London-based post house Clear Cut Pictures has updated its storage capabilities with help from EditShare.
The company wanted to replace its shared storage with a solution that would consolidate all of its needs into one, and so chose EditShare’s EFS-450 storage across its central London facilities.
“We started with 1.2 petabytes of storage, which was a vast uplift on what we used to have,” explains Jess Nottage, group operations and technical director at Clear Cut Group. “We continue to expand, and we have identical installations in separate Clear Cut Pictures facilities in London linked to all London sites via our dark fibre network.
“Customised synchronisation routines back projects up from one site to the other. If one site failed completely, the other would be instantly available with an up to date synced copy of project and media.”
Group managing director Rowan Bray added: “Today we see huge amounts of data coming in: shooting on multiple cameras and fixed rigs, in mixed formats, mixed frame rates and mixed resolutions. Clients have 10 or 15 edit suites hanging off the same media, accessing the same footage – this is clever stuff!”
When Clear Cut Pictures expanded the storage capabilities of their twin High Availability EFS-450 installations — these included dual metadata controllers for resilience allowing the system to survive the loss of a metadata controller or a storage node without any operational impact.
The new system was designed and installed by EditShare channel partner, Jigsaw 24 Media.
