FLOW Disaster Recovery: Protecting Your Media Production Workflow from the Unexpected
In a world where production teams depend on seamless collaboration and real-time media access, downtime isn’t just inconvenient; it’s costly. A single outage caused by a storm, flood, or power failure can grind production to a halt, delay delivery timelines, and jeopardize valuable client relationships.
That’s why EditShare’s FLOW Disaster Recovery system exists: a feature that mirrors your primary FLOW site and allows you to get back online fast. Within minutes, not hours or days.
It’s not an archive or long-term storage system; it’s a real-time continuity solution designed to keep your creative teams working when disaster strikes.
Why Disaster Recovery Matters for Media and Production Teams
Video production workflows are complex. They depend on shared storage, media asset management systems, and hundreds of interconnected files. When disaster hits, whether physical damage to a facility, network failure, or regional outage, teams risk losing access to projects, metadata, and proxy media.
Without a disaster recovery strategy, you face:
Extended downtime during which editing and collaboration stop completely.
Lost or corrupted assets that disrupt version control and delivery schedules.
Damaged client trust due to missed deadlines and incomplete recoveries.
With FLOW Disaster Recovery, your team gains peace of mind knowing your entire production environment is mirrored and ready to take over at a moment’s notice.
What Makes FLOW Disaster Recovery Different
Unlike traditional data backups or archives that only store static copies of your files, FLOW Disaster Recovery maintains a fully synchronized, live replica of your FLOW system, including Media Spaces, proxies, thumbnails, transcriptions and the database.
If a natural disaster, power outage, or hardware failure takes your main system offline, the secondary FLOW environment can be activated swiftly. Within minutes your team can reconnect and resume editing, reviewing, and managing assets from wherever they are.
This isn’t a “cold” backup. It’s an emergency retrieval that ensures business continuity for media production without data loss or workflow disruption.
FLOW Disaster Recovery vs. Traditional Backups
Feature / Capability
Traditional Backup / Archive
FLOW Disaster Recovery
System Sync
Manual, periodic
Automatic synchronization
Switch-over Speed
Days or weeks
Up and running within minutes
Workflow Continuity
Only partially restore data
Full FLOW system restoration including metadata, projects, and settings
Access During Outage
None
Seamless access to mirrored environment
Purpose
Long-term data retention
Operational continuity during disaster
Key Benefits of FLOW Disaster Recovery
Rapid Recovery: Get your production system live again immediately after a critical outage.
Seamless Continuity: Maintain access to media, metadata, and ongoing projects through your mirrored FLOW instance.
Full System Sync: Your secondary system stays automatically aligned up to 24 hours of your primary system—no manual updates needed.
Minimal Downtime: Protect tight production schedules and delivery deadlines from unexpected events.
Peace of Mind: Know your video production workflow is protected, no matter what happens on-site.
FLOW Disaster Recovery Fits into Your Media Management Workflow
FLOW Disaster Recovery integrates directly with your existing EditShare EFS and FLOW infrastructure, ensuring that your media management workflow remains stable, organized, and secure.
FAQ: FLOW Disaster Recovery
Q1: Is FLOW Disaster Recovery the same as a data backup?
No. A backup stores static copies of data, while FLOW Disaster Recovery maintains a live, synchronized system that can take over operations immediately. Delete an asset from the primary Site, the delete will also occur on the secondary site after the daily sync of both sites.
Q2: How quickly can my team get back online after a disaster?
Most teams are fully operational within minutes, depending on network conditions and access permissions.
Q3: Does FLOW Disaster Recovery include my EFS storage?
Yes, the disaster recovery configuration includes synchronization between your primary andsecondary EFS and FLOW environments, ensuring media, metadata, and settings remain aligned.
Q4: Can I access FLOW Disaster Recovery remotely?
Yes. The system is designed to be accessed securely from anywhere, supporting remote production continuity.
Q5: How is the system kept in sync?
FLOW Disaster Recovery uses daily automatic replication to update your secondary system, ensuring it mirrors the current state of your production environment to within 24 hours.
Stay Operational. Stay Confident.
When disaster strikes, every minute matters. FLOW Disaster Recovery ensures your media production and post workflows keep moving—securely, efficiently, and without compromise.
Because in creative production, downtime isn’t an option.
Disaster Recovery will be available in 2026.1.0.
Learn more about FLOW and how it can protect your production workflows.
