Murrieta, CA - January 24, 2020 - When Pickathon - a three-day music festival taking place every August at Pendarvis Farm in Oregon - required a reliable onsite storage system that could handle the high volume of camera cards and numerous editors working on footage simultaneously, they turned to DigitalGlue’s creative.space. Having a system that performs under the pressure of a fast-paced, live event was non-negotiable for the Pickathon team and DigitalGlue was able to deliver in record time. creative.space, powered by DigitalGlue, has shattered the paradigm of high-end storage solutions by offering an industry-changing collaboration software workflow.
Designed to empower creative teams to collaborate in real-time with high-resolution media, the //AUTEUR was the perfect solution to handle Pickathon’s live event needs. The system built for Pickathon was the entry-level //AUTEUR, which comes half-filled with (12) 10TB drives for a total of 120TB of RAW capacity and ready to scale. The monitoring tools included in the creative.space easy-to-use web app UI allowed Pickathon to monitor usage in real-time, quickly identify any bottlenecks in their workflow, and keep production flowing efficiently. The //AUTEUR was provided as part of creative.space’s unique On-Premise Managed Storage™ (OPMS) service featuring 24/7 monitoring, technical support and next-day repairs for an all-inclusive, affordable, fixed monthly rate.
With the //AUTEUR, Pickathon’s post-production team was able to finish the ingest of over 47TB of captured media within just four days of the festival’s end. Tim Anderson, CEO of DigitalGlue, noted that, “Pickathon was a perfect Early Adopter for us because they demonstrated how the //AUTEUR performs in the high-pressure environment of a live event. Ingesting media from multiple camera cards while maintaining seamless real-time playback to 16 editors is no easy task.” Exceeding Pickathon’s expectations, ten machines were able to edit from the storage during ingest without any lag or scrubbing issues. Pickathon was even able to use the additional bandwidth provided by the //AUTEUR to experiment with a new workflow.
