IDC Delves into Automated Data Processing with AJA Diskover Media Edition

New automated data processing workflows IDC are structured around data management software AJA Diskover Media Edition.

The post-production company IDC, and more specifically its division of Los Angeles, delivers monthly more than 20,000 files per month to clients from all over the world. This wide workload inevitably involves a deep asset management, a work that Rosanna Marino, director of operations, decided to drive towards the field of the automation: “Our customers are our top priority, and in the render Many things can happen that are overlooked in post-production, so our job is to catch those problems and fix them before the file reaches the client. This often translates into massive volumes of data processing, which is where technology like AJA Diskover Media Edition plays a critical role.”

Once chosen AJA Diskover Media Edition as a tool to manage this type of processes, Marino and his team began working to develop intelligent workflows with this solution and with MediaPulse. These workflows They “ensure” that each file arrives in a designated folder and determine the initial path a file should follow until a team member intervenes to configure profiles, create files, or complete quality control.

To speed up media processing and delivery of projects, especially data-intensive ones, the team creates profiles and access them from their system Telestream Vantage, taking advantage of the tool Colorfront Transcoder. Diskover Media Edition is used in various ways, depending on the client. The files They usually arrive electronically and are sent to a destination area, where the appropriate team members are notified. Depending on where the files arrive, a automatic cloud backup for disaster recovery. Next, IDC producers use Diskover Media Edition to signal to the team that it is time to move files to their next locations and notify relevant team members of your arrival.

"We knew Diskover Media Edition would be a great fit with the built-in automation tools and ties to MediaPulse, and it has exceeded our expectations. The software has also streamlined file scanning and automatically indexes all of our file systems every 30 minutes," says Marino.

ElasticSearch en IDC

In it backend of the index AJA Diskover Media Edition from IDC-LA the motor is located ElasticSearch, critical to the success of this deployment as Marino points out: "AJA Diskover Media Edition's ElasticSearch engine is very powerful and allows us to search for almost anything, from tags to file names or parts of file names. We can even search for a client, and the software interface will present everything about that client, and then we can narrow down the results. It also scans our cloud for disaster recovery, so our customer service representatives can search the index, easily find an asset they need, and submit an order to retrieve it from the cloud when necessary.”

The standardization of these automated workflows has allowed IDC-LA streamline your operations, giving your customer service representatives more information about the data they work with and presenting it in clear and concise reports that can be shared with relevant stakeholders. There is no need to ask the client where the files are, because all the information is available in one centralized and easily accessible place, whereas before, finding the file, sending it to an operator, extracting it and unearthing the necessary information “required a lot of back and forth,” Marino acknowledges.

The operations director, looking back, is satisfied with having integrated AJA Discover in their workflows: "Our goal is to find the right balance between thinking outside the box and not reinventing the wheel. Simplicity and efficiency are key, and we continually look for new technologies, like AJA Diskover Media Edition software, that allow us to do things differently and more agilely. We also love working with companies like AJA and Diskover, who continually improve technology and are transparent about the product roadmap. The conversation is two-way; they are willing to explore new requests with us, something rare nowadays.”