10 February 2015
Waterfront Film Studios, located at Cape
Town’s V&A Waterfront, is home to the biggest creative post-production team
in South Africa based in Cape Town. The studio specialises in production and
post-production of both movies and television for large broadcasters across the
globe. In order to expand its capabilities and leverage the advantages of
collaboration and shared storage, Waterfront Film Studios turned to Jasco
Broadcast Solutions and the Avid ISIS 5500 to provide the
technology.
“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,” says Ivan Bridgens, Owner of Waterfront Film Studios.
The Avid ISIS 5500 offers a centralised shared
media storage platform that 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. Cape Town is a growing hub for international television and film
production, and we are pleased to be able to assist local studios with
developing their technology in line with global best of breed solutions,” says Paul
Divall, Managing Director – Intelligent Technologies at Jasco, incorporating
Broadcast Solutions.
Avid’s proven track record for product and
solution excellence was the draw card for Waterfront Film Studios to select the
ISIS system for centralised and collaborative storage. Jasco Broadcast
Solutions has a long-standing relationship with several of the key players at
Waterfront Film Studios, and as the sole distributor of Avid Video solutions in
South Africa was the ideal choice of partner to provide the required
technology. Waterfront Film Studios will now benefit from a more streamlined
workflow that reduces siloes of information, increased storage capacity and
improved editing efficiency, enabling them to tackle larger production with
ease and grow operations in the future.