SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NYSE: QTM) today announced that Motorcar Parts of America (MPA)
has deployed a combination of Xcellis© workflow storage powered by
StorNext® and CatDV Media Asset Management software. The resulting
high-output video production environment enables more agile
collaboration and provides quick automated archiving and retrieval
capabilities.
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Video Training Makes MPA a Trusted DIY Resource
MPA is an international leader in the automotive aftermarket,
focused on manufacturing and remanufacturing a broad range of
products for cars and trucks. The global company distributes its
products across the U.S. and Canada, and its supply chain, manufacturing
and test facilities span the globe, while maintaining a common
quality standard throughout its operations.
One key to MPA's success has been an early commitment to
delivering quality video training, creating and editing its own
content to help both professional mechanics and DIYers correctly
install and maintain the company's products. The company produced
high-quality content on their Apple workstations, but when they
struggled to share that content between editors and re-use existing
material they decided to upgrade their production and editing
systems.
Finding a Better Solution
The MPA team sought help from Sunset Studios, an integrator
specializing in helping clients set up production facilities, to
meet their media workflow requirements. The Sunset Studios team
helped MPA create and modernize a studio that includes four-camera
recording in a two-bay garage facility that is now supported by a
high-performance data sharing and archiving storage capability.
"Our phase two of this project entailed a Fibre Channel network
with media asset management software, as well as the need for a
modern and full-featured production storage and archive solution,"
said John Edwards, Sunset Studios
principal. "At the end of our evaluation, we chose Quantum and
CatDV."
MPA's system is based on Quantum's Xcellis scale-out workflow
storage and CatDV media asset management from Squarebox. The
Xcellis storage appliance is designed to give media production
teams high-speed shared access to critical data to increase
collaboration, simplify management and accelerate production
timelines. The system includes an Xcellis Workflow Director for
management and client connectivity, Brocade Fibre Channel
networking and Quantum QXS RAID storage. The StorNext file system
enables the entire team to continually share and access files from
a centralized data pool. As MPA's content repository grows, the
team can cost-effectively add an archive tier of storage within the
same global namespace.
Tight Integration Between Xcellis and CatDV
The Xcellis solution is tightly integrated with the CatDV Media
Asset Management toolset that MPA selected as their asset
management and workflow control software. CatDV is an end-to-end
asset management solution that allows digital media content to be
tracked, tagged, archived and re-accessed quickly and easily in a
shared storage environment.
"CatDV enables editors to build custom tags for recalling the
content that they're looking for when they need it, and it happens
very quickly over the Fibre Channel network," said John Edwards. "We chose CatDV and Quantum
because they are two proven solutions that work seamlessly
together."
Creating a High-Output Video Production Facility
The new system simplifies edits in low-res proxy formats, which can
make the initial editing faster and easier. Once the program is
set, the CatDV system automatically pulls the high-res content from
the Xcellis archive and builds the final version. A second
important feature for MPA's team is the system's ability to provide
web-based collaboration for projects that involve private-label
clients using Akomi software with CatDV.
MPA's new facility and its state-of-the art video capture,
editing, storage and archiving systems helped the company launch
its own YouTube Channel in 2016, and allows the team to more
rapidly create even better content, and keep up more effectively
with product changes and new customers.
"Basically, everything that we do now is going to YouTube
because most installers, especially do-it-yourselfers, are going to
YouTube to find a solution," said Joe
Micallef, multimedia production manager at MPA. "Now we can
pull content from previous shoots and do it quickly using CatDV and
Quantum. Having an advanced storage architecture powered by
StorNext has really allowed us to collaborate like never before,
and it's made our training videos the talk of the industry."
Photo Link:
https://iq.quantum.com/exLink.asp?58361407OW27P14I204807859&view=1
Photo Caption: Motorcar Parts of America deployed a combination
of Quantum Xcellis workflow storage powered by StorNext and CatDV
Media Asset Management software for more agile collaboration and
quick automated archiving and retrieval.
Additional Resources
- Read the entire Motorcar Parts of America case study:
https://www.quantum.com/mpa-revs-up-media-production-with-xcellis/
- Learn more about StorNext:
https://www.quantum.com/en/products/file-system/
- For information about Quantum and CatDV solutions:
https://www.quantum.com/en/applications/catdv/
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out tiered storage, archive
and data protection. The company's StorNext platform powers modern
high-performance workflows, enabling seamless, real-time
collaboration and keeping content readily accessible for future use
and re-monetization. More than 100,000 customers have trusted
Quantum to address their most demanding content workflow needs,
including top studios, major broadcasters and cutting-edge content
creators. With Quantum, customers have the end-to-end storage
platform they need to manage assets from ingest through finishing
and into delivery and long-term preservation. See how at
www.quantum.com/customerstories.
Quantum, the Quantum logo, Xcellis and QXS are either registered
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Public Relations Contact:
Bob
Wientzen
Quantum Corp.
720-201-8125
bob.wientzen@quantum.com
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