Stream data in real-time to access complex working files from anywhere.
The VFX industry’s biggest challenge isn’t creating jaw-dropping visuals—it’s managing the mountains of data that make this work possible. From individual texture plates to high-resolution renders, today’s teams are tasked with handling massive, complex files, often sharing them between collaborators in different locations. Ensuring everyone involved in a project maintains secure, reliable access to media is no small feat. That’s where Suite enters the picture.
Purpose-built to streamline hybrid, remote, and on-prem workflows, Suite’s cloud-native filesystem allows teams to store, share, and edit media in real-time, without the need to download or sync files before working. On Suite, individual VFX artists, freelance editors, and supervisors can work directly on files stored in the cloud as if they were stored on a local drive, establishing a central source of truth for every asset, accessible from anywhere in the world.
The best VFX pipelines thrive on collaboration. Whether it’s layering elements in Nuke, or perfecting textures in Maya, teams often experience the biggest bottlenecks when transferring complex assets. Waiting for files to download, waiting for versions to re-upload, or waiting hard drives to arrive in the mail—too many VFX workflows involve time wasted at every step. Collaboration & creativity falter when the tools can’t keep pace.
Suite eliminates file sharing headaches by enabling instant access to the most up-to-date media, making remote collaboration and asset management effortless while enabling real-time feedback and faster iterations. Suite also integrates seamlessly with every standard creative tool used by VFX teams—like Unreal Engine, Houdini, the entire Adobe Creative Suite, Flow Production Tracking, and more—making it a true, all-in-one solution for any style of creative work.
Suite is engineered for high-performance, no matter the task. Whether you’re focused on fine-tuning a feature-length film requiring petabytes of data, or completing a one-off commercial project with a smaller footprint, VFX teams of any size & scope can experience the benefits of real-time collaboration. Scalable to match you needs, Suite grows with you as you need it. Better yet—with end-to-end encryption, redundant backups in object storage, and easy to manage permissions for individual editors & artists, your assets are always safe, and in the right hands.
For any size VFX team, leveraging Suite’s 24 Gbps read / 10 Gbps write speeds, used in tandem with powerful caching & pre-caching features opens the door to confident remote collaboration. If trouble arises, Suite’s lightning-fast customer support helps teams get back into the edit with minimal headaches; and if human-error causes a hiccup at any moment, Time Machine lets teams go back in time, down to the millisecond, to recover files exactly as they were before.
File transfers and exports are also streamlined on Suite thanks to Suite Connect. This powerful feature allows teams to easily ingest media directly into Suite, or export files for download, directly from the cloud-connected drive. This occurs without ever bringing a file local, making Suite a true end-to-end cloud solution for teams working with multiple editors in different places.
VFX work shines brighter—and so do the creatives that make it—when teams are free to focus on their craft, not the logistics of sharing files or managing versions. Suite allows creative teams to collaborate as if they’re in the same room, even if they’re scattered across the globe. By removing the headaches & clunkiness of traditional storage solutions, Suite gives teams the freedom to focus entirely on their work, offering not only a storage solution, but a strategic advantage for the forward-thinking creative teams that choose to adopt it.
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