Case Study: Pittsburgh Penguins streamline game-day production and archiving with EditShare

Penguins Evolve Winning Workflow with EditShare

The National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins required a robust, scalable, and collaborative media workflow to handle the massive volume of video content generated for their multi-platform fan engagement. Their challenge was to manage, edit, and archive countless hours of high-resolution footage from games and original series without interruption, especially during a high-pressure championship season. They turned to EditShare and its XStream EFS shared storage platform, Flow asset management, and Ark archiving solutions to build a more powerful infrastructure.

EditShare implemented a solution that provided seamless, high-speed access to media for 20 editors, integrated ingest of up to six camera feeds on game nights, and a streamlined archive. This allowed the Penguins to edit content in real-time, rapidly create social media clips from road games via satellite, and effortlessly access years of archived footage for projects like a 3-hour documentary. The results were flawless performance with various formats and codecs, a successful mid-season system transition without delays, and a significant reduction in manual search and retrieval time, enabling the production team to consistently deliver dynamic content to fans.

National Hockey League’s Pittsburgh Penguins

Mike Davenport

Director of Production Operations