China's National Animation Industry Park in Tian Jin, bases its new
4K postproduction workflows on a Quantum StorNext shared storage
infrastructure.
Chinese Animation Studios Build 4K Workflows on Quantum Stornext |
China'sNational Animation Industry Parkin Tian Jin, NAIP, is the country's largest animation centre, and bases its 4K postproduction workflows on aQuantum StorNextshared storage infrastructure. The animation park acquired StorNext when its legacy system was unable to handle the performance and capacity requirements of its new 4K projects. |
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All graphics workstations had to access local storage for production, and they would pool the data afterward using portable hard disks, moved manually. The capacity and bandwidth of the system limited real-time playout of the finished content to only a few seconds at a time. That made it difficult for the production team to work coherently, negatively impacting on efficiency and, at times, the overall quality of the work. |
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NAIP's StorNext storage system, comprising a metadata appliance, a gateway appliance and disk storage, makes it possible for all of the facility's staff members to work on content simultaneously with sufficient performance and capacity to handle 4K content with 48MB of data volume per frame and replay an entire film at a rate of 24 frames per second, native, when performing quality control. |
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From the team’s point of view, they are sharing one, high-capacity, high-performance storage pool. Moreover, not having to move files manually between direct connected storage resources, and the ability of the high-bandwidth playout to support reviewing at native rates, has made post-production faster. Production director at NAIP Dou Kai said, “By giving us greater flexibility in accessing and working with large media files, we have been able to upgrade our editing and remastering capabilities significantly and design more efficient workflows. www.quantum.com |