Wheaton Bible Church Selects Small Tree Titanium8

Often facing deadline lead times that are hours long, not days, Wheaton Bible Church‘s video-editing team shifted from portable USB drives to GraniteSTOR Titanium8, an Ethernet-based shared storage solution from Small Tree Communications LLC.

Located in the suburbs of Chicago, IL, Wheaton features a congregation of nearly 4,000 members spread across several different ministries. To maximize engagement with its congregation, it develops its own content, capturing video with a DLSR camera and editing across Adobe Creative Suite and Final Cut Pro. With an abundance of raw footage to edit and working against extreme deadlines, it needed an alternative to swapping files via USB HDDs across its workstations.

Shelton Thompson, technical director, Wheaton, reached out to Serial Scene, Inc., a Chicago based Small Tree partner, to provide consultation, system design and installation for the new Titanium8 shared storage system.

“Our operation is far more efficient since installing the Titanium,” Thompson said. “We’re not waiting on files to load in and out to keep our workflow moving. Most of our projects are last minute and we have to turn them around quickly to be ready for viewing, whether it’s for one of our services or our website.“

Featuring eight workstations consisting of iMacs, Macbook Pros, Mac Pros and a PC connected to the Titanium8, Wheaton’s editing team has been impressed by the Small Tree system’s simplicity and performance.

“We have so many people that can be jumping in and working on a video project – including a lot of volunteers – so it was important to have a solid solution that everyone could use,” Thompson stated. “On the performance side, we have a lot of raw footage, so Small Tree’s shared storage has been great for centralizing everything, bringing that cataloging feature we needed to find files quickly and access simultaneously.“