Media Production Company Consolidating Lucid Link and Adobe Premiere Productions

The company operates within the media production industry, managing multiple video projects simultaneously. Their team includes both in-house and remote editors, along with external collaborators such as trailer houses and companies. The company’s leadership and contributors are geographically distributed, necessitating a flexible and secure workflow to handle growing project demands.

Currently, the company uses a combination of Lucid Link for transferring footage to remote editors, hard drives or proxies for editing, Adobe Premiere Productions for collaborative workflows, and Frame.io for review and delivery. They also rely on remote access tools like Jump and TeamViewer to support their distributed teams. Archival and asset management are handled manually, including renaming clips for EDL (Edit Decision List) compatibility. The workflow involves switching between multiple platforms to complete the full post-production process.

- High costs associated with Frame.io seats, especially as the number of projects and collaborators increases. - Security concerns around sharing credentials to reduce seat costs, risking unauthorized access to sensitive projects. - Inefficiencies in managing multiple tools and platforms for different stages (transfer, editing, review, delivery). - Manual and time-consuming archival processes, including renaming assets for proper usage tracking and payment. - Reliance on high internet speeds (e.g., gigabit connections) to stream proxies effectively, limiting flexibility for remote editors. - Growing volume of projects (10-15 in development, with 2-5 active post-production projects at any time) stressing current tools and workflows.

Shade offers an integrated platform designed to consolidate the entire post-production pipeline—from camera ingest, coloring, to post delivery and review—into a single solution. It enables direct streaming of footage to familiar file explorers on editors’ devices without requiring ultra-high-speed internet. Shade also provides AI-powered search and automated labeling and annotation of assets to streamline archival and metadata management, reducing manual work. Its robust user and security controls allow granular access management without the need to share credentials, lowering risk and cost. By replacing multiple tools like Lucid Link, Frame.io, and remote desktop applications with Shade, the company can simplify their tech stack and improve collaboration across internal and external teams.