At EditShare, we’re all about shared storage for video teams, and we’re super excited to talk about DaVinci Resolve® 20, Blackmagic Design’s latest release that’s bursting with over 100 new features.
This update is like a turbo boost for editors, colorists, VFX artists, and audio folks, blending slick AI tools with intuitive features to make your workflow smoother from start to finish.
There’s so much to unpack, we can’t cover it all, but trust us, it’s a total game-changer for video editing, shared storage, and team collaboration.
AI Tools That Feel Like Magic
DaVinci Resolve® 20’s AI features are like having a creative sidekick.
AI IntelliScript takes your script and builds a timeline by matching audio to clips, picking the best takes for you.
Want to grab your audience’s attention? AI Animated Subtitles make words pop on screen as they’re spoken.
For multicam projects, AI Multicam SmartSwitch automatically selects camera angles based on who’s talking, using audio and lip-sync smarts.
And for audio? AI Audio Assistant balances dialogue, tweaks effects, and whips up a professional mix in seconds, perfect for fast-paced collaborative video storage environments.
Collaborate Anywhere, Anytime
DaVinci Resolve® 20’s Blackmagic Cloud integration makes shared video storage a breeze for teams across the globe. You can host project libraries, sync media, and work together in real time with editors, colorists, and more.
The new URL-based guest access for Presentations lets clients without accounts jump in to review, add notes, or chat instantly. For bigger teams, the Organizations app simplifies group management, storage access, and even Studio license rentals, ideal for scaling video editing storage solutions.
While Blackmagic Cloud has its place, EditShare EFS takes it to the next level with unbeatable performance, scalability, and security for your post-production shared storage needs.
Editing and Finishing Made Easy
The Cut and Edit pages now have a keyframe editor and voiceover palette that make tweaking a snap, plus safe trimming to avoid oops moments.
Colorists, you’ll love Chroma Warp for easy color tweaks and UltraNR for AI-powered noise reduction that keeps every detail crisp.
Fusion steps up with deep image compositing and multi-layer PSD support, while Fairlight brings 6-band EQ, AI panning, and Ambisonic surround for immersive sound. Smarter proxies with one-click switching and auto-generation mean lightning-fast edits on post-production shared storage.
EditShare + Resolve 20: Your Dream Team
What makes Resolve 20 even better? Our FLOW Production asset management platform. The DaVinci Resolve® panel is built right into FLOW, letting you tap into shared storage for video teams without missing a beat. Jump into projects, manage assets, and collaborate, all while using FLOW’s powerful review, approval, and metadata tools.
Plus, you can run the Resolve project server directly on an EditShare EFS node for rock-solid performance and scalability in multi-user setups. For those chasing top-tier quality, our new EditShare Ultimate NVMe system delivers a jaw-dropping 24 GB/s, letting Resolve users tackle uncompressed 8K workflows without a hitch.
Whether you’re rocking EditShare’s high-performance video editing shared storage or building a remote team, this combo brings unmatched efficiency to collaborative video storage.
Bristol-based post house streamlines project setup by connecting scheduling with EditShare’s intelligent media platform
Boston, MA, 9 October 2025: EditShare, the technology leader in intelligent shared storage and media management, today announced that UK post-production facility Films at 59 has used the EditShare Open API platform to connect its scheduling system directly into EditShare’s media environment. The result is a fully automated, metadata-driven workflow that eliminates manual setup and accelerates production start-up.
API-Driven Integration for Instant Project Setup
Films at 59’s technical team led the integration work, developing a direct connection between Farmers Wife, a widely used scheduling, project management, and resource planning platform, and EditShare’s EFS shared storage and FLOW media management. The project was also supported by EditShare channel partner Digital Garage.
With the API integration in place, scheduling a job in Farmers Wife now automatically:
Creates a dedicated media space in EFS
Provisions and assigns team members based on their roles
Applies storage quotas to match the project’s scope
Links project metadata in FLOW, ensuring assets are organized and accessible from day one
By building this API-driven connection, Films at 59 has ensured a seamless transition from booking to production-ready, without manual configuration or IT overhead. “We had it up and running really quickly,” said Jamie Lawrence, Head of Technical Operations at Films at 59. “Now, every time a job is booked in Farmers Wife, the media space is built, the team is connected, and everything is ready to go.” The integration has significantly reduced setup time, minimized human error, and guaranteed every project begins within a consistent, structured media environment.
