LucidLink and Telestream in Partnership

LucidLink Corp. announced an integration partnership with Telestream, LLC, in file-based media workflow orchestration, media streaming, and delivery technologies.

Together, Telestream Lightspeed Live Capture and LucidLink Filespaces provide real-time cloud ingest support for live news and sports media productions.

As with any live workflow, capturing, editing, broadcasting content, and streaming to fans as near to real-time as possible is imperative for sporting events. Integrating the two solutions allows production teams to ingest live events as they happen to globally accessible storage. LucidLink supports encrypted playback into any application, making files available to remote editors removing the need for complicated networking, file-acceleration technologies, or physical shared storage devices. Filespaces can connect to at-home, on-prem, or virtualized workstations to offer instant, low, or high-resolution edit workflows anywhere.

“LucidLink provides the unique ability to have immediate global accessibility that is superior to other remote access solutions. It is much faster and more efficient than other protocols like FTP,” said Scott Miller, director, business development, LucidLink. “The benefit of using LucidLink and Telestream is that remote editors have access to the file while it is growing. LucidLink replaces other delivery and storage solutions to offer unparalleled data access, with unlimited scalability, and instant connectivity. Users access files in a centralized data repository in the cloud; users gain instant access to a file simply by connecting to a local mount point.“

Lightspeed Live Capture provides an automated, multichannel IP and SDI capture solution for ingesting live media into production, post-production and broadcast workflows. LucidLink offers a protocol that replaces CIFS, FTP, S3, Aspera and more, backed by an infinitely scalable cloud solution. When combined Filespaces and Lightspeed Live Capture files are delivered locally and to the cloud, enabling global access to the same file, from anywhere. Files are growing in real-time from multiple cameras and are available for editing during ingest.

The benefits of LucidLink with live news and sports include:

• Data accessibility, while the file continues to grow, even at a high bitrates
• Ingest can come from multiple locations simultaneously
• Works with any cloud provider
• Encrypted secure access
• Edit files with any NLE application directly from the cloud
• Collaborate in real-time from across the globe

“We are excited to be working with LucidLink because of the benefits our joint solution provides to our customers,” said Robb Cadzow, product manager, Telestream. “It goes beyond being just another path to the cloud – the solution means Live Capture can be in one location and growing files can be consumed in another location connected by a simple and cost effective cloud storage solution from LucidLink.“