other sector which relates to broadcasting.
The challenge The key challenge that Chukyo was facing in its production workflow, especially in editing variety programmes is the time consuming effort to copy the master clip from one bin to another editor’s bin. Chukyo has been looking for better usability in its editing environment. Prior to EditShare’s arrival, Chukyo was using a SAN type server for many years. Although the server gave them storage solution for media content, it fell short of Chukyo’s requirement for a better workflow solution in terms of working with the bin’s clip.
The solution After a long search for a better workflow solution, Mr. Masaki Kitaori, technical operations division of Chukyo TV, discovered EditShare while browsing the internet searching for information on NAS servers.
The discovery fuelled his interest to further investigate EditShare which lead him to discover the Japanese site of Silicon Studio Corporation, a partner reseller of EditShare in Japan. EditShare’s project sharing features got his attention and he promptly called Silicon Studio for a straight forward business dealing.
EditShare cut their dependence of SAN based server environment. They stopped the process of buying SAN storage for expanding their system and boldly picked EditShare as their future media contents storage, utilizing EditShare XStream with 32TB storage in RAID5 connection to HP Switch.
The workflow Chukyo-TV’s NLE environment is configured with 4 Avid MOJOs for ingesting and 12 Avid Media Composer editing suites for various programs’ editing. All 16 Avid systems are connected to EditShare XStream storage series via HP ProCurve 10Gb switch.
The benefit EditShare’s true project sharing features answered Chukyo’s needs of sharing the bin’s clip from one editor to another. Mr. Masaki Kitaori commented ‘This feature is a cool feature to us because it lessens our effort to copy the project clips and smooth the workflow process of the editors.’ He even appreciates the smooth installation of the EditShare storage and was surprise to the performance of the gigabit network that EditShare introduced.
At the recent NAB 2009, EditShare announced a technology partnership with ASSIMILATE, a leading developer of high-resolution and stereoscopic applications for the DI market. The new development combines the award winning EditShare shared storage solutions - XStream Series - with ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH Digital Process Solution, enabling real-time DPX and RED 4K workflows across DI and non DI post-production equipment. Benefits of this new integration offer the highly popular EditShare project sharing with unmatchable real-time performance for SCRATCH artists.
“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. The EditShare XStream is a key component in enabling DI production pipelines to be fully integrated and tapeless from acquisition to finishing,” said Andy Liebman, CEO and founder, EditShare.
EditShare XStream DI allows the entire facility to be connected, from ingest to delivery of the final cut. EditShare is agnostic to any specific manufacturer so the EditShare XStream has been engineered to work seamlessly with any application supporting 1 and 10GbE. EditShare XStream DI takes advantage of the PCI-e infrastructure to combine high data rate streams, such as DPX, with a large number of simultaneous video streams coupled with almost limitless storage capability.
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