Illumination Entertainment, Founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007, Is One of the Entertainment Industry’S Leading Producers of All-Audience Event Films

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Illumination Entertainment, founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007, is one of the entertainment industry’s leading producers of all-audience event films.

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Illumination Entertainment Illumination Entertainment, CHALLENGE Sometimes, hardware settings on the system would be the founded by Chris Meledandri in With the enormous culprit, requiring a full machine 2007, is one of the entertainment success of the Despicable reboot for the reconfiguration industry’s leading producers Me franchise, Illumination to take place. of all-audience event films. In Entertainment outgrew July 2010, Illumination, which its editorial infrastructure The editors at Illumination has an exclusive financing and creating challenges in their Entertainment needed to set distribution partnership with studio workflow. Production up for dailies on their Avid Universal Pictures, released its increased, requiring additional systems prior to entering the first film, Despicable Me, starring edit bays and the ability for the review suite and then move editors to swap in and out of Steve Carell, which earned more into the review suite after the review suite for dailies. setup was complete. Each than $540 million worldwide system is comprised of an Avid and launched a beloved global In the past, an editor worked in system, with dual displays, a franchise. the review suite on a dedicated dual link playback monitor, a Avid system tied to a specific keyboard, a mouse, and audio edit bay. Editors working in output. other edit bays would come into the review suite, import When another editor occupied their settings and open their the review suite, the displaced projects on the Avid system editor would either have to tied to that review suite. This open their settings and project would not only take time to in another free bay or wait setup, but many times they until the review session was would encounter playback over. glitches and/or errors. Many of these errors could be traced SOLUTION back to the fact that not all productions were running Illumination Entertainment the same version of the wanted a solution that would software (both OS and Avid). allow editors to utilize their

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own system for reviews and flexibility in production capacity “I spent a great deal of time would provide seamless switching and performance. researching KVM manufacturers, between workstations. and Adder was the only company Each workstation was outfitted with a solution flexible enough Prior to the growth in production, with two AdderLink Infinity Dual, to meet our needs. Using the they knew that the Avid systems fanless, units. One unit serviced AdderLink Infinity products, would remain in the data center. dual displays from the Avid, our editors are now able to The new space identified for keyboard, mouse and audio, while setup for dailies or a review the editorial expansion was in a the other unit outputted directly session on their Avid systems location not contiguous to the from the Avid software to a review in their edit bay and then bring existing editorial space which monitor for playback review. up that system in the review necessitated a digital KVM suite without interrupting any switching and extension solution. RESULT other sessions,” said Joe Stevano, Illumination Entertainment, IT There were only a few players After deploying the AdderLink director. “Adding Adder’s digital in this space that could support Infinity solution, editors can now KVM matrix solution to our dual displays, and fewer that could sit at any one of (currently) seven editorial infrastructure has given support yet another display for locations and work on their own us increased flexibility in working playback and that also had a simple Avid system. When they need to on multiple productions” he added. and easy end-user interface. run dailies, they simply logout of the Adder system at their current The go-to source turned out location, go to the review suite, to be Adder Technology, who and login to bring up their own provided a solution for their system in that room. Each editor existing workflow challenges and is always working on and using also positioned the company the same Avid so there are no favorably for future scalability and surprises when reviewing media.

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