replay
After ingesting footage into a K2
Summit server, all the tagging and
logging information is shared between
the K2 Dyno™ Replay Controller,
K2 Dyno Production Assistant (PA),
and editing applications such Grass
Valley’s EDIUS® or Apple’s Final
Cut Pro for highlight reel creation.
Employing user-defined rules, K2
Dyno PA software can be used to
automatically transfer clips to
different applications or sub-systems
such as the EDIUS editing application
or Kayenne ClipStore. With the
K2 Summit Storage Area Network
(SAN) configuration, all content
is immediately accessible by
different K2 Summit clients and
editing applications.
post production
Now with the Fusion-enabled K2
EDIUS Connect—a software
option for EDIUS—K2 files appear
as bin content within EDIUS. The
K2 EDIUS Connect option not only
reads a K2 program (much like an
EDL), but also supports exporting
finished jobs back to the server as
K2 Programs, in many instances
eliminating the need to render and
transfer a new file.
While intuition might say that the NLE
is the heart of the post production
or replay system, the server is where
the content exists and where it can
be called upon to be shared by
several users, thus sitting at the center
of an interconnected NLE/replay
system. When you think about the
workflow of a “system,” having the
sever at the heart just makes sense.
Workflow efficiencies Grass Valley’s new STRATUS™ Media Workflow Application Frame- work also supports the Fusion workflow initiative and brings it o the enterprise level. Through a series of software applications, STRATUS supports every part of a production facility’s operations through a common graphical user interface. This allows each user
to have a customized computer
workspace made up of a shared
toolset and accessing shared content.
STRATUS uses the latest version of
the Grass Valley K2 Summit (v. 8.0)
media server platform as the
foundation for media clips to be stored,
shared, and distributed in a fast and
highly efficient way. The K2 Summit
server makes proxy files available
to virtually everyone on a network
with proper authorization, via this
specialized software layer, while
also providing the bi-directional
bandwidth necessary to move large
HD files around a production facility.
The file system and networking
of the K2 Summit server provides
superb editing support for EDIUS,
Final Cut Pro 7, and Avid NLEs.
With the K2 Summit, all editors
have guaranteed bandwidth while
making sure that no one editor
monopolizes all available bandwidth.
This type of next-generation,
file-based production system, now
recognized as the wave of the future
for virtually every type of production,
is not just about extending control
to the entire team but also bringing
all of the task-specific tools and
project folders under a single user
interface. Having more control over
and between Grass Valley systems
means ensuring a more predictable
(and successful) outcome.
Making staff more productive is
what today’s business model is all
about. Fusion and STRATUS, with
the server at the heart of the media
ecosystem, not only allows a user to
work faster, they also work smarter
and get more done in the same
amount of time.
With its inherent flexibility and
price-per-channel efficiency, the
Grass Valley K2 Summit platform
provides the ideal foundation upon
which to build a fully networked,
multichannel business. It incorporates
a number of services and features
that makes it fast and easy to share
content with other systems across
networks or with standard storage
devices. It also ties together all of
the individual pieces to facilitate a
smooth over-arching operation—
both locally and remotely—that adds
significant value by tightly integrating
the various separate products.
