I wrote recently on the BROADer issue and the new EACS Media website about how NetApp and Aspera had helped with the storage and transfer of media files between James Cameron's production company Lightstorm, based in Venice, California, and Weta Digital in Wellington, New Zealand.
Another use of Aspera for high-speed file transfer has made it onto the macworld.co.uk website.
NorthernNet is a system of 17 Media Access Bureaux (MABs) located in business, cultural and education sites across the North of England such as the University of Central Lancashire (pictured). Clients pay £60 an hour to use an Avid or Final Cut Pro edit suite that comes complete with an array of ingest and output options. As well as, or instead of, booking the facility for an editing or finishing job, users can access an high-speed data transfer system to transfer files that are up to 20 x faster than FTP - 1GB of data in about 80 seconds.
Informed Sauce wrote the NorthernNet user manual, which was commissioned by the project's systems integrator Altered Images. The manual has been written to help newcomers to understand how to get the best the facilities' professional editing, encoding and media transfer technology.
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