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o c t o b e r • n o v e m b e r • d e c e m b e r 2 0 2 3 c g w 3 3 has landed correctly. We QC it before it transmits. We use Signiant to transmit. Once it lands, we conrm everything is linking and then editorial gets their hands on it." On a typical production day, Mango/NewEdit receives about two terabytes of footage and converts it down to roughly 90 gigs of material. Aer the lower resolution proxies are sent, the original high-resolution footage from the set—4K, 8K, 16K les—are sent via Signiant Media Shuttle to the Mango/NewEdit facility. In LA, the footage is uploaded via Signiant to the cloud and brought into grad- ing platforms such as DaVinci Resolve and Colorfront. Simple Pricing Structures A key selling point for Mango/NewEdit was Signiant's simple pricing structure. Aspera is the other le transfer option Mango/NewEd- it has the option to use, but they felt Aspera had complex pricing structures and hard-to-predict usage charges. "Aspera, we nd that they charge you for this and for that. It is very complex to gauge what your true costs are," Cassio critiqued. "With Signiant we pay for this and that's it, as opposed to being hit with all these dierent unknowns." Another thing that Mango/NewEdit discovered with Aspera is the lack of bandwidth management. Transfers would saturate available bandwidth and stop other mission-critical post-production tasks from running eciently. "With Signiant we don't have to worry about that. One of the rea- sons we've gone with Signiant versus Aspera is because of the en- cryption, the ease of use, and all the dierent functionalities." Editors on global alert Notications and alerts are crucial to the Mango/NewEdit post-pro- duction workow. "It's very easy to get alerts verifying that the media has been transferred. Sending those alerts for my team is essential because we don't have to continually monitor the process. We just get alerts that say it's complete," Cassio said. "If there's any questions about when it started, when it ended, we can generate reports. It's a tool that is essential in today's globalized workload." Cassio also nodded to Signiant's Checkpoint Restart feature, "If something happens and the transmission stops in the middle of that process, we can reset it and continue from where it le o. Having that capability is denitely a plus." Peace of mind For Mango/NewEdit, the fact that Signiant is mandated by their cli- ents, fast, easier to use, easier to train on, easier to understand the billing model, won't overwhelm their bandwidth, and provides 24/7 customer support made their choice an easy one, but in the end, what really mattered most is peace of mind. "We started using Signiant when Mango was created 10 years ago. We've been a fan since then. It's like an electronic Federal Ex- press. Package it, FedEx it, receive it, conrm it, we're done. We love it. There's no question from start to nish. Signiant is denitely the tool we use. We love it." October•November•December 2023: COMPUTER GRAPHICS WORLD (USPS 665-250) (ISSN-0271-4159) is published bi-monthly with special additional issues resulting in 8 issues per year by COP Communications, Inc. Corporate oces: 620 West Elk Avenue, Glendale, CA 91204, Tel: 818-291-1100; FAX: 818-291-1190; Web Address: info@copprints. com. Periodicals Postage Paid at Glendale, CA, 91205 & additional mailing oces. COM- PUTER GRAPHICS WORLD is distributed worldwide. Annual subscription prices are $72, USA; $98, Canada & Mexico; $150 International airfreight. To order subscriptions, call 847-559-7310. © 2023 CGW by COP Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. No material may be re- printed without permission. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specic clients, is granted by Computer Graphics World, ISSN-0271-4159, provided that the appropriate fee is paid directly to Copyright Clearance Center Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923 USA 508-750-8400. Prior to photo- copying items for educational classroom use, please contact Copyright Clearance Center Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923 USA 508-750-8400. For further information check Copyright Clearance Center Inc. online at: www.copyright.com. The COMPUTER GRAPHICS WORLD fee code for users of the Transactional Reporting Services is 0271- 4159/96 $1.00 + .35. POSTMASTER: Send change of address form to Computer Graphics World, P.O. Box 3296, Northbrook, IL 60065-3296. FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION CONTACT MARI KOHN, DIR. OF SALES 818.472.1491 | mkohn@postmagazine.com WILLIAM R. RITTWAGE, PRESIDENT/CEO 818.291.1111 | brittwage@copcomm.com next issue: January • February • march 2024 THESE ARE SOME OF THE EXCITING TOPICS THAT WILL BE COVERED IN THE NEXT ISSUE: Academy Awards: Top animation & VFX Digital Humans: Elevating photorealism CAD Update: Architecture & engineering Industry Trends: Advanced workstations ...and much more!