Archion Technologies, a world leader in high performance shared media storage, has announced that its EditStor Shared Media Storage Solution has been embraced by Stun Creative, a leading ad/marketing agency specializing in promotional content for major television networks, top TV programs, and brands. The announcement was made by Reuben Lima, CEO/Founder, Archion.
Heralded by Promax/BDA in 2014 as the “Agency of the Year,” Stun, winner of numerous Cannes Lion, Emmy®, Promax/BDA, Webby, and other television and advertising awards, features an in-house, Avid-based post production facility managed by Doug Ryan, the agency’s Vice President of Post Production. Having to regularly deal with very high levels of quality media demanded by Stun’s major industry clients, Ryan and his team had an important decision to make when their pre-existing Avid Unity system was no longer being supported. Nearly a decade earlier, Stun expanded their Avid Unity SAN with Archion’s award-winning Synergy storage solution, marking a long history of relying on Archion shared storage products.
In 2015, Ryan and the Stun team next looked into the Avid Isis, but realized that that system lacked the performance and overall functionality Stun was seeking. Instead, Ryan and Stun made the critical decision to turn to Archion, and invested in an EditStor System, a far more cost-effective solution to ISIS – and one that offered three times more throughput and provided the very important transparent Avid project sharing. Since integrating EditStor into Stun’s post production facility, Ryan and his team have been using EditStor during the intensive editorial process behind Stun’s various promotional projects, including television promos, TV network ID campaigns, interstitials, television commercials, web content, sizzle reels, corporate presentations, and numerous other marketing materials.
Says Ryan, “With Archion EditStor, we can seamlessly connect all 14 of our Avid bays using 10-gig – all of them with Avid project sharing and blazing speeds capable of streaming DNxHD 175x & 220x. At the same moment, the assists can connect using SMB or AFP to ingest and manage media without the need for special PCle cards or seat licenses. It was a solid decision to go with Archion, since their EditStor solution has consistently delivered very fast results for us at a very affordable price point.”
“We are delighted to have as one of our preeminent clients a highly respected and multi-award winning creative services agency like Stun Creative,” adds Mr. Lima. “Doug and his colleagues have been using our EditStor system extensively with their Avid Media Composers for many high profile television and advertising campaigns, really putting the EditStor to the test. We are proud to be supporting Stun Creative on their digital storage needs, and look forward to our continued relationship well into the future.”
Dan Stern, Archion’s Vice President, Business Development, said, “It’s a great honor for us to be working with such a talented and successful creative Hollywood agency as Stun Creative. Doug’s decision to integrate our EditStor Shared Media Storage into the Stun post production workflow – and the continued success he and his team have enjoyed with this solution – are a testament to the important role that Archion can play within the post production process for top entertainment and multi-media clients and projects.”
About EditStor EO or Omni or Velo
EditStor EO, a NAS server storage system designed for demanding post production workflows, provides Avid, Adobe and Apple digital video professionals a high performance, scalable and affordable shared storage solution that also has broad functionality. With over 1000 MB/sec from just this single NAS storage server, 10GigE direct client connectivity, and Mac and PC project sharing that is transparent to the post production editor, EditStor EO is the ideal Avid ISIS replacement and greater choice to Avid Nexis.
Archion’s EditStor EO networked storage makes media sharing easy and affordable for digital video professionals utilizing Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Avid Media Composer® and Pro Tools, Blackmagic, Final Cut 7 and FCPX, NewTek (NDI), and other popular media creation tools. This high performance, feature rich media storage system is about much more than just storing, creating, and sharing; it facilitates the flow, conversion, and management of media within the production, post production and finishing workflow. See: http://www.archion.com/products/editstor-eo/
About Stun Creative
Based in Los Angeles, Stun Creative is a creative advertising/marketing agency, and a commercial and branded content production company co-founded by principals Mark Feldstein and Brad Roth.
Celebrating 16 years, Stun Creative built its reputation as Hollywood’s go-to shop for entertainment brands—the major television networks and motion picture studios. The company has also moved successfully into consumer brand advertising, most recently shooting top brand commercials, including Dove + Men Care Real Strength, a Super Bowl favorite last year; the new Fandango campaign starring SNL comedian Kenan Thompson as movie superfan Miles Mouvay; the Pepsi Perfect commercial celebrating the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future; and "If You Don’t Tell Them, Then Who Will?," a pro-bono effort on Funny Or Die for WomanCare Global, featuring actress/activist Jessica Beal. Please see: http://www.stuncreative.com/stun/
About Archion
Based in Los Angeles, CA, Archion Technologies is a global leader in high performance and intelligent networked storage solutions, specifically designed for the editorial, graphics, and other media workflows commonly used by creative teams in the broadcast, production, corporate, education, government, house of worship, and sports industries.
Founded by a team of post production, technology, and entertainment industry professionals in 1998, Archion has defined a new standard of performance, protection and affordability for shared media storage solutions. Since its founding, the company’s storage technologies have been critical to the success of thousands of TV, film, commercial, documentary, and other content creation projects. Archion’s storage systems are most often used by professionals integrating Avid, Apple, Adobe, Autodesk, Blackmagic Resolve, NewTek and other creative workflow tools. For more information, please visit: http://www.Archion.com
