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Rentals & Resellers Aframe allows produc- tions to focus on acquisi- tion rather than copying files and making review copies. According to Epner, AbelCine NY will be the only upload center in the city located within a AbelCine's Jonathan Epner in their New York show- room. G-Tech drives are just one of many storage solutions offered. achieve what the client wants. What's great now is that we don't have to keep reinvent- ing the wheel." Nichols refers to their own CineTechnica blog, which he says has become a repository for scenarios their clients may encounter. AbelCine is about to launch a new service called Aframe, which lets productions upload their footage to the cloud, where it can be stored, tagged and viewed by production staff. camera rental facility. "With our fast upload capacity, AbelCine and Aframe allow everyone involved in a production to have access to each day's footage within minutes of delivering the cards or hard drives to our door, no matter where in the world they are located," he says. In addition, AbelCine also offers digital media services that include archiving to LTO-5 data tapes, transcoding, high-speed downloading of Phantom media, creating Final Cut Pro and Avid projects from tape or hard drive media, and laying off final projects to tape. "We are also working with the cloud- based production planning system Scenios, and exploring other ways to help our cus- tomers leverage the power and speed of cloud-based technologies," explains Epner. AbelCine is careful to listen to customers and give them options that fit their needs. "We don't want to be in a position of push- ing a Sony product on a customer when perhaps something from Panasonic or Canon would work better for their production in terms quality of image, ease of workflow and budget. The same goes for rentals and ser- vice," he says. And after the customer picks the gear that best works for them, AbleCine makes training available. "We have always been focused on training our customers on the latest equipment," says Andy Shipsides, cam- era technology specialist & training depart- ment manager. "From the very start of the company, AbelCine has offered hands-on training of equipment that was purchased or rented from us. As technology evolved and price points dropped, we started offering group trainings on new equipment." Two years ago they evolved that into an official training department that offers edu- cation on specific cameras as well as work- shops covering many aspects of this technol- continued on page 55 BRING YOUR VISION TO LIFE. FASTER. NVIDIA® FOR ADOBE® CREATIVE SUITE® QUADRO® BY PNY 6 Bring your vision to life faster in Adobe® Suite® 6 with the power of NVIDIA® Creative Quadro® by PNY professional graphics solutions. NVIDIA Quadro GPUs deliver the fastest, most fl uid experience across the widest range of Adobe CS6 creative imaging and video production tools. Take advantage of Adobe certifi ed NVIDIA Quadro by PNY graphics boards to accelerate your workfl ow. Get The Advantage· To learn more go to www.pny.com/AdobeCS6 © 2012 NVIDIA Corporation. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, Quadro are trademarks or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. The PNY logo is a registered trademark of PNY Technologies, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Copyright © 2012 PNY Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.