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EPIC news story ! Video Rescue have done it again creating the worlds largest custom ethernet/fibre SAN solution for Final Cut Pro. As pioneers of SAN technology Video Rescue have been specifying and building SANs for eight years. By far the largest and most complex has just been installed at Epic who are a production facility based in the old Anglia TV buildings in Norwich. EPIC has converted the old TV studios and installed a state of the art HD workflow solution to enable resident clients, visiting production companies and local universities to work with the very latest broadcast equipment in custom designed studios. Mark Wells the centre Director had a vision of a state of the art facility that offered full HD capability from ingest to output. he wanted a SAN solution that would allow a huge volume of storage to be available without any detriment to speed to between sixty and seventy edit suites. The full plan was to integrate the San with the three studios for live capture of SD and HD as well as allowing full post facilities. He took his wish list and visited IBC in Amsterdam and Video Forum in London. Almost without exception Mark was greeted with the same response from solutions providers and manufacturers which was yes it can be done but we have yet to see it work ! Mark then happened upon the Video Rescue stand and was immediatley put as ease by Dominic Harland (Managing Director of Video Rescue)and Ben Pearce (Technical Director), Mark told me that "They took time to listen to what we wanted, they took notes and then offered a few suggestions and improvements that we had not considered, also they talked me through various other installations that Video Rescue had been commisioned to do and gave me the contact details of the customer so I could check it out for myself" “it just seemed that other suppliers wanted to sell me boxes only Video Rescue seemed to get a grip on the wider picture” "the full story on this will be on our new website, coming soon to a browser near you" |
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About Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 for Mac and Windows The new Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder software allows both Mac and Windows users to play Apple ProRes files through QuickTime. Apple ProRes is a visually lossless format that provides uncompressed HD quality at SD data rates. It is an excellent choice for mastering and can easily be transcoded to distribution formats like H.264. With new support for playback on both Mac and Windows computers, Apple ProRes can also be used for review and approval of Final Cut Studio sequences without the need for opening up or having Final Cut Pro installed. |
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MatrixStore MatrixStore is software that turns your Raid solution into a safe place to store your digital assets. It is a secure store to archive all your digital creations for as long as you want to keep them. It puts all your archived assets onto your network, available to search and use instantly. MatrixStore is different from other disk-based systems. It can manage a failure of a complete storage array while keeping your assets available for you to search and use. And if hardware fails MatrixStore re-protects all assets affected, putting a copy of them onto another independent piece of hardware in the system. Automatically. The management overhead of your archive becomes increasingly important as it grows. As does the task of keeping it safe for many years. MatrixStore is designed to lower these management overheads. MatrixStore makes it viable to put everything you’ve ever created onto your network. Metadata stays with your assets right through their lifecycle which means all your archived content is searchable and available instantly. Through there pioneering SAN installations, Video Rescue have secured free licensing for up to 15TB per customer (additional storage can be added for an reasonable fee) please contact us for an in depth analysis of your companies needs and we will tailor make you a solution thats fits with your organisation, think of us Saville Row for SANs.
