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Multi-Reader Sharing brings data discipline to collaborative workflows
Multi-Reader Sharing establishes a workflow with data discipline, allowing multiple creative team members to pull assets from a single source of truth, all at full Thunderbolt speeds with sustained performance while fully encrypted. This new feature is now available on all Pro Datas with the recent 1.5 firmware update.
Data discipline is a term we’ve been using in our team during the creation of Multi-Reader Sharing. It’s the answer to the chaos of the massive amounts of digital data that productions generate on a day–to–day basis. We are constantly thinking about ways to move data not only faster but more efficiently and more securely, simplifying management and protecting assets.
As the content game continues racing towards exponential growth, file sizes are becoming huge, and the delivery expectations tighter and tighter. New features that enforce a disciplined workflow without compromising speed or security enable you to work smarter and unlock even more of your creativity, even as you meet these new production challenges.
In the 1.5 firmware update, Pro Data’s unique Containers now combine with our new “Multi-Reader Sharing” feature to power collaborative, multi-platform workflows.
Multi-Reader Sharing avoids duplicate copies and versions of assets, protects against the risk of overwriting OCFs and OCNs or corrupting files, and the overall messiness that comes with large data sets. Combining Containers with Multi-Reader Sharing maintains a clean and organized data space for collaboration, while delivering all assets at maximum speed.
Designed based upon conversations with our most demanding customers, Multi-Reader Sharing can make a big difference for:
- Workgroups with multiple editors assembling different parts of a project, tapping into the same OCFs.
- Time-sensitive projects for high profile clients that require the utmost security of the creative assets.
- Kicking off multiple simultaneous transcodes immediately after ingest with zero-copy.
- Branching multiple workflows using a single-source of data.
How it works:
- Ingest your footage into a Read/Write container. Flip it effortlessly into Multi-Reader read-only mode, preserving your raw assets and data structure.
- Share a container with up to four users per Pro Data, all accessing it at the same time.
- Expand your capacity and performance by daisy-chaining multiple Pro Data units together.
- Remember, Pro Data’s end-to-end encryption is on, already on, always on. You didn’t have to do any complex configuration to set it up.
- Up to 9 streams of 8K playback per Pro Data. No compromise Thunderbolt speeds. This is one more area in which Pro Data really excels. Put it to the test over and over again and see how the steady multi–stream playback performance holds up.
All this can save you a bunch of time and headache, so you can focus on being creative… or go get more sleep.
Multi-Reader Sharing is now available for all existing customers. And will be available for Windows support in a future update.
For more info, or to chat about your next project reach out to us at [email protected].