Waterfront Film Studios, a studio in Cape Town which specialises in production and post-production of both movies and television for large broadcasters across the globe, has turned to Jasco Broadcast Solutions and the Avid ISIS 5500 in order to expand its capabilities and leverage the advantages of collaboration and shared storage.
Ivan Bridgens, owner of Waterfront Film Studios says, “Waterfront Film Studios is a fairly new company, having bought out the assets and premises of Collective Dream Studios in late 2013. We have been in the process of building our capabilities since then, and part of this required an upgrade to the existing technology in order to deal with an upcoming production for BBC Television. We needed to be able to connect our seven Avid studios with centralised online storage capability in order to leverage collaborative editing. The Avid ISIS 5500 was the ideal solution for our requirements.”
The Avid ISIS 5500 offers a centralised shared media storage platform which ensures protection of critical media assets along with superior performance and the ability to collaborate in the production and post-production environment. It offers scalability and value designed for smaller workgroups such as Waterfront Film Studios, where seven users will be accessing and collaborating on the system. This will not only assist Waterfront Film Studios to accelerate and optimise their workflows through collaborative editing, it will also help to optimise storage space. Using the Avid ISIS 5500 editors can now work together on a single copy of footage without the need to duplicate it multiple times.
“As we move further and further into the high-definition video space, storage is an increasing requirement. While the ISIS 5500 provides plenty of storage for Waterfront Film Studios’ needs, it also helps to optimise storage capacity by minimising the duplication of content required for multiple parties to work on footage. In addition it is highly scalable so it will continue to grow with their requirements into the future.’ says Paul Divall, managing director of Intelligent Technologies at Jasco.
