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Video Production Company Consolidating Parsec and NAS Drives
Company Situation
The company operates within the video production industry, managing a diverse range of content creation projects. Their team includes local editors as well as remote editors who connect to office machines to perform editing tasks. Their scale involves multiple projects requiring coordinated workflows and management of large media assets.
Existing Workflow
Currently, the company uses a hybrid workflow combining local editing and remote access via Parsec, allowing remote editors to control on-premise machines for editing. Their storage infrastructure relies heavily on physical NAS drives, RAID arrays, and a mix of external SSDs and hard drives. Cloud storage is used minimally, primarily for content delivery through platforms like Frame and Vimeo.
Issues with the Existing Workflow
Remote editing via Parsec is prone to downtime if the local machine encounters errors or needs rebooting, especially when no one is physically present to resolve issues promptly.
This results in lost productivity, sometimes up to half or a full day per incident.
The current setup demands significant infrastructure and IT management overhead, complicating remote workflows.
Their storage is fragmented across multiple physical devices, limiting flexibility and collaboration.
They lack a consolidated platform for review, approval, metadata management, and secure company sharing integrated with their editing workflow.
How Shade Would Change Their Workflow
Shade offers a cloud-native solution that mounts a remote drive directly onto the user’s local computer, enabling seamless access to media without the need to download entire files upfront. This cloud NAS approach reduces dependency on physical hardware, allowing remote editors to work directly in the cloud with instant access and rapid file streaming tailored to the editing timeline’s needs. Shade integrates review and approval workflows, metadata tagging, and company sharing into a single platform, streamlining collaboration and asset management. By shifting to Shade, the company could eliminate downtime caused by local machine errors, reduce infrastructure management, and unify storage, editing, and delivery workflows.
Benefits
- Eliminates downtime from local machine failures by centralizing editing in the cloud.
- Enables real-time collaboration with multiple editors accessing shared projects simultaneously.
- Reduces IT overhead associated with managing physical storage and remote desktop connections.
- Provides built-in review, approval, and company sharing tools, replacing multiple disparate platforms.
- Offers advanced metadata management and powerful search capabilities to organize and locate assets quickly.
- Supports efficient streaming of media files, downloading only the necessary portions for editing playback, optimizing bandwidth use.
- Facilitates flexible, secure cloud storage that scales with project demands.
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