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Global Media Team Coordinating International Post-Production
Company Situation
A global media production team with post-production staff located in multiple international offices, including North America and the Asia-Pacific region. Their team includes editors and post producers collaborating across significant time zone differences. The company manages video projects that require frequent file sharing and synchronization between offices thousands of miles apart.
Existing Workflow
The team uses cloud drives set up in different geographic regions—one in North America and another in the Asia-Pacific—to store and share project files, including large video assets and project folders. Editors upload content to regional cloud storage nodes, and collaborators in other regions download and work on these files. The workflow relies heavily on file uploads and downloads between offices, often with two-way traffic to keep projects synchronized.
Issues with the Existing Workflow
Uploading large project folders directly to the Asia-Pacific cloud drive from North America results in slow speeds, file loss during upload, and significant latency.
Two-way file synchronization across regions with large time zone differences creates inefficiencies.
Uncertainty about best practices for uploading and pinning files between regionally distributed teams leads to inconsistent performance.
Previous solutions based on less distributed storage backends caused poor international upload/download speeds.
How Shade Would Change Their Workflow
Shade’s platform leverages a globally distributed storage backend that optimizes upload and download speeds by enabling local presence uploads. Files uploaded to the nearest server node are automatically proliferated across all regional nodes, drastically reducing latency and improving synchronization speed. Integration with editing software like Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve allows direct cloud drive access within the editors’ environments, streamlining proxy generation and media flow management. Shade’s continuous product improvements and responsive customer support ensure evolving technical challenges are promptly addressed, making international collaboration smoother and more efficient.
Benefits
- Accelerated uploads and downloads due to local presence and globally distributed backend storage.
- Reliable two-way synchronization of large media projects across multiple international offices.
- Seamless integration with major editing tools enhances editorial workflow and proxy handling.
- Reduced latency and file loss compared to prior solutions.
- Improved team collaboration despite large time zone differences.
- Responsive customer support ensuring quick resolution of workflow concerns.
Technologies Used
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