Enhanced performance and expanded capacity support the school’s growing project load and evolving production training.
Boston, MA, 4 December 2025: EditShare, the technology leader in intelligent shared storage and media management, today announced that The National Film and Television School (NFTS) has completed a major refresh of its EditShare environment, expanding the school’s tiered storage, boosting performance for high-end editorial work and introducing MediaSilo for secure review and approvals. The project was delivered in partnership with Jigsaw24 Media.
The new deployment strengthens one of the busiest film and tv production environments in Europe. NFTS runs a continuous slate of real productions across fiction, documentary, entertainment, animation and commercial content. The facility continues to grow its student intake and is adding new on-campus accommodation designed to support students with additional accessibility needs, as part of a wider development programme backed by government, student fees and industry contributions.
NFTS first standardized on EditShare five years ago. The existing platform has supported heavy, multi-department production workloads without issue, so continuing with EditShare was the natural choice as the school expanded. The latest investment introduces a tiered architecture combining high-capacity nearline storage, a refreshed high-availability (HA) layer and a new NVMe performance tier designed for 4K, 8K and VFX-heavy workflows that demand high-bandwidth, multi-stream editorial performance.
“EditShare sits at the heart of how we teach production at NFTS,” said Doug Shannon, Head of Systems and IT at the National Film and Television School. “The new tiered storage and NVMe layer give our students the bandwidth they need to work the way modern productions do, while FLOW and MediaSilo help us keep projects organized, secure and accessible across multiple courses. It means we can support more concurrent projects and higher resolutions without adding unnecessary overhead for the IT team.”
“EditShare has been a core part of how the school runs day-to-day production training,” said Sean Bradley, Regional Sales Director at EditShare. “The refresh gives them faster bandwidth, more resilience and room to grow as they continue to push student projects into higher resolutions and more complex workflows.”
With MediaSilo now part of the system, students and tutors gain an efficient way to collect notes, share cuts securely and maintain version control across multiple editorial teams.
The infrastructure refresh supports the school’s broader development plans, including new teaching spaces and the addition of on-site accessible accommodation. These updates are part of a long-term strategy to broaden access to the creative industries and improve support for students from a wide range of backgrounds.
Bradley added, “The school’s requirements are growing year after year. Reliability and performance were key drivers for them, and the new system sets them up well for the next stage of their growth.”
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EditShare is an Emmy Award-winning technology leader, supporting storytellers through collaborative media workflows across on-premise, cloud and hybrid architectures. It offers scalable storage and collaboration for media businesses and at every stage of the video production process from storyboarding to screening.
The software is inherently open, encouraging workflow collaboration, third-party integrations and content sharing across the entire production chain. Where required, the software is backed by high performance, high availability designed specifically for the demands of media storage, management and delivery. The comprehensive offering covers multi-level content storage for production and post, along with innovative asset and workflow management software, plus specialized and highly valued tools for content review and distribution, the creation of customized and branded pitch reels, and secure preview of high-value pre-release content.
About Jigsaw24 Media
Jigsaw24 Media is a specialist division of Jigsaw24 and provides services and technology solutions to the media and entertainment, education and corporate sectors. It’s the only UK-based company of its kind that has in-house system integration capabilities. Jigsaw24 Media’s team of industry-recognised experts design, deliver, integrate and support end-to-end solutions for some of the nation’s biggest broadcasters and facilities, underpinned by partnerships with over 30 leading technology vendors including Avid, Adobe, AWS, Nutanix and EditShare. With headquarters in Nottingham, an office and demo space at the heart of London’s post-production community, and a nationwide support team, Jigsaw24 Media provides local services on a national scale. For more information visit https://media.jigsaw24.com/
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