For more info, please mail us by clicking this link and use "object matrix" as the subject
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Atto Faststream The ATTO FastStream™ SC 5300 is a high-performance, storage agnostic, standalone appliance that adds instant data protection and can be seamlessly integrated into an existing storage environment to provide blazing-fast access to valuable assets. Specifically designed to provide untethered connectivity and on-the-fly capacity expansion for high-performance environments and applications, the Faststream Storage Controller provides a cutting-edge storage solution. Offering the latest performance I/O with two 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel host interface ports and two Ultra320 SCSI drive interfaces, and designed in a slim 1U 19” rack or desktop form factor, FastStream SC 5300 uses a “one-click” set-up wizard that dramatically simplifies installation and configuration. The FastStream SC 5300 is JBOD, DVRAID and RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 10, 50 configurable. For more info, please mail us by clicking this link and use "Atto faststream" as the subject
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Cal Digit HD Pro Eight-drive hardware RAID supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, RAID 6 & JBOD in 20Gb ultra-high bandwidth connectivity. Active Sustained Transfer Technology (ASTT) to maintain stable performance and supports professional video editing. With CalDigit PCIe switch, you can connect as many HDPros as you want. State-of-the-art performance, an extreme level of reliability, unsurpassed user friendliness combined with the lowest price per gigabyte! HDPro is also a SAN-Ready storage subsystem enhancing scalability, usability and reliability of heterogeneous environments. Upgradeable cache memory up to 2GB. Useable capacity to 8.0TB. For more info, please mail us by clicking this link and use "cal digit" as the subject
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Abaltat Muse Traditionally, video editors in search of a soundtrack have had various options such as original composition, commercial music, music loops or library music.Abaltat Muse™ is a video-driven soundtrack composer. This is not a search engine with a large database of library music or music loops. Abaltat Muse™ composes and arranges a soundtrack. Simply drop a Quicktime file into Abaltat Muse, the software will compose a soundtrack using your selected parameters such as tempo and style. Once the composition is complete, which takes a matter of seconds, you can then proceed with making the arrangement. The user interface has all the features you would expect with any professional editing package. With 5 tracks composed, you can choose not only when and where you want to hear those tracks played but also, what instruments you want played. Abaltat has joined with two of the leaders in the audio sample production business, Native Instruments and Garritan Libraries, ensuring the highest standard of audio and authentic instrumentation with a natural live feel. Finished compositions can be exported as .AIFF, .WAV, as a mixed track, individual tracks or as MIDI. For more info, please mail us by clicking this link and use "muse" as the subject
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Leasing Video Rescue have negotiated tirelessly with our very good friends at Apple Financial and now are happy to be able to offer 0% leasing finance over 24 months, obviously there are hoops to jump through but with all the bad news the media throws at us these days its nice to offer you a little chink of sunshine on a grey day and with all the tax benefits of leasing it has got to be the deal of the year. Protect Against Technology Obsolescence *All credit subject to status terms and conditions apply, please call for details. |
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Video Rescue DATA SAFE As you know archiving and backing up are an essential part of your companies workflow, yet this is the one thing that is commonly over looked and usually not deemed as important until you have a system crash or equipment theft and all you data is gone. There are many ways to cover yourself for this eventuality depending on your budget. With this in mind we have developed an extremely budget and user friendly system designed to fit effortlessly and transparently into your workflow. Named Video Rescue DAAT SAFE we have installed two bespoke data archive facilities, one in the UK and a sister, mirrored site in Holland, both are owned and administered by ourselves. The way it works is you connect to our servers remotely, upload and retrieve your data as often as you need. We only bill you for the space taken per month. Let us provide the muscle to ensure your data is stored securely. In the unlikely event of failure our end we have three servers with individual Raids at each facility which ensure multiple copies of you data and to be totally sure we then have the entire site mirrored in Holland, its like belt and braces with a few more belts and an extra set of braces thrown in for good measure. For more info, please mail us by clicking this link and use "DATA SAFE" as the subject |
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About Us At Video Rescue we choose to specialise in Final Cut Pro, it is the hub of everything we do, from a simple stand alone DV suite right through to a fully bespoke multi seat SAN installation. Established in 2000, the four principles of the company have in excess of sixty combined years experience with the production environment of the film and broadcast world and we feel that this knowledge is essential for us to confidently advise and supply the correct professional solution to you. Video Rescue are an Apple Solutions Expert, manufacturer of bespoke storage solution and accredited reseller for a myriad of products that are tried and tested by us so that the equipment we supply fits your needs exactly, that way you maximise your investment. We work closely with manufacturers, software developers and distributors to maintain our reputation for being pioneers and evangelists of emerging technologies. We have in house demo facilities to show you everything from Final Cut Studio through to SAN workflows and asset management and more. We offer comprehensive support packages that are tailor made for your individual needs as well as training for all major packages. Education is a strong sector for us as we know that the students of today will be the production teams of tomorrow, with this in mind we offer full education discounts on the majority of products. If you are considering investing at the moment, give us a call for some impartial advice, we will be delighted to give you a list of customers with whom we have delivered either turnkey or custom solutions. There are a lot of people out there who claim to be video experts, let us prove to you that we know what we are talking about. Our aim is to provide the right solution for you, within a pre determined timescale with within budget and then to support you so that any downtime is minimised and your profits are maximised because if you business doesnt succeed then neither do we.
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