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 | EditShare and Automatic Duck Streamline Shared Workflows Between Avid and Final Cut Pro
Boston, MA – April 20, 2009 -- EditShare®, the technology leader in
cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems,
announced today it has partnered with Automatic Duck to solve workflow
productivity issues for postproduction facilities and editing workgroups collaborating on shared media files across disparate editing platforms.
As a result of this technology partnership, EditShare is integrating
key timeline translation technology from Automatic Duck's Pro Import
FCP and Pro Export FCP solutions into EditShare's Flow Universal Media
File technology. EditShare's unique Universal Media File technology
allows a single media file to be used simultaneously by Apple and Avid
editors. The resulting integration enables mixed Avid and Final Cut
editing environments to instantly access and edit media files, with
entire timelines in tact, from a single pool of media files. This
development eliminates the time-intensive, productivity draining process
of exporting, re-linking, re-connecting, transcoding and re-importing
media - a workflow typical in multi-platform, collaborative environments.
This is a tremendous time saver; enhancing overall collaboration.
The newly integrated solution will be demonstrated at NAB 2009 (April
20 to 23 in Las Vegas, NV) on the EditShare stand (SL6420).
"Many facilities feel they have to choose which editing application
they go with. This strategy limits the talent pool as editors are
typically aligned with one application over another. The new Automatic
Duck and EditShare integration means that editors can build mixed
application environments without the limitations of proprietary systems,"
explains Andy Liebman, President and founder of EditShare "Under the
new workflow, the senior editor can work on Avid while the assistant
editor logs projects on Final Cut. No extra steps needed to edit the
same media. You can truly use the editing application you want to,".
"There's a simple reality facing editors - editing applications don't
talk to each other, and we created Automatic Duck to solve that issue,"
added Wes Plate, president of Automatic Duck. "EditShare was founded
on a similar premise; there was no easy way for editors in a workgroup
to share media files. Partnering with EditShare on this initiative
enables us to build on our original vision, taking the notion of simplifying workflows between applications and extending that value to the collaborative, shared media workgroup environment."
EditShare Complete Collaboration The Storage and XStream Series are
part of the EditShare Complete Collaboration line of products which
provide shared media and collaborative workflows – from ingest through
production to archive. In addition to the Storage Series and XStream
Series, the Complete Collaboration line includes EditShare FLOW and
EditShare Ark.
Designed for the industry's leading editing and compositing products
from Adobe, Apple, Assimilate, Autodesk, Avid, Digidesign, Digital
Vision, and Sony, EditShare storage servers, including the ultra-performance XStream series, allow all connected workstations to capture, access
and share in real time a common pool of media files. Regardless of
application or platform, source material, work in progress and finished
packages are shared and instantly available to all users on the EditShare
network. EditShare is also the only solution that provides full Project
Sharing among both Apple and Avid editing workgroups. EditShare servers
connect via Gigabit or 10 Gigabit ethernet.
FLOW Ingest captures up to four channels of media and associated metadata,
storing each channel in up to three formats simultaneously and outputting
a proxy for fast retrieval. No background transcoding is required and
files are available immediately for editing. EditShare's unique Universal
Media File technology allows ingested media to be shared and used by
editors working on both Avid and Apple editing applications.
FLOW Browse simplifies media cataloging, search and retrieval within
EditShare shared storage environments. Users can quickly locate media
among hundreds of thousands of clips on the EditShare media spaces.
>From FLOW Browse, users can update metadata, log clips, and drag and
drop media to Avid and FCP bins.
FLOW Ingest and Browse are fully integrated with EditShare's Storage
Series as well as the ultra-performance XStream Series for high-volume,
high-demand environments.
EditShare Ark provides a full range of very cost effective, disk-based
solutions for backup, mirroring and archiving needs. While Ark systems
are not generally usable for realtime editing, in a crisis situation
where something has happened to a facility's main EditShare storage,
Ark Disk Based Storage can be "activated" and used to complete mission
critical work while the primary storage is repaired.
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