As timelines get shorter and people in the industry become specialized, collaborating and editing large media files in geographically dispersed locations is increasingly common in today's non-linear editing environments.
Signiant's integration with Apple's Final Cut Pro (FCP) non linear editing system replaces the need to move large media projects across the WAN using FTP-based solutions or expensive point-to-point hardware-based file acceleration technologies. Within the Final Cut Pro interface, users can select the Signiant Transfer option which automatically performs the following:
- Builds the XML metadata file containing the sequences, edit points and other pertinent information
- Creates the manifest of files needed to transfer the project, bin or sequence
- Accelerates the package transfer across the WAN to the target NLE workstation using Signiant technology
- Modifies the metadata file on the target end to point to the new media locations
- Sends an email to notify person(s) that the content is available at the new location
With Signiant's Plug-In for FCP, media and entertainment companies can quickly solve the pressing problem of accelerating file movement between Final Cut Pro systems while maximizing network resources, all by using a high-performance software-only infrastructure.
Central Media Management (CDM) software Capabilities
Centralized Web-based Management
- Business policy based network traffic control and prioritization
- Tracking, scheduling, reporting and auditing
- Data confidentiality and integrity
- Certified delivery
- Multiple operating system support
- Dashboard status views
Security
- Secure file delivery with payload encryption (AES 256/128/64)
- Data confidentiality and integrity
- SSL, TLS Cryptography
- Mutual authentication using x.509
- Certified delivery using Public Key Infrastructure
- Firewall traversal
Automation
- Integration with industry-standard applications including watch folders, encoding, watermarking, transcoding, content play-out and distribution formats
- Flexible building of custom production workflows
- Extensible Web Services SOAP interface
Acceleration
- WAN transport acceleration including protocol failover
- Bandwidth management
- Advanced data differencing techniques, dramatically reducing the amount of data to be transferred
- Carrier grade reliability and resiliency with automatics restarts and file check-pointing
- Minimization of data (compression for some file types) and round-trip delays caused by network latency
CDM is the only integrated and open software solution that provides management, security, automation and acceleration in the digital media workflows. Signiant's technology is built upon a heritage of reliability and technical expertise with patented and time tested technology deployed in hundreds of global organizations.
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