Customer Showcase

Tennis Australia chooses Spectra Logic and Digistor solution for the Australian Open to store over 180TB of host broadcast content

The University of Sydney's legacy direct attach storage (DAS) system was not designed to work in a multi project environment own 4K, so they turned to Digistor for a central media solution which would streamline production workflow and integrate with existing University systems.

With increasing pressure on budgets and the challenge of getting crews to the scene of breaking news, freelance newsgathering is on the rise. Dejero sat down with Australian freelancer, Carey Harris, to learn more about how he uses Dejero in his successful freelance career.

SYDNEY, 14 March 2018 – From 4-15 April 2018 The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) will welcome more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 70 Commonwealth nations and territories. For GC2018 NEP Host Broadcast will provide HD television coverage from 18 venues along with the opening and closing ceremonies.

Foxtel is the leading pay TV provider in Australia. The company operates in three primary broadcast centers to provide local and international news, entertainment, sports, children’s programming and documentaries. A major task for the company is aggregating content from its international providers, localising it, formatting for different platforms, including video-on-demand and mobile applications, and producing its own promotional material and ad content.

To deliver high resolution visualisations in a short turn-around to a professional standard, Ben needed 3ds Max and Autodesk AEC Collection as well as a system that could support it. Autodesk software is central to the studio’s ability to quickly model, measure, present and sell his clients’ plans to their audience and potential investors.

EndemolShine Australia creates some of Australia’s largest television programs. From The Biggest Loser to Gogglebox to Australian Ninja Warrior. They have lots of editors and lots of media, and are always under pressure to get programs to network quickly.

Ignition Productions was awarded the contract to cover the 2017 Dakar Rally for Red Bull TV. The aim, to make a daily behind-the-scenes show of the world's toughest Motorsport event. They used SNS EVO to quickly turn around the daily behind-the-scenes episodes.

Forscene, was chosen by streaming video producers, Corrivium, for fast turnaround editing and collaboration on live online events.

Empire consulted Digistor for guidance for their shared storage. After discussions with tech support regarding their requirements, it was determined that EditShare was the “most effective fit” for The Empire’s needs.

FATS Digital selected a Cinedeck production server through local technology solutions provider Digistor. The server also delivers improved economies of scale for film and video transfers by allowing more material to be digitally archived more quickly.

Binyan Studios has grown rapidly to become one of Australia’s dominant Architectural Visualisation companies producing photorealistic 3D stills and animations for architects, interior designers, property developers and real estate agents.

doco.tv is run by Joshua Marks from his office in Sydney’s Fox Studios. Joshua collaborates with a wide base of trusted professionals and uses the latest Sony FS7 camera to shoot footage all over the world. Joshua’s AFTRS film ‘Australia’s Last Duel’ received the EISSI 2015 Media of the Year award for contribution to the surveying profession.

In 2011 TRP began investigating new, more affordable ways to capture and deliver racing material and contacted Digistor regarding the Dejero range of portable transmitters. TRP services over 500 races a year by using smart systems, supplied through an ongoing relationship with technology solutions provider Digistor, to reduce operating costs.

Network Ten, one of Australia’s leading commercial TV networks, has expanded its deployment of Dejero’s LIVE+ GoBox professional-grade transmitters. With the rugged and portable LIVE+ GoBox units, Network Ten’s mobile journalists are able to broadcast live from virtually any location using bonded cellular, Wi-Fi, and portable satellite connections, or record up to 40 hours of HD video for later broadcast.

Yes Captain focuses on crafting beautiful title design, emotive animation, and engaging branded entertainment for film, television and digital platforms and this single-minded approach continues to win clients and delight eyeballs both in Australia and internationally.

Australian post-production houses and broadcasters have been quick to take advantage of the partnership between Autodesk and scale-out storage specialist Quantum.

ITV Studios Australia completely replaced it’s editing and post-production hardware with a Digistor certified and supported system covering Avid hardware, software and storage together with networking infrastructure.

Digistor revolutionised HillSong's workflow with an all-in-one system to share content with multiple editing suites simultaneously

Collaborative workgroup environment streamlines workflow and ensure assets are effectively stored, shared and backed up

Like many growing professional post-production facilities, New Mac had organically evolved their own pipelines and storage strategy over time. Digistor designed and implemented an efficient production pipeline

When the University of Sydney's Faculty of Arts and Social Science needed to improve their media workflow, they came to Digistor.

Silver Trak Digital has revolutionised their Media Room file transfer solution with Aspera Connect and Aspera Orchestrator from Digistor

One of Australia's Oldest and Largest Broadcasters Equips Mobile News Crews With Dejero LIVE+ 20/20 Transmitter to Send Live or Recorded Broadcast-Quality Video.

Blue Post engaged Digistor to assist in providing hardware, software and services to consolidate storage and workflows in the Melbourne office, but also assist in creating their brand new Sydney Facility.

Digistor worked with The Australian Government Initiative, the Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) Project, to deploy solutions from Aspera to move large data to, from and between nationally-dispersed storage nodes and high-performance computing centres.

Network Nine Australia worked with Digistor to set up Dejero’s live broadcasting technology for deployment in their facility and in their ENG teams.

Digistor worked with SPARKL to put together an Autodesk Smoke system that would enable mobile in-house editing and VFX services.

Shine’s, Nick Parker came to Digistor with plans to update the studio’s workflow to accommodate HD programing, AJA proved to be a excellent choice in meeting Shine's high demand production schedule.

