Giant Pirates Adopts Forscene

California-based production company Giant Pirates Entertainment has adopted Forbidden's Forscene into its post-production workflow in order to hasten editing of 'The Feed', a new reality-based television series that will air on the FYI network (formerly Bio).

The production required footage from New York field recordings to be sent to Los Angeles for very quick turnarounds as edited packages for use in studio shoots. Forscene enabled Giant Pirates' post-production teams to view footage and start creating sequences in Los Angeles within hours of the shoot in New York.
As soon as the media is saved to Giant Pirate's media drives, a proxy copy is automatically created and uploaded to the Forscene cloud. The story team in Los Angeles can watch, log, and string out the footage days before the shipped media can be ingested and grouped in the Los Angeles post-production offices. Once the story timelines are completed in Forscene, the sequences can be exported and are relinked to the original source for the editors to begin working in Avid.
"Having the ability to work with footage via Forscene so soon after it has been shot is a new and welcome experience for our post team," said Tracy Tong, supervising producer on 'The Feed'. "When QSR Systems, our Avid vendor and rental company for this production, recommended Forscene, we were wary.
"We had never used any kind of cloud-based workflow before, so we had some concerns about compatibility with the Avid codec, upload times, and ease of use. It turns out we had no reason to worry."
"Forscene's cloud-based technology has shortened the cycle from acquisition to post dramatically," said Rob Cloyd, president of QSR Systems. "In our fast-paced business where production cycles are shortened, Forscene's technology has delivered."
"Forscene has saved us the significant time and complexity involved in getting footage across the country to our team, which has made for an incredibly efficient and timely workflow," added Ross Jacobson, Giant Pirates co-founder.

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