DataDirect Networks Case Studies Accelerate: Media Workflows

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Accelerate: Media Workflows

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Digital Twin
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, Canada's largest university-based center for the study of film animation, film production, and film studies, faced several challenges. The school needed to update its aging workflows, moving from 90% film-oriented workflows to a 99% digital landscape. The technical support team was very limited in staffing. Multiple buildings on campus needed connectivity with third-party switches. Different client operating systems were attached to a single pool of storage. Read More
About Customer	Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University is located in Montréal, Québec. It is Canada’s largest university-based center for the study of film animation, film production, and film studies. The school admits 250 undergraduate and graduate students each year. The school has two digital cinemas on-site; one with a Barco projector and the other with a Christie projector, both requiring Digital Cinema Packages for screening. The school's environment is now 99% digital. Read More
Solution	The school implemented a Rohde & Schwarz Turnkey Video and Storage Solution powered by DDN Technology. This solution allowed students to focus on creativity rather than worrying about the technology. It also enabled students to be immediately productive with experience in the best color correction, cameras, DCP, and deliverable technologies when hired by top production houses. The solution also allowed students to work on their 3D, 2K, and 4K media files directly from the SAN at lightning-fast speeds. The Clipster feature enabled support of the majority of camera RAW files format in real-time or faster, correction of metadata errors in media, and rapid transcoding to any delivery format. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Digital Twin

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, Canada's largest university-based center for the study of film animation, film production, and film studies, faced several challenges. The school needed to update its aging workflows, moving from 90% film-oriented workflows to a 99% digital landscape. The technical support team was very limited in staffing. Multiple buildings on campus needed connectivity with third-party switches. Different client operating systems were attached to a single pool of storage.

About Customer

Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University is located in Montréal, Québec. It is Canada’s largest university-based center for the study of film animation, film production, and film studies. The school admits 250 undergraduate and graduate students each year. The school has two digital cinemas on-site; one with a Barco projector and the other with a Christie projector, both requiring Digital Cinema Packages for screening. The school's environment is now 99% digital.

Solution

The school implemented a Rohde & Schwarz Turnkey Video and Storage Solution powered by DDN Technology. This solution allowed students to focus on creativity rather than worrying about the technology. It also enabled students to be immediately productive with experience in the best color correction, cameras, DCP, and deliverable technologies when hired by top production houses. The solution also allowed students to work on their 3D, 2K, and 4K media files directly from the SAN at lightning-fast speeds. The Clipster feature enabled support of the majority of camera RAW files format in real-time or faster, correction of metadata errors in media, and rapid transcoding to any delivery format.

Impact #1	The intelligent caching delivers consistent high performance for both throughput and high IOPS applications.
Impact #2	What used to take 10 hours to copy files now only takes minutes.
Impact #3	Users are able to render media files at 70-80 fps.

Impact #1

The intelligent caching delivers consistent high performance for both throughput and high IOPS applications.

Impact #2

What used to take 10 hours to copy files now only takes minutes.

Impact #3

Users are able to render media files at 70-80 fps.

Benefit #1	Accelerated workflow while simultaneously decreasing storage footprint, power, and cooling.

Benefit #1

Accelerated workflow while simultaneously decreasing storage footprint, power, and cooling.

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Accelerate: Media Workflows

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