{"id":116019,"date":"2017-04-13T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/?p=116019"},"modified":"2017-04-13T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:52:11","slug":"tcus-new-video-production-team-commits-to-media-management-workflows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2017\/04\/13\/tcus-new-video-production-team-commits-to-media-management-workflows\/","title":{"rendered":"TCU\u2019s New Video-Production Team Commits to Media-Management Workflows"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Chris Salters<\/strong> was brought on board at Texas Christian University to run a new video-production unit within the athletic department\u2019s marketing division, the first question he had was simple: how do you store your content? When he was shown a shelf of external hard drives and a 2-TB university server typically used for low-impact data transfer, he knew what was going to the top of his priority list.<\/p>\n

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TCU invested in a Studio Network Solutions EVO media-management system to bolster the efficiency and organization of its new video-production team.<\/p><\/div>\n

Salters was given the go signal to begin scouting out the options available, and, after a few months of research, the university purchased a 16-bay Studio Network Solutions EVO shared-storage system, which offers a 64-bit, multi-CPU, multicore, 3RU server. With the EVO and the SNS ShareBrowser file and asset manager, the department is establishing an efficient workflow for archiving, searching, and managing its assets for its shoots for various shows and social-media campaigns.<\/p>\n

\u201c[EVO] allows us to log our footage and add metadata, and it\u2019s all searchable,\u201d says Salters, who is director of video production for TCU Athletics.<\/p>\n

He went with SNS EVO also because TCU is an Adobe Premiere house and EVO has storage integration with XenData LTO. When that element is added in the coming year, the ShareBrowser software will log and keep track of media archived to LTO tape.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest issue we had aside from adding more staff, who needed a unified area to access this media, is that we needed the speed to access it,\u201d Salters explains. \u201cOur local server is built for data, and it applies to 95% of the rest of the campus, but that doesn\u2019t quite work for video. When we started going down this path, I showed what it\u2019s like to scrub through a video and my computer stalls. That\u2019s not workable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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TCU’s new video team is dedicated to delivering a more cinematic style of storytelling.<\/p><\/div>\n

The team is growing but continues to be a small group, comprising two full-time staffers with a grad assistant and some student workers. When the new media-management system was formally put in place in mid January, the staff began immediately dropping footage into the system when returning from ENG shoots. Such elements as naming conventions and metadata constitute a learning process.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still evolving,\u201d Salters notes. \u201cWe\u2019re still developing what we want to do with the metadata tagging because, at some point, it can become too much information that you save. What is important? We\u2019re still working through that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was brought in to run the new video team, which is dedicated to producing all in-venue videoboard shows, shooting content for website and social-media distribution, and giving a shot in the arm to a 30-minute linear-television program that the athletic department produces for the local Fox Sports regional network. The goal is to bring a more cinematic, storytelling feel to TCU\u2019s video productions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to see what comes from this department,\u201d says Salters. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of changes within the past year, and I think it\u2019s only going to get bigger and better. It\u2019s pretty cool to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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