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Sports Documentary Company Collaborating on Football Content
Company Situation
The company is a sports documentary production company specializing in football content. Their team includes multiple editors who collaborate on large video projects linked to sports leagues and federations. They handle high volumes of video assets coming from various clubs and vendors, requiring coordination across several users working remotely.
Existing Workflow
Currently, the company receives video assets primarily through cloud platforms used by sports federations (such as Sony CI). Editors download these assets, create proxies, and edit using Adobe Premiere. The team stores all project data and raw footage on physical hard drives instead of centralized digital storage. For final delivery, they use platforms like Frame.io to share assets with companies.
Issues with the Existing Workflow
Heavy reliance on physical hard drives to store and share massive video files, which creates logistical challenges.
Difficulty in enabling multiple editors to simultaneously access and work on the same project remotely.
Manual duplication and shipping of hard drives slows down project timelines and increases risk of data loss or version confusion.
Lack of a centralized, cloud-based system limits real-time collaboration and efficient asset management.
How Shade Would Change Their Workflow
Shade would provide a cloud-based centralized storage system tailored for large media files, allowing all editors to log in and work concurrently on the same projects without the need for physical hard drives. It would streamline the ingestion, management, and distribution of video assets from various vendors. Shade’s remote collaboration tools and asset management capabilities would unify the workflow, enabling the team to store proxies and final media securely online, accessible from anywhere.
Benefits
- Eliminates the need to ship and manage physical hard drives, reducing logistics and potential data loss.
- Enables simultaneous multi-user access and collaboration on projects in real time.
- Centralizes all media assets in the cloud, improving organization and version control.
- Accelerates project turnaround times by simplifying asset sharing and editing workflows.
- Enhances scalability with high-capacity cloud storage (e.g., 10 terabytes or more) tailored to video production needs.