EditShare Shared Storage Solutions Compatible With Avid Media Composer v7.0

EditShare LLC announced that its shared storage family of products – XStream, Energy and Field 2 – is compatible with Avid Technology’s new Media Composer v7.0 release.

          EditShare XStream

"EditShare is at the center of many Avid workflows and workgroups, so keeping in step with Avid release cycles is an important part of our product development effort and overall commitment to open integration among industry technology providers," says Andy Liebman, founder and CEO, EditShare. "For EditShare customers, it will be a seamless transition from one Avid release to the next. Supported by EditShare v6.4.0.3, a free update for EditShare v6.x customers, Avid Media Composer 7 editors can continue to enjoy the same rich project and file sharing options we have provided since 2004."

Media and Project Sharing
Pioneering media sharing for production and post-production professionals, EditShare is a non-Avid solution to offer Avid Project Sharing and shared storage solution in the media and entertainment industry supporting 10GbE. EditShare offers true Project Sharing for Apple Final Cut Pro and delivers a portable shared storage solution with EditShare Field.

At NAB 2013, EditShare announced a development partnership with Adobe, providing deeper integration across the Creative Suite and Creative cloud product lines.

Support for Avid Media Composer v7.0
Across EditShare Tapeless Workflow
EditShare integrates high-performance shared storage solutions (XStream and Energy) with video ingest (Geevs and Flow), media asset management (Flow), and archive and backup (Ark) to offer broadcast and post-production professionals a productivity-enhancing, tapeless workflow on a scalable infrastructure.

Liebman continues: "Because EditShare systems are designed from the ground up for collaboration, releases such as Avid Media Composer 7 are supported across EditShare’s end-to-end tapeless workflow, providing a fluid production and post experience from ingest to archive."

Highlights of EditShare tapeless workflow
At the center of end-to-end workflow is high-performance shared storage that offers stream counts, infinite scalability, and advanced Project Sharing with patented bin and project-locking capabilities for Avid, Final Cut Pro (v7), Adobe Premiere Pro and Lightworks.

Flow and Geevs record Avid DNxHD, ProRes and other industry-standard codecs direct to EditShare central shared storage and produce proxy files in real time, with optional mirrored and automatic backup to EditShare Ark. During ingest, users can log shots and create sub-clips.

The Flow MAM allows users to view proxy file content on their desktops without requiring access to full-resolution media as well as ingest media from file-based sources such as P2 and XDCAM. Simple editing tools and metadata templates let users add information to clips, make rough cuts, and drag-and-drop clips and sequences into their NLEs.

Ark Disk and Tape offer facilities a tiered storage infrastructure with nearline and offline archiving and backup. Ark systems can scale to multiple petabytes and allow users to browse, delete and restore archived materials (including partial restore) from any desktop on the EditShare network.