“EditShare’s Open API framework made this integration straightforward and highly effective,” said Sean Bradley, Regional Sales Director, Northern Europe at EditShare. “The Films at 59 team took the initiative to connect their scheduling and media systems, and now they move from scheduling to editing without touching a single admin panel. It’s a powerful example of how our open architecture empowers customers to design workflows that fit their needs.”
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.
Press Contact Katharine Guy katharine.guy@editshare.com
Amsterdam, 12 Septemver 2025 – EditShare, the technology leader that enables storytellers to create and manage media, is unveiling major product advancements at IBC 2025. From new NVMe storage options to powerful automation features in FLOW, the announcements underscore EditShare’s commitment to delivering high-performance, collaborative solutions for modern production and post.
FLOW Automation: Smarter Remote Collaboration with “Send to Site”
EditShare is introducing FLOW Automation’s new “Send to Site” task, designed to make moving media and metadata between locations faster, secure and more reliable. Built on EditShare’s Multisite architecture and Warp accelerated transfer services, Send to Site enables direct transfer of high-resolution media, proxies, and metadata between EditShare systems.
This removes the need for manual sidecar files or redundant proxy generation, saving time and reducing errors. Integrated with EditShare One, teams can schedule entire media space transfers, trigger automated workflows, or simply right-click and send assets between locations.
The feature has been hardened in demanding real-world deployments and is available now in FLOW 2025.2.0.
Ultimate EFS Field: More Capacity, More Power On the Go
First launched at IBC 2024, the Ultimate EFS Field portable NVMe-powered storage has been dramatically expanded for 2025. Now offering up to 122 TB of ultra-fast NVMe storage, EFS Field is built for capturing dailies, editing in the field, and keeping productions moving no matter where the shoot takes place.
The system’s airline-friendly design and rugged build make it ideal for mobile crews, while full integration with the EditShare multisite ecosystem ensures footage can be securely transferred back to base with SwiftSync.
EFS Ultimate NVMe: New Options for Every Workflow
EditShare is strengthening its NVMe lineup with three complementary options:
Ultimate 24 NVMe NodeNow shipping. This flagship NVMe solution delivers extreme bandwidth for uncompressed, file-per-frame workflows including 8K finishing. With over 24GB/s aggregate performance, it enables real-time DPX capture and playback previously limited to costly SANs.
Ultimate EFS NVMe Lite, debuting at IBC 2025. NVMe Lite offers a more accessible entry point to NVMe performance. Featuring 8 NVMe drives in a 2RU form factor, it delivers up to 14GB/s read throughput per node, making XOR-protected NVMe groups achievable at lower cost and scale.
Ultimate Hybrid NVMe/HDD Node. Also new for IBC 2025, this hybrid system combines NVMe performance with high-capacity HDDs in a single chassis. Users can define separate storage tiers, moving projects between HDD and NVMe as needed without downtime. The hybrid node is ideal for facilities balancing everyday 4K offline workflows with occasional ultra-high-bitrate finishing projects.
“Today’s creative teams need storage and workflow tools that are as flexible as they are powerful,” said Tara Montford, EVP Sales and Co- founder EditShare . “From high-capacity field systems to cost-optimized NVMe nodes and intelligent cross-site workflows, we’re giving customers more options to accelerate production while keeping collaboration front and center.”
Press Contact Katharine Guy katharine.guy@editshare.com
Boston, MA, and Prague, Czech Republic, Aug 21, 2025: EditShare, a leader in collaborative media storage and intelligent workflow solutions, and Octopus Newsroom, a global provider of newsroom computer systems (NRCS), today announced a fully integrated, end-to-end newsroom solution to be showcased at IBC 2025 in Amsterdam (September 12–15).
The partnership combines Octopus’ story-centric newsroom platform with EditShare’s high-performance media infrastructure, enabling news teams to plan, produce, and deliver stories with greater speed, scalability, and collaborative efficiency. The joint solution empowers broadcasters to meet the demands of today’s fast-paced, multi-platform news landscape.
A Unified Ecosystem for Modern Newsrooms
Octopus NRCS is built for story-first production, supporting everything from single-channel broadcasters to global networks. With more than 100 third-party integrations via MOS protocol and APIs, Octopus enables real-time script editing, rundown management, and publishing to broadcast, digital, and social channels. Its open approach ensures compatibility with studio automation, playout, graphics, and AI-driven tools, giving journalists the flexibility to focus on storytelling.
