The Cloud Video Collaboration Platform.

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1 The Cloud Video Collaboration Platform.

2 Introduction Ian Williamson Collaboration is really important within the team and for me that is the main benefit of using Aframe. The platform is making our processes more efficient, which will save time and money; but it s also about giving us more time to produce interesting, innovative content that will support our fundraising and campaigning efforts. 4 Who is Aframe Designed for? Aframe is the cloud video collaboration platform that gives you one central location where teams can instantly view, access and work with high resolution media. Aframe delivers business efficiencies and dramatically increases the usage and value of your media. 4 The Need for the Cloud 5 Solutions 6 Product Features 8 Adobe Anywhere in the Cloud Headquartered in London with regional offices and infrastructure in Boston, New York and Los Angeles, Aframe is trusted by the leading broadcast, media and corporate organizations worldwide. ICT Director at Unicef UK The Cloud Video Collaboration Platform. See Aframe in action: aframe.com/demo 10 Security, Resilience & Architecture 12 Featured Customers 13 Aframe in Summary

3 Who is Aframe Designed for? Solutions Anyone who produces or manages professional video. Powerful solutions for broadcast, creative agencies and brands. The largest number of collaborators on a single Aframe project 187 Aframe provides cloud solutions to broadcasters and production houses, new media and publishing organizations, enterprises, marketing agencies and charities the world over. Aframe is the perfect solution for marketing, promo and distribution teams that work with native footage or finished masters and need to securely communicate or collaborate with geographically dispersed colleagues, clients and partners. The Need for the Cloud The intersection between two of the biggest technology trends. Video is changing how businesses and brands communicate and becoming a key part of the communications mix. For some time, the cloud has been seen as the solution for utility computing. With the ability to access a secure cloud environment from any office or location around the world, video production processes can be scaled in an instant. This not only removes silos, it maximizes efficiency and drives creative innovation. Central Video Platform Aframe is a cloud collaboration platform that provides one central location for global teams and international partners to access and manage high resolution video. Trusted by the world s largest organizations, Aframe is the only solution to combine fast UDP upload, transcoding, metadata support, video player, dynamic search, online review and approval, and analytics. Media Management & Collaboration Aframe s central platform helps marketing, promos and reversioning groups take control of their assets and manage them more effectively. With less time spent wrestling with technical issues, teams can be more productive and make more use of assets. Asset Monetization With Aframe, commercial teams can create online catalogues, sales kits and screeners to improve professionalism and customer service. The central cloud platform overcomes the commercial and technical challenges of securely managing and distributing assets to improve partner communications, streamline the sales process, broaden sales reach and ultimately increase revenue. Production Aframe reduces the complexity of managing media across all types of production. Cloud-powered workflows means everyone, wherever they are based, has instant access to the content they need from one central place. By reducing the barriers of production, teams can focus on creating the highest quality content and complete productions in record time. Aframe s private cloud solution provides an easy mechanism for making content easily accessible for people who need it immediately, in a self-service model. It s a new paradigm shift that will save FOX time and money. Wendy Allen VP of Media Engineering, FOX Broadcasting 9x Increase in content usage 4 5

4 Product Features How much faster Aframe uploads are than FTP 20x Media asset management, in the cloud; for speed, efficiency and better collaboration. Everywhere. Automate media movement and transcode workflows in Aframe Desktop The Aframe desktop app includes a drag and drop file upload to enable Share to Many capability for simple and time-saving workflow orchestration. Content is automatically transcoded to a proxy viewing version and into the house codec of choice, for maximum convenience before delivering it to team members around the world. Create a one-time connection within the app and automate the download of assets from the cloud to a specified location on your local machine or network attached storage. Enterprise-grade workspace Global businesses can now provision seats and storage for internal or external clients with Aframe s multi-tier account hierarchy. Account administrators have the ability to provision fixed amounts of storage and seat licenses from a central pool to their clients, simplifying the complex issue of inter-departmental budgets and affording full operational control to the service provisioner. Powerful search capabilities Finding media assets is now even easier with our search and filtering capabilities. Search results are returned from the organization s entire account - across projects, across data locations and all asset types. Your media becomes visible, accessible and usable wherever in the world it resides. Metrics dashboard Display analytics on cloud storage use, per-account-seat allocation, file transfers and share links created data that shows who is using what resources, where, at a glance for both cost allocation purposes and to provide insight on better ways for teams to work. Improved share link management lets users see the links they have created, where they were shared, by whom and how many times each clip has been viewed. Streamline the edit Remove the hassle of the pre-edit organization and cut the time in the edit suite. Organize your media, log clips, give them meaningful titles and make timecode based edit notes, all from your browser, anywhere in the world. When you re ready, the editor can export the metadata into an edit system of choice. Logging and tagging Metadata is the key to an organized production and with Aframe, logging as you know it has changed forever. Add logs to the timeline to make everything searchable with simple keyboard shortcuts. Alternatively, have our team of professional taggers log your footage for you, at the detail level you choose. Timecode based commenting Aframe s HTML5 player enables granular time measurement, frame accurate metadata input and commenting. Simply add your comments to the video clip s timeline, collection or document and manage your entire production from a centralized work-space. With Twitter mentions and everything being searchable, you re left with clear feedback in one place, making it simple to record who said what and understand what s needed to make the video better. Review and approval Share selected clips with the people that need it and decide whether they ll need a download or a secure web stream whether it s rushes, rough cuts or finished content. Aframe s review and approval features provide users with a comprehensive set of tools for requesting, capturing and acting on feedback - whether that s from a client, a collaborator or an executive. 800:1 Highest shoot ratio of a show through Aframe 6 7

