In the second half of our interview with Michael Cioni of Frame.io, Ben and Jason ask Michael about his background and the sights he saw in filmmaking along the way. They discuss Michael’s trip to be featured at Cannes, despite his college’s wishes. Michael details the lessons he’s learned from mentors about adapting to changing tech and looking for innovation in an industry that can be slow to change its tools. Finally, Jason and Ben explore with Michael what the creative contributes to the building and designing of production and post production workflows and digital film production, in order to make editors and filmmakers excited about their process.

 

Highlights:

Michael details his journey from college to Cannes, Light Iron to Panavision, and today at Frame.io

The risks and benefits of moving against traditional tech to pursue innovation that changes the industry, even   when big players don’t recognize what’s coming

Huge changes to the filmmaking industry: cameras, workflows, storage and tech digital, film and video production and post production workflow

Discussion on why the creative is such an important piece of tech innovation - how they use tools influences design

 

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For this episode of The Workflow Show, we're delighted to have guest Michael Cioni, Global SVP of Innovation at Frame.io, as our guest. Jason and Ben ask specifically what it means to lead innovation, what's next for Media IT and post production in film, and how to inspire creative teams with UI and editing tools. Michael presents the benefits of editing video in the cloud versus traditional workflows and Frame.io completely changes the workflow of review and approval. They discuss the art of being uncomfortable in order to learn and adapt to changes in the Media and Entertainment industry, as well as managing the hurdles of new innovations as the business comes to eventually adopt the newest tools. Michael explains the problems of deletion among content creators and how to plan an archive and MAM around the needs of exponentially expanding file sizes and equipment specs.

For more information on Michael Cioni and his work visit Frame.io

Check out our other episodes on post production and working in the cloud, such as our interview with Micheal Kammas of Bebop on Cloud Editing Realities and Myths . Reach out to us via email at [email protected] and follow us on twitter @workflowshow

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

Ben and Jason speak with Michael Cioni of Frame.io about editing and workflow innovation in the cloud and the impact on the state of the industry

Discussion on creativity as the force that drives original ideation and the relationship between the technology and the tools we use

Michael relates Frame.io’s tech to enable multiple editors and reviewers to work more efficiently in a remote environment

What are some possible next pieces of innovation in filmmaking, including addressing the problem of deletion and archive management

In this second half of the second installment, or part two of part two, of the Media and Entertainment Digital Workflow Series, Jason and Ben continue their discussion of storage. They explore erasure coding, what differentiates it from traditional RAID, and what it’s advantages and disadvantages are for M&E workflows. Additionally, they talk through storage tiering concepts, business continuity plans, and provide examples of sizing a shared storage volume for an organizations aggregate bandwidth needs.

In this second installment of the Media and Entertainment Digital Workflow Series, Jason and Ben discuss storage. They cover the inner workings of, and the differences between the most common storage technologies we use in media and entertainment workflows. Meant as a breakdown and comparison of these technologies, the hosts review the importance of file systems and their associated metadata, block and file level storage, and safety considerations in maintaining high performance systems.

For a deeper view on this topic, make sure to check out the first episode of this series on Ingest of media and video, along with The Workflow Show episode on SAN vs NAS and the episode on File Systems.

We want to give another thank you to SVG for featuring The Workflow Show. You can check out that article here.

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