Postflux for Adobe® Premiere® Pro is a new, cutting-edge platform which improves the archiving, versioning, integrity, security, performance and sharing of Adobe Premiere Pro projects in extended workflows. It addresses the fundamental issue of being able to confidently share projects, thereby mitigating risks, improving productivity and efficiency whilst enabling new extended workflows.
Based on a client server architecture, individual editors have their own Postflux user logins. Postflux scans and analyses disorganised source project files and resolves all associated media. It then moves the project and media to a specified location, thus creating a new fully self-contained and organised Premiere Pro project. This makes exchanging Premiere projects simple and easy, plus allows the user to write to the most appropriate and pre-determined storage locations, whether on high-performance storage, removable storage or cloud.
Marquis Broadcast’s Managing Director, Paul Glasgow, explains, “Postflux simplifies and transforms the reliability of extended Adobe Premiere Pro project-based workflows. Missing media can be a nightmare for companies, so Postflux not only checks for this but also ensures project integrity from the point of origination through to archiving, helping transform production efficiency.”
During the source project scanning and analysis process, Postflux identifies any missing or offline media and automatically notifies the user of the missing media and the last location in which it was seen – perhaps on an ejected removable drive. This simple step enables users to rectify any missing media at source before an incomplete project enters an extended workflow. Postflux contains an automated notification service so users can track processing and transfer status of key tasks, with all system activity logged at user and system level for diagnostics.
Postflux has two additional and important modes of exchanging projects. This can be as a single project archive – which also contains the complete, project version history and media – or as an archive set. An archive set contains multiple projects, complete with individual version histories and common media associated with all of these versions. This enables users to non-destructively collaborate on projects, sharing and versioning complex productions without duplicating any media. The archive set contains a complete and easy-to-navigate version history of the project, ideal for distributed collaborative production or perhaps for archiving a TV series with all its versions.
The Postflux system has a good understanding of the system’s storage locations, which could be on local storage for an individual user or on pre-determined shared or workgroup specific network locations. The platform also includes a substantial storage plug-in library, including cloud storage. Permissions for these are set by the Postflux system admin, which also enables specific source and delivery workflows to be enforced. The system flexibly supports manual operations, task chaining and automated scheduling. Automated scheduling is ideal for automated overnight backups of all work-in-progress for operational protection and disaster recovery.
“The concept of the Postflux versionable archive set becomes particularly valuable when combined with cloud workflows,” adds Paul. “In the case of AWS S3, security and encryption keys can be used such that workflows can easily use the cloud as a secure integrated workflow step. This ensures an effective, efficient production process.”
“Many of our enterprise customers have extended or very complex workflows,” said Sue Skidmore, head of partner relations for Adobe video. “Marquis Broadcast has added to the Adobe Premiere Pro solution eco structure in a way that gives our customers the ability to confidently share projects with improved productivity and efficiency.”
Postflux for Adobe Premiere Pro has been shortlisted in the produce category in the IABM 2019 BaM Awards®. Category winners and awards will be presented at the BaM Awards party on 9th April, 6-8pm, Ballroom B, Westgate Las Vegas Resort. You can register to attend here.
To find out more about Postflux with Adobe Premiere Pro, please visit Marquis Broadcast on booth SL14816 at NAB in April. To arrange a meeting there, visit marquisbroadcast.com/nab. You can also head to the Marquis Broadcast website at www.marquisbroadcast.com.
About Marquis Broadcast
Founded in 1998, Marquis develops specialist software to perform tricky integrations, including apps for post-production, disaster recovery, analytics, cloud workflows and large complex enterprise middleware integrations. Its customers range from big studios, including Warner Bros and DreamWorks, broadcasters such as CBS and the BBC, large service providers including Ericsson and Telefonica, right through to post houses such as ENVY and The Farm Group, and finally to many thousands of creative individuals. Marquis partners with most major industry players and many OEM our technology. Marquis Broadcast is an Avid Certified Alliance Partner with its Project Parking and Workspace Tools, which are managing over 60 Petabytes of data worldwide. For further information or images, please contact Liz Cox, Brill Media (liz@brill.media, T: +44 7981 472844) or visit the Marquis Broadcast website at www.marquisbroadcast.com. You can also follow Marquis Broadcast on its social media pages on Facebook and Twitter.
Adobe at NAB 2019
At NAB 2019, Adobe will showcase smarter video and audio tools for improved performance and richer storytelling. The powerful new updates available today in Adobe Creative Cloud tools include ground-breaking Content-Aware Fill for video, powered by Adobe Sensei, to remove unwanted objects from footage, along with new capabilities for fine-tuning graphics, automating animations, refining audio mixing, and organizing and preparing media. Adobe Creative Cloud offers the world’s best video apps and services with the most deeply integrated product worfklows. NAB attendees can see the latest product demos at the Adobe booth (#SL5610, South Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center) and at more than 100 partner booths from April 8–11. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.
