EditShare Includes Flow Production Asset Management Plus Ark Backup and Archiving

At NAB 2012, EditShare LLC announced that all EditShare shared storage systems now include Flow production asset management capabilities plus Ark backup and archiving technology at no additional charge.

The new EditShare offering provides productions with a single performance collaborative storage infrastructure that includes tools to ingest and store media, log and organize content, and search, manage, archive, and retrieve assets.

"Since the introduction of our Flow and Ark products here at NAB three years ago, thousands of users have given us feedback that these tools are indispensable for managing their ever-growing volume of media," said Andy Liebman, founder and CEO, EditShare. "We are pleased to offer the very best of these asset management and archiving capabilities as a fundamental part of every EditShare storage system. Going forward, every EditShare production will have the advantage of a tapeless, collaborative, high-performance platform that defines the new generation of shared storage."

EditShare Tapeless Workflow
EditShare integrates performance shared storage solutions – XStream, Energy and the newly announced Atom – with video ingest (Geevs and Flow), media asset management (Flow), and archive (Ark), to offer broadcast and post-production professionals a productivity-enhancing, tapeless workflow on a scalable infrastructure. With capture, logging, searching, sequence creation, and project sharing, as well as archiving, the workflow becomes streamlined and more efficient. From start to finish, metadata and media are searchable and accessible from EditShare central storage or archives. Background processes are also transparent to users, allowing them to focus on their creative efforts.

Highlights of the EditShare Tapeless Workflow

At the heart of EditShare’s end-to-end workflow is performance shared storage that offers stream counts, scalability, and advanced Project Sharing with patented bin and project-locking capabilities. Lightworks, Avid, Final Cut Pro (v6/v7), and Adobe Premiere editors can see, copy, and revise the work of colleagues with the assurance that no bins, sequences, or projects will be accidentally deleted or overwritten.
Flow and Geevs record Avid DNxHD or ProRes direct to shared central storage and produce proxy files in real time, with user-level security, mirror copy, and automatic backup to EditShare Ark. During ingest, users can log shots, create subclips, and even create sequences that cut between inputs.
The Flow MAM allows users to view proxy file content on their desktops as well as ingest media from file-based sources such as P2 and XDCAM. Editing tools and metadata templates let users add details to clips, make rough cuts, and drag and drop clips and sequences into their NLEs – without requiring access to full-resolution media.
Ark Disk and Tape offer facilities a tiered storage infrastructure with nearline and offline archiving options and automation capabilities to keep media safe. The forthcoming Ark release shown this year at NAB promises that facilities can now migrate media between different tiers of storage. All Ark systems can scale to multiple petabytes, and when combined with Flow, they allows users to browse, delete, and restore (including partial restore) archived materials from any desktop on the EditShare network.

About the New Storage Configuration
Each EditShare storage model now comes with versions of Flow and Ark that are specifically optimized for the system’s hardware and processing power.

The new EditShare Atom includes: