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  • Introduction
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  • Business Value
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Introduction

CLEAR, our cloud-based Media ERP platform helps virtualize the content supply chain and digitally mediate enterprise workflows to manage the business of content. CLEAR provides an integrated approach and a robust set of tools, for next generation Production on the Cloud which includes the award-winning DAX® workflow. DAX® has gone through a significant upgrade with some powerful additions to the software. With this upgrade and expanded functionalities, we now call this DAX® Production Cloud. A true camera to archive offering that arms you with the ability to ingest raw camera files, extract metadata, and transcode to a multitude of codecs fostering automation of the production pipeline.

Solution Overview

Product

MAM, BPM & Media Tools
  • Concurrent Reviews with Chat Window
  • Enhanced BPM engine with 30 workflow primitives
  • Enhanced Publish engine extended up to 400 robots
  • Enhanced Essence Management with audio track level control
  • Bulk Ingest tools
  • Cloud Metadata Editor
  • Cloud Visual QC tool
  • Enhanced Media Player with support for multi-track audio, multi-language sub-title & audio
  • Review comments integration within Edit timeline
Next Generation DAX Digital Dailies®

Our Primetime Emmy® Award winning Digital Dailies (US Patent No: 7,660,416/8,218,764/12,976,929/13, 903,908/10,057,537) is the de-facto industry standard for online dailies. Extensive workflows, Media Review/Collaboration tools and full Media Asset Management (MAM) including DAX, a highly-secure media production workflow application. Designed to maximize efficiencies throughout the content creation lifecycle, DAX enables secure exchange, collaboration, approvals and distribution of work-in-progress materials from concept development through final delivery

  • Clip-based workflows
  • Virtual Reel
  • DAX Mobile for iPhone (iDailies® service for iPhone app available for TV and Feature content producers)
  • DAX BOX (‘DVR’ like device; remote control navigation; multi-user access; stream 1080p content at home, office or screening room)
  • Playlist
  • VFX pull list
  • EDL retrieval
Production Hub

PFT's next generation Production Hub, a first of its kind for the industry, is a path-breaking production pipeline application leveraging the power of its CLEAR Media ERP technology platform, DAX Digital Dailies and best-in-class media tools. PFT connects the archive group and the production with the ability to ingest raw camera files, extract metadata, and transcode to a multitude of codecs accelerating automation of the production pipeline

  • Ingest Camera Files from Set into Cloud
  • Metadata Extraction, Tagging, and transformation into a number of deliverables
  • Distribute working media directly and simultaneously to production stakeholders like VFX, Editorial, Publicity and Archive
  • Experience enterprise class workflow management with common work-in-progress repository (raw, mezzanine, web-proxy)
  • Collaboration
    • Review, Approve, Share and Collaborate between all key team members – creative, producers, studio/programming execs
  • Admin
    • Complete control over users, number of views, duration of access (expiring one time sharing also), audit trails and access rights while maintaining a constant relationship with raw footage
Marketing

Enjoy perfect time to market with absolute creative control and pre-release security

  • Sizzle Reel/Storyboard
  • Vendor submission
  • Concurrent reviews with Chat windows
  • Compliance submission
Distribution

Push finished content across vendors, formats and delivery mechanisms, both online and offline, ensuring content security with visible/invisible watermarking, and content and device encryption

Services

Cloud Infrastructure Services

Cloud Storage, Hybrid Cloud Storage (ability to manage assets across multiple sites) and Cloud Media Processing Services including Transcoding, Auto QC, Packaging and Delivery

Digital Media Services

A suite of creative and technical services including Bulk Digitization, Metadata, Content Localization, Content Preparation Services like QC, Mastering, Compliance Editing, VoD Packaging for Multi-channel networks and Monetization Services like Contextual Advertising, SEO & Analytics, Monitoring and Digital Media Supply Chain Management

Why PFT

Proven

Our solutions have helped 13 of the top 15 studios in the world to embrace digital transformation that fosters greater creativity, collaboration and community within their organizations

  • Television shows we deliver: CSI, NCIS, Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother, 2.5 Men, The Mentalist, Dexter, Homeland, Bones, 24 and many others
  • Feature movies we deliver: Hunger Games, The Seventh Son, Ender’s Game, Twilight Series, Godzilla, Pacific Rim, The Expendables series and many more
Unified Platform

A single core platform to manage the entire studio content production pipeline from camera to archive. We provide APIs to ensure a fully integrated solution

Media credentials

Over one and a half decades of experience in VFX, 3D and traditional post services involving the management of raw camera files, file-based workflows, integration with editorial, animation and VFX systems, from the view of production, distribution and archive

  • Over 700 films delivered
Fastest

Experience Digital Transformation in 6 months flat. CLEAR is the quickest to deploy thanks to process accelerators and best practices curated from multiple deployments

Scale

CLEAR is powered by PFT’s ‘True North’ – the world’s largest digital media services cloud which is the 24x7 global content operations hub.

Secure and Available

ISO Certified 99.987% uptime. Highly available platform instance with multi-site DR option

Adaptable

Workflow templates are fully configurable and customizable to address the specific needs of content businesses including integration with existing technology investments

Certainty

SOC compliant, SLA driven Digital Media Services, spanning content processing and monetization services for channel operations, production, distribution, marketing and digital departments

Business Value

Innovation and Technology Excellence

Automation of content supply chain

Mediate content workflows across the enterprise and supply chain from just about anywhere

Hybrid Cloud

The perfect architecture for studios with content operations across regions

Mobility

React to content, on the fly and in the moment. CLEAR iPad App allows you to experience freedom like never before

Compelling business case

Resources

  • Digital Transformation in Studios: Winning over the digital consumer

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  • Digital Transformation for Content Production Houses by Ernst & Young

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