国际汽车零部件领导利用Xcellis和Catdv启发了媒体生产

When international automotive aftermarket giant MPA found their video training team stuck in the slow lane, they turned to Quantum Xcellis® Workflow Storage and CatDV Media Asset Management software. The result was turbo-charged production, agile collaboration, and lightning-fast automated archiving and retrieval.

With a focus on manufacturing and remanufacturing a broad range of products for cars and trucks, Motorcar Parts of America (MPA) is an international leader in the automotive aftermarket. MPA distributes its products across the U.S. and Canada under its own brands and those of its private-label partners.

教学视频对于培训和支持至关重要
“One of the keys to MPA’s continued success,” says Joe Micallef, the company’s multimedia production manager, “is that we recognized very early that we needed an innovative approach to training, service and support, along with our world-class manufacturing and quality.” Part of that program included an early emphasis on video training, so MPA took on the task of creating and editing its own training content to help both professional mechanics and DIYers install and maintain the company’s products.

从历史上看，公司在其Apple工作站亚搏官网app登录入口上生产了高质量的内容。但是，这种方法使团队难以在编辑器之间共享内容并重用现有材料。“在一开始，我们正在做的很多我们正在做的只是基本上来回通过拇指驾驶，”麦克利夫记得。

寻找更好的解决方案
The MPA team decided to upgrade its production and editing systems and sought help from Sunset Studios—an integrator that specializes in helping clients set up production facilities to meet their media workflow requirements. The Sunset Studios team helped MPA create and modernize a full-blown studio that includes four-camera recording in a two-bay garage facility that is now supported by a high-performance data sharing and archiving storage capability.

John Edwards，Sunset Studio Principal，解释说：“我们这个项目的第二阶段概述了具有媒体资产管理软件的光纤通道网络，以及需要现代和全功能的生产存储和存档解决方案。在我们的评估结束时，我们选择了量子和Catdv。“

为MPA安装的日落工作室的系统是基于Quantum的Xcellis Scale-Out工作流程存储和来自方框系统的CatDV媒体资产管理。Quantum的StorNext®PoctRedXcellis存储设备是一个可扩展的解决方案，旨在提供媒体生产团队的高速共享访问关键数据，以提高协作，简化管理和加速生产时间表。

Xcellis和Catdv之间的紧密集成
Xcellis解决方案也与CatDV媒体资产管理工具集紧密集成，即MPA选择为其资产管理和工作流控制软件。“CatDV使编辑器能够构建自定义标签，以回顾他们在需要它时寻找的内容，并且它在光纤通道网络上迅速发生，”Edwards解释说。

Automated Hi-Res Builds and Web-Based Collaboration Features
新系统的一个关键优势在于它使得在低分辨率代理格式中进行编辑可以轻松实现初始编辑，更易于执行。设置程序后，CatDV系统会自动从Xcellis存档中提取高分辨率内容并构建最终版本。

尖端的视频制作现在在快车道上
新设施和先进的视频pture, editing, storage and archiving systems helped the company launch its own YouTube Channel in 2016, and allows the team to more rapidly create even better content, and keep up more effectively with product changes and new customers. “Basically, everything that we do now is going to YouTube,” says Micallef, “because most installers, especially do-it-yourselfers, are going to YouTube to find a solution.”

由于新系统，创建和维护内容比以往任何时候都变得更容易。“现在我们可以从先前的拍摄中提取内容，并使用CatDV和量子快速进行，”Micklef说。“拥有由Stornext提供支持的高级存储体系结构真的使我们能够像以前一样协作，它使我们的培训视频谈到了该行业。”