If the bandwidth demand


increases for a project, we don’t need additional investment but can buy on a ‘pay-as-you-use’ basis and then charge this to the project. This gives us much greater flexibility without the need to consider additional capex that would typically need to be analysed against long term value and depreciated accordingly.


The second advantage is by working


with remote work stations in the cloud, we don’t need expensive on- premises hardware to operate it. It can all be done remotely on low cost workstations while taking advantage of the lightening-speed of always- available cloud processing when we need it.


Intermittent (glacier) longer term


object storage comes at a lower cost while fast access high-tier storage has been expensive on the cloud. That is until now. Colorfront’s capability to directly access object storage - bypassing the need to move data off object storage on to block-based / file-based storage - reduces the costs of required infrastructure while taking advantage of the lower tiered object storage that AWS offer.


What The World Is Waiting For


Tom Mitchell Technical Director Mission


We’ve been using Colorfront’s Express Dailies and On-Set Dailies (EXD and OSD) for eight years and they have become one of the key applications we rely on. All of our senior Mission technicians are familiar with EXD and OSD, and they the only tools for the most demanding projects.


SPEED OF SOUND As software, Colorfront applications are always preferred as they simplify


the working day by automating tasks, such as sound-syncing files and auto-applying looks when first opened in the software. It has a clean and un- confusing interface which is important when you think about operators working long days and through the night for months on end. When you want sound- syncing, the application gives you the sound-syncing tools in a clear and easy to understand way and only the sound-syncing tools or if you want the QC tools it does the same. Ultimately it doesn’t overwhelm the user with all of the application options when they really want something specific.


TIME IS ON MY SIDE By working with Transkoder for On-Set Dailies we can now access these features in the cloud. This means that repeatable tasks - such as batch converting or transcoding files - can be automated. We can also set up jobs in the cloud without additional capex.


Better still, if we set up the required


conversions in advance, we can process multiple deliverables at speed at the end of the day for faster turnarounds. A key component of what we offer is our speed of turnaround for on-set dailies.


I DON’T WANT TO MISS A THING An additional benefit is that we can run a super-robust back-up plan at more affordable policies such as co-locating storage for multiple back-ups in more than one data centre. And with the complete statistical reassurance of the Amazon S3 guarantee of the ‘eleven nines safe’ rule is that objects have 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability over a given year which is better than any on-premises guarantee can ever be.


Colorfront has always been extremely


good at utilising the hardware that it sits on and maximises its capabilities rather than having bottlenecks and inefficiencies making the task run faster. This is also relevant in the cloud as it works in the same way to maximise remote AWS hardware and contains costs.”


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