LAS VEGAS—Archion flash storage products that deliver the bandwidth and performance required by 4K DPX, 8K and 360 video workflows are set to be a part of the company’s NAB Show booth. Archion customers can take advantage of the increased performance by simply upgrading their existing EditStor shared storage drives.

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Archion will also showcase EditStor’s new networked user interface (UI). This UI has shared group control custom features, such as changing volume names and descriptions of shares, which are updated to all users.

While their existing HDD-based solutions, such as EditStor Omni and EditStor Velo, deliver industry-leading speeds and price/performance, Archion will conduct hands-on demonstrations of the performance their new flash solutions provide for handling 4K, 8K and 360-degree workflows. 

Archion will also use Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Blackmagic Resolve and other workflow tools to demonstrate how capably EditStor handles very demanding workflows, like 4K DPX.

The 2017 NAB Show takes place in Las Vegas, April 24-27. Archionwill be in boothSL14617. For more information, visit www.nabshow.com.

LOS ANGELES—A key member of the University of South Carolina (USC) Gamecock Productions hails from Archion, as the company's EditStor system has been tapped to handle post production demands for all video content captured live across the university’s 21 different sports programs.

Gamecock Productions first started using the EditStor system in 2012, and then updated the system to hold up to 96 terabytes of information in 2015. Currently, it is connected to 11 workstations that record live games and other programs. The EditStor system is connected to a Telestream pipeline and then to a CatDV logging system.

In addition to game footage, 30-minute studio shows are also produced by Gamecock Productions and require being stored with the EditStor system.

LOS ANGELES—A trio of Archion Technologies creative storage systems have been certified for Telestream Vantage, the Velo, Omni and Omni Hybrid NAS. All three systems are designed for storage and playback of 4K digital video in post-production, production, graphics and finishing.

Telestream Vantage is a software-enabled media processing platform that manages media services from the camera to the point of distribution. Working with Archion creates a 4K video storage workflow system that allows Telestream Lightspeed servers to be connected to four ports of high-speed 10gigE, according to James Tucci, Archion CTO.

Certification testing for all three products was done at line level, and performed file movement tests between Vantage and Editstor, direct convert testing with ProRes files, transcoding, and creating and reading open files. Archion’sbaseline was a 6 GB file and the test showed Editstor was reading and writing 8.2 faster than real time. Transcode and open file ingest tests were comparable, per Archion.

LOS ANGELES—Archion has introduced a new member of its family of collaborative storage systems, the EditStor Omni Hybrid. With the slogan “Creatively Rendered,” the Omni Hybrid is designed for virtual reality, visual effects, animation and motion graphics, as well as other rendered content.

The Omni Hybrid offers a combination of bandwidth that can handle 4K DPX/UHD streaming video and accelerated IOPS performance for rendering, CGI and transcoding applications. It also provides scalability, expansion, and can grow to 1.5 Petabytes of data. The system is certified with Adobe After Effects, Autodesk, Maya/Flame/Lustre, Foundry Nuke, and Blackmagic Resolve.

Archion is a developer of networked storage systems designed for editorial, graphics and other media workflows.

BURBANK, CALIF.—As a new member of NewTek’s Developer Network, shared media storage provider Archion has announced that it will adopt NewTek’s Network Device Interface standard for IP-based production workflows. Archion’s EditStor Velo is the company’s first system recognized as an NDI-enabled device.

NDI devices can now search for and mount EditStor volumes automatically, providing access to file based video and audio on an IP-based switching system. By becoming NDI enabled, EditStor increases the number of video sources it offers for live production.

NewTek says that it is offering NDI as a royalty free software development kit.