UK Post-Production Company Clear Cut Group Selects EditShare

EditShare, LLC announced that UK post-production house Clear Cut Group, comprising of Clear Cut Pictures, The Edit Store and Clear Cut Nations and Regions, has placed its next gen media storage EFS at the center of their operation with FLOW workflows increasing the services offered to clients.

The post-production team is known for their creative work on original factual, drama, short form and feature films. Producing content for broadcasters, multiple co-productions, and OTT, the 24/7 operation boasts more than 120 edit suites on site and, since lockdown, has supported over 400 remote editors, clients and staff.

Noted for their flexible services, Clear Cut Group is building on its technology approach by adopting the EditShare platform, maintaining its ability to work at the demanding distributed post-production workflows. The vendor expands storage and opens doors to new service offerings and efficiencies that benefit clients.

“With EditShare, you are buying a storage solution with so much more,” comments Jess Nottage, technical director, Clear Cut Group. “It ticks all of the boxes in terms of reliability, performance and capability, but it’s the extras, designed to enhance the creative process that will make us stand out from our competitors. EditShare’s FLOW, EFS and File Auditing platforms, enable us to expand our service offering with innovative creative solutions that benefit our clients without compromising on security. It’s a media foundation to underpin our business.“

With more high-profile projects produced in 4K, EFS media engineered storage architecture and file auditing capability gives Clear Cut Group a scalable capacity and enterprise-grade security. Native OS drivers eliminate data bottlenecks, while file tracking provides a complete audit trail for content within the system, providing insight into users’ activities, including who accessed content, when they did it and where. With FLOW media management in action across all Clear Cut Group locations, the company has a new level of automation and remote capability that delivers new services for clients.

Clear Cut Group’s MD Rowan Bray explains: “We are only as good as our solutions we offer our clients. Every project is bespoke and thus, we approach each one uniquely. That uniqueness is inherent in EditShare products and people. EditShare is totally focused on creating fit for purpose solutions for its customers and a company where we feel we have a voice. This is more than a purchase, it’s a joint venture.“

Collaborating to #wintogether, the EditShare team worked with Clear Cut Group to ensure solutions and services supported the vision for the technical uplift with opportunities for future expansion through EditShare’s open APIs.

Nottage concludes: “Offering open APIs tells us a lot about the company and its culture. We are not locked in and that is attractive. If you want to do something, EditShare will enable it regardless of the vendor product with a can-do attitude.“

“We work with our customers on every level to ensure EditShare’s open solutions bring the resiliency they require to navigate the constant change in which they live,” states Robin Adams, VP EMEA sales, EditShare. “It’s a true partnership in which customers are empowered and feedback has a direct impact on product evolution to ensure EditShare delivers the industry’s best performing media management capabilities and open storage platform.“