Workflow, Media Management
Autodesk FBX
FBX Technology
Looking to switch 3D packages while continuing to use legacy content? Expand your pipeline to include multiple 3D applications? Universal, 3D asset exchange via Autodesk® FBX® technology removes data compatibility barriers, giving you the freedom to build an efficient pipeline for your projects. The FBX platform-independent 3D data interchange technology is one of the most widely used and supported 3D file formats on the market today.
FBX Plug-ins
FBX plug-ins are included with Autodesk® Maya® and Autodesk® 3ds Max® software, providing high levels of interoperability between these packages and with Autodesk® MotionBuilder® software, which supports FBX natively. Also available is the FBX plug-in for QuickTime 7, a component plug-in for Apple® QuickTime® that lets you play back and interact with 3D files from any major 3D application inside QuickTime.
Support for a Wide Range of 3D and 2D Data
FBX lets you acquire and exchange 3D assets and media from a variety of sources quickly and easily. This means you can interchange all major NURBS and polygon surface types, keyframe and mocap animation, shapes and morph targets, materials and textures, lights, cameras, hierarchical information, and character animation data, including inverse kinematics (IK), envelopes, and deformations—and the list grows with each new release.
High-Fidelity Data Conversion
Enjoy robust, accurate data translation. An intelligent conversion library lets you precisely convert and transfer production data between various applications. FBX delivers a particularly high level of interoperability between Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Autodesk MotionBuilder.
The following free FBX downloads are available.
FBX Plug-ins
The Autodesk FBX plug-ins allow all types of data to be packaged into one file format that can be used by most of today's 3D authoring software. Available for Autodesk® 3ds Max® software on Windows and Autodesk® Maya® software on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
FBX Converter
Transfer project data from one application to another quickly and easily with the FBX Converter. This utility lets you convert OBJ, DXFTM, and 3DS files to and from the FBX file format. Available for Linux®, Mac OS® X, and Windows® operating systems.
FBX QuickTime Viewer
The FBX plug-in for QuickTime is a component plug-in for Apple® QuickTime® that lets you play back and interact with 3D files from any major 3D application inside QuickTime.
- FBX Plug-ins, Converter and QuickTime Viewer Downloads
- Get access to the FBX plug-ins, FBX Converter, and FBX QuickTime Viewer.
- FBX Software Development KitThe Autodesk® FBX® SDK is a free, easy-to-use C++ software development platform and API toolkit that allows application and content vendors to transfer existing content into the FBX format with minimal effort. Available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Isilon systems
Isilon's Innovative Scale-out NAS SolutionsIsilon's innovative, fifth-generation storage solutions speed access to critical business information, offering an efficient, easy-to-manage storage infrastructure that reduces capital and operational expenditures while allowing you to seamlessly grow your storage as you grow your business.
Agility and Flexibility
Your business is dynamic. Your storage should be as well. Every Isilon solution is designed to seamlessly scale on-the-fly as business needs dictate, with the ability to add hundreds of terabytes of storage in just minutes. With Isilon, you can take on larger projects, leverage new revenue opportunities, create more content, and perform more in-depth research by instantly scaling storage performance and/or capacity-all without requiring additional IT staff.
Ease-of-Use
Turn it on and go to work. Isilon's modular architecture and intelligent software make deployment and management simple. Once racked, you can have an Isilon IQ cluster online in less than 10 minutes, without time consuming, expensive integration services. And every Isilon cluster is a single pool of storage with a global namespace, eliminating the need to support multiple volumes and file systems. Isilon's unmatched ease-of-use requires less than one FTE to manage petabytes of data.
Value
What you need, when you need it. Isilon's high utilization rates-over 80 percent versus 50 percent for traditional NAS or SAN storage-means you purchase fewer spindles for the same amount of usable storage. And Isilon's pay-as-you-grow modular approach allows you to align capital expenditures directly with business growth by purchasing only what your organization needs today, with the ability to easily expand tomorrow.
OneFS Operating System Software
Isilon's OneFS® operating system provides the intelligence behind all Isilon® IQ scale-out NAS solutions, orchestrating the operation of every system component, or node, into a seamless, unified whole. OneFS:
Drives process and workflow acceleration.
Enables virtually unlimited growth.
Provides the highest levels of data protection available.
Allows storage administrators to do more with less.
Accelerate Your Media Production Workflows
Media & entertainment organizations are constantly looking for ways to increase the business value of their media assets by merging creative talent with technological breakthroughs. Storage infrastructure plays a critical role in their ability to manage, store, and access vast and rapidly growing libraries of media production and programming content for multiple distribution channels, media formats, and consumption models.
