MachMedia Chooses ELEMENTS ONE for Global Production of GT Academy Series

28/01/2016

Mach2Media Chooses ELEMENTS ONE for Global Production of GT Academy Series 28 January 2016

Dusseldorf, Germany, Jan 26, 2016: ELEMENTS, developer of advanced solutions for unrestricted collaboration in shared media workflows, has announced that Mach2Media, a full-service production house located in Germany and the UK and specializing in sports programming, has deployed its recently purchased ELEMENTS ONE all-in-one server and shared storage appliance for production and post-production of 68 episodes of GT Academy, broadcast in 24 countries worldwide. GT Academy, an initiative by Nissan and Sony PlayStation, is the immensely popular international virtual-to-reality contest that follows the world's best Gran Turismo video players as they compete for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become a real-life professional race car driver. The television show documents the intense competition and training for the final candidates. Mach2Media chose ELEMENTS for its unique embedded Media Library, a comprehensive web-based workflow management feature, to enhance and simplify the extensive global workflow.

Headed by Simon S del and Daniel Thom , two seasoned veterans in sports journalism, Mach2Media served as the production company for the German edition of the GT Academy series for the past three years, establishing an unmatched benchmark for high-quality. In order to adopt and apply the same standard of programming to all other participating countries, Mach2Media was selected as the worldwide production company for the 2015/2016 season to be aired on RTL, Europe's largest TV network as well as networks around the world.

Mach2Media chose the 24-bay edition of ELEMENTS ONE as their centralized high-performance server and storage solution for the entire video content, captured with over 50 cameras around the globe, including RED Digital cameras, Sony F5, Canon DSLR, video drones and GoPro's Hero4. The all-in-one solution provides up to 360TB of shared storage in only 4 rack units and enables customers to work in a heterogeneous SAN or NAS environment to share media files natively across all platforms and non-linear editing and VFX applications. Maintenance is reduced, and complicated workarounds and time-consuming transcoding or copy tasks are eliminated. Located in the Mach2Media production headquarters in Cologne, Germany, ELEMENTS ONE provides the international team of editors, based in 24 countries, with 24/7 remote access to all media assets. The highest level of data security is maintained with automated back-up routines, both online and on tape, and with the embedded token-based security system for added access control.

The biggest challenges in a decentralized workflow setup over such great distances are quality control, data security and efficient communication, says Simon S del, Co-Owner and Executive Producer, Mach2Media. ELEMENTS is the only vendor who was able to supply us with fast and highly secure storage plus a sophisticated, yet easy, user management. But, above all, the great set of features in ELEMENTS Media Library simplifies and improves communication, making ELEMENTS ONE the perfect solution, without any third party components.

ELEMENTS Media Library is a comprehensive web-based workflow management feature set that provides a fully intuitive graphical user interface for professionally managing, presenting and sharing media assets. Eliminating the necessity to perform any time consuming transcoding or copy tasks first, the embedded Rough Cut Editor allows for editing original film material remotely via the HTML 5 platform.

For us, the greatest benefits of the ELEMENTS solution arise from its Media Library, S del continued. The unique features enable us to manage and supervise each episode abroad as if we produced it right here on site."

Globe-spanning Workflow

To guarantee the same high standard of quality in all the countries, Mach2Media created three master templates for on-site editors to load their local content. The entire process is facilitated within the fully-featured Media Library Rough Cut Editor. Once the local content was loaded, S del and his team of production supervisors in Cologne previewed the episode and left comments within the same file in the Rough Cut Editor.

"Leaving comments and change requests with an accurate time-code reference would already be quite helpful; however, the Media Library provides a lot more than that," says S del. The option to draw directly on the image, or comment specifically on the outlined part of the image simplifies the communication process, and reduces the rate of inquiry calls significantly!

All Proxy files, automatically created within ELEMENTS ONE, are linked to the original source material, making it extremely easy to implement requested changes fast and effortlessly. With ELEMENTS Media Library being fully compatible with virtually every professional editing application available today, such as Avid, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro and others, operators on site can even execute the changes directly in any editing application. The Media Library also fully supports Avid bin-locking and project sharing.

Since the Media Library is fully intuitive and so easy to use, editors working on the GT Academy project were able to jump right in without any training, adds S del. All the feedback from the team of international editors was positive, and everybody was thrilled to work fast and in such an uncomplicated and easy fashion.

In addition, Mach2Media leverages the workflow automation option of ELEMENTS ONE, including automatic email notifications to an unlimited number of recipients, and triggers to automatically initiate customized actions, such as moving files automatically to certain folders.

Easily expandable anytime and not data-destructive

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