Global workflow with team collaboration and high speed content sharing helps meet tight production deadlines.

Audio visual production specialists AV1 engaged the services and support of Digistor in 2011 to further enhance their 3D visualisation division.

Digistor and Dejero: AFL’s winning team for live broadcast.

Redboat’s clients include advertising agencies, production companies, broadcasters, film-studios, corporate enterprise, events organisers and government organisations all over Australia.

Hackett Films has created a tomboy character, Lucy, to introduce Sydney Maritime Museum’s three lively summer exhibitions for families in a whirlwind new TVC.

The Editors is a collective dedicated to the art and craft of editing based in Newtown, Sydney. Recently they have completed high end TVC’s for clients such as Qantas,Toyota, and Transport NSW.

HD Video Assist is a two-man-team consisting of Kane Waldron and Rhys Nicholson. Together they offer a range of services to directors and cinematographers.

4DStudio is a Melbourne based company that create architectural visualisations. They specialise in capturing their client’s design intent and communicating it through still, moving and interactive imagery.

ninemsn Use TriCaster 455 for "A day in the life of a guide dog" Live Stream

Aspera’s Enterprise Server, Point-to-Point Clients, and SDK replace legacy satellite-based system for automated content ingest and distribution.

SBS worked with Digistor to set up Aspera fasp.

Fuel VFX worked with Digistor to set up Aspera fasp.

Captiv8 worked with Digistor to set up a live editing station to cover the recent premiere of Battleship in Sydney. The suite enabled live ingesting and editing of the event highlights and materials for the event and delivery to TEN, CH9, 2dayFM, Showtime and Movie Network Channels.

50 Kaliber’s Chief Technology Officer, Evan Butson worked with Digistor to set up Digital Asset Management using Extensis Portfolio Server.

Travelling Tale Productions in Adelaide, took control of their shared post production workflow with their new EditShare 32TB Energy Series storage solution.

"We wanted to do it in a way that reflected the changing face of postproduction and embraced new workflows and technology.." - Colin Renshaw, AltVFX

Shazzam Studios are a small team of 3D artists, based in Queensland. After fourteen years of working in Sydney for various companies doing architectural and animation projects, they decided it was time to set up their own Architectural visualisation and 3D graphics company on the Sunshine Coast.

National Indigenous Television (NITV) is a not for profit public company that provides a nationwide Indigenous television service by cable, satellite and terrestrial transmission means and selected online audio visual content.

Shine Australia worked with Digistor to get their large scale production facility up and running enabling them to produce some of Australia's most popular TV programs.

The latest Baz Luhrman Film, The Great Gatsby, which was shot in NSW has now moved smoothly into editorial production at Spectrum Films.

In 2011, editorial and post production facility, The Butchery, started a new venture: The Refinery. The Refinery is a boutique facility in a large Victorian house solely dedicated to the craft of finishing high end television commercials, films and creative advertising projects.

The Post Lounge is a Queensland based post production facility. Digistor helped them to implement a tapeless workflow environment using DVS CLIPSTER.

TV1 have updated their workflow to allow for automated digital delivery and desktop editing.

Next-Generation Transport Platform Will Automate Ingest, Management and Reporting of Mission-Critical Media Content While Reducing Operating Costs.

The Travel Counsellors Extended their reach with the Newtek Tricaster. Enabling a more professional looking broadcast online

Deakin University has expanded their EditShare system to deliver a complete end-to-end media sharing workflow for diverse student usage.

zspace studios recently upgraded to the Mac OS X version of the Smoke finishing system and installed Flame Premium for Linux.

Thaumaturgy's David Devjak worked with Digistor to set up a complete solution for Online Editing, colour grading and visual effects for video post-production.

The Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) has recently purchased an Editshare Flow Ingest Server & Digital Rapids Stream Z Live Server as the backbone for their live presentation and digital media requirements.

Sydney-based Definition Films has one of the most advanced and high speed data pipelines in Australia. This enables them to handle 4K, 2K, HD, RED R3d files much more efficiently and faster than any of their competitors.

Sydney Production company, Motion Link diversified into the DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) market. Digistor's recommended solution was DVS's premium workstation, CLIPSTER. This resulted in dramatic improvements to their workflow.

Avid Media Composer and EditShare Solution Delivers Smooth Workflow for Fremantle Media's production of the Channel Ten show MasterChef Australia.

Inner Sanctum Media based in Brisbane deployed an EditShare 8TB storage system to facilitate production workflows during the 'Best Job in the World' competition.

Digistor's new HD Replay Transition Device (RTD) has been successfully deployed for Channel Seven's television broadcasts "Sunrise", "The Morning Show", "7 News" and "Today Tonight".

Sandcastle Studios are renowned for providing music and sound for film, TV and commercials.

Post Production Company, Fluid Post used Digistor supplied equipment in the production of a new series, The Travel Bug currently airing on Channel Ten.

MICOMM has been using Avid systems since 1988 and recently upgraded their Xpress Pro system to include a new Avid Media Composer Mojo DX and SANman SAS Cube from Digistor.

As part of their expansion and upgrade program and a move to HD compatibility, Twenty5eight needed to upgrade several existing suites as well as add a new suite.

Based in Port Melbourne, 37 South Films has successfully developed a market niche by offering clients a cost-effective, high quality, production path in High Definition.