CAPTURE, a specialist remote workflow division of award-winning post-production house ENVY, delivers on-location recording and media management services for rig productions, powered by Cinegy Capture and Cinegy Multiviewer.
Thanks to Cinegy, ENVY has created highly mobile, compact on-location post-production kits that are far smaller than would otherwise be possible. These ENVY CAPTURE mobile rig kits include hardware custom-designed to operate efficiently with minimal crew and are very accepting of environmental conditions. Each kit creates high-resolution and proxy versions of incoming video feeds for edit-ready media, eliminating the need for backup and ingest workflows in the field.
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When designing a storage system for a production or post facility, it is easy to concentrate on capacity and throughput, and think that is all you need. However, a very real issue is data safety and how to guard against it. That is a particular problem in our industry of media production. Once you start considering the issues around data loss, the potential problems start to escalate: a real domino effect.
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The sudden shift to remote working within the media industry saw an incredible turnaround, with workflows being instated quickly to ensure that quality content creation could continue. Existing media tools were adapted to enable workers from around the globe to access content and contribute to production, all whilst the industry came to terms with wider logistical challenges. A quick rollout of infrastructure saw big changes in how the industry managed their assets; suddenly, data that would have been very difficult to access needed to be available to workers from their homes.
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The recent IABM report on content security trends in conjunction with our good friends at Axinom made for some interesting reading. As Roger Thornton mentions in his summary article, perhaps the most surprising takeaway is the discrepancy between a stated intention to invest in content, and a far lower priority in investment in content security technology to safeguard against the theft of that content, especially given the financial, operational and potentially creative resources that will be required to produce or acquire it. As Roger summarises, this seems counterintuitive, but budgets are finite and it could be argued that prioritizing content over business processes is where dutiful media providers should concentrate their majority resource.
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