DVS Spycerbox

The SpycerBox adds essential features to the DVS-SAN. The broadcast and post production industry will benefit from proxies that provide direct insights and offline editing. The SpycerBox consists of a hardware and a software package and grants all users of the central storage system DVS-SAN immediate insights into the central storage’s contents.

Using the SpycerBox operators have access to low-resolution proxy clips that any commercial computer can play out. Since the preview proxies are stored and available on the SpycerBox, the performance of the SAN will not be affected, even when parallel browsing activities take place. Additionally, SpycerBox converts files in order to generate offline clips. The DI workstation CLIPSTER® will later apply their editing results to the uncompressed high-resolution material during the conforming process.

With the SpycerBox DVS also implements a SAN backup solution and offers file server functions for clients in the network. The SAN’s performance will not be strained unnecessarily due to the preview processes. Therefore, the central storage still provides its high capacity for real-time record and play-out.

The SpycerBox scales and compresses the film projects’ high amount of footage data automatically as soon as the new clips are detected on the DVS-SAN. The preview proxies enable editors to play out the clips on low-performance computers instead of only scrubbing

the high-resolution and uncompressed clips frame by frame. The proxies not only unburden the SAN, but also facilitate the entire workflow chain in the post production or broadcast site: High-performance equipment such as CLIPSTER® can now be engaged and used in other real-time processes.

By aligning the original material with the proxy data automatically, time-consuming administrative processes on the SAN can now be cancelled. Therefore, the new DVS product accelerates DI workflows.