Canadian Proper Television Expands EditShare System

EditShare LLC, in shared media storage and end-to-end tapeless workflow solutions, announced that Proper Television, Inc., one of Canada’s most in-demand creators of reality and documentary programming, has expanded its system with the purchase of additional EditShare storage and products.

The new additions deliver tiered storage for online, backup and archive, and provide production asset management for the busy Toronto facility. One hundred terabytes of additional EditShare XStream storage expands production capacity to 164TB.

In addition, Proper Television is now implementing a tiered storage environment, deploying 164TB of EditShare Ark Disk as nearline storage and Ark Tape for long-term LTO archiving. EditShare Flow asset management works in conjunction with Ark Disk and Ark Tape, facilitating fast search, proxy viewing and restoration.

As a freelance production company with 31 Avid edit stations, Proper Television produces a constant stream of reality and factually-based series for the likes of Discovery Channel, History Channel, and others. Canada’s Worst Driver, Last Car Standing, and Come Dine with Me Canada are some of their popular titles.

"We’ve been long-time EditShare customers and it’s been easy to scale up our EditShare storage as our business has grown," says Rusty Miller, technical supervisor, Proper Television. "Of course, reliability is paramount because we’re doing so many quick-turnaround series that involve multiple cameras per episode. We can’t afford any downtime and EditShare has proven rock-solid in handling an incredibly heavy volume of media and intense editing. Beyond performance, you get tremendous value for what you pay because you get excellent service. The EditShare technical people really know what they’re doing."

"It’s very gratifying to see so many customers like Proper Television add more storage as well as other EditShare products to their workflows. It confirms their confidence in us as we continue to improve and evolve our products to meet the most demanding live and post-production scenarios," says Andy Liebman, founder and CEO, EditShare.

The EditShare system is the backbone of Proper Television’s post operations. Miller looks forward to using the new Flow for asset management. He expects it to be especially helpful for finding and bringing in content from EditShare Ark when they are moving from season to season and they need to cull material from earlier episodes. The Ark Disk system provides nearline backup of valuable content during the production cycle.

"It provides a secure safety net that doesn’t interfere with our editors," Miller explains. "And then we can do long-term archiving with Ark Tape and keep it on the shelf forever."