Leading Media & Entertainment Companies Rely on Isilon
Many media companies across the globe rely on Isilon IQ scale-out NAS as their strategic storage platform to enable them to maximize the value of their media assets. Isilon storage solutions, built on the fifth generation OneFS operating system, are capable of storing over 5 petabytes of data in a single volume and over 45 gigabytes per second (GBps) of aggregate throughput, and up to 1.7 million IOPS in a single storage system.
Accelerate Your High-Performance Media Production
The Isilon IQ X-Series and S-Series platforms accelerate high performance media production processes to meet aggressive time-to-market schedules by consolidating local media stores and enabling highly concurrent access to any type of digital content, all from a single file system. For HD and 2K real-time workflows, the Isilon Accelerator nodes provide ultra high-speed access to the Isilon IQ cluster over 10-Gigabit Ethernet network.
Archive Your Valuable Media Assets, While Keeping Them Online
With the IQ NL-series high-density nearline storage enables you to create large scale media archives to keep your media assets active and repurposing them on the fly increasing their business value.
Isilon Benefits for Media and Entertainment
Isilon IQ is extremely flexible to adapt to your organization's business growth and take advantage of new revenue opportunities, while providing uncompromising protection and availability to ensure business continuity. Here's what Isilon can help you do:
Improve Productivity:
Store everything in one place. Scale up to 5.2 PB of capacity in a single volume.
Work concurrently. Generate hundreds of SD, HD and 2K streams for ingest, edit, rendering and play-out access to the same pool.
Edit in-place: Access single copy during and immediately after ingest.
Reduce Costs:
Lower management cost. Isilon storage results in 10 times less administration overhead.
Increase storage utilization. Isilon offers 50% higher utilization than DAS solutions and 20% higher than NAS/SAN solutions.
Eliminate infrastructure cost. With Isilon, you have no need for costly client-side Fibre Channel host bus adaptors (HBAs) and file system software for SAN systems.
Enable New Opportunities:
Keep more content online. Digitize, preserve and maintain more content online.
Wide-area content delivery. Take advantage of Isilon's integrated solution with Aspera software for fast and reliable media transfers over wide-area-networks.
Scale on-the-fly. Add storage instantly and without interruption to take advantage of new business opportunities.
Protect You Investments:
FlexProtect. Ensure the highest level of system protection. Even up to four simultaneous device failures will not compromise your data.
Granular application data protection. Snapshot IQ provides per-directory unlimited snapshots.
DR replication. Isilon SyncIQ delivers high-performance parallel replication.
Tape Backup. Isilon offers NDMP backup to tape certified by major backup ISVs.
Isilon IQ storage systems answer the call for a large, file-based scale-out NAS solution built to handle the intensive workflows and storage requirements of media and entertainment, improving productivity, reducing costs, and enabling new opportunities-today and tomorrow.
The Hardware Platforms
Precisely the right storage - right when you need it
IQ S-Series
IQ X-Series
IQ NL-Series
Hardware Extension Nodes
Scale either capacity or performance on all X-Series platforms
IQ EX Nodes
IQ Accellerator Nodes
Enterprise Application Software
Isilon offers specialized applications designed specifically for large, clustered storage environments.
SnapShotIQ - Data Protection
Simple, scalable, and flexible data protection
SmartConnectTM - Data Access
Policy-based load balancing with failover
SmartQuotasTM - Data Management
Quotas and thin provisioning for Scale-out NAS
SyncIQTM - Data Replication
Fast and flexible file-based asynchronous replication
Aspera for Isilon IQTM - High-Performance Content Delivery
High-performance wide area file and content delivery
Learn more about Isilon Enterprise Application Software.
Bright Systems
BrightDrive Advanced Media Recording systems
Infrastructure for Film and Video Featuring Brightclip data recording technology.
BrightDrive is a highly powerful media recording system that enables real-time digital media to be accessed and shared by multiple teams of film and video professionals operating within a data-centric environment.
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BrightDrive Workspaces
Creative solutions
BrightDrive Workspaces offer a range of price and performance levels that can be mixed and matched in the BrightDrive environment to achieve maximum efficiency.
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BrightDriveTxP
High speed removable for ingest /offload and secure movement of large Data volumes and Motion pictures
BrightDrive TxP brings major cost savings to digital workflows by dramatically cutting media transfer times.
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Data Wrangler
Easy to use data management system
A single, simple to use interface containing a set of graphical tools for browsing, searching and previewing media.
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BrightClip Intelligent Data Recording technology for film and Video
BrightClip Intelligent Data RecordingBrightClip Intelligent Data Recording Technology provides superior disk recording and playback of media within the digital postproduction environment by eliminating the need for disk optimization.
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