Podcast: The Workflow Show

CatDV was one of the pioneer platforms in the Media Asset Management space, and today it is one of the most deployed MAM solutions in the world. Nick and Merrel had a chance to sit down with CEO Dave Clack to talk about the plaftorm’s success and what Dave and his team see for the future of MAM.

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Show Notes

Dave Clack shares the latest news about CatDV with us at NAB 2014:

CatDV website

Rolf Howarth, Founder & CTO 

Dalet Digital Media Systems
Telestream Episode

CatDV Review and Approval

CatDV Review app
CatDV Review & Approval via Rich Client and Web Client
REST API
Oculus Rift virtual reality headset
Quantum StorNext 5 file system and Storage Manager
ASG – Digital Archive

Join Jason and Ben as they begin a multi-episode tour through the digital media workflow and entertainment workflow creation process. In this fist episode, dedicated to ingest media, they discuss some of the common mistakes made in media organizations. Join as they share some simple best practices and cool MAM tricks for getting your assets where they’re going, and keeping them organized.

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In this second installment of the Media and Entertainment Digital Workflow Series, Jason and Ben discuss storage. They cover the inner workings of, and the differences between the most common storage technologies we use in media and entertainment workflows. Meant as a breakdown and comparison of these technologies, the hosts review the importance of file systems and their associated metadata, block and file level storage, and safety considerations in maintaining high performance systems.

For a deeper view on this topic, make sure to check out the first episode of this series on Ingest of media and video, along with The Workflow Show episode on SAN vs NAS and the episode on File Systems.

We want to give another thank you to SVG for featuring The Workflow Show. You can check out that article here.

We’d love to hear more from you, our listeners. Send topic suggestions, questions on the series, and share how you found our podcast at workflowshow@chesa.com

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In the second half of our interview with Micheal Cioni of Frame.io, Ben and Jason ask Michael about his background and the sights he saw in filmmaking along the way. They discuss Micheal’s trip to be featured at Cannes, despite his college’s wishes. Micheal details the lessons he’s learned from mentors about adapting to changing tech and looking for innovation in an industry that can be slow to change its tools. Finally, Jason and Ben explore with Micheal what the creative contributes to the building and designing of workflows, in order to make editors and filmmakers excited about their process.