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UNIQUE EDITSHARE INNOVATION EditShare products are more than just shared storage – they are workflow engineered collaboration solutions that incorporate forward-thinking features to accelerate production, reduce costs, and leave more time for creativity. These innovations put EditShare technology a quantum leap ahead of its peers. True Project Sharing for Editors EditShare understands that “complete collaboration” requires more than just sharing media files. Therefore all EditShare storage solutions also give you the ability to share project files. Thanks to EditShare’s patented bin-locking / project locking framework, Avid and Final Cut Pro editors can instantly see, copy or revise the work of colleagues with the assurance that a bin, sequence or project will never get accidentally deleted or overwritten. EditShare is the only non-Avid solution that offers Project Sharing for Avid applications. And we are also the only solution – period – that offers simple straightforward project sharing for Final Cut Pro. Scalability Made Simple A natural question everyone asks when they consider shared storage solutions is: “Can the system grow as my needs grow?” EditShare gives you two ways to expand – up, and out. With our XStream product line, you can always add additional expansion chassis to a single “workflow director”, increasing the size of an individual server to over 200 TB. However, all EditShare systems also include our exclusive Extreme Scalable Architecture (ESA) technology. With ESA, when you plug an entirely new EditShare server into your network, it works together with previous servers as if they’re all in the same giant storage system. Administrators manage all EditShare servers through a single unified GUI. And thanks to our Windows and Mac OS X Login Clients, users won’t even be aware that there are multiple servers on the network. Universal Media File Technology EditShare’s patent-pending Universal Media File technology allows Avid and Final Cut Pro users to work with the exact same media files. Even though the two NLEs natively use different file formats – MXF and MOV – when you create media files with EditShare Flow, a single file can appear as if it’s in both formats. Flow lets you make Universal Media Files when you ingest from HD/SDSDI sources or when you transfer file-based media from XDCAM or P2. And you can even scan and process some of your existing media files and make them “Universal”. If you run a news or teaching operation, you can ingest one set of files and then anyone can use them no matter which editing program they prefer. Universal MOVs are also compatible with other applications such as Premiere Pro, EDIUS, After Effects, and Lightworks. And thanks to our exclusive partnership with Automatic Duck, when you work with Universal Media Files, you can now translate sequences back and forth between Avid and Final Cut Pro and all your media will just link up – no transcoding, duplicating, or rerendering required. Advanced Edit While Capture While a number of other ingest solutions may allow you to start capturing a videotape or video feed and then drag your new clip into an NLE timeline while the underlying files are still growing. EditShare Flow takes the technology one step further. Not only does Flow support Edit While Capture for both Avid and QUickTIme formats, but Flow even lets you capture both formats at the same time. Plus, when you are working in a supported codec, Flow allows you to create Universal Edit While Capture clips that you can drag into virtually any NLE. Administration Features for Big Organizations When you have to manage the storage infrastructure for a large media organization – such as a university film and TV program – the ability to add and remove user accounts and set up, resize and remove storage spaces is paramount. That’s why EditShare has developed a number of tools specifically for large organizations. These tools include the ability to create “User Groups” within the EditShare system. EditShare supports Active Directory for password synchronization. And, using our Configuration Import Tool, you can easily lay out all your user accounts and spaces in a spread sheet. You can then import the spreadsheet into EditShare Manager, and in seconds your system will be set up for a new semester or year. Sync Tool for Moving Media Across Oceans Many EditShare customers – from movie studios to government organizations – have offices in multiple cities or countries. And many need their production staffs to collaborate between the various facilities. To help make this possible, EditShare developed the Sync Tool – a feature included with every EditShare Storage system. Whether you have your own a private network or you use a VPN, with the Sync Tool you can schedule huge amounts of data to be copied automatically between locations. Media that’s added on one side just shows up on the other – with minimal administrator intervention. Bandwidth-Controlled File Ingest Media organizations are increasingly making the transition from videotape to XDCAM and P2. While this has vastly simplified production, it has created a challenge for shared storage systems. What happens when 20 reporters come in from the field at the same time to start preparing for the news and they all want to transfer media off their cards and discs? Without any controls, all those file transfers could interfere with editing and overwhelm both the network and the central storage. EditShare’s solution is Bandwidth Controlled File-based Ingest. Depending on your network and storage setup, the EditShare administrator simply sets a maximum aggregate bandwidth allowed for file-ingest and Flow takes care of the rest – evenly dividing the bandwidth between all the Flow clients. When only a few editors are transferring media, the data will move as fast as it can come off the cards. But when required, the transfer rate automatically rebalances to reflect the new demands. Economical Failover No matter how robust your storage system, there’s always the possibility it might suddenly become unavailable. You could have a fire or flood in your machine room. You might have a catastrophic hardware failure. We even have two customers whose systems were stolen in the middle of the night. That’s why backing up critical or irreplaceable material is always a good idea. But EditShare takes backups one step further. When you backup to an economical EditShare Ark Disk system, should your primary storage go down, you can “activate” your Ark Disk and allow it to stand in temporarily for the missing server. Within minutes, your editors can be up and running again to complete mission critical projects.