Shared Storage for Avid® Media Composer® Workflows
Effortlessly store, transcode, edit, manage, and share your media and projects with Scale Logic's media shared storage servers designed specifically for Avid® Media Composer®.Spark Creativity Across Your Global Creative Teams
Scale Logic’s highly intuitive and user-friendly collaboration and media management solutions are the perfect way to increase productivity through collaboration. With no time spent on storage administrative tasks, your editors and entire creative team can focus on what they do best.
- Avid Bin Locking called HyperLoc
- Edit the same Avid avp project on-prem and remotely
- Share projects simultaneously between Macs and PCs
- Interoperability Lab dedicated to continuously optimizing Avid performance
- Editors get to focus on creating, not on storage administrative tasks
- Online “edit in place” shared storage utilizing Scale Logic’s HyperLoc Bin Locking application
- Grow an existing Avid NEXIS® by increasing the usable TB for the team
- Utilize shared storage for Project Parking and Nearline
- Backup existing NEXIS storage via jobs for disaster recovery
- Scalability up to 9PB with a single global namespace up to 2PB
- Supports resolutions from proxy to uncompressed 8K
- Built-in S3 compliant public or private cloud and LTO tape integration available
- Integrates with all MAM, PAM and DAM seamlessly
- Self healing ZFS based file system
- 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet
- Unlimited automated snapshot functionality for data protection and disaster recovery
- Supports LDAP and Active Directory integration
- Flash acceleration for small file, metadata, read cache, and entire file systems
- macOS®, Windows®, and Linux® support
Benefits:
- Avid Bin Locking called HyperLoc
- Edit the same Avid avp project on-prem and remotely
- Share projects simultaneously between Macs and PCs
- Interoperability Lab dedicated to continuously optimizing Avid performance
- Editors get to focus on creating, not on storage administrative tasks
Media Workflow:
- Online “edit in place” shared storage utilizing Scale Logic’s HyperLoc Bin Locking application
- Grow an existing Avid NEXIS® by increasing the usable TB for the team
- Utilize shared storage for Project Parking and Nearline
- Backup existing NEXIS storage via jobs for disaster recovery
- Scalability up to 9PB with a single global namespace up to 2PB
- Supports resolutions from proxy to uncompressed 8K
- Built-in S3 compliant public or private cloud and LTO tape integration available
- Integrates with all MAM, PAM and DAM seamlessly
Media Architecture:
- Self healing ZFS based file system
- 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet
- Unlimited automated snapshot functionality for data protection and disaster recovery
- Supports LDAP and Active Directory integration
- Flash acceleration for small file, metadata, read cache, and entire file systems
- macOS®, Windows®, and Linux® support
Gain An Edge With Scale Logic
Scale Logic’s media storage is so high performing, it effectively addresses the requirements of 2K, UHD, 4K, and 8K images and beyond—and at the lowest price per GB of any global vendor.
- 20 years of offering shared storage systems for Avid and other creative needs
- Extreme high performance—no need for Fibre Channel or iSCSI initiator
- Simple client side NIC driver installation tweaks the edit bay, making it ready for high IOPs
- Data resiliency created by the functionality of unlimited snapshots
- Ability to create a single global namespace/bit bucket across up to 5 chassis, also allowing creation of up to 300 project-based workspaces
- 20 years of offering shared storage systems for Avid and other creative needs
- Extreme high performance—no need for Fibre Channel or iSCSI initiator
- Simple client side NIC driver installation tweaks the edit bay, making it ready for high IOPs
- Data resiliency created by the functionality of unlimited snapshots
- Ability to create a single global namespace/bit bucket across up to 5 chassis, also allowing creation of up to 300 project-based workspaces
The Mission-Critical Nature of Data Protection
Whether it be the ability to quickly and easily access files, archive data for future use, or to periodically re-use assets to accelerate new projects—properly protecting your data is imperative to your success.
Intelligent Collaboration
The mainstay of Avid workflows is transcoding efficiency, bin locking, and project sharing.
