NAB: OpenDrives Reveals NAS With Media Accelerator Integration for Adobe Premiere Pro CC

OpenDrives LLC announced that its NAS solutions have launched with a proprietary media accelerator integrated with the Adobe Premiere Pro CC video editing software, a component of Adobe Creative Cloud.

The company’ product range includes Summit, an hybrid product employing both a spinning drive for primary storage and a large flash-based cache layer media accelerator (OmniDrive), available in both 1.6TB and 3.2TB configurations.

The upgraded release of the firm solutions’ media accelerator employs NVMe technology, the fast form of flash storage and twice as fast as the SSD technology previously used. Working with the company, entire teams of Adobe Premiere users can point their project files, database peek-in cache and media cache to Media Accelerator, allowing them to collaborate in real-time with improved loading, scrubbing and other operational performance. Early test results are striking: in comparing project load times employing competitive offerings versus the firm’s products with the media accelerator show, load times were reduced from an average of 7.5mn to about 10s.

This low latency is due to its loading all waveforms and peek-in cache files from their Media Accelerator, resulting in improved performance across the board. In typical post-production environments, separate users are required to build their own local copy of a project that a primary high-end workstation has on its local storage. With the firm solutiond’s, all users point their respective working directory, temporary folders and peek-in cache to the OmniDrive Media Accelerator, resulting in faster access times both in terms of latency and throughput.

“As post-production workflows continue to evolve, increased speed and performance are often required by customers in the media and entertainment industry,” said Sue Skidmore, head, partner relations, Adobe, Inc. “We are delighted to see the performance boost that the OpenDrives OmniDrive media accelerator gives to even the most demanding Adobe Premiere Pro customers around the world.“

“We are excited to see customers use OpenDrives’ OmniDrive and realize the speed increases in their workflows,” said Scot Gray, principal product manager, OpenDrives. “Adobe Premiere is a gold-standard creative solution and we’re proud to enhance its benefits by boosting operational speeds over 10X versus alternative storage solutions. The collaboration with Adobe demonstrates OpenDrives’ immense value to both companies’ customers, offering an alternative to expensive SANs and dedicated RAIDs. We look forward to supporting Adobe Premiere workflows for years to come.“