When it comes to stepping up the speed of media across the production chain, the Pittsburgh Penguins turned to EditShare shared storage solutions. Prior to the installation of the advanced workflow-engineered shared storage solution, an EditShare Storage Series 8U 30TB system, the Pittsburgh Penguins digitized specific game clips to each workstation using an off-the-shelf drive. The game source material became isolated to either a specific editing workstation equipped with Apple Final Cut Pro or a compositing workstation equipped with Adobe After Effects.  Because certain media was housed on specific workstations and not in a central location, media had to be constantly re-digitized in order to be available in multiple locations. Further, there was a constant battle to balance the media space per editing and compositing workstation, limiting the amount of material to work with for any given highlight or replay project.

To resolve the “silos of media” issue, the Pittsburgh Penguins installed EditShare. The Penguins needed the EditShare system to help mobilize media and turn around robust packages more quickly for commercials, scoreboard highlights and promotions - as well as the Penguins web site. Another catalyst for shared storage was the increasing demand from the NHL for more online content. Not only was the EditShare going to mobilize their media, it was also going to be used for multi-platform and multi-channel distribution.

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