EditShare complements this with robust media infrastructure, including:
EFS Shared Storage is a media-engineered file system delivering more than 20GB/s throughput and scaling beyond 20PB. High-availability configurations and native drivers for Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, and DaVinci Resolve ensure uninterrupted collaboration for editing teams.
FLOW Media Asset Management automates ingest, proxy creation, versioning, and AI-driven metadata tagging. Integrated with Octopus, FLOW accelerates content search and retrieval, giving journalists immediate access to assets during breaking news.
Multi-Channel Ingest captures satellite, field, and agency feeds for instant use in scripting, editing, and playout.
Vbox Rundown Integration connects directly with Octopus via MOS, allowing producers and directors to manage rundowns, preview assets, and adapt live output in real time.
Together, the two systems create a connected newsroom environment that allows teams to gather, edit, and deliver content faster, with confidence and flexibility at every stage.
Why It Matters for Newsrooms
The joint solution addresses key challenges facing today’s news operations:
Speed: Multi-channel ingest, NVMe-powered storage, and FLOW automation provide instant access to high-resolution assets, cutting prep time for editing and publishing.
Collaboration: Journalists, editors, producers, and directors can work in parallel across locations, supported by native integrations between Octopus and FLOW, enabling instant asset access and synchronized rundowns.
Scalability: From 32TB to more than 20PB, EditShare infrastructure grows with newsroom demand, from local stations to 24/7 global networks.
Open Ecosystem: Over 100 MOS and API integrations, including AI transcription, graphics, and playout, ensure future-ready workflows.
“Octopus NRCS is built to meet the demands of modern journalism, where speed and collaboration are critical,” said Gabriel Janko, COO of Octopus Newsroom. “Our partnership with EditShare at IBC 2025 showcases how our open ecosystem, combined with EditShare’s high-performance storage and asset management, delivers a unified platform that lets newsrooms focus on storytelling, not technology. This integration enables journalists to break news faster while maintaining creative control across all channels.”
“EditShare’s mission is to provide media teams with tools that accelerate workflows and foster collaboration,” said Tara Montford, EVP Sales and Co-Founder of EditShare. “At IBC 2025, our integration with Octopus NRCS demonstrates a true end-to-end solution for newsrooms. By combining EFS’s high-availability storage, FLOW’s intelligent media management, and Vbox’s MOS-driven rundown capabilities, we’re enabling broadcasters to deliver high-quality news with agility and confidence, no matter the scale.”
Experience It at IBC 2025
Visit Octopus Newsroom at Stand 6.C12 and EditShare at Stand 7.A35 to see the solution in action. Live demos will showcase the full workflow, from ingest and planning to scripting, rundown management, and playout, highlighting how the two companies are empowering news teams to deliver compelling stories faster across every platform
To book time with us at the show, please click here
About EditShare
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 Octopus Newsroom Octopus Newsroom is a global leader in newsroom computer systems, offering Octopus 12 NRCS and iReporter User-generated content platform for modern news production. With over 400 customers worldwide, Octopus supports flexible, story-centric workflows and integrates with over 100 broadcast technologies, empowering newsrooms to create and publish efficiently.
New technology boosts performance for high-resolution post-production and flexible workflows
Boston, MA, 4 August 2025: EGG Post Production & VFX, one of Ireland’s leading post-production facilities, has expanded its capabilities with a significant storage upgrade from EditShare. This investment supports EGG’s growing demand for high-performance workflows, including 4K and beyond colour grading, while improving remote collaboration and workflow flexibility.
The project was delivered in collaboration with Tyrell, EditShare’s long-time channel partner in Ireland, who worked closely with EGG and EditShare to scope, install, and support the new system.
Founded in 2004 by editors Gary Shortall and Gareth Young, EGG has built a strong reputation for its award-winning editing, finishing, sound, and VFX services. The company delivers content for major Irish, UK, and US broadcasters, as well as audiences worldwide, making reliability and efficiency in their storage infrastructure critical to their operations.
To meet these demands, EGG has integrated EditShare’s 96TB NVMe and EFS300 256TB storage solutions, replacing an older system that could no longer support the increasing technical requirements of high-resolution workflows. The upgrade consolidates all offline, online, grading, and VFX under a single vendor, improving overall efficiency and project management.
