Archive for February, 2012

Workflow is central to shared storage system selection, Part 3

See Part 1 of this series here. See Part 2 of this series here. By Dave Van Hoy Did you choose the best shared storage solution for your workflow? Are you sure? The most difficult storage problem to resolve occurs when a facility has already invested in the wrong product but wants to make it [...]


Workflow is central to shared storage system selection, Part 2

See Part 1 of this series here. By Dave Van Hoy What’s your best option for shared storage, storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS)? Initial equipment costs are similar, but NAS systems generally have minimal (if any) additional user costs. Motion graphics and other uncompressed workflows demand SAN performance, but SAN systems [...]


Advanced Systems Group And B4M Present Media Asset Management Webinar

EMERYVILLE, CALIF., February 21, 2011 – Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a leading West Coast video and film integration firm, and B4M™ a Primestream® Company, a leader in complete media asset management and automation software, will present a free webinar, “Leap Into Your Asset Management,” on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at 10 a.m. PT. The webinar [...]


Leap Into Your Media Asset Management

Join us for a free webinar on Leap Day, February 29, 2012 at 10 AM Pacific. This webinar will cover the how-to of managing operations from anywhere of end-to-end workflows for media asset management, editing, social media publishing, archiving and cloud production.  Get to know the proven FORK Suite of modules from the Content Navigator, [...]


Leap Into Your Media Asset Management — Webinar — February 29

Leap Into Your Media Asset Management Webinar When: Leap Day February 29, 2012 10 AM Pacific Register now, free!   ASG and B4M talk Media Asset Management B4M products are the smartest, most efficient way to run a media operations. Why? Because from any environment, you can control all your assets. Join us Wednesday, February [...]


Workflow is central to shared storage system selection, Part 1

By Dave Van Hoy Before today’s file-based workflows, a post house would produce a master, maybe record a few dubs, and hand back the raw footage with an EDL to the client. Video footage was completely transient. Now, however, the post environment is much different, and virtually all post facilities (even some one-man operations) need [...]