5 Adobe Anywhere in the Cloud Delivered by Aframe Remove the limitations of location-specific editing. Overview Potential use cases Reversioning - international promotions groups repurposing content for different target markets now don t need to download the physical media to conduct simple edits. Compliance - making amendments made to original TX masters according to domestic broadcast laws. Promotions - replacing several sources of acquisition with one. A promotional artifact created using the best bits from previous episodes and delivered broadcast masters. Average time saved on a production 1 week in 7 Television broadcasters and content producers will be able to remove the limitations of location-specific editing by combining Aframe s cloud storage and asset management capabilities with Adobe Anywhere for video. The combination of Aframe and Adobe Anywhere promises to make broadcast-grade cloud editing a reality. How it works Aframe s central hub handles the storage and management of original native video content, while Adobe Anywhere will provide stream-based editing capabilities to enable the full potential of a truly cloud-enabled workflow. This provides one central place for video, accessible to anyone on the project team with the correct set of credentials. Footage is available instantly in the edit, anywhere in the world, without the need to download the original media. By embedding Adobe Anywhere for Video within Aframe s secure cloud platform, users can stream selected assets to the edit. Metadata is kept in sync, so that timecode based markers added by the project team in Aframe are delivered to the editor, and vice-versa. Access to Aframe hosted media via Premiere Benefits CapEx to OpEx - replace capital expenditure and investment in on-premise hardware and networking equipment with Aframe s cloud infrastructure, charged on an OpEx model. Central repository - one single place for all of your dispersed global teams to store, manage and access your organization s most in-demand, high-value video assets. Stream-based editing - users can benefit from a truly broadcast-grade edit process, without ever needing to have the media stored locally by combining Aframe s broad acquisition format support with Adobe s extensive export capabilities. Simple collaboration - share works in progress and build approvals workflows using Aframe s media sharing features. Worldwide accessibility - store your finished masters in one centrally accessible place for collaborators to use in future, or deliver them to wherever they need to go next using Aframe s automated media movement capabilities. How to get started The early adopter program will begin in the Fall of To participate in the program for this unique integration product, participants must be current Aframe customers. A fully working solution is expected to be available in early GB Largest single file to be uploaded to Aframe Real-time dynamic viewing streams to team members. Datacenter Adobe Anywhere Collaboration Hub Adobe Mercury Streaming Engines Aframe MAM Aframe Storage Servers Ever since we saw Adobe Anywhere, I have wanted to bring Aframe and Anywhere together. The dream has always been collaboration and editing in the cloud, with no download. To finally see that dream a reality and the reaction we ve had already, makes this one of the most exciting times in the history of the company and we hope for the industry. David Peto Founder and CEO, Aframe 8 9

6 Security, Resilience & Architecture Multi-layered security, trusted by the biggest names in the professional media industry. We take the security of your footage very seriously which is why we ensure our servers meet the toughest industry standards. Your intellectual property is your core asset and protecting it is vital to your business and your clients. Whether it s for television, film, news, sport, commercial or corporate, Aframe can help you achieve the right level of security for your organization. IP Security The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) is one of the leading trade organizations established to protect and represent the interests of its members Intellectual Property (IP). Aframe s infrastructure has been awarded FACT accreditation for the last 3 years. This requires annual testing of our systems and processes which go above and beyond the levels set by FACT. Protecting your IP is at the heart of what we do. Number of backups of every file in Aframe 3 Internet LA DC NY DC LON DC Network Protection Aframe s data centers are connected by dedicated fiber. These direct site-to-site highspeed connections terminate at networking equipment owned and administered by Aframe. RAI Switches Servers Raid 6 Dark fibre private connection VPN 10G redundant internet transit link Server Security Aframe s data centers are protected by sophisticated firewalls, which are regularly tested and access to data on our servers is protected by powerful encryption. Media Security Aframe uploads and downloads are encrypted in transit (UDPS, FTPS, HTTPS) for protection of your media from your facility to the cloud via AES encryption on both the control and media connections so that user passwords, files and frames are safe. Media Backup Automatic data replication ensures files are backed up hundreds of miles apart, at opposite ends of the country. Today, if you upload to our center in New York City it is backed-up in Los Angeles, and the opposite occurs if you upload into our LA data center. This same setup exists between our data centers in the UK. 99.9% Guaranteed uptime Physical Security Store something in Aframe and know it will be housed within highly secure data centers in locked racks. Automatic data replication ensures files are backed up hundreds of miles apart, at opposite ends of the country. Application Security The Aframe app (app.aframe.com) is encrypted with extended validation 256-bit SSL encryption at all times. Our developers work continuously to monitor and protect our services from attack vectors such as SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting. Account Security Granular management controls with expanded role-based access rights and team management controls suitable for enterprise-scale use. The Settings page incorporates a secondary layer where you can conveniently access administrative controls for managing the team, creating FTP end-points, choosing available transcodes and extending the project permissions

