How major reality TV production company Bunim-Murray employed Signiants Media Shuttle to meet the challenge of transfering terrabytes of content from Thailand to Los Angeles
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Published: August 23, 2023 Updated: August 24, 2023
How major reality TV production company Bunim-Murray employed Signiant's Media Shuttle to meet the challenge of transfering terrabytes of content from Thailand to Los Angeles
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Reality TV pioneer Bunim Murray Productions is one of the leading production companies working in the genre and produces anywhere between four and ten seasons of television simultaneously at remote locations across the globe.
Founded in 1987 in Glendale, CA, near Los Angeles, Bunim Murray Productions' credits include The Real World and Road Rules as well as current reality shows like The Family Stallone.
One of its biggest shows shoots across different countries and continents and is appropriately enough called The Challenge, which certainly describes the process of transferring terabytes of raw footage from remote locations back to the editorial team in Los Angeles.
Facing the constant pressures of shorter schedules, tighter deadlines and ever-decreasing budgets, The Challenge team trialed Signiant Media Shuttle to accelerate secure file delivery. So successful was Media Shuttle in the workflow that Bunim Murray has now rolled it out across every one of its remote productions, mandating Media Shuttle connectivity as a future requirement when choosing shooting locations and successfully implementing a 24-hour turnaround goal on key footage.
It's after midnight on location in Thailand After several grueling days of shooting the hit reality TV series, The Challenge, a courier for Bunim Murray Productions hand carries terabytes of video content from two dozen cameras on a 17-hour flight to Los Angeles, where the entire editorial team waits.
For Bunim Murray Productions, moving content from remote locations across the globe to editors in Los Angeles used to cost lots of time and money. Transferring terabytes of multi-camera footage to editors in LA for editing as fast as possible every day is mission-critical. With shrinking budgets, shorter schedules, and tighter deadlines, time is precious. In 2010, XDCAM discs carried by runners through airports to LA took at least a week. By 2018, hard drives shipped via FedEx outposts saved a day or two. Still, a 24-hour turnaround goal wasn't possible.
After experimenting with other file transfer solutions, Bunim Murray turned to Signiant Media Shuttle. It works flawlessly, creating a consistent, 24-hour turnaround of key files, and the number of hours gained back makes it pay for itself.
[We thought] the time we saved, the amount of hours we can gain back, would make sense for us financially, says Dan Shott, director, post technologies for Bunim Murray. And it worked flawlessly; it worked great. After a 30-minute training session, we were confident enough to build out for five different shows. The things that we would've had to rely on high-level tech support to do with other solutions, we could do ourselves in five minutes with Media Shuttle.
On a typical shoot, content from camera cards offloads onto two local storage pools. As many as three DITs working around the clock collect around 3TBs of footage daily, load it onto local storage wherever they can find sufficient bandwidth, from the shoot site or the hotel. The raw footage is then sent via Media Shuttle into Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage. From there, the editorial team uses Shuttle to pull down the content they need into local Avid Nexis storage in LA. A typical day can include two to three terabytes of data.
We found it much more of a reliable solution for our production teams, which were already scattered and running super long shifts. We didn't want to put any potential downtime or hiccups on them, adds Shott. We loved that once we switched to Media Shuttle, we could put that [Wasabi] cloud destination in the middle and know that it was always going to be there, ready for them to go whenever they wanted to do a transfer.
We live in that immediacy. We've come to rely on Media Shuttle to be our everyday solution and never have to worry.
Shott continues, Once others heard how well it worked, everyone asked, Hey, can I use it?' Now, when a show is scouting for a location, available bandwidth is always the factor. We're looking for that from day one knowing that we're going to be using this workflow. Once we installed it, we started finding other use cases for it. We're happiest when we're not talking about it because it's just working in the background.
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How major reality TV production company Bunim-Murray employed Signiants Media Shuttle to meet the challenge of transfering terrabytes of content from Thailand to Los Angeles
