Karga Seven Pictures Chooses EditShare

EditShare LLC announced that Karga Seven Pictures has purchased
a suite of EditShare products that will improve workflow and save time
and resources for the Los Angeles-based post-production facility.

The system includes a 32TB Energy Series storage server, EditShare Flow for
ingest, browsing and logging, and EditShare Ark Tape for backup.

Karga 7 will realize a more efficient and cohesive production chain
encompassing Avid, Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro edit suites.
Users will have better media organization, improved and access to
production media, integrated tape-based archiving, and project sharing
capabilities in the unified EditShare environment.

Karga 7 has produced hundreds of hours of programming domestically and across
the globe.

Joshua Lamb, the new Head of Post Production at Karga 7, says the
deployment of the EditShare system will replace a cumbersome collection of
isolated islands of production.

"Every editor currently has his own
drives and they constantly have to be synched and manually copied every night,"
explains Lamb. "It wastes a huge
amount of time – and it definitely cuts into our creative time. AEs are
performing redundant tasks instead of working with the creative cut. We also
spend additional hours copying off dailies for the writers. Once the EditShare
centralized storage is in place, everyone who needs access to the video for
viewing, logging, annotation and editing will have access as soon as the
footage hits the server. I have worked with EditShare before and appreciate the
system reliability as well as the flexibility of managing different NLEs and
multiple formats. I know first-hand how it can free up talent and technical
resources so we can maximize our time."

"EditShare is all about
adding productivity and efficiency to the production process. We’re delighted
that Karga 7 will soon be leveraging all of its creative energies within an
EditShare environment," says Andy Liebman, founder and president of
EditShare. "There is no other
solution on the market that offers such high-performance storage along with
such seamlessly integrated asset management and archiving tools – and all at a
remarkably reasonable price. When Karga 7 looks back a couple of years from
now, we’re sure they will be very pleased with their return on investment."

EditShare storage enables the collaborative process and provides
shared access to assets and projects. The ingest and media asset management
capabilities of Flow give the team fast search, browse,
logging and edit capabilities of any media stored in the server or on
Ark Tape, which provides a reliable and secure way to archive all of their
media.

The EditShare Energy series provides centralized storage with
workflow-engineered tools that streamline the workflow. It offers performance and stream counts with standard GbE and
10GbE connectivity, Linux-based reliability, and RAID-5 and
RAID-6 redundancy.

Management tools simplify administration and
maintenance for the largest operations. Flow for ingest and
asset management makes it easy for users to find and access content and add
information. Flow Ingest includes ‘edit while capture’ capability
that allows editing seconds after ingest begins; Universal Media File
technology that permits Avid and QuickTime-compatible NLEs to use the exact
same media files; and bandwidth-controlled file-based ingest that ensures the
network and storage won’t get overwhelmed if many users are transferring clips
from P2 or XDCAM cards at the same time.

Ark Tape completes the production chain by providing an integrated,
affordable and secure LTO backup system to preserve media and project files.