7 Featured Customers Aframe in Summary A platform built for collaboration on a global scale. Any Size. Any Format. Anywhere. Fox Sports 1 Accelerating Global Digital News Operations Upload Media movement - high-speed file transfer technology as standard, no need to purchase specialist file acceleration services to move original-resolution footage. The ability to handle a wide range of professional media formats, as well as Aframe s core infrastructure, provided an excellent base of secure, redundant storage options that immediately met FOX s stringent requirements for its technology partners. With nothing more than an Internet connection, video journalists can optimize uploads, share and even simplify collaboration for editing, all in one cost effective mechanism. Unicef Creating a Collaborative Video Ecosystem Unicef had a variety of disparate systems in place which made collaboration very difficult particularly when working with external producers and video teams on larger projects. Through Aframe s automated UDP uploader, the team were able to centralize their video assets from 120 projects worldwide - on a secure collaboration platform that enabled visibility of the media for all of the international stakeholders. Collaborators could start working with the footage immediately, wherever they were, with no training and without the need for any hardware or software. VICE Media Delivering a Global Distribution Platform Desktop app - automatically upload any video you place in a folder on your local machine with projects or collections to your Aframe project. Integrations with third-party products like Adobe Prelude - XMP metadata is captured at point of upload, timecode-based locators and clip summary metadata is preserved and presented in the Aframe UI. Centralized uploads - footage uploaded into one place, meaning you don t waste time searching for specific clips. Extended format handling - with support for Sony s XAVC-S standard in addition to native XAVC 4K file handling, Aframe provides the widest array of supported pro video formats of any cloud video platform. Automatic multi-file transcode - automatic proxy viewing versions of all footage ingested, plus the ability to create versions of your media in a common house format. Even more security and control - file transfer is AES encrypted during both download and upload (UDPS, FTPS, HTTPS). Storage Reduce file duplication - reduce duplicated files stored in different departments by centralizing all of your video assets in one globally accessible location. Disaster recovery - reduce DR replication and in turn reduce the organization s total spend on storage. 30,000 Highest number of clips on a single project VICE needed help centralizing their media library, allowing them to create a global distribution operation. Using Aframe as a hub, VICE now shares program masters across all 35 of their international offices. Leverage MAM investment - with Aframe you don t have to buy so many seats, so you can better deploy what you have by removing silos and letting other people access media. Rather than VICE sending individual programs to each office, users with the appropriate permissions download media to fulfil local distribution and licensing deals. VICE offices can also access thousands of clips to create pitch and brand reels. Indexed archive - use Aframe for long-term storage with all the original metadata helping you catalogue the material so it remains searchable

8 Production Adobe Anywhere - remove the limitations of location-specific editing by combining Aframe s cloud storage and asset management capabilities with Adobe Anywhere and Adobe Premiere Pro. Simplified user experience - get up and running in minutes and manage thousands of media files with ease. Searchable video - scan through all of the criteria that matter the most - filename, clip title, descriptive info, timecode markers, top-level tags and embedded metadata. Metrics dashboard - use the dashboard to display analytics on storage use, peraccount-seat allocation, file transfers and share links created. Average post production saving 15% Data wranglers - we help data wranglers and media managers with automated transcoding, instantly backed up storage, simple media movement and pre-edit preparation tools. Reduce re-shoot costs - by spotting technical, continuity and other general errors early, re-shoot costs can be significantly reduced. More efficient productions - faster shoot times, so less budget spent on freelancers, travel, accommodation, editing and post-production fees. Less exec travel - because viewing copies can be made available on the same day as filming, senior management can review content remotely and instruct staff on set for the next day s shoot. Distribution Automated media distribution - automate the download of assets from the cloud to a specified location on your local machine or network attached storage. Get in touch... Europe Aframe 9-11 Richmond Buildings London W1D 3HF uk@aframe.com Sales: +44(0) United States Aframe North America Suite 104, Regency Park 238 Littleton Road Westford, MA us@aframe.com Sales: Share content efficiently - share melts, highlights or an entire program with ease and full security. Use the approvals module for easy feedback loops during work in progress projects. Organizations - enterprises can provision seats and storage for internal clients with Aframe s multi-tier account hierarchy feature. Request a personalized demo for your team aframe.com/demo File movement savings - end the physical shipping of hard drives and DVDs and the associated transportation costs. Reduce your satellite transfer and FTP costs too. Reduce sales cycles - give footage to potential buyers instantly and keep them focused on your content to close the sale quicker than ever. 14

9 Aframe 2015.