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\n\u201cMASV is file transfer without all the stuff that makes file transfer painful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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– Alan Saunders, Director of Post Production, Curiosity Stream<\/p>\n
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- Who is Curiosity Stream?<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Challenge: Finding File Transfer That Works (And Isn’t Complicated)<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Solution: Keeping it Simple with MASV Portals<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Result: MASV – Easy, Breezy File Transfer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Who is Sound Lounge?<\/h2>\n
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Who is Apache?<\/h2>\n
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Who is Curiosity Stream?<\/h2>\n
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Curiosity Stream<\/a> is an over-the-top (OTT) and <\/span>bundled streaming service<\/span>, launched in 2015 by Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks, focused on documentary-style productions.<\/span><\/p>\n
The service features content from producers such as the BBC along with original documentaries including <\/span>The History of Rome<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Stephen Hawking\u2019s Favorite Places<\/span><\/i>. While Curiosity Stream itself boasts upward of 20 million subscribers, its parent company, Curiosity, also features a bundled TV channel (Curiosity Channel) and production house (Curiosity Studios).<\/span><\/p>\n
Michael Smith<\/span><\/a>, the company\u2019s Vice-President of Content Operations, and Director of Post Production <\/span>Alan Saunders<\/span><\/a> have been with the company since its founding and have used MASV for large file transfers for the past several years<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Send and receive files between set, post-production, and broadcast teams.<\/p>\n
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File Transfer That Works (And Isn’t Complicated)<\/h2>\n
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Both Smith and Saunders constantly send and receive large video files<\/a> to and from off-site editors, producers, partners, and distributors around the world. Many of these partners are in remote<\/a>, sometimes hard-to-reach locations.<\/span><\/p>\n
But prior to using MASV, the pair from Curiosity Stream dealt with a broad range of needlessly complicated and unreliable file transfer solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u201cIn video production you get files from so many people,\u201d Saunders explains. \u201cI\u2019ve tried literally everything, and received files from pretty much every solution that someone could use \u2013 and 75 percent of all that stuff sucks.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
While the sheer time spent troubleshooting problems caused by other large file transfer solutions made the situation untenable, Curiosity Stream also wanted to consolidate its file transfer into one dependable file transfer solution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The main criteria? It needed to work, and it couldn\u2019t be complicated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u201cI wanted to be able to say, \u2018Send this to me, please use this link,\u2019 and it’s done,\u201d Saunders explains. \u201cYou don’t have to worry about it. And I certainly don’t have to worry about it. I just wanted file transfer to involve as little work as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
An Upvote for MASV<\/h3>\n
After seeing MASV\u2019s name a few times in the <\/span>r\/editors<\/span> Subreddit, Curiosity Stream tried MASV a few years ago. Needless to say, they\u2019ve been big fans ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\ud83c\udfaf Read More: How Thunder4 Productions uses MASV<\/a> to reliably share 4K+ footage with their post-production facility abroad.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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Get fast, easy, and secure delivery of large media files.<\/p>\n
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Keeping it Simple With MASV Portals<\/h2>\n
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Curiosity Stream now uses MASV to send and receive full programs (on the production side) and individual video and audio assets, such as audio stems, for post production<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
After setting up brandable, customizable <\/span>MASV Portals<\/span><\/a> to receive content, now all Curiosity Stream needs to do to send or receive large files<\/a> is share a Portal link to its partners and collaborators.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u201cAnytime one of our partners wants to use something else,\u201d Smith says, \u201cwe just cut it off really quick and say \u2018here\u2019s the link \u2013 drop the files here.\u2019 And it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
MASV has even helped when dealing with some of Curiosity Stream\u2019s large corporate partners, most of whom use expensive (and complex) enterprise large file transfer<\/a> systems.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u201cIf you just need one thing, sometimes it’s easier to give them a MASV Portal link, and then they don’t have to go through their full system,\u201d he explains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Smith says he often sends large batches of content to dubbing houses<\/a> and other partners via MASV Portal links. Those partners are then able to easily send completed assets back to him via the same link.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n