Broadcast Media Team Streamlining Remote Editing with Frame.io

The company operates within the broadcast media production industry, managing multiple broadcast studios and supporting a diverse team including motion graphics artists, editors, digital teams, and technical staff. Their workflow involves handling large volumes of high-quality video content captured from multi-camera recordings, live broadcasts, and interviews. The team is distributed across several locations, requiring robust collaboration and data management solutions to support both in-house and remote contributors.

Currently, the company relies heavily on on-premises storage infrastructure, specifically a Storage Area Network (SAN), to house the large volumes of creative data generated. Remote access and collaboration are facilitated through VPN connections to this on-prem storage. For external collaboration and review workflows, they use Frame.io on an enterprise plan, which includes multi-factor authentication and enhanced security features, but is limited to a small number of user licenses.

The company faces several key challenges: - **Remote Work Limitations:** Editors and creatives struggle to perform end-to-end work remotely due to limited and cumbersome VPN access to on-prem storage. - **High Licensing Costs:** The current external collaboration tool is expensive, with significant licensing fees (around £5,000 per year) for only a handful of users, restricting wider team access. - **Storage Overhead & Duplication:** Managing and consolidating storage across multiple creative teams is complex, with risks of duplicate files and data sprawl, especially given the large data volumes from lengthy live events. - **Scalability Concerns:** The on-prem SAN has grown significantly (50TB used in three years), raising questions about future capacity and whether cloud workflows should be embraced to enhance collaboration and efficiency.

Shade offers a cloud-native, cloud-first platform designed to unify search, access, and sharing of creative assets through a single interface. By integrating Shade, the company could: - Enable seamless remote working capabilities for all editors and creatives without relying solely on VPN connections. - Provide broader and more cost-effective collaboration access to internal teams and external freelancers or companies. - Reduce storage overhead by consolidating data management and eliminating duplicate assets through centralized control. - Leverage cloud workflows to complement on-prem storage, focusing cloud use on collaboration rather than primary storage, allowing the company to maximize existing investments while evolving their infrastructure.