One of the most valuable additions to EGG’s workflow is EditShare’s Swift Link technology, which allows creative teams to access media and work on projects from any location. As productions increasingly demand flexible, hybrid workflows, Swift Link ensures that EGG’s editors, colorists, and VFX artists maintain seamless productivity, whether on-site or remote. The ability to securely stream high-resolution content without performance compromise has been transformative for EGG’s post-production pipeline.
Gareth Young, CEO and Co-Founder of EGG, emphasized the continued value of the partnership with EditShare: “We’ve trusted EditShare for over eight years, and this latest upgrade reinforces why we continue to rely on them. The combination of high-performance storage, local European support, and the flexibility provided by Swift Link made this the right choice for our team.”
Since going live last summer, the upgraded system has enabled EGG to serve as a reference site for high-end grading workflows. The team has praised the simplicity and speed of Swift Link for remote collaboration, without sacrificing the performance needed for complex post-production tasks.
Tara Montford, EVP of Sales and Co-Founder of EditShare, added: “EGG represents the kind of forward-thinking post facility that pushes the boundaries of creative and technical excellence. We’re proud to support their next chapter with a solution that combines performance, flexibility, and security, delivering everything they need to meet the demands of high-resolution workflows, both in-studio and remotely.”
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 Tyrell
For 25 years Tyrell has been providing video, audio, graphics and storage solutions to the Irish and UK broadcast, post, production, corporate and education markets. In this time, we have become the leading provider of technology and service solutions both on-premise and in the cloud. Tyrell has an excellent understanding of the fast pace and unique pressures facing the media and entertainment industry; developing solutions for complex workflows. Allowing our clients to concentrate on the creative process and business development. From our two locations we offer a comprehensive range of professional services from consultancy to system design and integration, technical support and maintenance.
Press Contact Katharine Guy katharine.guy@editshare.com
Boston, MA, 1 August 2025 – At IBC 2025, EditShare debuts the next evolution of its platform, built for media teams that demand real-time collaboration, AI-driven post, lightning-fast media-aware storage, and easy-to-use hybrid workflows. From post and sports to news and archiving, EditShare blends technical muscle with creative flexibility. Visit Booth 7.A35 to see how we’re pushing performance and energy efficiency, without sacrificing adaptability
What You’ll See at IBC
What’s New at IBC 2025
Expanded EFS Storage Solutions EditShare will premiere the latest Ultimate EFS Nodes, optimized for high-performance media workflows at any scale. Preview all-NVMe systems tailored for demanding 8K, VFX, and DI tasks. The newest EFS Field, portable, rugged, and now offering greater capacity, live ingest, and secure, verified media transfer, will also be featured. Additional updates to the Ultimate EFS lineup will be announced exclusively at the show, offering a hands-on look at the future of production workflows.
Next-Generation Collaborative Workflows Discover EditShare’s advances in collaborative workflows: MediaSilo’s integration with Louper enables real-time, frame-accurate review sessions without lag, downloads, or version confusion, allowing global teams to comment and approve instantly. A live Atomos Camera to Cloud demonstration will show proxy uploads directly into MediaSilo for immediate access, accelerating fast-turnaround projects.
Integrated Specialist Workflows On-booth demos showcase powerful integrations: Lasergraphics 5K 16-bit DPX film scanning with EFS, frame-accurate NDI ISO ingest with multi-channel recording, and comprehensive newsroom collaboration with Octopus.
“From green performance at scale to workflow flexibility across post, production, and archive, we deliver innovation shaped by customer insight,” said Tara Montford, EVP of Sales and Co-Founder of EditShare. “Whether you’re scaling up, streamlining reviews, or refining remote workflows, our solutions help teams move faster, collaborate better, and reduce friction. We look forward to showcasing these advances in Amsterdam.”
To book time with us at the show, please click here
About EditShare
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.
Press Contact Katharine Guy katharine.guy@editshare.com
Introduction
Accidental leaks of pre-release content can lead to significant financial losses and reputational damage. For professionals in film, television, and corporate video production, safeguarding sensitive material is paramount. EditShare’s SafeStream technology provides a robust solution to prevent unauthorized distribution and trace leaks back to their source, making it a trusted and secure video sharing solution for modern workflows.
What Is SafeStream?
SafeStream is a real-time video watermarking technology that embeds both visible and invisible (forensic) watermarks into video content, ensuring each copy is uniquely traceable. This dual-layered approach not only deters unauthorized sharing but also facilitates accountability by identifying the source of any leaks. It’s ideal for use as a watermarked video sharing platform or video DRM platform for media screeners.
