Video Post Production
Media production facility managers are battling cost and staffing challenges by adding inexpensive Apple Final Cut Pro edit stations to their traditional Avid edit environments, but they resist ownership and management of separate pools of storage for each application. The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the growing bandwidth and capacity requirements of mixed edit environments. The platform also empowers editors to share content and leverage sequences between Apple and Avid edit systems. While the Omneon platform provides robust ingest of a wide range of compressed video formats, facilities also can work with standard Avid, Apple, or third-party ingest tools. Transcoding and Web streaming applications also can employ the Omneon platform as central storage, further streamlining the storage topology.
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- Post Production Facilities
Broadcast
Broadcasters are battling cost and staffing challenges by adding Apple Final Cut Pro edit stations to their traditional Avid production environments. Journalists and program producers working with Final Cut Pro can streamline the process of getting news segments and programs to air. But even more critical to the overall efficiency of the production environment is a cohesive production storage strategy. Storage capacity and broadcast content must be easily shared.
The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the growing bandwidth and capacity requirements of mixed edit environments. And by supporting edit-in-place of all popular SD and HD compressed video formats, the platform also empowers editors to share content and leverage sequences between Apple and Avid edit systems. DVCPRO, IMX formats can be ingested into the platform in native QuickTime for immediate editing on Final Cut Pro. Also, XDCAM HD material ingested in MXF by the Omneon Spectrum media server can now be natively edited on Apple Final Cut Pro without rewrapping to QuickTime. All these formats can be converted and imported into the Avid environment. Alternatively, Apple and Avid ingest tools or third-party ingest devices can be deployed with the Omneon platform. Transcoding, transmission staging, and Web streaming applications integrate directly with the Omneon platform as central storage, further streamlining the storage topology.
Corporate Media
Corporate production facility managers are battling cost and staffing challenges by adding Apple Final Cut Pro edit stations to their traditional Avid edit environments, but they resist purchasing and managing separate islands of storage for each application. The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the growing bandwidth and capacity requirements of mixed edit environments. The platform also empowers editors to share content and leverage sequences between Apple and Avid edit systems. While the Omneon platform provides robust ingest of a wide range of compressed video formats, facilities also can work with standard Avid, Apple, or third-party ingest tools.
While many corporate video programs are now transmitted over private television networks, content is also delivered to employees and customers on-demand or streamed over the Internet. Transcoding and Web streaming applications integrate directly with the Omneon platform as central storage, further streamlining the storage topology and allowing future investment in infrastructure to be amortized across the entire production workflow.
Education
Media studies departments in universities, colleges and schools can reap tremendous benefits from centralized shared storage for editing. Loss of media is an ever present problem but it becomes even more heightened as the end of the grading period approaches. Centrally administered shared storage can greatly reduce the risk of data loss, while eliminating the administrative cost and headache of maintaining many make-shift local storage islands.
With the Omneon MediaGrid media storage and processing platform, administrators and educators can assign individual student workspaces, class material can be put in shared folders, source material can be made sharable or private, quotas can be assigned by student or project and the entire class can get by with a small number of ingest stations – greatly reducing video hardware costs. Students are password protected from each other and can only see their own media and the media that is meant to be shared. All the while, the teacher can review any student's work even when that student is working.
The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the bandwidth and capacity requirements of even large media departments. The platform also empowers schools to support Apple, Avid and Adobe edit systems.
Government
Government media production facility managers are battling cost and staffing challenges by adding Apple Final Cut Pro edit stations to their traditional Avid edit environments, but they resist ownership and management of separate pools of storage for each application. The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the growing bandwidth and capacity requirements of these mixed edit environments.
The platform empowers production groups to share content and leverage sequences between Apple and Avid edit systems. Operations can make the most use of large pools of cameramen and producers working with Final Cut Pro to performing simple or rough-cut edits on Apple Final Cut Pro. And then transition those edits and media to an Avid editor for finish editing. All the while the content stays in one place and is commonly accessible to the entire workgroup, if desired. Password protection allows projects to be shared or protected as appropriate.
While the Omneon platform provides robust ingest of a wide range of compressed video formats, facilities also can work with standard Avid, Apple, or third-party ingest tools. Transcoding and Web streaming applications also can employ the Omneon platform as central storage, further streamlining the storage topology.
Independent Production Companies
Independent production companies are finding that with the new compressed production formats from Apple (ProRes422) and Avid (DNxHD) that uncompressed is no longer the holy grail it once was. At the same time, more producers are becoming comfortable with finishing in Final Cut Pro. Combine this with the need to reduce infrastructure costs and increase efficiencies and it seems like the perfect time for a shared edit storage solution that can be leveraged across both Avid and Apple edit seats. And with the cost of 10Gig Ethernet dropping, the time is right to move to a much more manageable and scalable clustered 10GigE solution and begin the transition away from complex and limited SAN islands.
The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the bandwidth and capacity requirements of mixed edit environments. The platform also empowers editors to share content and leverage sequences between Apple and Avid edit systems. While the Omneon platform provides robust ingest of a wide range of compressed video formats, facilities also can work with standard Avid, Apple, or third-party ingest tools. Transcoding and Web streaming applications also can employ the Omneon platform as central storage, further streamlining the storage topology.
Network Service Providers
Broadcasters are battling cost and staffing challenges by adding Apple Final Cut Pro edit stations to their traditional Avid production environments. Journalists and program producers working with Final Cut Pro can streamline the process of getting news segments and programs to air. But even more critical to the overall efficiency of the production environment is a cohesive production storage strategy. Both storage capacity and broadcast content must be easily shared.
The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the growing bandwidth and capacity requirements of mixed edit environments. The Omneon platform, by supporting edit-in-place of all popular SD and HD compressed video formats, also empowers editors to share content and leverage sequences between Apple and Avid edit systems. DVCPRO and IMX formats can be ingested into the platform in native QuickTime for immediate editing on Final Cut Pro and can be imported and converted for use in Avids. Also, XDCAM HD material ingested in MXF by the Omneon Spectrum media server can now be natively edited on Apple Final Cut Pro without rewrapping to QuickTime. The same material can be converted and imported into the Avid environment on-the-fly. Alternatively, Apple and Avid ingest tools or third-party ingest devices can be deployed with the Omneon platform. Transcoding, transmission staging, and Web streaming applications integrate directly with the Omneon platform as central storage, further streamlining the storage topology.
Post Production Facilities
Post facilities are finding that with the new compressed production formats from Apple (ProRes422) and Avid (DNxHD) that uncompressed is no longer the holy grail it once was. At the same time, more projects budgets are Final Cut Pro sized. Combine this with the need to reduce infrastructure costs and increase efficiencies and it seems like the perfect time for a shared edit storage solution that can be leveraged across both Avid and Apple edit rooms. And with the cost of 10Gig Ethernet dropping, the time is right to move to a much more manageable and scalable clustered 10GigE solution and away from a complex and limited SAN solution.
The Omneon storage and processing platform provides centralized storage that can easily scale to meet the bandwidth and capacity requirements of mixed edit environments. The platform also empowers editors to share content and leverage sequences between Apple and Avid edit systems. While the Omneon platform provides robust ingest of a wide range of compressed video formats, facilities also can work with standard Avid, Apple, or third-party ingest tools. Transcoding and Web streaming applications also can employ the Omneon platform as central storage, further streamlining the storage topology.
