Digital Workshop Implements Aspera for Fast Upload and Delivery of Media Materials to South Africa's Broadcasters and Cinemas
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
Full-Service Post-Production Facility Speeds Delivery of Content With Aspera
Secure, High-Speed File Transfer and Automation Solutions
ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced
that Digital Workshop, one of South African's leading boutique full-service film
and television post-production facilities, has selected high-speed file transfer
and workflow automation software from Aspera, an IBM company, to ingest, manage
and distribute the hundreds of hours of diverse media content it receives daily
from global content owners.
Digital Workshop receives up to five terabytes of DCP (Digital Cinema Package)
trailers, EPK (Electronic Press Kit) packages, artwork, television spots and
film trailers from global film studios, content distributers and business
partners each month. Packaging the media to the required file formats and size,
before distributing it to broadcasters and cinemas across South Africa, was an
inefficient and time-consuming tape-based process.
With the growing volume of global content it was receiving and the gradual
change in the region from tape to file-based production, Digital Workshop was
encouraged to seek a more efficient way to manage its complex workflows for
processing hundreds of files in multiple formats, as well as a solution that
would allow them to distributes content faster and more reliably, despite severe
challenges with network latency in South Africa.
To meet these needs, Digital Workshop selected the Aspera Faspex(TM) Server and
Aspera Orchestrator to quickly and securely distribute feature films and high-
definition assets digitally. Installed, customized and running within just three
hours, Aspera Faspex provides an intuitive, user-friendly interface for
individuals and groups to transfer files and directories of any size at high
speed. It also solved the challenge of connectivity and bandwidth limitations in
South Africa as it offers an HTTP fall back for highly restrictive network
environments and automatic resumption of partial or failed transfers.
With Aspera Faspex, Digital Workshop is now able to receive, process and supply
high-quality content faster than ever, without delay, within hours. The result
is an expanded capacity to deliver media from 500 gigabytes to 3 terabytes per
month, including approximately 30 music videos and eight EPKs.
Digital Workshop further improved their digital processing workflow by deploying
Aspera Orchestrator. Offering a variety of plug-ins for transcoding and quality
control, Aspera Orchestrator automatically manages the end-to-end processing of
hundreds of diverse media files for Digital Workshop every month. Any type of
digital asset received from global content owners is securely ingested,
processed into the requested format, and distributed to a number of media
outlets, broadcasters and cinemas in a variety of resolutions, bitrates and
formats - all via high-speed Aspera transfer.
"Our investment in Aspera solutions has enabled us to enormously simplify our
internal processes and save considerable time that was previously taken up with
manual tasks. Now we're able to receive, process and supply high-quality content
faster than ever, without delay, within hours. Our fast delivery and reduced
turnaround time positions us ahead of the competition in South Africa." said
David Rypstra, Managing Director at Digital Workshop.
"For a full-service post-production companies like Digital Workshop that require
the fast turnaround and daily delivery of thousands of hours of high-resolution
digital content in varied formats, Aspera provides unprecedented reliably, high-
performance and security. By truly transforming how they manage digital media
with Aspera solutions, Digital Workshop now has absolute automation and
transparency of its internal workflow," said Bruce Brewer, EMEA Sales Director
at Aspera.
Aspera will be demonstrating the full portfolio of high-speed file transfer and
sharing applications at IBC 2015 Hall 7 Stand B27.
About Aspera
Aspera, an IBM company, is the creator of next-generation transport technologies
that move the world's data at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer
distance and network conditions. Part of IBM Cloud, Aspera software is powered
by the Emmy®award-winning FASP®protocol to deliver the fastest, most predictable
file-transfer, share and sync experience across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid
infrastructure. Aspera's core technology delivers unprecedented control over
bandwidth, complete security and uncompromising reliability. Organizations
across a variety of industries on six continents rely on Aspera software for the
business-critical transport of their digital assets. Please visit
http://www.asperasoft.com and follow us on Twitter (at)asperasoft for more
information.
CONTACT: Americas/Asia: Kim Willsher, (+1) 310 569 2603
Europe: Louise Wells, +44 (0)20 7403 8878
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Aspera's PR agency
aspera(at)rlyl.com
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