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\n\u201cWe test drove a bunch of different file transfer platforms, and MASV was the only one that always worked without fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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– Jordan Maltby, Owner and CEO, Shadow Magic Studios<\/p>\n
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- Who is Shadow Magic Studios?<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Challenge: Technical Frustrations and Constant Deadlines<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
- The Solution: MASV – Shadow Magic Studios’ New Best Friend<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Result: How MASV Simplified Shadow Magic Studios’ Remote Workflow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Who is Sound Lounge?<\/h2>\n
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Who is Shadow Magic Studios?<\/h2>\n
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Shadow Magic Studios<\/a> is a boutique digital lab in Glendale, CA providing post-production services including dailies, LTO archiving, DCP creation, and VFX pulls for independent filmmakers and other content creators. What makes Shadow Magic a little different is that it doesn\u2019t have a formal brick-and-mortar facility. Instead it operates as a decentralized operation powered by the cloud and remote operators and it passes its low operational cost benefits to its clients. The result is an offering of studio-level digital lab services at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n
The company also offers innovative hardware with its easy-to-use yet powerful Magic Box DIT rig<\/a>, which not only functions as a remote media vault, but also as a launchpad for uploading media to the cloud and backing up large files from anywhere. The Magic Box can also be supported and even operated remotely, giving filmmakers even more options and peace of mind.<\/p>\n
But even though they\u2019re really good at it, they\u2019re not just about the technical stuff. They\u2019re also creative to the bone: Jordan Maltby<\/a>, the owner and CEO, is an editor himself with credits including the upcoming How I Got There,\u00a0Welcome to Mercy, Once Upon a Time in Venice, Army of One, Wind River, <\/em>and The Sound and the Fury<\/em>. He\u2019s a self-confessed film junkie who got his start editing on Final Cut Pro 1.0 when he was in the sixth grade \u2013 and hasn\u2019t looked back since.<\/p>\n
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Raw footage, Dailies, DCPs \u2014 whatever. MASV can send it. \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n
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MASV: Better File Transfer Right Out of the Box<\/h2>\n
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The Challenge: Technical Frustrations and Constant Deadlines<\/h2>\n
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Like most post-production houses, Shadow Magic Studios lives in a world of constant deadlines and unending pressure to keep client media safe and secure. Geographically dispersed jobs are the norm \u2013 a recent project had its L.A.-based team doing dailies for a crew shooting in Minnesota while working with a film editor in New York City. As you might expect, having a large file transfer service that works reliably and doesn\u2019t break people\u2019s brains with technical details is kind of a big deal for them.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u201cThere are a lot of ways to transfer files,\u201d he explains, \u201cbut there\u2019s a learning curve that goes along with that sometimes. That can be frustrating, especially for creatives who want to spend their time being creative and not dealing with technical setup or issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Easier said than done, however, says CEO and owner Jordan Maltby. He\u2019s used several different large file transfer services and methods in the past, including FTP and other file transfer software. But they all had the same maddening things in common: Technical problems and frustration, especially from clients and partners with limited patience for re-configuring firewalls and apps or installing complicated software.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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The Magic Box DIT Rig<\/h3>\n
The company also required a reliable and fast file transfer solution to pair with its Magic Box rig.<\/span><\/p>\n
Magic Box is a powerful DIT station that provides a safe and efficient way for filmmakers to upload and download footage from the set to editing or archiving. It comes equipped with:<\/span><\/p>\n
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- Up to 128TB of onboard storage across 2x high-performance RAIDs<\/span><\/li>\n
- Easy-to-use <\/span>Hedge<\/span><\/a> software<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The beautiful part about Magic Box, though? It offers a completely remote workflow.<\/span><\/p>\n
Instead of lugging it from location to location, filmmakers leave it at a near-set location connected to the internet, and can just use it like a shared hard drive, uploading files to a<\/span> MASV Portal<\/span><\/a> throughout the day and having dailies, LTO Archives, and a secure cloud backup ready within hours.<\/span><\/p>\n
But Maltby says initially finding a large file transfer service to use with Magic Box that was easy to use, relatively inexpensive, automated, secure, and that just plain <\/span>worked<\/span><\/i> \u2013 especially without throttling the bandwidth of others on their network \u2013 had proven surprisingly difficult.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Until they found MASV.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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