Case Study: Envy Post Production achieves faster rushes review and file transfers with Blackbird

Envy Post Production cuts rushes review time from 2 weeks to 2 hours with Blackbird

Envy Post Production, a leading post-production house, faced significant workflow challenges while working on the hit TV show Gold Rush. The customer struggled with a slow, hardware-dependent process where physical discs had to be mailed from the Yukon to London, creating a two-week delay in accessing rushes and causing communication issues. To address this, they partnered with vendor Blackbird to implement its cloud-based video editing platform.

Using Blackbird, Envy Post Production established a new proxy workflow where footage is uploaded nightly and ingested the following day. This provided the team with instant, remote access to media via a browser, even on low bandwidth. The solution from Blackbird dramatically reduced the time to review rushes from two weeks to just two hours and cut file transfer times from two minutes to ten seconds, resulting in massive efficiencies for the production.

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