How SafeStream Works
Visible Watermarks
Visible watermarks display user-specific information directly on the video, such as the viewer’s name or email address. This personalization discourages recipients from sharing the content, as they know it can be traced back to them.
Forensic Watermarks
Forensic watermarks are invisible markers embedded within the video file. They allow content owners to trace the origin of a leak without altering the viewing experience. This is particularly useful when visible watermarks are not feasible and when using an embargoed content distribution tool is critical.
Benefits of Using SafeStream
Leak Deterrence: Personalized watermarks make recipients think twice before sharing unauthorized content.
Traceability: In the event of a leak, forensic watermarks help identify the source quickly with detailed audit trails for shared media.
Compliance: Ensures adherence to industry standards and legal requirements for content security.
Integration: Seamlessly integrates with existing workflows in film, television, and corporate environments.
Implementing SafeStream in Your Workflow
Integrating SafeStream into your post-production process is straightforward. It can be applied during content review stages, internal screenings, or when sharing with external stakeholders. By embedding watermarks at these critical points, you maintain control over your content throughout its lifecycle.
Conclusion
Accidental leaks can have devastating consequences for media professionals. SafeStream offers a proactive approach to content security, combining visible and forensic watermarking to deter unauthorized sharing and effectively trace leaks. By incorporating SafeStream into your workflow, you protect your content, your reputation, and your career with a best-in-class secure video sharing solution.
Ready to elevate your content security? Discover how SafeStream can protect your valuable assets, visit our website and schedule a demo today:
If you’re managing video production with traditional IT storage, chances are your team is running into performance issues—dropped frames, offline media, slow load times, and frustrated editors. And it’s not their fault. They’re doing high-stakes creative work with tools that weren’t designed for the job.
Here’s why it’s happening—and what to do about it.
The IT Storage Problem
Most general-purpose IT storage systems are built to handle lots of small files and transactions—think emails, documents, or databases. These are low-throughput, high-IOPS (input/output operations per second) environments.
Video is the opposite.
Editing high-resolution media requires sustained throughput to stream large video files in real time. When multiple editors are working simultaneously, that demand only increases. Traditional IT storage just wasn’t built for this kind of load, and trying to make it work can lead to serious performance bottlenecks and creative downtime.
Dropped Frames Are a Symptom—Not the Root Cause
Dropped frames, playback lag, and crashes are warning signs that your storage system is under stress. These issues can interrupt workflows, delay projects and make collaboration nearly impossible. Editors may spend more time waiting for media to load than actually cutting footage.
And when projects go offline or files disappear mid-edit, you’re not just losing time and money—you’re losing trust.
The Case for Purpose-Built Storage
At EditShare, we’ve spent over a decade solving these problems for media teams so they can worry about the finished product, not storage. Our EFS shared storage system is engineered from the ground up to support the unique needs of video production. That means:
High-throughput performance: Stream high-bitrate media without dropped frames—even during node failures.
Media-aware architecture: Optimized for large files and real-time playback, not email attachments.
Collaborative editing workflows: Multiple users can work on the same project without stepping on each other’s toes.
Granular permissions: Keep media secure with project-based access control.
Scalability: Whether you’re a small post house or a large broadcast operation, EFS grows with you.
The Bottom Line
If you’re still relying on traditional IT storage, your team is working harder than they need to. Creative professionals deserve a system that supports their workflow, not one that holds them back.
It’s time to upgrade to a storage platform built for media.
Looking for new ways to streamline your media workflows and get more done in less time? The latest FLOW media management update, FLOW 25.1.0, is packed with powerful updates designed to simplify your day-to-day, and now you can see it all in action.
In our latest webinar, Unlocking the Power of FLOW 25.1.0, EditShare’s Senior Product Manager Lucy Seaborne teams up with Global Pre-Sales Technical Manager Adam Lewiston to walk you through the latest features, enhancements, and real-world use cases for this exciting new release.
Whether you’re managing fast-turnaround productions or large-scale archival workflows, FLOW 25.1.0 delivers smarter ways to organize, automate, and collaborate.
Watch the webinar replay to learn:
✅ What’s new in FLOW 25.1.0, including UI improvements, workflow automations, and more
✅ How the latest updates can drive efficiency across your team
✅ Best practices for getting the most out of FLOW, straight from the experts who helped build it
Don’t miss your chance to get up to speed with everything the new release has to offer.
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