Scale Logic shared storage with HyperLoc Bin Locking is as versatile and efficient as Avid is in handling formats of any resolution and projects of any size. This allows incredibly high-performing multi-stream and multi-cam editing that reduces storage administrative tasks for your creative team.
The included Scale Logic Media Browser’s powerful search, tag and index features make working with large data sets a breeze. Additional transcoding and data movement tools simplify data ingest and archive to LTO, additional disk, or to cloud storage.
At the heart of any Scale Logic offering is data resiliency. Avid teams benefit from unlimited snapshots that allow editors to retrieve deleted files or recover quickly from human mistakes; and administrators can create disaster recovery and business continuity plans to recover from virus or ransomware attacks in a snap.
Cost-Effective and Seamless Avid NEXIS Upgrades
With its long history and in-depth knowledge of Avid workflows, Scale Logic seamlessly supports everything within the Avid Media Composer environment.
This includes using Scale Logic shared storage for additional capacity for MXF files for the workflow. Camera RAW is huge in size, so using Scale Logic storage for the landing spot for these important files makes the most sense from a cost-savings perspective. High-speed storage is fast enough for Camera RAW to be transcoded in place for pre-edit, and transcoded media for Avid editing can remain on the Scale Logic storage for edit in place. Upon job completion, you have the option to move the content from online to nearline storage, LTO or any private or public S3-compliant cloud or tape with Scale Logic integration tools.
Expand Your Avid NEXIS Storage
Successfully solve Avid NEXIS storage shortcomings with Scale Logic.
Scale Logic storage offers a significantly economical alternative for expanding your Avid Nexis. Scale Logic offers a high-uptime system in case your team can’t have more than 20 minutes of downtime, and also offers tools as well as our Interoperability Lab to ensure your Avid environment always remains cutting-edge. Meanwhile, our built-in tools allow editors to quickly and easily recover in the event of human error.
Browse Your Media,
Any Way You’d Like
Accessing your files in a familiar way is highly important—after all, when immersed in a project, the last thing you need is to learn yet another tool or interface.
Our Media Browser (MAM-Lite) Solution looks and feels like a simple non-linear editor (NLE). If you have used Final Cut Pro® X, Adobe® Productions, Avid Media Composer, or DaVinci
Resolve, our Media Browser is intuitive with no learning curve. It’s very easy to pick up and master.
The Server You Need, When You Need It
Scale Logic offers a comprehensive suite of purpose-built storage solutions to perfectly fit any size organization.
Whether your team is in a live production environment, works remotely, or resides within a larger studio—whatever the need, Scale Logic has you covered.
Small
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Medium
Workgroups from 5 to 25 can choose 24 and 36 bay models starting at 96TB to 5PB storage capacity and 4000MB/sec to 8000MB/sec streaming performance respectively. This also can be expanded in place with both storage and performance as needed with up to a 2PB single global namespace.
Medium or Large
It is common for Avid teams to require high-availability when project deadlines are tight and the loss of access to the storage for more than 15 minutes could be a disaster for your team.
High-availability Scale Logic ZX storage provides less than a one-minute server node failover and uses Virtual IP technology to ensure your team stays connected should there be a failure in the server room. Capacity starts at 96TB and can grow to 9PB.
Flash/NVMe Acceleration
Archive and Data Movement
Whether you are a small, medium or large team, adding archive and data movement software onto any Scale Logic storage solution allows you to archive old projects to LTO, spinning disk, or public/private S3-compliant cloud storage or LTO tape of your choice.
Request a Demo
Connect with us to get a personalized demo and see why so many creative teams have chosen Scale Logic for their workflows.
Interoperability Lab
Product research, development, and support for media-driven workflows.
- 2+ PBs of physical on-prem storage
- Networking up to 100 GigE and 32 Gig FC
- Continuous testing with latest NLE and Workflow Tools
- Working NAS, Scale-Out NAS, NVMe and Archive
- Current M&E applications for editing, MAM, Archive, etc.
- Available remote access as a POC testbed or workflow tests
- Allows Scale Logic to provide POC for end-user workflows