Republic studios deployed Leostream’s Remote Desktop Access Platform as a remote technical infrastructure supporting high-performance workloads for grading, sound design and finishing.
Republic is a collective of production, editorial and design studios based in Dallas. The three creative facilities – Republic Productions, Republic Editorial and Republic Design – deliver short-form advertising projects featuring motion design, VFX, editorial and audio. Because of Republic’s separate but integrated business units, the company can work across multiple media, including TV, social platforms, as well as across physical spaces. Notable brand clients include Lenovo, Dolce & Gabbana, Frito Lay, Converse and Dr. Pepper.
Republic is known for its creative animation and visual effects work, including photorealistic 3D designs, hand-drawn 2D animation and full-scale VFX integration. To carry out this work efficiently, its team of editors, designers and artists in post-production services rely on high-performance, graphics- and data-intensive workloads for colour grading, sound design and finishing.
Centralised Remote Access Work Environment
The studios have recently deployed Leostream’s Remote Desktop Access Platform to support its team members in a technical infrastructure created by broadcast and media systems integrator CineSys. CineSys designed a system that efficiently allocates high-performance workstations or cloud instances to remote workers to ensure that each of them has the resources they need, whether working from the office or remotely.
When CineSys approached Leostream, they wanted to set up a hybrid, remote access work environment and culture that encourages its team members to move between on-premise and remote work as their needs dictate. The Leostream Platform serves as a central point for managing both on-premise and cloud-based resources. Editors or designers can start working on a project in the office and continue it remotely. In the background, Leostream maintains persistent connections to their own desktop environment and secure cloud access.
High-Performance Display Protocols
“Leostream has been tailored to our hybrid work environment and delivers low latency, high-resolution performance,” said Jason Vigue, Senior Motion Graphics/VFX Artist at Republic. “Leostream centralises our resources and establises secure, remote connections to creative tools, giving us open access to both on-premise and cloud-based workstations. As a result, our editors and designers are more productive.”
Leostream works directly with high-performance display protocols like Mechdyne TGX or PCoIP that are essential for video production workflows involving graphic-intensive applications. This compatibility makes sure that remote users experience low-latency, high-resolution access to production environments without sacrificing performance, even when handling 4K video or complex editing tasks.
Quick Turnaround
Republic was very happy with the quick turnaround time of the new system’s implementation, which was important to avoid downtime and impacts to productivity.
“The CineSys support team is extremely knowledgable and experienced in remote desktop protocols as well as cloud computing environments. Technical fixes and guidance for improving overall system performance have been very quick,” Jason said.
“Republic’s modern content combines art and technology in new and engaging ways, and we enjoy supporting their production studios and becoming a small part of that collaboration,” said Karen Gondoly, Leostream CEO. “As the experts in architecting media and entertainment IT, we appreciate that CineSys regularly shows their customers how the Leostream Platform enables remote and hybrid creative teams to work together securely and productively.”
The Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform is focussed on maintaining productivity, controlling costs and ensuring security with strict authentication and authorization built on zero-trust concepts. Its connection management system avoids corporate VPNs, instead using an efficient gateway that gives users access to only the specific resources they have permission to use, automatically, regardless of their location or device. leostream.com
