That means NBC film editors and producers have to go through around 70 hours of content per day to put together the evening broadcast. Adams says Isilons system gives editors about a three-hour jump over tape video review systems. In the past, the process involved significant duplication of tapes and use of manual log books to store and track the footage.
Having it on disk allows us to retrieve it instantly, Adams says. The producers are able to make their selection immediately.
Isilon is an Olympics rookie, but its clustered storage systems are developed specifically to handle large files associated with digital content (see Isilon Adds Media Customers, ABC Likes Isilon's IQ, Isilon Intros Clustered Storage Systems, and Isilon Ices Cool $15.5M). Adams says he was sold on Isilons appliance nature and ability to store 4 GBytes in cache. With the cache, we could grow storage as we needed it rather than having to guess, he says.
NBC uses three Isilon IQ 2250 clusters of 11-Tbytes each. One cluster sits in the the International Broadcast Center (IBC) and is used to encode and store video into a lower-resolution 1.5-Mbit/s format. The two other Isilon IQ clusters are located on-site at the track and field and gymnastic venues. Editors meta-tag and index the video on a Blue Order Media Archive asset management system connected to each Isilon IQ cluster.
The systems at the venues store the video in slow motion. Producers, editors, and reporters can search for a clip by event, athlete, or day. After reviewing the clips, they forward the edit-decision list to another group of editors working on Avid systems.
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