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Films at 59 Leverages Avid NEXIS | E5 for Advanced Production
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Buildings
- Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Virtual Reality
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Films at 59, a leading UK post house, was faced with the challenge of needing a flexible, expandable storage platform to support increasing frame rates, more complex formats, and a growing roster of activity. The company, which has grown organically alongside clients whose work spans all genres, from feature films to drama, natural history, daytime, and VR, needed a system that could accommodate increasingly more complex requirements and technically demanding productions. This included greater frame sizes and rates, as well as the capacity to expand to handle more projects while storing and managing ever higher volumes of media. The chosen storage platform needed to complement Films at 59’s existing workflow and third-party editing tools, and also support innovative new technologies like VR.
About The Customer
Films at 59 is the largest post house outside of London. They approach each project with equal parts passion and a goal to make productions run as smoothly as possible. They back that quality-driven attitude with technological innovation that allows clients to take advantage of cutting-edge pre- and post-production services, including virtual reality. Since its founding in 1990, the busy Bristol-based post house has grown organically alongside clients whose work spans all genres, from feature films to drama, natural history, daytime, and VR. Their history also includes a long relationship with Avid, from its days as an early adopter of Pro Tools, the S6 console, and Avid shared storage.
The Solution
Films at 59 chose to integrate Avid NEXIS | E5 into their workflow. This software-defined storage platform provided the collaboration capabilities, performance, power, and scalability needed to take Films at 59 into the future. The Avid NEXIS | E5 was integrated into an existing Avid-driven workflow that includes Media Composer, Pro Tools, and Interplay | MAM. The main challenge of the upgrade was selecting a storage platform to work reliably and efficiently with all systems, including Avid audio solutions and third-party editing tools. The team was pleased to experience better integration and improved performance with third-party systems as well as with sound. High shoot ratios and very large files, from acquisition to delivery, are creating a tremendous amount of media to track, access, share and manage. Through media management tools including Interplay, Films at 59 can now track media all the way through and easily manage and link from low res files to high res files.
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