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Topic: Location: Systems used: Central MAM Cologne (GER) ELEMENTS ONE and Media Library

Project: Challenge: ITV Studios Provide utmost reliability and stability ELEMENTS ONE If steady and reliable performance is crucial

One-stop shop, outstan- dingly continuous

Only very few production companies produce this many TV shows simulta- neously; hence, it is only logical that ITV Studios Germany also runs its own post-production facility. With most shows of the category “docutainment“ require episodes of between 30 and 180 min program length, ITV Studios Germany maintains nine in-house editing suites. All suites are equipped with Avid Media Composer, Sapphire, After Effects, Photoshop and Squeeze, whereas two use in addition also the Symphony Option, DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere CC. All suites are connected to the server via 10-Gb Ethernet. The usual editing format is DNxHD120, and oftentimes three to six simultaneous video streams are How steady data acces- sive production portfolio, including the required. sibility and consistent 10-year-running daily series ”Das per- fekte Dinner“ on VOX and the reality Depending on the recorded format and performance is key to show ”Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier quality, the shows are being onlined to successful large-scale raus!“ on RTL, adapted from Britain’s DNxHD 185 10bit, before grading. original format “’m a Celebrity… Get post-production Me Out of Here!“.

ITV Studios Germany GmbH, founded Further successful productions are in 1999 as Granada Produktion für the neo-personality-documentation Stability is the number 1 Film und Fernsehen GmbH, is one ”Kessler ist…“ on ZDF, the cooking priority of the most successful production show ”Grill den Henssler“ on VOX, and companies in Germany. Owned by the various quiz shows like ”Gefragt – An outstandingly steady and con- British media corporation ITV plc with Gejagt“ and ”Quizduell“ on DAS ERSTE. tinuous post-production workflow additional entities in , New Other national and international cli- like the one at ITV Studios Germany York, Sydney, Stockholm und Paris, the ents of ITV Studios Germany are WDR, doesn’t leave much room for failure. German branch with offices in Colog- SWR, RTL II, kabel eins, Schweizer When, in the early days of their small ne and established an impres- Radio & Fernsehen (SRF), and Disney. postproduction, the infrastructure

Page 2 elements.tv periodically caused troubles with data IT skills required to even manage the Media Library with its powerful search accessibility and dropped frames, and users and clients easily and quickly. engine, makes assets available for even entire streams failed to perform users anywhere, allowing to present occasionally, ITV Studios Germany Reliable, consistent performance their media assets through the same turned to ELEMENTS. Another issue ELEMENTS innovative and unique HTML5 platform. ITV Studios Germany was struggling technical design delivers consistent with, was an inconvenient and trou- high performance by default, providing blesome user and client management the best and fastest possible through- that complicated the daily business. put available today. Time-consuming manual asset ma- Still growing nagement to make media files avai- Seamless collaboration for all work- ITV Studios Germany is still growing, lable across the different platforms stations adding more editing suites on a regu- increased the effort to fulfill certain ELEMENTS ONE grants client access lar basis. ELEMENTS ONE handles the tasks noticeably. via AFP, SMB and NFS, while providing increased requirements without any a truly shared file system by enab- loss of performance. ling all clients to share files natively amongst virtually all NLE applications. „For us, the main bene- Support of Avid bin-locking and Pro- fits of the system lie in ject Sharing „ELEMENTS is always the outstandingly easy With native Avid bin-locking and project sharing support, ELEMENTS ready and willing to make maintenance and ma- ONE eases the collaboration for every adjustments, both regar- project significantly. nagement of users and ding hardware and soft- workspaces, impeccable User-friendly and easy project ma- ware. The most pleasant reliability of the perfor- nagement ELEMENTS extensive set of work- circumstance about them mance, and the fail-sa- flow management tools includes a is that they never leave fe resilience. Also the comprehensive project management feature, allowing for easy and efficient me hanging when I have prompt and knowledge- management of project without any questions.“ training required. able service provided by Siegfried Bacher, the team at ELEMENTS is ELEMENTS’ user-friendly and fully Head of Postproduction, remarkable.“ intuitive web-based interface provi- des the option to manage both users ITV Studios Germany Siegfried Bacher, and systems easily and effortlessly Head of Postproduction, from one spot, while ELEMENTS ITV Studios Germany

ELEMENTS ONE and Me- dia Library to the rescue

Ever since ELEMENTS ONE with the embedded Media Library was instal- led, the former problems have been eliminated. All editing suites at ITV Studios Germany are connected to the central storage, sharing media files across all applications, including Avid.

Simplification of Client and User Management ELEMENTS unique web-based GUI provides all tools necessary to effi- ciently manage the network. Being fully intuitive, there are virtually no

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