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InStudio
CASE STUDY
DUDE - A Facilis Workflow
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UDE is an independent creative
agency based in Milan, Italy
European
various
They
cover the entire
creative design, production, and post
production to delivery pipeline for
their customers.
With over ninety employees
offices,
in
Milan
and
London
their
creative resources and capabilities
are substantial. In 2020 they
embarked on a project of another
kind, finding a new shared storage
network to centralize all their creative
assets, and expand access to their
central
library
for
all employees
worldwide.
Antonello Di Vincenzo with Blutek
Srl in Rome assisted with the
research, and introduced them to
Facilis Technology, a US company
that Blutek has successfully deployed
at several companies around Italy.
The Milan, Italy location of DUDE
has forty creative people assigned
to several different active projects.
The eight
postproduction suites
deliver editorial, motion graphics,
color grading and finishing content
for broadcast. The DUDE facility can
expand as needed by adding post
suites when a project requires more
collaboration or a shorter deadline.
One requirement
of the new
network was large capacity, with the
capability
to segment the capacity
for multiple projects and make it
available immediately. " With Facilis,
the process to create new spaces
for upcoming project ingest
is so
simple. " Said Seba Morando, Post
Production Supervisor at DUDE, " Not
time they were ingesting all
their
historic data from various sources
and saving to LTO tape for the future.
They can search FastTracker and see
the media that was ingested, play a
proxy, and even see the tape barcode
in the LTO library where it now lives. "
Another reason for using the proxy
generation in the FastTracker MAM is
for members of the production team
that access the server from remote
locations. Moving large camera files
through the internet is difficult, but
proxy files are a small
only is the volume created with
proper permissions and available
in no time at all, but it can be
mounted to the workstations that
need it without any help from
the editor. It makes life so much
easier when dealing with so many
different
projects in a single
week. "
With the Facilis Shared File
System, volumes are accessible
by the Creative team to add or
modify graphic assets in a shared
folder with Editors
and
Motion
Graphics artists. Each graphic rework
now is updated in real time, directly
in Premiere or After Effects project's
timeline.
DUDE has an extensive historic
library, but never had an efficient
way to ingest all the project media
from years of production into a single
location. With Facilis
MAM and Object LTO, high resolution
camera media is ingested and sent to
LTO, while low bitrate proxy files are
created to be kept on active storage.
This requires much less space on the
spinning disk portion of the system
and keeps the LTO files within easy
reach if needed for projects in the
future.
" When we explained the process to
FastTracker
the team at DUDE, they thought it was
wonderful that they could now have
all that history saved safely on tape,
and still be able to search and review
all the footage as if it was still on the
storage. " Said Antonello Di Vincenzo,
Sales Manager at Blutek Srl, " Facilis
assisted with the setup of the MAM
and LTO system and in a very short
the size, saving substantial
when accessing by
employees.
Security
of
remote
the
source and proxy assets in the
FastTracker database is provided
by catalogs assigned to secure
user accounts, where
various
projects can be made accessible
or hidden.
" Our decision to purchase
the right
Facilis was
one. "
Said Mirko Mantellato, Digital
Executive at DUDE, " When
compared to our previous storage,
it's faster, easier to use, and includes
many more tools for us to manage
our projects. In the past
to review
or search footage and edits on the
DUDE's archive, each team needed
to sit beside a post producer. Now
we're able to share DUDE's archive
with all our offices. Anyone can open
FastTracker, search and view all
proxies or edits from DUDE's catalog.
Facilis delivered exactly what they
promised, and I'm excited to see how
the technology will grow. "
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