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MANUFACTURER
Solutions for collaborative media workflows EditShare was established in 2004.
the underlying hardware. This can
Today it is based in Watertown
be achieved through EditShare tools,
near Boston, Massachusetts, USA,
but it is also easy to integrate into
preferred tools while still benefiting
with offices in the UK for the EMEA
larger systems thanks to EditShare’s
from full asset tracking, automated
region, Australia and Los Angeles.
published suite of RESTful APIs.
background transcoding and proxy
It aspires to develop technology which
which NLE platform or platforms. Creative users work with their
generation where required, and
empowers storytellers, supporting
FLOW
simple drag-and-drop operations. With
them with solutions that enable
FLOW provides a media management
EditShare Universal Media Projects,
collaboration, improve the production
layer that allows customers to move up
businesses can freely intermix DaVinci
process and remove the tedious tasks
from managing files, to working with
Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro and
that get in the way of creativity.
assets that can live in multiple locations,
Avid Media Composer in free-flowing,
in multiple storage systems. Building
highly productive workflows.
Its market-leading products can be grouped under three broad headings:
on EditShare’s open APIs, FLOW fits
scalable network storage, the transition
into any project workflow, no matter
to the cloud and workflow simplification.
FLOW is very lightweight, virtualised software, meaning that it can be accessed from anywhere on any connected device. Through
EFS
simple and intuitive user interfaces,
EFS is the name for its storage devices,
users can track and manage all
capable of scaling up to the largest
content, wherever it is stored.
environments and supporting large numbers of concurrent streams for
FLEX
real-time post-production, as well as
EditShare’s FLEX takes the power of EFS
archiving and nearline storage. EFS
and FLOW software and implements
scales from a single storage node to
it in the cloud in a fully virtualised
an enterprise cluster. Redundancy and
microservices architecture. High
resilience are inherent in the design.
performance is already demonstrated in AWS, Tencent Cloud and other public
Storage nodes are designed
and private cloud environments.
specifically for particular demands of
The open interconnectivity of the
media delivery and engineered for
software is vital in allowing users to
very high performance. The powerful software-defined ecosystem makes content management simple and abstracts the user from concerns of
Michele Dwayk, Regional Sales Director, MENA and Turkey, EditShare.
build creative workflows for editing, audio mixing and grading in the cloud. FLEX takes full advantage of the
