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After months of
being dormant, the industry is about to shift gears into overdrive and get back
to work.
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“This feels a
little like the post-Covid rush but instead of lockdowns ending in a staggered
fashion around the world, everyone is now organizing schedules all at once,”
notes Sohonet CEO Chuck Parker. “ While the return to work post strikes shares
some similarity to the pandemic, it is fundamentally different from the last
time our industry had to take a pause. The pandemic put work from home front
and center, and developed new production protocols. The strike, however, has
brought work to a standstill for most of the year, affecting productions as
well as significant portions of post-production and VFX. No one is going to be
afraid of going to work when this ends, everyone will be racing back to sets,
editing rooms, and facilities and producers and post production managers need
to be ready and the participants along the chain are striving for a
smooth and rapid re-engagement to get back up to speed, including everyone here
at Sohonet.
“While not a
solution to all problems, clearly, tools can help ease the transition and the
recent downtime has given many industry professionals time to think about
upgrading their tools as they return to work. At Sohonet, we’ve been developing
our existing tools and innovating new ones, so everything is primed for the
industry to get back to work as quickly as possible and save precious budgets
in the process,” he adds.
The team at Sohonet
have been thinking in advance to this situation and have re-engineered our five
main software products to enable more flexible work whether on-prem, in cloud
or hybrid environments. We’ve introduced a number of production-oriented and
post-oriented pricing bundles so smaller companies and single productions can
take advantage of the technologies that can ease the transition
back.
Sohonet is offering
a range of packages tuned for various needs, including on-set productions,
post-production, editorial work, and the review of dailies and rushes. Each
tool and combination of tools enables remote and collaborative workflows
connected by a unified identity offering allowing single sign on and single
login across the Sohonet offering of products.
Sohonet’s product
range has been re-envisioned with new features which will help our customers
ramp up operations quickly, including:
ClearView Rush
A powerful new
dailies tool enables filmmakers to review content from set, on a schedule that
works for them. We’re offering our customers an asynchronous review option to
view shots offline, comment on them and know that those comments flow back to
the right person to make changes. ClearView Rush compliments ClearView Flex,
our realtime review tool for instant decision making.
ClearView Flex
Upgrades to
Sohonet’s flagship software product include more profiles for use in higher end
workflows. Annotations will be enabled for iPad. Plus, we have deployed the
ability to use Flex virtually in the cloud on VMware and on Microsoft Azure.
All in all, we think that’s a powerful line up.
ClearView Pivot Pro
Sohonet has
enhanced its ClearView Pivot platform with groundbreaking streaming
capabilities, offering speeds of 500 Mbps, 750 Mbps and 1 Gbps for high-quality
reviews and now supporting up to 10 remote viewing locations on the Sohonet
Media Network. They are also introducing an "off-net" package in
Pivot Starter, allowing secure transmission of up to 150 Mbps and accommodating
up to five viewing locations via business grade internet, giving media teams
the freedom to collaborate from any location without the requirement of
utilizing the Sohonet Media Network.
FileRunner
Sohonet’s popular
file transfer tool receives an acceleration boost and new smarter workflow
capabilities. When something happens in a workflow that knocks the process off
track, people want the ability to easily check progress so that they can busy
themselves elsewhere. It’s a really common request and that’s what we’re going
to deliver. This is not just about simple restart but the ability to resume and
pick up from exactly where the break happened. It’s all about making life
better for productions.
“Security is also a
big theme for the industry as workflows continue to decentralize and
virtualize,” notes Parker. “Across the range of our software product,
facilities managers will be able to better organize multiple productions by
switching on discrete security permissions for certified artists and across
different projects.”
Don’t let your
production falter in the rush to get back to work. With Sohonet’s secure real
time and remote collaborative tools you can be assured of speed, efficiency and
professionalism every step of the way.
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