Case Study: Brown Bag Films achieves 24/7 post-production and real-time global collaboration with Aspera Sync (Aspera)

Aspera Enables Real-Time Global Collaboration And A 24/7 Post-Production Workflow

Brown Bag Films, a leading European creative animation studio with partner sites in Ireland, Mumbai, Singapore and Indonesia, faced growing big-data demands from 3D and HD projects and needed reliable, real-time 24/7 collaboration. FTP transfers were too slow and error-prone, causing partial transfers, corrupted files and limiting the studio’s capacity to take on new work.

The studio deployed Aspera Sync for high-speed, multidirectional file synchronization and Aspera Connect Server for easy downloads by smaller partners, replacing tape-shipping and manual transfer monitoring. The result: secure, low-latency global workflows that are up to 100× faster than traditional methods, enabled true 24-hour production, and let Brown Bag split work across locations to handle roughly four times the previous workload while maintaining quality.

Brown Bag Films

Brian Gilmore

Head of Technology