Meeting Growing Storage Needs of HD Production for 'America's Funniest Home Videos' & New FishBowl Worldwide Media
Burbank, CA (November 10, 2011) - Vin Di Bona Productions, best known as the creator of "America's Funniest Home Videos," is now in its twenty-second year on ABC Television. Vin Di Bona Productions recently expanded its Avid Unity MediaNetwork™ for the third time with Archion Technologies' Synergy high-performance storage system. Used by thousands of clients worldwide, Synergy integrates seamlessly with Unity and provides greater scalability and protection without compromising workflow and performance.
Last season, "America's Funniest Home Videos" moved into High-Definition (HD) production, utilizing the 64 terabytes (TB) of Synergy storage to handle AFV as well as all of the content produced by FishBowl Worldwide Media, its new, next-generation studio founded in January 2010.
"We continue to add Archion's Synergy storage to accomplish what we want without affecting our workflow," said Sharon Arnett, Vice President of Post Production, Vin Di Bona Productions and FishBowl Worldwide Media. "Synergy has been a key part of our facility upgrade to HD and continues to be a cost-effective and highly efficient product for us, particularly as we expand into new shows with FishBowl."
Arnett noted that FishBowl is now in production on a new TV series, "Treasure Chase," for the Discovery Channel as well as new television shows for HGTV, MTV and truTV. FishBowl is also producing two hit web series, "Ultimate Proposal," for Yahoo with 1.75 million views for the first webisode, and "Cute Win Fail," currently in the YouTube Comedy Channel Top 20 with more than 10 million video views.
Key Code Media, an Archion reseller and one of Avid's largest resellers, made the recommendation to Vin Di Bona Productions to continue to add Archion storage and then guided them through the purchase decision and installation.
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Move into Stereoscopic 3D Production Creates Twice the Data Storage Needs
 Noted for going into some of the world's most dangerous places and coming back alive while also pushing the frontiers of digital workflow, Wild Eyes Productions has recently added 96 Terabytes (TB) of Archion Technology's Synergy shared storage solution to its Avid Unity MediaNetwork™. Wild Eyes' significant track record in television, documentary and docu-reality filmmaking balances military documentaries like "Inside Al-Qaeda" and "Inside the Taliban" for National Geographic with reality TV series like "The Squad: Prison Police" for the A&E Network.
As they move into stereoscopic 3D production, Wild Eyes has been utilizing the 96TB Synergy system to handle increasing amounts of High-Definition (HD) and 3D content, noted Conor Morris, Post Production Supervisor at Wild Eyes. Synergy provides the scalability and protection for their Unity Media Engine without compromising workflow and perection."
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Seamlessly Integrates Widely Adopted & More Scalable Expansion Storage
Burbank, CA May 24, 2011 An award-winning television production company that offers a fresh creative style for cable programming, broadband and the web, Nancy Glass Productions (NGP) recently added Archion Technologies' Synergy solution to their Unity MediaNetwork to store increasing amounts High-Definition (HD) content and streamline its file-based workflow.
According to Jason Saro, Senior Avid Editor and Unity MediaNetwork Administrator at NGP, the decision to add a 32 terabyte (TB) Synergy UXE system was based on choosing the highest quality and most cost-effective storage solution to handle entirely tapeless productions.
"In an era of tight budgets, it's absolutely essential to make the right buying decision," said Saro. "We have eight edit suites filled with Avids and a 32 TB Unity, so it was a big decision to bring a third party like Archion into our Avid setup. However, by choosing the Synergy UXE, we added much more fully protected storage to our Unity than if we went with Avid storage. The Synergy UXE was a wonderful solution at less than a third of the cost, yet it maintained our high standards of quality, performance and data protection."
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Adding Affordable, Reliable RAID Protection for 'Judge Joe Brown' and 'Swift Justice with Nancy Grace'
The preeminent company in television syndication. CBS Television Distribution (CBS) has selected Archion's Synergy UXE storage solution to expand its Avid Unity™ MediaNetwork™ for two of its shows, the highly rated court show "Judge Joe Brown," and the new "Swift Justice with Nancy Grace." Increasing its storage by a factor of 10, the three new 32 terabyte (TB) Synergy UXE systems from Archion Technologies provide CBS with a total of 96TBs of storage, including 72 TBs of usable storage (RAID 5 protected).
After the decision was made to go tapeless for the 220 episodes of this season's "Judge Joe Brown" show, a major upgrade to their storage was required, explained industry consultant Joel Epps, who helped architect the overall solution. CBS has three Avid Media Composer software desktop stations, two Avid Media Composers with Avid Mojo, one Avid Nitris, and one Avid Symphony Nitris™. They also made a decision to upgrade their Avid Unity to the Media Engine 5.1x.
To effectively post "Judge Joe Brown," they needed the ability to store at least half a season before archiving the media, Epps noted. On the other hand, for "Swift Justice with Nancy Grace," they needed more flexibility because video comes in from a variety of sources. This requires both more storage and quick access to the media _ both of which Synergy UXE provides.
"CBS wisely chose Archion because of three important factors _ budget, scalability, and protection," said Epps. "They were all set on upgrading their Avid Unity and needed a minimum of 48 usable TBs of protected storage. However, by choosing the Archion Synergy UXE, they were able to add substantially more protected storage to their Unity Media Engine than if they had purchased Avid storage with the same budget. The Archion cost/benefit ratio was too good to ignore, and at the same time, they didn't sacrifice quality, performance, or data protection.
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