Leading Experimental Production Company Pushing Composites up to 0K with Small Tree Shared Storage System

Dedicated to standing out in the world of experimental art by virtue of its technical and artistic rigor, 3-Legged Dog has carved out its place as a leading creator of experimental multimedia productions. Located in New York City, 3-Legged Dog recently installed a TitaniumZ-16 shared storage system and ThunderNET solution from Small Tree to accommodate the substantial amount of content the company's editing team must work with on each project.

We're pushing an insane amount of data - like composites up to 20K, said Cameron Vokey, line producer at 3-Legged Dog. With seven compositors working in composites between 4 and 20k, we needed a solution that would open up 10 gigabit Ethernet for us and that's what the TitaniumZ-16 in tandem with ThunderNET did. It's pretty impressive.

A 501 (3) company, 3-Legged Dog handles projects for a wide variety of notable clients, ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Express to Michael Kors and Lady Gaga.

3LD shoots primarily with RED Scarlet and RED Epic Dragon cameras. Leveraging Adobe After Effect's outstanding capability to process native R3D files, playing directly off the TitaniumZ16, 3LD is able to greatly compress the time and simplify the editing process by eliminating the need for intermediate codecs. According to Vokey, the main composite size is over 35 million pixels per frame.

The company's editing setup currently includes nine Mac-based workstations (and six render nodes) running Adobe Creative Suite connected to a 48TB shared storage server designed by Small Tree to provide high performance sharing. TitaniumZ includes simplified setup and management, RAID protection for multimedia editing and Small Tree's industry-leading tech support.

The system came in, I got on the phone with Small Tree and configured it quickly, Vokey stated. It's incredibly easy to learn. On top of that, Small Tree's customer service has been like the server itself extremely reliable.

TitaniumZ systems offer optimal flexibility with the capability to work across multiple protocols (AFP, SMB, NFS and iSCSI) and platforms, including Adobe Creative Suite, Avid Media Composer, Avid Pro Tools, Apple Final Cut Pro 7, Apple Final Cut Pro X, and Blackmagic Design Davinci Resolve. Available in a variety of flexible and scalable configurations, TitaniumZ can meet the demands of today's 4K workflows whether they're using Red, Arri or Phantom.

It sounds crazy, but we shoot a number of performances in 3D, Vokey remarked. We want to be able to edit that footage onsite with our own equipment and the TitaniumZ and ThunderNET systems will enable us to do so. The project we're currently working on is so large that it almost entirely consumed the 48TBs and we had to stay vigilant in deleting files towards the end. But we know where to go when we need to get cranking on the next one.

For more information about Small Tree and its growing line of shared storage and networking products, visit http://www.small-tree.com. Follow Small Tree on LinkedIn, http://www.facebook.com/SmallTreeComm or @SmallTreeComm.

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