Illuminate Hollywood adapts to new media management needs with AJA Diskover

Data management and preservation software AJA Diskover Media Edition has been added to the pipeline of Illuminate Hollywood, a production and post-production services company that faces increasingly complex workflows as a result of high resolutions and the HDR world.

With a portfolio of projects as rich as its history, Illuminate Hollywood has provided production, post-production and technology to major Hollywood studios, television networks, digital platforms, and independent producers and distributors for nearly three decades. Since the boutique opened its doors in 1995, it has carried out scanning, editing, color correction, digital intermediate, visual effects, 2K/4K distribution, audio shaping y layback for episodic and feature film productions ranging from sons of anarchy until Gone Girl.

In all its projects, Illuminate manages a bulk data upload up to 4K stored in your storage systems Aberdeen y XStor, which requires well-organized files and data and an easy way to access them. To speed up this work in all departments, the company has decided to adopt the system AJA Diskover Media Edition.

Today, data operators use software to know how many files does the installation have on all its volumes and servers. You can write a keyword in search and see all the information in the user interface. On the other hand, from an administrative point of view, Illuminate uses Diskover to obtain a overview of Illuminate data: If a customer wants to know what file or title they have, they can query it, rather than having to query it first with operations.

Quality control and agility in processes with Diskover

AJA Diskover Media Edition has also improved the quality control process by Illuminate. With the CineViewer Player plugin CineSys, the Illuminate team can review rejected or doubtful files flagged by the QA operator, rather than having to travel to a separate facility to review them.

Thanks to this agility in processes, the Illuminate team can share more information and more quickly with your customers. They can also easily enter work orders if they need the operator to work from a specific file, as file paths become more accessible with Diskover. Furthermore, they can Easily confirm available file and aspect ratios, as long as they are correctly identified. Another pillar of operations with AJA Diskover Media Edition is the possibility of granting members of the Iluminate team access permissions exclusive views and view file sizes at a time, ensuring you only see the files you need to see at the right time, without compromising their integrity.