The Latest Industry News for the Exciting World of Production.

Los Angeles, CA -- Archion Technologies, a world leader in intelligent, high performance shared storage solutions for media workflows, has announced that its powerful Velo, Omni and Omni Hybrid NAS creative storage systems - designed for storage and playback of 4K digital video in post-production, production, graphics, finishing and all types of video media - have been certified for Telestream Vantage.

Telestream's Vantage is a powerful, scalable, software-enabled media processing platform that manages all media services, from the camera to the point of distribution. It allows content owners, producers, and distributors to quickly, easily and cost-effectively ingest, edit, transform, package, monetize, and distribute their media.

"The Archion/Telestream combination makes for a very powerful 4K video storage workflow system. Archion's Editstor systems have all of the bandwidth upfront and thus our clients can get immediate performance for the Telestream Vantage Media Processing Platform. In addition, our standards-based networking allows the Telestream Lightspeed servers to be easily connected to 4 ports of high-speed 10gigE. Multiple live streams and baseband capture with real time transcoding all become easy with Editstor systems' massive throughput," says James Tucci, Archion's CTO, who oversaw the testing.

Tucci explains that the testing was comprehensive: Archion's Telestream certification process consisted of Archion testing the Velo, Omni and Omni Hybrid 10gigE ports at line level, performing file movement tests between Vantage and Editstor, direct convert testing with ProRes files, transcoding, and creating and reading open files. "Our overall bandwidth with one port of 10gigE was 1000 MB/sec writes and 1200 reads - more than enough bandwidth for 4K Vantage Workflows. Using only one of Editstor's four 10gigE ports shows Editstor's ability to scale with Vantage servers," he adds.

Better than real time performance is critical for Telestream and Vantage certification. The Direct Converter test clocks real-time performance and Editstor's ability to work with real time writes. Archion's baseline was a 6GB file and the test showed that Editstor was reading and writing 8.2 faster than real time. Both the transcode and open file ingest tests confirmed comparable results, concluding the very successful certification testing.

Reuben Lima, Archion's CEO/Founder, said, "We are delighted to be certified for Telestream's Vantage media processing platform. We look forward to offering media and corporate enterprises extraordinary 4K video storage bandwidth and functionality along with an automated 4K workflow that is unmatched."

Cutting Edge, a leading technology reseller and systems integrator, is a Telestream Vantage and Archion storage partner. "As an integrator that has made our name providing solutions across all types of media," said Sig Knapstad, Cutting Edge's CTO, "It's our responsibility to continually educate our customers on subjects like demanding 4K workflows. We are excited to be working with these powerful Archion and Telestream tools in hopes of helping our customers improve and automate their 4K workflows."

ABOUT CUTTING EDGE:

Founded 23 years ago by Jeff Briss, Tom Richardson, Brian Botel and Sig Knapstad, Cutting Edge is a California-based technology reseller and systems integrator. Representing over 400 manufacturers, Cutting Edge provides solutions for audio and video recording, editorial, storage, distribution, and professional A/V. Support services include facility design, asset management, custom workflows, preventive maintenance and ongoing support and training. See: http://cuttingedge-sf.com/news/

ABOUT TELESTREAM:

Telestream provides world-class live and on-demand digital video tools and workflow solutions that allow consumers and businesses to transform video on the desktop and across the enterprise. Many of the world's most demanding media and entertainment companies as well as a growing number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media.

Telestream products span the entire digital media lifecycle, including video capture and ingest; live and on-demand encoding and transcoding; captioning; playback and inspection, delivery, and live streaming; as well as automation and orchestration of the entire workflow.

Telestream corporate headquarters are located in Nevada City, California. The company is privately held. For more information, visit www.telestream.net

ABOUT ARCHION:

Based in Los Angeles, CA, Archion Technologies is a global leader in intelligent, high performance shared storage solutions for media workflows, with an emphasis on 4K video storage specifically designed for the editorial, graphics, and other media workflows commonly used where creative storage systems are required for the broadcast, production, corporate, education, government, house of worship, and sports industries.

Founded by a team of post production, technology, and entertainment industry professionals in 1998, Archion has defined a new standard of performance, protection and affordability for shared storage solutions. Since its founding, the company's storage technologies have been critical to the success of thousands of TV, film, commercial, documentary, and other content creation projects.

Archion's storage systems are most often used by professionals integrating Avid, Apple, Adobe, Autodesk, Blackmagic Resolve, NewTek and other creative workflow tools. For more information, please visit: