Local Hero is the trusted full-service boutique of numerous high-profile clients such as HBO, Netflix, Lionsgate and Apple, with credits that include the recent movie Home Again starring Reese Witherspoon, and HBO series Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. The studio is now working almost entirely on 4K projects and is starting to work with HDR content as well.
Brat was juggling a fleet of hard drives, managing multiple instances of the same data across them. This cost them 12 hours a day across their four Assistant Editors, who were copying multiple terabytes of RAW camera files and editorial proxies a day.
Since 4K requires four times the space as 2K, the facility started encountering capacity issues which, along with a disappointing vendor service experience, drove them to explore options. The search, however, was paved with solutions that came with high costs and pricey support contracts.
Steve Bannerman
CEO, Real by Fake aka Local Hero Post
“We go above and beyond [for our clients] and didn’t think it was too much to expect the same from our storage vendors, but it took DigitalGlue and creative.space to find that level of service. They came on site, trained our staff and helped us understand how the product works and what makes it unique. They gave us the kind of service you’d expect if you were making a huge investment or dropping a pile of cash, but this is an affordable monthly fee — and still DigitalGlue delivered, spectacularly.”
Steve Bannerman
CEO, Real by Fake aka Local Hero Post
Instead of purchasing another piece of iron and committing to another service contract, Bannerman found creative.space, an On-Premise Managed Storage™(OPMS) system and entirely new concept in media storage that not only met his requirements, but surpassed his expectations. For Bannerman, the solution scored high on all counts — affordability, service, support, and reliability.
Real by Fake works with major studios and needs to secure
The creative.space Web App allows Real by Fake's non-I.T. staff to independently manage they system. The built-in LDAP lets them divide their storage into separate Spaces, or "Walled Gardens", for each Production and restrict access to specific users and groups. Everything that they need to do can be completed from a single interface without using a command line.
“It's a really dynamic tool because wherever I am, I can just create the Space that I need, manage the permissions, if a new person joins the team I can add then right away, I don't need to wait for anyone in I.T. or someone from creative.space to do that for me.
Boraj
Post Production Engineer, Local Hero Post aka Real by Fake
Snapshots allow Local Hero Post to create read-only backups of their Spaces that they can navigate to restore deleted and modified files and folders from. The underlying ZFS filesystem checksums every block of data, which it uses to check for and self-heal any data corruption that might happen as hard drives age.
Real by Fake chose creative.space’s //DEUS EX hybrid NVMe SSD and HDD media storage solution that balances solid state and spinning disk technology with a fully optimized internal architecture to provide seamless playback.
Designed for uncompressed, high-resolution, end-to-end post-production workflows, //DEUS EX eliminates the need for separate online and nearline systems, allowing the entire team to work with collaborative workflows like those available in DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Creative Cloud.
“We didn’t just need a big, fast piece of storage, we needed something that works and service we could rely on. We needed a business model that was going to let us excel, and we got it. One of the things I love most about creative.space is that it helps us keep our infrastructure costs down. If the system we're using turns out to not be the right product, we’re not locked in. We can simply move on to a more appropriate creative.space solution for our needs.
Steve Bannerman
CEO, Real by Fake aka Local Hero Post
Adopting creative.space has enabled Real by Fake to take on 4K and HDR projects. The Web App syncs data between HDD and SSD tiers to efficiently manage capacity usage. By copying internally, instead of through a workstation, large image sequence files don't need to be analyzed first, leading to significant time savings.