Small Tree Provides Shared Storage Support to Artsis Media

Artsis Media, Inc., a service video production company in the New York Metro area, recently
received a 2013 New York Emmy Award for its work on 9/11, a Look Back – a documentary
commissioned by the New York Post to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the
terrorist attacks.

Working with New York Post photographer Matt McDermott to tell the
story, Michael Artsis, founder and owner of Artsis Media, relied on shared
storage technology from Small Tree
Communications, LLC to meet the project’s tight deadline.

"The memory of the tragic events
surrounding the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 will remain with
Americans forever and I was honored to have been chosen to work with Matt on
this project," Artsis said. "As
the video journalist, I was the camera person, producer, interviewer, lighting
technician, sound engineer and video editor, so the last thing I needed was to
worry about possible delays in post-production. Fortunately, we equipped our
facility with Small Tree shared storage a few years ago, so I knew performance
wouldn’t be an issue."

Artsis Media features a 24TB GraniteSTOR ST-RAID, an Ethernet-based shared
storage system from Small Tree, connected to each of the facility’s four
editing bays. While Artsis was working post-production for the 9/11
documentary, sharing the stunning images of courage and destruction that
unfolded that unforgettable day, the rest of his editing team also needed to
access content on the server for other client projects, making the storage
system’s mission critical.

"I shot all of this content on a
very tight deadline and couldn’t afford to lose any of the footage,"
Artsis recalled. "With the raw
emotion on the footage we captured during production, we knew there would be no
going back to reshoot anything should we lose something in
post-production. To know that I would be able to work long hours and
that no matter how hard I pushed the system I was not going to lose vital
content was a tremendous relief."

Using footage captured on a variety of Cannon DSLRs and GoPro cameras, Artsis
edited the entire documentary with Final Cut Studio 7 via his iMac connected to
Small Tree’s ST-RAID.

"We’ve had the ST-RAID at our
facility for more than two years and it has met every challenge,"
Artsis stated. "Not only is the
product fabulous, but the people behind the product are phenomenal as well. As
the owner of a small video production company, the type of support I know I’ll
receive from Small Tree takes a lot of burden off of me."