EditShare Ships Flow 2.0

EditShare LLC announced the availability of Flow 2.0, its asset management solution for building collaborative end-to-end media production workflows.

On display at the IBC exhibition, the new features of Flow 2.0 include: Edit-While-Capture, scanning non-Flow ingested media, bandwidth-controlled file-based ingest of XDCAM and P2 media, support for new codecs, sequence creation and pre-editing with drag and drop into NLEs, and integration with the EditShare backup and archiving solution, Ark.

"Flow removes the complexities of content and metadata management in production environments large and small, allowing you to be way more efficient and creative," says Andy Liebman, founder and CEO, EditShare. "In addition to tagging and tracking every piece of media that goes through your organization – as it travels from real-time storage to Ark backup and archiving devices – Flow 2.0 provides innovative tools that augment any production workflow. From custom logging templates for reality shows and sports, to Shared Projects, Bins and Sequences; with Flow 2.0," adds Liebman, "you can always find the media you’re looking for and have it when you need it."

Highlights of the New Flow 2.0
Increased Efficiency and Enhanced Productivity
from Ingest to Archive:

• Edit-While-Capture: In addition to the current ‘chunking’ feature, Avid and QuickTime users can now ingest with Flow and begin editing on their NLE timeline within seconds. Clips expand in the background while you continue to edit.
• Bandwidth-Controlled File-Based Ingest: Flow 2.0 introduces bandwidth-controlled file-based ingest, with support for P2, XDCAM, XDCAM EX, and XDCAM HD formats. Users can maintain video in its native codec or transcode to a different codec – while simultaneously generating proxy files during ingest. In addition, administrators can control the aggregate bandwidth of transfers to ensure that neither the network nor storage will be overwhelmed during multiple, simultaneous file-based ingests.
• Format Support: Flow now supports the P2, XDCAM, XDCAM EX, and XDCAM HD formats for both file-based ingest and HD/SD-SDI ingest.
• Ganged Capture: Ingest multiple channels in sync with the click of a button. Metadata is automatically populated across all channels to provide fast workflows, which is ideal for reality or sports environments.
• Batch Capture and Scheduled Ingest Imports from Templates: Schedule your ingests with a simple template that can be imported directly into Flow. The new templates support batch capture with multiple tapes or scheduled live ingests – including to multiple codecs.
• Flow Scan Options: Flow 2.0 adds manual or scheduled scanning of non-Flow media stored on EditShare shared storage systems. Flow then adds the scanned clips into the Flow database, while making low-res proxy files in the background.
• Bins and Sequences: Flow Browse users can now create Projects, Bins, and Sequences for pre-editing and shot selection. Sequences can be edited and trimmed, and dragged directly into Avid or FCP.
• Flow Logger Enhancements: Custom logging templates with pre-defined metadata can be created to provide an intuitive logging interface. Flow Logger supports logging of live feeds or existing media files.
• Ark Integration: Search and browse all archived content, whether it exists on disk or tape. Proxy files allow users to work with content and then retrieve the original files for use with an NLE.

About the EditShare Flow Product Line
EditShare Flow consists of Flow Ingest, Flow Browse, Flow Logger, and Flow Scan.

Flow Ingest supports a range of codecs and wrappers, including Avid MXF and Apple QuickTime formats. Flow’s ability to encode simultaneously in 2 high-resolution formats and a proxy eliminates the need for background transcoding and proxy generation after capture.

Flow Browse is a cross-platform application that gives users access to all content stored on their EditShare shared storage and Ark systems. With intuitive organizational features, such as Bins and Sequences, assistants or editors can pre-edit material before they even reach the edit bay. Clips and sequences can be dragged from Flow Browse directly into a bin within the NLE, providing a fast and intuitive means of managing large amounts of data.

The new Flow Logger application offers customizable templates with pre-defined metadata fields that are ideal for productions, such as reality TV and live sporting events. Customized metadata fields, such as names of contestants, sports players, or predefined content to describe actions and story lines, provide an intuitive interface for logging either live feeds or existing media files.

The new Flow Scan application adds media files that have not been captured with Flow Ingest into the Flow database, while also creating low-res proxy files. Within seconds after capturing media with an NLE, users can view and browse the media in Flow Browse.

EditShare Flow
Advanced Media Asset Management Highlights:

• Universal Media File Support: EditShare Universal Media File provides a single file format that can be used by a wide range of editors and compositors, including Avid and Final Cut Pro.
• Exclusive Integration with Automatic Duck: Thanks to our exclusive partnership with Automatic Duck, when you work with Universal Media Files, you can translate sequences back and forth between Avid and Final Cut Pro, and all of your media will simply link up – no transcoding, duplicating, or re-rendering required.
• Multi-Channel Capture: Each Flow Ingest Server can capture up to  two channels of HD-SDI or four channels of SD-SDI, and the number of ingest channels can easily be scaled up at any time by adding more Ingest Server chassis.
• Multi-Format Support: Input from each HD/SD-SDI channel can be saved in up to two formats, plus a low- res proxy, simultaneously.
• Centralized Ingest: One location for all media input. No tying up an edit bay. Ingest material straight to your EditShare Media Space.
• Customizable Logging Templates: Configurable Flow Logger templates standardize content logging, providing a fast and intuitive workflow – ideal for fast-paced reality shows and sports events.
• Search and Access all Your Media Assets: With its powerful search engine, Flow Browse allows you to see all of the material stored on your EditShare shared storage or Ark servers without tying up an edit bay.
• Metadata Management: Display and edit clip metadata, including customizable fields.
• Shot Selections: Set in and out points of a clip outside the editing application, organizing them into Bins or Sequences, which can then be directly dragged to an NLE.
• Sub-clip Creation & Drag and Drop: Break long clips into smaller sub clips; drag and drop media directly into Avid and Final Cut Pro bins.