Due to increased workload, Fancy Film Post Services was able to expand its
capability with the installation of the TitaniumZ-16 shared storage system from
Small Tree. The Ethernet-based shared storage solution was a major difference
maker for Fancy Film on one of its most recent films – Battered Bastards of
Baseball. Shown at Sundance, the movie was picked up within 12 hours by
Netflix, but immediate changes were required before it would air as a Netflix
Original. Working off the TitaniumZ, the facility’s finishing team was able to handle
full studio delivery in-house while meeting Netflix’s strict standards.
“We’re a little bit unique in that we don’t do a lot of offline editorial, so we don’t
always need multiple access to media files,’ said Bill Macomber, CEO/CTO for Fancy
Film. “However, when a project heats up, such as Battered Bastards of
Baseball, we need a bunch of people to jump on at once for a collaborative
effort. That wasn’t possible until we had the TitaniumZ in our studio.’
Capable of supporting numerous multimedia content creation workstations with a
highly flexible mix of Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet configuration options,
TitaniumZ is designed and tested to provide maximum performance for real-time
video-editing workflows. With its Tier 1 configuration, Small Tree TitaniumZ can
scale to 288TB raw in RAID5. With the addition of its more cost-effective Tier 2
back-up NAS configuration, the TitaniumZ can easily provide another 432TB on the
network.
“We’ve built up our drive to 95 percent capacity and have not noticed a speed
slowdown,’ Macomber continued. “With TitaniumZ’s dynamic data set we never
have to worry about how much data we expect a project is going to use – it’s been
a revolutionary thing for us. It gives us a lot more flexibility and ups our
organisational game. We wouldn’t be able to do the amount of work that we’ve done
over the past year without switching to the TitaniumZ.’
