It's amazing to see the emergence of video as an important medium in photo production.  Photographers are creating incredible projects and pushing photo shoots to entirely new levels of creativity.  These projects are finding their way to the web via blogs, websites, and web curators and on to mobile devices, cross media one sheets, in store displays, out of home billboards, and the list goes on.

Last night, we hosted a seminar here at Industrial Color and invited members of the pro photo community to come and get their hands on the RAW video cameras and editing software.  To kick it all off, we pulled several of our video reels down using FileSociety - each file was approximately 100 MB and each file downloaded in under 15 seconds.  We've become used to the speed benefits here as we use FileSociety every day to transfer images, videos, CGI files, etc...between offices and to / from locations.  Many in the audience couldn't believe that they had just seen a large file pulled down from a web system at over 90 Mbps. 

Here are some pics from the event.


  

FileSociety - Inviting a new user from Industrial Color on Vimeo.

FileSociety - Library Navigation from Industrial Color on Vimeo.

The people at Platinum Image Conception Studio were kind enough to share their FileSociety success story with us.  With production staff and agency clients spread throughout the world, Platinum is a great example of how FileSociety can enable entirely new workflows and possibilities and connect creative groups at high speed.

FS_Platinum_SuccessStory.pdf (797.44 kb)

FileSociety has some very helpful reporting tools that give clients the ability to track activity and bill vendors and partners appropriately.  I thought I would share a sample transfer report (without showing any actual user names) as it shows typical file sizes and transfer speeds.  As always, if you'd like to open a trial account, please let us know and we'll be in touch.

NAB is a spectacle.  More technology per square mile than anywhere else.  Here are two videos from the floor.  Come by and see us if you're at the show.

We've been building on this theme since we started building FileSociety.  The consensus around here is that FTP is a Jerk.  We tried to capture this idea with some mock ads - see below. 

Many thanks to everyone who attended the FileSociety Launch experience last night here in Tribeca.  It was a great mix of theory and real world technology that ignited smart conversation in the audience of press, creative, technology, and media professionals.  Special thanks to Clay Shirky who's talk was enlightening and timely. Mr. Shirky's presentation was spot on with the collaboartive theme of FileSociety and he was very engaging in his explanation of how people use new internet tools differently to take group action. For the main event of the evening, FileSociety raced FTP in a 100 MB file transfer challenge.  It was not pretty as the FileSociety transfer was finished in under 20 seconds while FTP still showed more than 4 minutes left to go...in a world that is rapidly becoming file based...it's time to move forward.

Enjoy the photos and video as they emerge in to this blog post.