Sony CSM200B Brochure (Pensacola Christian College Case Study) - Page 2

CASE STUDY " It's allowed us to maintain our daily library of instructional content in a way that we can easily access it and get it to our customers in a more timely fashion . . .We're always recording, revising or correcting something, so the HDXchange system is a perfect match for how we need to " work. -Greg Moses, TV and DVD productions director, Pensacola Christian College's "A Beka Academy" Teachers and administrators now have access to the footage simultaneously."They review the dailies for self-improvement and for accuracy of content," he said."Having several people review at the same time helps us put out a quality product in a shorter timeframe. In a typical week, Monday's video is ingested into the system on Monday afternoon, so by Tuesday morning the editors are working on Monday's video. It's edited, checked, and ready for distribution within a week's time. "Usually we're running only about two days behind what's being taught in the classroom," he said. That's a dramatic difference from the Academy's tape-based days. "In the past, a lesson would get put on tape, edited, and would have to be duplicated," Moses said."We used VHS for years, and then DVDs, but they would have to go to a replicator who took our masters and encoded the content into the DVD format. Then they would send us back an approval DVD, which we'd check against the master to make sure it was correct before they would make 1,000 to 1,500 copies that would be shipped to customers. "It was months before a customer would ever get our product," he said."Now, we have it ready for streaming in just a few days." "In a typical day, whatever's ingested in an afternoon is edited the next morning, and it gets posted to the various places it needs to go," Moses said."The PetaSite system is scheduled every night at midnight for backups, so it automatically backs up everything and then we can move that content off the HDXchange system to make room for the next day's content, and do it very quickly." Recently, a partner in the distribution chain for the Academy's streaming content updated something in their system and lost several original files."With this technology, rather than having to re-render the files, we just restored them from the H.264 version that are also archived on the PetaSite system and re-posted them. That saved us a tremendous amount of time." Looking ahead, Moses is confident that the HDXchange and PetaSite technologies can grow with the school as its video production needs increase. "We expanded the HDXchange system with an additional 48 TB of Network Attached Storage, and we can do that again easily if necessary," he said."It's very flexible, you can scale it to meet your needs and find creative solutions that will help you store and keep your data and have it available when you need it." The combination of the PetaSite and HDXchange systems helps in the event of lost or damaged footage. Sony Electronics Inc. 1 Sony Drive Park Ridge, NJ 07656 sony.com/hdxchange V-2525 © 2011 Sony Electronics Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. Features and specifications are subject to change without notice. Sony, XDCAM, HDXchange, DVCAM, Media Backbone, and the Sony make.believe logo are trademarks of Sony. Printed in USA 12/11